The best is yet to come
January 8, 2009
With theses sunglasses by VUZIX you can view the future. They say. And if “the unit will include virtual reality capabilities along with augmented reality features,” I fully agree. Because still many people are waiting untill we can blast the chains of external displays and all that. But I don´t want to start 2009 with a scoop, so I should first give it a try. There are many definitions of what augmented reality could be. Nevertheless and without magic glasses I really think we will see a lot of cool applications and products or campaigns at the interface between the real and the virtual world this year. You don´t have to be a clairvoyant for this prediction. So, wait and see…
An article about the Terminator Goggles can be found here.
Something else? Well maybe you are interested in geo-tagging. Then this article will be something for you. I think I had a sweatshirt looking like these new markers (High Capacity Color Barcodes) back in the eighties…
January 8, 2009 at 6:51 pm
They announced just what “AR Features” meant, and they weren’t kidding: http://vuzix.com/iwear/products_wrap920av.html
Visual pass through with optional 6DOF head tracker and optional stereo camera. As I figure it, that’s about all you need for an off the shelf AR headset. Hook it up to a portable computer and the only thing you’re missing is software.
January 9, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Hey Joe, you are right. These glasses seem to be a contemporary AR-able head mounted display catching up with the software development in this domain. But still the questions remains: who is walking around with a portable computer (including power supply)? Or better: when will mobile phones have the processing power for these kind of applications? Finally, I have to insert this article again, when dealing wiht this topic. I love the picture: http://augmentedblog.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/fake-or-quake/