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...In addition to the FT’s, I liked this one from The Atlantic recording the author’s conflicting feelings about the idea that goggles are the future of computing....
...The company’s curved, ski-goggle-style headsets look more comfortable than most....
...Gaining this knowledge seems unlikely to be enhanced by spending hours with a set of Apple goggles clamped to your head....
...The iPhone maker is widely expected to present a headset resembling a pair of sleek ski goggles that will combine “virtual reality”, in which the wearer is fully immersed in a virtual world, and “augmented...
...Apple’s operations team wanted to ship a “version one” product, a ski goggle-like headset that will allow users to watch immersive 3D video, perform interactive workouts or chat with realistic avatars through...
...Apple is reported to be working on a small number of demonstration projects that would show off its AR goggles to the full....
...And there are situations where I may want to wear these goggles and feel completely immersed, like I want to be-- we're building a replica for, again let me pick the Eiffel Tower....
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...In December, it rejected US group Teledyne’s bid to buy Photonis, a maker of night vision goggles for military use....
...“VR goggles allowed prospective buyers and tenants to experience the space without having to visit,” Angel explains....
...Silicon Valley’s past attempts at creating a camera-driven search app, such as Google Goggles, have failed to become anything more than novelties, even if they did demonstrate impressive image-recognition...
...From the John Williams soundtrack, to the blood-red floor, to the scuba suits sprayed with water, goggle-strap harnesses and red fisherman beanies, this was a full-blown shark attack....
...Since Spectacles, there have been rumours about Apple’s smart glasses, the long-anticipated release of Magic Leap’s “mixed reality” goggles (for developers, at least) and a general push towards “augmented...
...Magic Leap, the secretive Google and Alibaba-backed start-up, also plans to release a “creator edition” of its long-awaited AR goggles in 2018....
...If you are wondering what the biggest business stories in the tech world will be next year, forget driverless cars, augmented reality goggles and computers that respond to the human voice....
...It abandoned that initiative, called Goggles, after four years when users failed to take up the service....
...Many in Silicon Valley believe that devices along the lines of Microsoft’s $3,000 HoloLens head-worn computer or start-up Magic Leap’s promised goggles will one day surpass smartphones as the dominant way...
...move, which follows a string of new recruits and acquisitions from the world of consumer electronics, will fuel speculation that the photo-sharing start-up is building a pair of augmented reality (AR) goggles...
...“HDR might be unnecessary for someone reading their emails, but plug it into VR goggles and it takes on a new lease of life,” Mr Leitch says....
...Google has experimented with an app called Google Goggles, released in 2010, to help people identify objects in their surroundings and Amazon launched ‘Flow’ that helps you discover information about products...
...The other morning I chanced upon an enthusiast in a park near our home, flying a drone while wearing a pair of goggles linked to its camera. He let me try them on....
...It also suggests that to be successful, those next-generation goggles — whether Google Glass, Oculus Rift or Magic Leap — must allow us to communicate with each other at the same time as immersing ourselves...
...“I don’t think we were built to sit in a dark room with a piece of electronics strapped on our head,” he says, in a swipe at virtual-reality goggles such as Facebook’s Oculus Rift....
...This effect can be achieved using a headset such as Microsoft’s Hololens or the “mixed reality” goggles promised by secretive Florida-based start-up Magic Leap, or simply by using a smartphone’s camera,...
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