When Valve’s first hardware hire, Jeri Ellsworth, tweeted back in February that she was fired from the company, we were disappointed but also intrigued by what she meant by “time for new exciting projects.” Well we finally saw what she’s been up t…
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Now that Google Glass and Oculus Rift have …
We’re hoping we won’t need to use Nokia’s JobLens app for real any time soon, but at the Lumia 925 launch event, we thought we’d at least explore our options. It’s essentially a proximity-based job searching tool that, in the lens mode, is much li…
Epson’s 3D display glasses, the Moverio BT-100 have been floating around as a development platform for a couple years, and APX Labs is the latest to hack the headset. APX Labs is a software firm best known for creating Terminator Vision augmented …
One of the bigger digs against Glass so far has been its rather limited feature set. In particular, there seemed to be no way to build full augmented reality applications for the wearable. (And it’s not like Google has exactly been forthcoming abo…
Google just shot out an email to folks who signed up for its Glass Explorers program at I/O last year, and it’s spreading word that Glass units have begun to roll off the production line for participants. The roughly 2,000 devs who pre-ordered the sp…
We have all seen the Parrot AR Drone many times, but this time around they have something a bit more exciting to show us. The company has optimized the AR-controlled drone to work with the NVIDIA Shield and we have a demo from NVIDIA’s GTC conference! As it stands, the NVIDIA Shield pretty much works [...]
Wondering what to do with that Parrot.AR Drone collecting dust on your shelf? Why not help scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) work on automated spaceship docking methods? The agency recently released an augmented reality ap…
If this doesn’t give the geek in you goosebumps of jealousy, it’s probably because you’re already ice fishing next to an igloo somewhere in Alaska. Posted a few days ago by Googler Evan Rapoport, the picture was captured with Google Glass. In the picture, Evan is creating a photosphere which includes none other than a [...]
Sphero’s robotic orbs recently spread some holiday cheer in Union Square, NYC. 28 out of the little Android-controlled toys combined via meticulous choreography to performa a “dance” to Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “Chritsmas Eve / Sarajevo.” So, yes, it’s a little like all those videos of houses with automated light shows, except not. You might recall that [...]
