Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality World | 拡張現実と仮想現実の世界

Samsung, which makes some of the best displays in the world, imagines that one day its screens will be on everything from coffee mugs to car windows. The following concept video shows how that could happen. The video touches on a concept called "The Internet Of Things," which is a term people in the tech industry like to throw around when they talk about connecting everyday objects to the Internet.

It may sound a little like the Jetsons today, but there are already a bunch of companies like SmartThings, Nest, and even Cisco working on ways to improve the stuff in our homes by connecting them to the Web.

TISは18日、アサヒ飲料の自販機設置の営業活動で効率的な顧客訪問を実現することを目的にした、飲料業界初のスマートデバイスで利用する新しい営業支援システムを構築したと発表した。新システム構築には、TISの情報配信プラットフォーム「SkyWare」の新シリーズ「フィールド業務支援サービス on SkyWare」を活用した。 　
アサヒ飲料では、蓄積した顧客情報などの営業情報を、自販機の設置に関わる外回りの営業担当が外出先の現場で有効活用することで、顧客に最適な提案を行う営業スタイルの変革を検討していたという。 営業担当は外回りの際に同アプリを使い、地図情報とAR（拡張現実）を組み合わせた画面から担当エリア内のどの場所に自社の自販機が設置されているかなどの営業関連データを、視覚的に引き出すことで、“正確な営業情報”と“タイムリーな営業ステータス”の把握が可能になる。 

PointGrab's AirTouch for Consumer Electronics uses depth information to essentially create a "virtual touch space" right in front of users, so they can point directly at anything on the screen to access it. This is a major step building on PointGrab's existing award winning technology which allows consumers to use a variety of actions such as swipe, thumbs up, grab, drag and drop, two hands zoom and rotate to interact with their devices as well as use gesture shortcuts including "mute," "like," and more.

『140年の鉄道の歴史を彩る「光の車輪」』「光のレールウェイ」の上にあるのは「光の車輪」。 4つの車両「1号機関車150形」「D51形」「EF60形」「新幹線E5系」の車輪をモチーフにしたアクリル製の車輪。どれも実物大で制作！ 車輪内部の照明による光の効果で回転しているように見える演出を行います。D51は車輪自体がその場で回転します。 日本の鉄道の歴史を切り開いてきた「光の車輪」たち、会場にお越しの際はお見逃しなく♪ 」(東京ミチテラス2013公式Facebookより)

The Atheer Developer Kit is scheduled to ship Q1 2014. The Atheer One (right) will ship in Q4 2014, said Soulaiman Itani, company founder and CEO. The company has been granted several patents for its technology, covering vision optimization and face recognition algorithms.

(Credit: Atheer Labs)

Have a sneak peek at what the future could look like when wearing Atheer's immersive 3D glasses. Your information is available everywhere you go, and it helps you be more productive and make more educated decisions. From exercise, to education, gaming and business uses, you are only limited by your imagination! All content presented here is conceptual rendering of the possibilities.

Free-hand 3D Interaction for Augmented Reality on Google Glass * The frame rate of the Glass screen in the video is low due to limitation of screen capturing method. The actual demo runs smoothly on Glass in real time. http://www.arforglass.org

In five years, classrooms will learn about you, and personalize coursework accordingly. It's the end of the era of one-size-fits-all education, and the beginning of personalized learning.

Every year IBM makes predictions about 5 technology innovations that stand to change the way we live within the next 5 years. This set of predictions, narrated by Mo Rocca, is all about personalization. See the other predictions at http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/e...

Toys"R"Us Holiday Toy Book Cover from Open on Vimeo.

The government of Nagata Ward in Kobe will never forget that fateful day of January 17, 1995 when the Great Hanshin Earthquake devastated the region. Now almost 19 years later, visitors to the city can see how far they have come towards reconstructing the city through a location-based smartphone app that was developed by the government.

Augmented Reality is using by leading brands across the globe. Check out this video of Sunday Telegraph australia. Indian Brands Can Contact - http://biNdiNgbook.in

NAB 2013 demo featured use of interactive devices like tablets, touch screen to trigger complex graphics in virtual immersive environment. The demonstration involved using of a jib mounted tracked cameras for live production of WASP3D presentation.

OpenBCI is a low-cost, programmable, open-source EEG platform that gives anybody with a computer access to their brainwaves. Their Vision is to realize the potential of the open-source movement to accelerate innovation in brain science through collaborative hardware and software development. Behind the many lines of code and circuit diagrams, OpenBCI has a growing community of scientists, engineers, designers, makers, and a whole bunch of other people who are interested in furthering our understanding of the brain.

http://www.openbci.com

(via http://www.pantechsolutions.net/blog/openbci-an-open-source-brain-computer-interface/)

HoloDecks is an umbrella project for a number of studies which focus on transforming sound through different mediums. This study begins with a custom application built in openFrameworks which visualises audio from a song by Oneohtrix Point Never, titled Zebra. The base shape chosen for the visualisation is a disc which has always been a ubiquitous shape associated with music storage formats such as compact discs and vinyl records. Audio data from the song displaces the geometry of the disc to create a swirly visual echo of the audios last few seconds.

At any point in the visualisation, a snapshot of the generated 3d model can be taken. OpenFrameworks does a great job at exporting 3D models using the .ply format which then needs to be converted into .obj format so it can be printed with a Makerbot 3D printer. Up to this point, the sound has been transformed from pure audio data, into a software visualisation and then materialised into the real world using a 3D printer. A final transformation is undertaken by augmenting the 3D printed sound sculpture using a mobile device to see another layer of audio reactive visuals mapped to the object.

HoloDecks - Augmented Sound Sculpture from lukasz on Vimeo.

(more http://createdigitalmotion.com/2013/12/from-song-to-3d-model-to-augmented-app-visualizing-oneohtrix-point-never/)

Student researchers at UC Berkeley's Invention Lab have developed a new method for selecting and controlling smart appliances in physical spaces through Google Glass. A user initiates interaction by looking at the appliance she wants to control. Tapping on the Glass touchpad then pulls up a user interface for that device on the display. This technique can be used to control lighting, HVAC or Smart TVs.

The technique works by augmenting Glass with a narrow-beam infrared emitter (and infrared receivers on appliances). Their prototype is powered by an Arduino microcontroller, but the hardware could easily be integrated into future wearable devices.

In a lab experiment, they show that selection using head orientation with this device outperforms browsing through lists.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOfIj...

Site: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~benzh/g...

Invention Lab: http://invent.citris-uc.org

Educational game app based on augmented reality. Join the 3D adventure and your paints will come alive! Coming soon for iOS and Android.

Google Glass Pioneer Issued Distracted Driving Ticket for Wearing Google Glass, Says She Will Fight Charge

A woman issued a ticket for distracted driving in California says that she will fight the charge, because simply wearing Google Glass is not illegal and does not imply impairment to her driving.

In a tweet about the incident, Cecelia Abadie, one of the pioneers behind Google Glass, said that she pleaded not guilty to the distracted driving charge in court on Tuesday, December 2nd. She acknowledges that she was wearing the high-tech augmented reality specs while driving, but she insists that the device was powered off at the time so she could focus on the road.

Distracted Driving in South Carolina

Distracted driving includes:

-talking on a cell phone
-eating and drinking
-talking to passengers
-grooming or putting on makeup
-reading books, newspapers, or even a map
-using a PDA or navigation system
-watching a video or playing on a computer or tablet
-playing with the radio, a CD or an iPod