We’ve known about the AppBlaster for some time now, but last week, one landed on my desk. Armed only with an iPhone 3GS, I set to seeing whether a plastic AR gun could really make my real world shooting dreams come true. More »
Students from the University of Texas have built a screen that you can’t ever look away from because it follows your eye’s every move. Seriously! An eye-tracking camera tracks where your eye is looking and the motorised pico-projector shoots out the display to that target. If you glance off to the right, the screen follows. Hell, if your eye twitches even a little bit, the screen is perfectly adjusted to where you’re staring at. More »
What the hell are you supposed to do in a virtual world anyway—choose between red and blue pills? More »
Oww! The virtual genitalia jokes write themselves, don’t they? Yes, Michael Jackson’s estate has approved an online interactive world, perhaps inevitably called Planet Michael, which will appear in 2011. All the crotch-thrusting detail after the jump. More »
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Perception is important in how you taste things; you taste what you expect to taste, more or less. Which is why wearing a big VR helmet can change how you taste a bland cookie. More »
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Take an Arduino, accelerometer and gyroscope-powered VR glove, some custom software, a projector and some funky interiors and you’ve got yourself the most futuristic game of Pong I’ve ever seen. Spoiler: the ball actually bounces off the stairs. More »
