Fortunately for future astronauts, they may get a next-gen visual upgrade via a piece of technology that is coming down from the mountaintop at this year's Desert Research and Technology Studies (RATS).
Vancouver-based Recon Instruments, maker of GPS-enabled ski goggles with in-goggle displays tucked in the peripheral, is sending its technology to NASA for potential inclusion in the next generation of spacesuit helmets in which mission critical information and checklists could appear right before astronauts eyes. NASA's spacesuit designers have been toying with the idea of an in-helmet displays for a while now, and considering that spacewalking astronauts currently rely on paper checklists taped to their arms, such a display represents a pretty big technological leap forward.
(via http://io9.com/5808561/nasas-next+gen-spacesuit-could-have-an-in+helmet-display )
This post originally appeared on Popular Science.
Graffiti Analysis 3.0 from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
Graffiti Analysis is an extensive ongoing study in the motion of graffiti. Custom software designed for graffiti writers creates visualizations of the often unseen gestures involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived as Graffiti Markup Language (.gml) files, a specifically formatted XML file designed to be a common open structure for archiving gestural graffiti motion data. GML files are saved in an open online database, 000000book.com, where writers can share analytical representations of their hand styles. Graffiti Analysis is an open source project that is available online for free in OSX, Windows and Linux. Graffiti writers are invited to capture and share their own tags, and computer programmers are invited to create new applications and visualizations of the resulting data. Since the launch of Graffiti Analysis, dozens of GML compatible applications have been built and over 10,000 tags have been uploaded to the 000000book database. What Martha Cooper did for archiving graffiti on film, and Chalfant/Silver did for archiving graffiti in video, Graffiti Analysis intends to do for archiving graffiti in code. The project aims to build the world's largest collection of graffiti motion and bring together two seemingly disparate communities that share an interest hacking systems, whether found in code or in the city.
Seac02 will be Silver Sponsor at AR Summit 2011, the UK’s conference designed to bring together the leading AR technology providers and earlier adopters of AR to share their experiences and successes through keynote presentations, discussion panels, case studies, Q&A alongside interactive and eye opening demonstrations.
Why Visit?
Networking – the event offers a great opportunity to develop a personal and direct relationship with the AR world.
Learn about new technologies & best practices
Hear from leading AR speakers
Gain new ideas, try new concepts, be inspired
Share experiences & discuss common problems
Branding – with the quality and number of visitors who attend AR Summit, exhibiting gives you great brand exposure to the people who matter.
Andrea Carignano, Co-Founder of Seac02, will be one of the speaker on Thursday June 16th, 2011 at 4:00 pm. He will deepen the topic “ e²-commerce, the experiential e-commerce: Moving from geeks-AR towards multichannel business applications” wich was already exposed at ARE(Augmented Reality Event) 2011 in the section AR for eCommerce.
Soon more details...Seac02 will be also Exhibitor.Learn more about AR Summit at http://www.augmentedrealitysummit.com/
