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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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A coordinate system in the brain

News: Neuroscience    January 21, 2010
In 2005 the Norwegians found them in rats. Now, in 2009, they were found in humans. ‘They’ – are location memory cells in the brain. They appear to be specialized neurons that work in some coordinated fashion. It’s something like having a coordinate system hard-wired into the brain, so as you move about the environment, [...]
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