Augmented reality glasses perform real-time language translation

Augmented reality glasses perform real-time language translation

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Practical and accessible? Not quite. Inspired by the Google’s Project Glass, computer programmer Will Powell has built a prototype real-time translation system that listens to speech, translates it into one of 37 languages, and then displays [...]

The IBM Augmented Reality Personal Shopping Assistant

The IBM Augmented Reality Personal Shopping Assistant

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It’s mobile, informative, and smart. Have you ever found yourself in the supermarket staring at a shelf full of different cereal boxes, wishing someone could just point out the one with the best price, lowest [...]

Popular Science Moves Beyond the QR Code

Popular Science Moves Beyond the QR Code

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Aurasma ‘augmented reality’ offers audience metrics, deeper engagement   For its June issue, Bonnier’s Popular Science wanted to move past print constraints in its annual Invention Awards feature. Instead of integrating the more standard QR [...]

Google X labs confirms augmented reality glasses project

Google X labs confirms augmented reality glasses project

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Project Glass aims to design and refine augmented reality technology Google X (Google’s futuristic technology development lab) has pulled back the curtain on Project Glass, its program to develop truly useful augmented reality “Google glasses.” [...]

Augmented Reality: A Game Changer

Augmented Reality: A Game Changer

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Augmented Reality offers both entertainment and real-life experience, and is certainly grabbing attention for augmenting revenue Augmented Reality (AR) has allowed users to interact virtually with their surroundings by bringing a wealth of collected data [...]

NASA's AR headset lets pilots see through fog

NASA’s AR headset lets pilots see through fog

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Showing a virtual overlay of the runway and airport NASA has developed a pair of augmented reality glasses designed especially for commercial airline pilots to see during the worst visual conditions. The glasses include a [...]

Concept Glasses Overlay Social Networks Onto The Real World

Concept Glasses Overlay Social Networks Onto The Real World

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Transcendenz is a system integrated into an object, a pair of glasses For his thesis project, Michaël Harboun developed a concept pair of glasses called Transcendenz. These push boundaries by bringing together augmented reality, brain [...]

Augmented Reality Glasses Help You Remember People’s Names

Augmented Reality Glasses Help You Remember People’s Names

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The glasses can scan and recognize faces We’ve all been in a situation before where we meet someone who looks strikingly familiar but we can’t remember their names or who they are. This socially awkward [...]

Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End

Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End

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They will also have a unique navigation system People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have another option: a pair of Google-made glasses that will [...]

Virtual Reality Contact Lenses Could Be Available by 2014

Virtual Reality Contact Lenses Could Be Available by 2014

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Contact lenses that help enhance normal vision with megapixel 3D panoramic images   Contact lenses that help enhance normal vision with megapixel 3D panoramic images are being designed by scientists using military funding. For those [...]

Bring Sports Into The 21st Century

Bring Sports Into The 21st Century

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Isn’t it time for all of professional sports to embrace available technology   If you are watching the Super Bowl on your couch today you are in a better position to referee the action than [...]

Typographic Optical Illusions Predict The Future Of Augmented Reality

Typographic Optical Illusions Predict The Future Of Augmented Reality

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Tobi Tobsen has created a series of typographic art pieces that appear to be floating in the air   As Augmented Reality apps become more ubiquitous our dreams for the potential of the technology increase. [...]