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Anthropomorphic robot, 3D HD camera rig highlight Siggraph 2012 Emerging Technologies Preview
May. 8 | The hands-on displays give Siggraph attendees a chance to explore cutting-edge technology research on the show floor. Other projects include virtual tennis and wiring a potted plant to be a computer interface. Attendees at Siggraph 2012 will have the...
Google puts the spotlight on augmented reality
Apr. 23 | The search giant proposes the specs for AR glasses. How fast can they come to market? Google has gone public with its plans to create augmented reality glasses, known as Project Glass. (Source: Google) By Jon Peddie Have you ever longed for X-ray vision...
Kinect hack wizards vie for TechStars fame
Apr. 3 | Eleven start-ups are now using Microsoft office space and a $20,000 grant to take their amazing Kinect-based projects to the next level. Microsoft is certainly not being shy about promoting Kinect hackability. Today it announced the winners in its Kinect...
New iPad app melds SketchUp models into augmented reality scene
Mar. 13 | The free version of 3Don ARchitecture allows use of a sample model; it is $15 per year to use your own data. Preview Mode in 3Don ARchitecture. (Source: 3Don) A new viewer app for iPhone and iPad can take Google SketchUp building models and display them...
Nuvixa StagePresence uses Kinect to insert people into presentations
Mar. 8 | AMD has invested in this novel approach to telepresence, which allows a presenter to share screen space with pie charts and run the presentation with gestures. Silicon Prairie startup Nuvixa is gaining attention for its new StagePresence software that...
3D laser map shows earthquake zone before and after
Feb. 13 | High-res LIDAR scans reveal previously undiscovered relationships between smaller faults. Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape down to a few inches, and it’s giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave....
New augmented reality platforms jazz up mobile
Feb. 6 | Qualcomm’s Vuforia and HP’s Aurasma can make objects or the passing scene part of the mobile experience. By Kathleen Maher [Editor’s Note: Some of the Jon Peddie Research staff attended the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas recently, including...
MIT team invents cheap way to add 3D cameras to cellphones
Jan. 6 | A one-pixel pulse is tricked into decoding 3D data. Qualcomm is taking a close look. [Editor’s Note: A video explaining the technology in more detail appears at the end of the article.] “]Depth-sensing cameras can produce 'depth maps'...
Mashup 2.0: A new paradigm for professional graphics in 2012
Jan. 2 | It is time to rethink how we think about the future of graphics-based technologies. We are in transition from the era of “what can we do with what we draw?” to “what can we do with what we see or imagine?” By Randall S. Newton “This is...
