virtual reality
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Take A Virtual Tour Through Google Street View On A Stationary Bike
10:20AM Sean Fallon | Using a Vuzix headset, a laptop, Arduino and a bike sensor, Aki Mimoto was able to rig up his wife’s stationary bike to transport himself through a virtual Google Street View environment. More »
Design
Media Vehicle Provides Marshmallow-Shaped Mobile VR Experience
4:00AM Jack Loftus | Today I saw the future, and it was a virtual reality marshmallow chair. More »
Design
5:17AM John Herrman | Projected against a shop window in New York, Sniff is a 3D animated dog. He’s just a computer-generated rendering, sure, but he’s got personality — he reacts to your gestures, follows you around, and presented with a group, chooses favourites. More »
The Desperate Puppy In The Window, Digitised
5:17AM John Herrman | Projected against a shop window in New York, Sniff is a 3D animated dog. He’s just a computer-generated rendering, sure, but he’s got personality — he reacts to your gestures, follows you around, and presented with a group, chooses favourites. More »
Robots
Design Epcot’s Newest Roller Coaster Each Time You Ride
10:00AM Mark Wilson | Opening today, Epcot’s Sum of All Thrills ride will change every time you ride. That’s because you’ll draw your design on a touchscreen computer before hopping on. More »
Robots
Robotic Walking Tiles Would Have Made Better Billie Jean Video
3:40AM Sean Fallon | Virtual reality researcher Hiroo Iwata has developed cubes that utilise a pressure-sensitive fabric and ultrasonic sensors to predict movement, analyse positions and shuffle accordingly. Essentially, this creates an “infinite” walkway. More »
Games
12:00PM Dan Nosowitz | I think I and quite a few others have had this idea before, but some crazy Russians have actually built a 10-foot, stationary hamster ball for humans that translates movement to on-screen action. More »
Virtusphere Combines Virtual Reality With The Hamster Ball, Adds Broken English
12:00PM Dan Nosowitz | I think I and quite a few others have had this idea before, but some crazy Russians have actually built a 10-foot, stationary hamster ball for humans that translates movement to on-screen action. More »
Science
Dinosaurs To Storm Japan Through Augmented Reality Exhibit
11:54PM Mark Wilson | Japan just can’t help but to tempt fate. First they produced the Godzilla movies. Now they’re voluntarily bringing dinosaurs back from the dead. More »
Gadgets
Our Augmented Reality Future
3:30AM Jack Loftus | io9 was busy this weekend detailing detailing how the future might look as “augmented reality” takes off in the next decade or so. Personally, I can’t wait for the information overload. It’s just too bad spam will follow us into 2020. [io9]
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