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OVERVIEW
Google Glass is a project started by Google that is intended to bring hands-free display technology to the general public. By utilizing voice commands, users can interact with their Google Glass device to get information from their phones, participate in Google+ Hangouts or to get information from the internet. With a wireless data connection, Google Glass adds an augmented-reality overlay to whatever you're looking at, automatically bringing up relevant information from various Google sources. This is still a prototype project, but Google hopes to bring it to consumers sometime in 2013. Source: gdgt.com
Google Glass is a project started by Google that is intended to bring hands-free display technology to the general public. By utilizing voice commands, users can interact with their Google Glass device to get information from their phones, participate in Google+ Hangouts or to get information from the internet. With a wireless data connection, Google Glass adds an augmented-reality overlay to whatever you're looking at, automatically bringing up relevant information from various Google sources. This is still a prototype project, but Google hopes to bring it to consumers sometime in 2013. Source: gdgt.com
Oculus Rift: Virtual Gaming now possible.
HANDS-ON WITH THE OCULUS RIFT
iFixit has torn down yet another gadget — this time it's the virtual reality headset Oculus Rift, which — somewhat surprisingly — turns out to be quite easy to repair.
The Oculus Rift started as a Kickstarter project, raising more than $2.4 million to build a next-generation virtual reality headset for 3D gaming.
The Oculus Rift is not yet commercially available and is only a developer-oriented prototype, but it doesn't mean it's safe from being torn down, as proven by iFixit.
Although a virtual reality headset is not a common gadget by any means, it doesn't use too many exotic components, and it can be taken apart in less than 10 minutes, using only a standard Phillips screwdriver, iFixit claims.
Of course, being a beta product at this stage, the Oculus Rift might turn out to be considerably different when it reaches the market. For now, though, if you're a tinkerer, you shouldn't have too many problems tearing it down. SOURCE: Mashable
More information here.
iFixit has torn down yet another gadget — this time it's the virtual reality headset Oculus Rift, which — somewhat surprisingly — turns out to be quite easy to repair.
The Oculus Rift started as a Kickstarter project, raising more than $2.4 million to build a next-generation virtual reality headset for 3D gaming.
The Oculus Rift is not yet commercially available and is only a developer-oriented prototype, but it doesn't mean it's safe from being torn down, as proven by iFixit.
Although a virtual reality headset is not a common gadget by any means, it doesn't use too many exotic components, and it can be taken apart in less than 10 minutes, using only a standard Phillips screwdriver, iFixit claims.
Of course, being a beta product at this stage, the Oculus Rift might turn out to be considerably different when it reaches the market. For now, though, if you're a tinkerer, you shouldn't have too many problems tearing it down. SOURCE: Mashable
More information here.