Hi Tech & Innovation
With some DIY spirit and appreciation of virtual reality immersion, you can have the VR experience. You need little more than cardboard and some items that you can pick up at your local hardware store. Google has its own ...
Jun 27, 2014 report
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Business
Now sending Nokia what's-next watchers into a collective buzz: A story that Nokia is set to introduce a virtual reality product next week. Ina Fried in Re/code said the information came from sources "familiar with the company's ...
Jul 23, 2015 report
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Computer Sciences
(TechXplore)—In its inception, the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) sought to create computers with general intelligence analogous to our own. This proved to be too challenging and elusive, thereby leading AI research ...
Sep 26, 2016 feature
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Engineering
Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have recently developed a flexible and imperceptible magnetic skin that adds permanent magnetic properties to all surfaces to which it is applied. This artificial ...
Aug 29, 2019 feature
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A new technique that uses the artificial intelligence methods of machine learning and deep learning is able to create 3-D shapes from 2-D images, such as photographs, and is even able to create new, never-before-seen shapes.
Jul 26, 2017
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Engineering
Researchers at NIT Silchar, India, have recently developed a new dynamic hand-gesture-based keyboard character recognition system. This virtual keyboard system, presented in a paper published in Springer's Journal of Ambient ...
Jan 24, 2019 feature
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Hi Tech & Innovation
The mind at its laziest sees the old—books in print—and the new—the digital universe—as opposites, in an either-or historic transition from one to the other. Goodbye, brick and mortar book shops, hello, Kindle. Reading ...
Mar 06, 2016 weblog
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Consumer & Gadgets
Grandma, is it true people in 2019 had to browse the web in 2-D? Mozilla has this time raised web browsing to another level with its virtual reality web browser, Firefox Reality, released for Oculus Quest headsets. Immersion ...
Jul 28, 2019 weblog
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Machine Learning & AI
China is poised to overtake the United States in artificial intelligence with a surge in academic research on the key technology, an analysis published Wednesday showed.
Mar 13, 2019
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Engineering
A team of researchers at UC San Diego and San Diego State University has developed a pair of "4-D goggles" that allows wearers to be physically "touched" by a movie when they see a looming object on the screen, such as an ...
Feb 08, 2018
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Robotics
Researchers at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and the University of Bristol have recently developed a new soft robotic skin-like sensor that is based on fluidic transmission. This sensor, presented at the second IEEE International ...
Jun 13, 2019 feature
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Software
In theory, what a concept. Augmented reality and virtual reality experiences right here right now.
Apr 06, 2018 weblog
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Microsoft is focusing on developers, not the general public, for the latest in HoloLens events and announcements. The good news for the public is that, in doing so, the conversation is shedding light on what is behind HoloLens ...
Dec 19, 2015 weblog
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Future systems that allow people to interact with virtual environments will require computers to interpret the human hand's nearly endless variety and complexity of changing motions and joint angles.
Jun 22, 2016
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Consumer & Gadgets
Scientists from EPFL and ETH Zurich have developed an ultra-light glove – weighing less than 8 grams per finger– that enables users to feel and manipulate virtual objects. Their system provides extremely realistic haptic ...
Oct 15, 2018
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