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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 »
Design
Soyuz Chair Transforms Lay-Z-Boys Into Cosmonauts
1:20AM Mark Wilson | Sitting in the typical recliner has become the weeknight sex of the furniture world—a comfortable task for your body while your mind focuses on TV. The Soyuz Chair hopes to break the mundanity with vintage Soviet space craft design. More »
Regulars
When Your Prescription Is Beyond Contacts
4:40AM Mark Wilson | The best part of this photo is not the chunky plastic design or the model’s subtly agape mouth. It’s that fatty, curlicue phone cord hanging out the back. [Flickr via bbGadgets] More »
Science
The Virtual Cocoon Headset Promises to Feel as Real as Real Life
3:29AM Mark Wilson | Today, university scientists spanning the UK unveiled a special project: A virtual reality headset said to mimic all five senses to offer a user experience that’s indistinguishable from the real world. More »
Games
Japanese Media Vehicle is Virtual Reality in a Capsule
4:30PM Elaine Chow | This “media vehicle,” recently shown at an IT exhibition in Tokyo, looks like something out of Ghost in the Shell and is the coolest thing I’ve seen all day. More »
Gadgets
Vuzix Wrap 920AV Video Sunglasses Feature ‘See-Thru’ Quantum Optics
5:30AM Sean Fallon | A few weeks back, Vuzix teased us with an image of their upcoming Wrap 920AV virtual reality sunglasses, and today they have followed up the details. More »
Weapons
11:31AM Nick Broughall | Forget Call of Duty 4 on your 360 – for the latest and greatest interactive shooting game you need to join the NSW Police Force. According to Edmund Tadros over at the SMH, the NSW boys in blue are planning on dropping around $2 million on a state-of-the-art virtual reality firearms range to boost firearms training at the Goulburn police academy. The range will use replica guns shooting at a video screen, complete with recoil action and using wireless technology (although what wireless tech isn’t mentioned). More »
NSW Police Getting A Virtual Reality Firearms Range
11:31AM Nick Broughall | Forget Call of Duty 4 on your 360 – for the latest and greatest interactive shooting game you need to join the NSW Police Force. According to Edmund Tadros over at the SMH, the NSW boys in blue are planning on dropping around $2 million on a state-of-the-art virtual reality firearms range to boost firearms training at the Goulburn police academy. The range will use replica guns shooting at a video screen, complete with recoil action and using wireless technology (although what wireless tech isn’t mentioned). More »
Gadgets
Vuzix Teases Us With Awesome Virtual Reality Wrap 920AV Video Sunglasses
6:20AM Sean Fallon | The full details won’t be available until CES this year, but Vuzix is already teasing us with this image of their Wrap 920AV video glasses. More »
Games
TN Games HTX Helmet Delivers Virtual Headshots, Lawsuits With Force Feedback
10:30AM Jack Loftus | Joining the TN Games force feedback vest is the HTX Helmet, which will allow kids to be the first on their block to receive physical head wounds from a virtual headshot in Gears 2. More »
Science
