by Bruce Brown | January 19, 2018 | General News, Health
Smart glasses such as the much-maligned Google Glass suffered a false start in the consumer market that tarnished the concept temporarily. When developers who assumed the highest and best use of augmented or enhanced reality (AR or ER) was to give people a way to...
by Kimberly Houston | November 16, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
If you’re among the millions of viewers who’ve tuned into the Netflix hit “Stranger Things,” you’ve seen the character Eleven use her telekinetic powers to liberate herself and her friends from the Hawkins lab goons, all using the power of her mind....
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by Alfred Poor | January 13, 2017 | General News, Health
If you watched the major news outlets’ coverage of CES 2017, you might have gotten the impression that it was largely a virtual reality (VR) show. Clearly, this is a sexy market segment that is a real crowd-pleaser, but the fact is that augmented reality (AR) is...
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by Bruce Brown | December 29, 2016 | General News, Medical
No one needs reminders of incidents of terrorism, active shooters, or people trapped during natural disasters. With the ubiquity of cellphones, the biggest issue in getting medical care quickly to those in need isn’t communications, but access via ground...
by Alfred Poor | September 19, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
What if displays weren’t just another pretty face, something colorful and interesting to look at? What if they could also detect information from their surroundings? What if they had sensors built into them? The fact is that this is not a new concept; as early...
