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There are many in the hacker community who would love to experiment with augmented reality (AR), but the hardware landscape isn’t exactly overflowing with options that align with our goals …read more Continue reading Chatting About the State of Hacker-Friendly AR Gear
In the world of hardware hacking, you sometimes spend a ridiculous amount of time debugging a problem, only to find a simple solution that was right in front of you …read more Continue reading Cutting a Wearable Display in Half is Harder and Simpler than it Seems
Generating the real-time images required for augmented reality (AR) goggles usually requires a fair amount of processing power, to the point that DIY efforts based around the Raspberry Pi often …read more Continue reading A Microcontroller Friendly AR Headset On The Cheap
After seeing the cheap transparent OLED displays that have recently come on the market, you might have thought of using them to build a wearable display as an affordable way …read more Continue reading Why You Can’t Make Build A Wearable Display With A Just A Transparent OLED
Augmented reality (AR) and natural gesture input provide a tantalizing glimpse at what human-computer interfaces may look like in the future, but at this point, the technology hasn’t seen much …read more Continue reading Triton AR Headset Blends Stock and Printed Parts
TVs are usually something you sit and passively watch. Not so for [Nate Damen’s] interactive, wearable TV head project, aka Atltvhead. If you’re walking around Atlanta, Georgia and you see him walking around with a TV where his head should be, introduce yourself! Or sign into Twitch chat and take control of what’s being displayed on the LEDs which he’s attached to the screen. Besides being wearable technology, it’s also meant to be an interactive art piece.
For this, his third version, the TV is a 1960’s RCA Victor Portable Television. You can see some of the TVs he found …read more
Continue reading RCA TV Gets New Life As Interactive Atltvhead
If you think of wearable electronic projects, in many cases what may come to mind are the use of addressable LEDs, perhaps on strips or on sewable PCBs like the Neopixel and similar products. They make an attractive twinkling fashion show, but there remains a feeling that in many cases once you have seen one project, you have seen them all.
So if you are tiring of static sewable LED projects and would like to look forward to something altogether more exciting, take a look at some bleeding-edge research from a team at KAIST, the Korean Advanced Institute of Science …read more
Continue reading Weaving With Light: An OLED Fibre Fabric Display