How will you use Windows inside a VR headset? Would you even want to? Those are real questions, because Microsoft is bringing its floating 3D version of its operating system — Windows Holographic — to VR headsets like the HTC Vive starting next year. But we also may have the answer. This official Microsoft video …
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Now playing: Watch this: We spent 90 minutes with the HoloLens 3:17 If you wanted to get your hands on Microsoft’s mind-blowing augmented reality headset this spring, you had to audition first. You’d submit an application, and see if Microsoft liked it enough to approve your pre-order. No more. As of today, any Microsoft developer (in the US, Canada, UK, …
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The Intel-powered Daqri smart helmet is one of several players in the still-brewing AR-helmet landscape. The Daqri smart helmet (pronounced like the vacation nectar) was unveiled in January along with Intel, part of a dedicated push towards industrial use cases for augmented reality. The Daqri helmet will arrive in a developer edition this fall, but in the meantime the research …
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Many people spent the weekend getting acquainted with augmented reality, the fusing of the digital and physical world, through the popular new Pokemon Go app that lets users see fictitious creatures hanging out in the real world through a phone screen. But augmented reality, also referred to as mixed reality, can have more practical applications like training. That’s exactly what …
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Lenovo looks like it’s set to debut new virtual reality hardware in a year already full of VR surprises, and it’s doing it with the help of a chipmaker named Movidius. A few days in advance of Lenovo’s Tech World event June 9 in San Francisco, chipmaker Movidius has announced via press release that its hardware will be inside a …
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Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Asus already has an augmented reality product ready, but it won’t be showing it off anytime soon. According to CEO Jerry Shen, who spoke to CNET at Computex in Taipei, his company’s AR product was being put on hold at the request of a “very big player.” The earliest its AR product, likely a headset similar to …
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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung gets the green light for augmented-reality contacts 1:07 With Gear VR, Samsung was one of the first companies to get its foot in the virtual reality door. Now, it looks like the South Korean electronics giant is experimenting with augmented reality. Samsung has received a patent for “smart” contact lenses, which it originally filed in …
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We humans get along pretty well seeing colors ranging from blue to red. But a startup is betting that when it’s time to endow electronic devices with vision, infrared light will find a place too. Infrared light — just beyond red in the color spectrum but invisible to humans — is already used in some devices, like TV remote controls …
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I strapped a familiar-looking Oculus Rift headset over my eyes. This one’s been doctored: Around the lenses, a ring of sensors has been implanted. In front of me, what appears to be a foot away, there’s a screen. I see my own eyes, looking back at me. And they’re dilating. Eyefluence is a startup that claims it’s cracked the code …
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Putting ridiculous things on my face has become a fun tech-show pastime of mine. But there’s no way I’d ever have these things in my everyday life. Weird, overly large sunglasses with an eyepiece floating off the side. Tremendous mirror shades. Every set of VR goggles. Most of the tech I put on my face looks absurd. I can’t go …
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