Tag Archives: AR

Coming soon: Google’s Augmented Reality glasses

News: Virtual/Augmented Reality    April 5, 2012
Slick, stylish and they might even be useful: Google glasses….Credit: Google Google calls it Project Glass. You may call it futuristic, fantastic or just let’s wait and see. These highly sophisticated computerized specs are intended to receive and process information from the Web and display it to one eye. It’s called augmented reality. For example, [...]
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iFeel_IM robotics: Online touchy feely

Impact: Virtual/Augmented Reality    April 14, 2010
This story comes under the heading: “They said this was going to happen – now it’s almost here.” It is a wearable robotic device that provides a real sensory element to a personal contact over the Internet. More specifically, it interprets emotional language embedded in Internet Messaging (IM), which is why it’s called iFeel_IM (intelligent [...]
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Tracking: Online relationships

Impact: Communications    March 25, 2010
One of the things SciTechStory does is track the impact of the Internet. Few things are going to have more impact than the way the Internet is changing person to person relationships. It started as a communications medium, but it’s become more than that. The Internet is providing new contexts and relationships that have never [...]
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Augmented reality: The smart windshield

News: Virtual/Augmented Reality    March 18, 2010
Calling it an ‘enhanced vision system,’ General Motors (GM, USA) has announced an augmented reality windshield. Projections of driving information such as speed or route directions onto windshields (or mirrors) are already in use on some high-end vehicles. What makes the GM windshield different is its projection of analytical information over what the motorist is [...]
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Augmented Reality really goes mobile

Impact: Virtual/Augmented Reality    January 18, 2010
If you define GPS locating as part of Augmented Reality (AR), and most do, then mobile devices went AR some time ago. So “Augmented Reality really goes mobile” might mean that AR on mobile devices is a natural hookup, and we can expect to see much more of it. Okay. That’s probably so true, but [...]
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