Archive for the ‘augmented reality’ category: Page 55
Aug 27, 2016
Researchers Create Microstereolithography for 4D Printing, Potential for Impacts in Medical, Solar & More
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, 4D printing, augmented reality, biotech/medical
Technology can be confusing when it begins moving at such an accelerated rate, perfectly exemplified by the 3D industry, and encompassing all that goes with it, from 3D scanning to 3D printing and then peripheral industries that are often connected too such as augmented and virtual realities. We’ve barely digested all the stunning innovations making impacts in so many different sectors, from 3D printed medical models that allow for more complex surgeries, to 3D printed parts for a suspension system that make racing bikes go faster, all the way to incredible toys for your kids using augmented reality systems.
Yet, while work is definitely just beginning in the 3D realm, scientists have already begun exploring a range of uses for 4D technology that should prove offer impacts in just as many applications, from the medical field to electronics and far beyond. It might seem like a lot all at once, but the two technologies definitely work together, with the 4D emphasis adding a more intuitive, smart angle to fabrication.
As we’ve seen in other studies using the application of heat, it would appear that 3D printed objects can be treated or manipulated to cause shapes to morph according to their environment, as well as remembering their previous state and going back to it in the appropriate conditions. Now, teams from both MIT and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) are employing light in their endeavors to create smart structures. They’ve had good success too, if the amount of torturing they’ve put these materials through is any indication. According to the engineers, they’ve twisted, bent, and stretched everything from small coils to flowers fabricated out of numerous materials, and even a replica they made of the Eiffel tower. As is the case with structures being pushed into the 4D realm, all of the above materials reverted.
Aug 24, 2016
Smart Contact Lenses ‘Talk’ To Your Phone
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: augmented reality, mobile phones
Wait until they see what is happening with smart AR contacts and Bluetooths.
A pair of contact lenses do not just let you see clearer without the hassle of spectacles or glasses, but what if they are now smarter with connectivity to your smartphone? Could the science fiction world now be a step closer to reality?
Aug 19, 2016
The First Church of the Singularity: Roko’s Basilik
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: augmented reality, singularity
The 1st Church of Singularity — guess Ray is preaching again.
By Jodi Schiller
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Aug 19, 2016
Augmented Reality Or Augmented Humanity?
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: augmented reality, entertainment
A write-up from Popular Science on the bioethics conference I was a part of recently and the corresponding 2-min highlight video. It was truly a fascinating event, inspired by Deus Ex! http://www.popsci.com/augmented-reality-or-augmented-humanity And here’s the video: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4p7uld_human-by-design-conference-recap_tech
With the release of the new video game, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Human By Design holds a conference to discuss the future of human augmentation.
Aug 17, 2016
Interscatter enables first implanted devices, contact lenses, credit cards to ‘talk’ WiFi
Posted by Bruno Henrique de Souza in categories: augmented reality, internet, mobile phones
Engenheiros da Universidade de Washington introduziram uma nova forma de comunicação que permite que dispositivos como implantes cerebrais, lentes de contato, cartões de crédito e pequenos eletrônicos vestíveis falar com aparelhos de uso diário, como smartphones e relógios.
Este novo” Comunicação interscatter” funciona convertendo sinais Bluetooth em transmissões Wi-Fi através do ar. Usando apenas reflexões, um dispositivo interscatter como uma inteligente de lentes de contato converte sinais Bluetooth a partir de um SmartWatch, por exemplo, em transmissões Wi-Fi que podem ser apanhados por um smartphone.
Aug 9, 2016
VR VCs examine the gap between expectations and reality — By Dean Takahashi | VentureBeat
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: augmented reality, finance, virtual reality
“Waves of virtual reality and augmented reality startups have their funding. Venture capitalists invested $1.7 billion in the AR/VR sector in the 12 months ended March 2016, and $1.2 billion of that was invested in the first quarter of this year alone, according to Digi-Capital.”
Aug 8, 2016
Futurism Photo
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: augmented reality, biotech/medical, virtual reality
“You can take any anatomical part and show any of it. You can move it around you can make it kind of translucent so you can see through the outside”
Jul 31, 2016
People of the future may not congregate in crowds—at least not physically
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: augmented reality, virtual reality
VR again helping people and their fears.
Actual crowds may be replaced by what we might call distributed crowds, with virtual and augmented reality’s help.
Jul 30, 2016
HoloLens Hack Fools the Brain Into Fixing Itself
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: augmented reality, cybercrime/malcode, neuroscience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjoe3LrkiIk
Microsoft’s amazing HoloLens is the world’s first stand-alone headset that lets users see virtual objects and environments as if they existed in the real world. This device’s entertainment potential is practically unlimited, but as a Hackathon team recently demonstrated, it can also be used to rewire a malfunctioning brain.
A Microsoft employee suffering from myoclonus-dystonia —a condition where the misfiring of the brain causes uncontrollable muscle spasms—discovered that she could regain control during a spasm by looking at her partner’s feet rather than her own. And that’s how she got her great idea: Why not use the HoloLens to retrain the brain and get it to act differently? To that end, she recruited the Microsoft Hackathon team to put the idea to the test.
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