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Oculus’s VR headset can be thrilling, but will you buy it if some experiences make you sick and it’s hard to use for more than 20 minutes? 
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Scientists in Japan say they have developed ultra-thin electronic "skin" that can measure oxygen levels when stuck to the body.
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Electronic gadgets on — and in — our bodies are multiplying fast, but transmitting all their data safely will be a challenge.
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source: Nature.com
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The startup’s headset will need to be tethered to a computer, but it costs a third the price of HoloLens.
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Epson has brought a new and improved version of its Moverio smart glasses to MWC in Barcelona, offering significantly improved display technology and a lighter frame for all your augmented reality (AR) needs. We dropped by the Epson booth for a first-hand look at the Moverio BT-300.
Sara Mautino's insight:
"The headline feature is a new Si-OLED (silicon-based Organic Light Emitting Diode) 720p display, replacing the qHD TFT LCD display of its predecessor and projecting sharper images and more vibrant colors in front of your eyes. These new glasses are also 20 percent lighter than the BT-200 models they're replacing, which should make for a more comfortable wearing experience over longer periods of time. Oh, and the device can take photos and videos too, thanks to an integrated 5-megapixel camera (another upgrade over the BT-200)."
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A research project looks at how gesture-recognition armbands can help the hearing impaired communicate more easily with those who don’t understand sign language.
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Elite X-Plane General Aviation Dream Package flight simulator system (credit: Xforce PC) You can learn how to improve your novice pilot skills by having
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While the initial rollout of Google Glass may have been a disaster, with much of the focus centering on Glassholes and a lack of ongoing interest from high
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" U.K.-based Juniper Research estimates that there will be more than 12 million smart glasses shipments by 2020. But the research firm says Microsoft, not Google, may have the advantage when it comes to cornering the market."
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Two electronic systems that BMW Motorrad is developing for its motorcycles offer a glimpse of the near future.
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BMW's motorcycle devision has borrowed some car tech to create two bright and safe concepts for CES: laser headlight and a helmet with true head-up display.
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Last week the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Samsung that reveals their experimentation with a new identification process that differs from current competing biometric systems like Apple's Touch ID. Samsung believes that a smartwatch could learn the user's vein pattern ...
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(source Patently Mobile)
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A film about Head-Up Displays in cars. What is a Head-Up Display and why is it good for me? How can it make my driving more secure? How does it work? What´s ...
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...and the heart starts beating...
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We're getting closer to being able to take pictures with cameras built directly into contact lenses. Samsung has been granted a patent in South Korea for a
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If VR and AR are to break into the mass market, they're going to need to slim down and raise their style game. That's what Chinese startup Dlodlo - you
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A heat-sensing phone, smart glasses and everything else you missed on Day 1 of Mobile World Congress
It's not just about phones at MWC; today we're seeing tech for every part of our lives.
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If there's one company that the Sony Playstation division is fearful of, it's Oculus. Last year Patently Apple covered the Oculus special event introducing their new gaming head mounted display system along with their revolutionary hand controllers called 'Oculus Touch' and more. Last week the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application from Sony covering a similar smart headset for gaming. The patent puts emphasis on a new peripheral glove ...
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Could VR let us swim with penguins in Antarctica? Sure, but the best experiences may be those that don’t try to copy reality.
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"As a piece this week in Wired points out, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey and chief technology officer John Carmack have gone so far as to refer to a “moral imperative” to create an accessible alternative reality."
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This week the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office published a pair of patent applications from Google that reveal a new in-air gesturing system that uses a next-gen radar system that could be integrated in devices like a PC or Television but also a smartphone, Google Glass, smart bracelet of smartwatch.
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How Google Wearable Displays Will Move Search Into The Next Phase - 02/16/2016
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a revolutionary HMD add-on
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One of the biggest issues most startups face, is finding a designer who understands that a great **User Experience** is more than just a pretty interface and
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The paradigm is even more true for wearables. By definition. (source of article knackstudios.io)
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!["Today’s Automation Anxiety Was Alive and Well in 1960"[ or about risks and hints in the Enterprise 4.0 ] | HMD hot spot | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/Lhn4a6wO887shPOZD8abPTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
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More than 50 years later, we still don’t know what to do about it.
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"In other words, companies didn’t take into consideration how humans would relate to one another in a workplace where they also had to relate to machines [...] -how, for example, might employee behavior change when people work alongside machines? -Do the types of tasks being replaced matter? -Can you convince skeptical employees that a new technology being introduced is something to embrace instead of fear?
And is there a future where humans and computers can work more effectively together?"
- A risk and hints analysis of the upcoming smart factory - Enterprise 4.0 model from a 1960 Harvard Business Review perspective
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Ever since Google launched its Google Glass project, the reality of wearable eyewear seems to be inevitable. Since then, developers from around the world have
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Intel is finally getting ready to ship a tiny computer that could help make wearable gadgets a lot sleeker.
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Intel will start shipping Curie (firstly showcased at CES last year) in the first quarter of 2016 for less than $10.
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The smartest thing about these "smart" glasses? They look just like the ones you already wear.
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It looks, once more, that 'time has come'... [BTW, was Fresnel a men of extraordinaire aperture? What about FOV? luminosity? resolution, color?etc]
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"...And playing games rated “intense” was much, much harder. In less than 10 minutes I had to stop and take off the headset, and I felt ill for a while afterward, too ..."
"And that was largely my limit—after about 20 minutes, I might not feel sick, but my eyes and brain needed a break"
“ it’s a concern for widespread adoption, saying simulator sickness is “one of the biggest challenges” that the VR community needs to solve” [Evan Suma, research assistant professor at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies who studies VR]