user interface techniques
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DARPA’s a Bit Concerned About Tactical-Puking Attacks
In a scene seemingly pulled directly out of Cyberpunk 2077, DARPA, the army’s top research and development arm, is reportedly exploring ways to defend Army soldiers against “cognitive attacks” that could result in them puking under their HoloLens mixed reality headsets. Future wars, it seems, will be fought with guts in more ways than one.…
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Fender’s New Guitar Metaverse Lets You Rock Out in the Clouds
Guitar nerds who can’t quite cough up the dough for a weekend excursion to this massive guitar shaped hotel in Florida may now have a lifeline…in the metaverse.
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How To Remap the Keys on Any Laptop
You may have never realised it, but you don’t necessarily have to settle for the keyboard defaults that you get on your laptop out of the box: If you want different keys to trigger different actions besides the default ones, it’s possible to customise them — and that opens up a wealth of new options…
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Your Smartphone’s Selfie Cam Can See a Lot by Capturing Reflections in Your Pupils
The use of biometrics — measurements of physiological characteristics to identify someone — has made interactions with our mobile devices a lot easier by trading passcodes for face scans and fingerprint readings. But are there other ways our physical interactions with devices can make them easier to use? Researchers in Japan think so, by staring…