Apple Patent Reveals the Exciting Possibility of Augmented Reality Smartglasses
Apple Patent Reveals the Exciting Possibility of Augmented Reality Smartglasses_Apple acquired Metaio the creator of āThermal Touchā and a new Augmented Reality Interface for Wearables and beyondā¦_www.patentlyapple.com
ā Apple notes here that this embodiment is particularly useful when using a head-mounted display comprising the camera and the screen. For example, the head-mounted display is a video-see-through head-mounted display (HMD). It is typically not possible for the user to touch the head-mounted screen in a manner like a touchscreen. However, the camera that captures an image of the real environment may also be used to detect image positions of the userās finger in the image. The image positions of the userās finger could be equivalent to touching points touched by the userās finger on the touchscreen.ā
Silent Augmented Reality by Dominikus Baur
Silent Augmented Reality_Nothing screams future like neon colors and flashy animationsāāābut could there be another way for Augmented Reality?_hackernoon.com
ā They donāt have to display neon-blue blinking squares but can create whatever they want and overlay it on your reality.
How about using these powers of augmentation to create silent augmented reality? Augmentation that helps you, but becomes (mostly) seamless, blended into reality. No more constant overwhelm with animations and garish colors, but additional, useful, non-distracting information.ā
Augmented Reality on Your Desk by Racel Metz
This touchable AR display screws into a light socket and projects onto your desk_Do you have a lamp with a standard-size lightbulb socket? If so, you've already got one piece of the required gear forā¦_www.technologyreview.com
ā While itās still confined to the lab, Xiao says Desktopography is an attempt to bring augmented reality to everyday life without adding any sensors or electronics to the surfaces on which you want to see images.ā
The Future of Augmented Reality Aināt Pokemon Go by Rob Reid
The Future of Augmented Reality Aināt Pokemon Go_Metaās Meron Gribetz on the present & future of AR_shift.newco.co
ā He sits not at a desk, but a plankāāāa ten-by-one-foot slab of redwood whose thinness is allowed by the lack of a monitor. He says he wears his Meta headset throughout the working day, and that dozens of his hundred-plus employees do the same.ā
Magic Leap: What we know about the mysterious, delayed mixed reality tech by Sophie Charara
Magic Leap: What we know about the mysterious, delayed mixed reality tech_Waiting for Magic Leap is starting to get on our nerves and we're sure we're not alone. Early last year, after a seriesā¦_www.wareable.com
ā We now know that it does this using its āphotonic lightfield chipā which Abovitz doesnāt want people to refer to as a lens, though it seems this is what users will see through. As far as we know so far, it projects virtual images onto the userās retinas with what has been described as a ādigital lightfield signalā. We donāt know exactly how light is beamed around the device and into the wearerās eyes and how this will trick our brainsāāāthis, for now, is Magic Leapās secret sauce.ā
Why Iām not completely sold on the ARKit revolution
Why Iām not completely sold on the ARKit revolution_Weāre living the ARKit hype era: everyone is talking about it, a lot of people are experimenting with it and there isā¦_hackernoon.com
āThe problem isā¦ Iāve still not seen a convincing ARKit demo. Iām not talking about the mythological āKiller appā, Iām talking about something worth using.
Most of ARKit demos on the web are āIāve put a 3D model on a plane in the real worldā. Cool, eh, ARKit is able to add lighting and shadows and thatās incredibleā¦ but after the first 2ā3 that Iāve seen, Iāve started getting bored by that.ā
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