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I was asked on a questionnaire recently to nominate how much time I spend looking at screens daily, and thinking about it forced me to stare into the void. There were four options to choose from, and none approached the sad truth: during COVID lockdown… Continue reading Review: Dreamglass 4K straps a big-screen TV to your noggin
Dreamworld is back with another crowdfunded pair of augmented reality glasses called the DreamGlass 4K. With an improved 4K resolution and 5G connectivity, these are perhaps the perfect at-home entertainment system now that we’re all spending more time… Continue reading DreamGlass 4K brings AR experiences to you, no screen required
We’ve already seen electronic glasses that watch the wearer’s diet and automatically change focus, among other things. An experimental new pair monitors the user’s health, lets them control games, and switch to being sunglasses as needed.Continue Readi… Continue reading Multi-function e-glasses track the brain, eyes and more
Whether it was rays from the Sun that made a 150 million kilometer trip just to ruin your day or somebody’s unreasonably bright aftermarket headlights, at some point or another we’ve all experienced the discomfort of bright spots in our eyes. But short of wearing welder’s goggles all the time, …read more
Arguably the thing that killed Google Glass was how dorky they looked – most people didn’t want to walk around every day looking like a bad Star Trek cosplayer. Whether or not that’s the real reason augmented reality (AR) glasses never took o… Continue reading Norm AR glasses pack smart tech into regular specs
No matter how good your eyesight, there’s a decent chance that it’ll start to fade at a certain point in your life. Presbyopia is a common form of age-induced far-sightedness, where the lenses in the eyes become stiff and have trouble focusin… Continue reading Eye-tracking, depth-sensing "autofocal" glasses keep everything looking sharp
A University of Utah team have a working prototype of a new twist on fluid-filled lenses for correction of vision problems: automatic adjustment and refocus depending on what you’re looking at. Technically, the glasses have a distance sensor embedded into the front of the frame and continually adjust the focus of the lenses. An 8 gram, 110 mAh battery powers the prototype for roughly 6 hours.
Eyeglasses that can adapt on the fly to different focal needs is important because many people with degraded vision suffer from more than one condition at the same time, which makes addressing their vision …read more
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Your next smartphone’s processor is going to open up some very cool possibilities. The post What the Snapdragon 835 Chip Means For Your Next Smartphone appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading What the Snapdragon 835 Chip Means For Your Next Smartphone
Turns out Dreamforce isn’t the only enterprise conference going on this week. VMware is also holding its at AirWatch Connect conference in Atlanta, and today it announced support for enterprise smart glasses on the AirWatch enterprise mobility management platform. Smart glasses, which are essentially computers that sit on your face, haven’t found widespread usage quite yet, but… Read More Continue reading VMWare AirWatch announces support for smart glasses
Remember Google Glass? How could you not? Born with great fanfare just four short years ago, the device quickly became the object of derision. People who wore them were “Glassholes.” There were hyper-privacy concerns related to wearing a head-mounted camera, and even the Glass Explorer program, which limited availability, seemed to contribute to the disdain people felt. Read More Continue reading Face computers slowly find their place in business