Sound, technology, controlling your face
Posted: October 9, 2013 Filed under: Design, Futuristic, Video Leave a commentBeamatron combines Kinect with projectors for augmented reality awesomeness
Posted: March 20, 2012 Filed under: Augmented Reality, Futuristic, kinect | Tags: JN Leave a comment
IntreTable
Posted: March 8, 2012 Filed under: Augmented Reality, Futuristic | Tags: SB Leave a commentPedestrian Guidance System For Crowded Places
Posted: March 2, 2012 Filed under: Futuristic | Tags: japan, perception, psychology, vision, VN Leave a comment
Microsoft Research Shared Physical Workspace
Posted: February 29, 2012 Filed under: Futuristic, Workspaces | Tags: tv Leave a comment
Kinect Shopping Cart
Posted: February 28, 2012 Filed under: Article, Futuristic, kinect | Tags: tv Leave a comment
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/shoppingcart/
A Brief Rant on Interaction design
Posted: February 17, 2012 Filed under: Article, Design, Futuristic, Human, Human Computer Interaction Leave a commentIn response to these videos
I call this technology Pictures Under Glass. Pictures Under Glass sacrifice all the tactile richness of working with our hands, offering instead a hokey visual facade.
Is that so bad, to dump the tactile for the visual? Try this: close your eyes and tie your shoelaces. No problem at all, right? Now, how well do you think you could tie your shoes if your arm was asleep? Or even if your fingers were numb? When working with our hands, touch does the driving, and vision helps out from the back seat.
Pictures Under Glass is an interaction paradigm of permanent numbness. It’s a Novocaine drip to the wrist. It denies our hands what they do best. And yet, it’s the star player in every Vision Of The Future.
My problem is the opposite, really — this vision, from an interaction perspective, is not visionary. It’s a timid increment from the status quo, and the status quo, from an interaction perspective, is actually rather terrible.
Microsoft’s Vision of the Future
Posted: February 8, 2012 Filed under: Augmented Reality, Futuristic, Head Up Display | Tags: MC, microsoft 1 CommentProductivity
Microsoft in 2019
Google glasses with a HUD
Posted: February 8, 2012 Filed under: Article, Augmented Reality, Futuristic | Tags: future, Google, HUD, vl Leave a commentThey are in late prototype stages of wearable glasses that look similar to thick-rimmed glasses that “normal people” wear. However, these provide a display with a heads up computer interface. There are a few buttons on the arms of the glasses, but otherwise, they could be mistaken for normal glasses. Additionally, we are not sure of the technology being employed here, but it is likely a transparent LCD or AMOLED display.
In addition, we have heard that this device is not an “Android peripheral” as the NYT stated. According to our source, it communicates directly with the Cloud over IP. Although, the “Google Goggles” could use a phone’s Internet connection, through Wi-Fi or a low power Bluetooth 4.0.
The use-case is augmented reality that would tie into Google’s location services. A user can walk around with information popping up and into display -Terminator-style- based on preferences, location and Google’s information.
Therefore, these things likely connect to the Internet and have GPS. They also likely run a version of Android.
Motorola’s version:
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