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It seems everyone is making an investment in some level of augmented reality and Lenovo wants to deliver it to business and enterprise customers.
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There’s a harsh truth underlying all robotic research: compared to evolution, we suck at making things move. Nature has a couple billion years of practice making things that can slide, hop, fly, swim and run, so why not leverage those platforms? That’s the idea behind this turtle with a navigation robot strapped to its back.
This reminds us somewhat of an alternative universe sci-fi story by S.M. Stirling called The Sky People. In the story, Venus is teeming with dinosaurs that Terran colonists use as beasts of burden with brain implants that stimulate pleasure centers to control them. While the …read more
Continue reading Head-Up Display Augments Bionic Turtle’s Reality
Adventure travel can be pretty grueling, what with the exotic locations and potential for disaster that the typical tourist destinations don’t offer. One might find oneself dangling over a cliff for that near-death-experience selfie or ziplining through a rainforest canopy. All this is significantly complicated by being blind, of course, so a tool like this Raspberry Pi low-vision system would be a welcome addition to the nearly-blind adventurer’s well-worn rucksack.
[Dan] has had vision problems since childhood, but one look at his YouTube channel shows that he doesn’t let that slow him down. When [Dan] met [Ben] in Scotland, [Ben] …read more
Continue reading The ‘All-Seeing Pi’ Aids Low-Vision Adventurer
An experimental project to mix reality and virtual reality by [Drew Gottlieb] uses the Microsoft Hololens and the HTC Vive to show two users successfully sharing a single workspace as well as controllers. While the VR user draws cubes in midair with a simple app, the Hololens user can see the same cubes being created and mapped to a real-world location, and the two headsets can even interact in the same shared space. You really need to check ou the video, below, to fully grasp how crazy-cool this is.
Two or more VR or AR users sharing the same virtual …read more
Continue reading Sharing Virtual and Holographic Realities via Vive and Hololens
New HoloLens game scans surrounding environment and makes the floor look something like actual lava. Continue reading Everyone’s Favorite Game, ‘The Floor Is Lava,’ Is Better With Augmented Reality
Without external cameras or beacons, Occipital’s environment-mapping headset adds advanced mixed-reality capabilities to the iPhone 6, 6S, and 7. The post The Bridge Headset Powers Up iPhone VR With Positional Tracking appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading The Bridge Headset Powers Up iPhone VR With Positional Tracking
Ukrainian tank crews may soon view the battlefield virtually. Continue reading Microsoft’s HoloLens Could Go to War
Augmented reality meets indoor climbing Continue reading Watch People Play ‘Pong’ on a Rock Wall With Augmented Climbing
Particularly committed players used PokeAdvisor to track their stats and progress against others, but the site now appears to be blocked. Continue reading ‘Pokémon Go’ Stats Tracker PokeAdvisor Is Blocked, Fans Are Mad As Hell (Again)
The pokémon tracking site was hugely popular before ‘Pokémon Go’ developer Niantic took it down. Here’s what happened. Continue reading We Talked to the Creator of PokéVision About Losing 50 Million Users Overnight