Inspired by the Microsoft Kinect, the camera can be used in more environments and produces better images When Microsoft released the Kinect for Xbox in November 2010, it transformed the vide... Read more
Wondrous as today’s technology is, there remains no feasible way to put ordinary people in space. Except, it seems, through virtual reality. Australian multimedia company Opaque Multim... Read more
A new twist on 3-D imaging technology could one day enable your self-driving car to spot a child in the street half a block away, let you answer your Smartphone from across the room with a w... Read more
Technology could revolutionize gaming, fall detection among the elderly, and more. Imagine playing a video game like Call of Duty orBattlefield and having the ability to lead your virtual ar... Read more
3-D printing is growing up fast On a recent cold afternoon in New York, a young couple with two small children in tow stepped off a busy sidewalk at Manhattan’s Columbus Circle into the quie... Read more
MIT’s Tangible Media Group has created a new shape display technology called InFORM that allows users to reach out online and interact with physical objects in a different location. The tech... Read more
Basketball, soccer, baseball–these are all fine sports. But wouldn’t they be even more fun if they could be released from the boring, been-there-done-that laws of physics? This is what... Read more
Remote control capabilities, including the ability to decipher users’ moods Intel Israel’s R&D center in Haifa is in charge of developing a 3-D camera, which is to be launched next year.... Read more
Ubi Interactive has moved one step forward toward achieving visuals seen in science- fiction movies for years. Ubi with assistance from Microsoft has created technology that will turn any su... Read more
AquaTop Display is a projection system that uses white water as a screen surface. This system allows the user ’s limbs to freely move through, under and over the projection surface. Using th... Read more
Scanning and 3D printing an object could become much simpler if 3D printing company Volumental is successful in crowdfunding the development of a web app which would allow users to scan and... Read more
With systems like the Kinect and Leap Motion, controlling a gadget with just the wave of a hand is starting to become much more commonplace. The one drawback to those gesture-based devices h... Read more
In a move that will thrill advertisers but make at least some members of the public queasy, a European outdoor advertising firm is rolling out ads using face detection this week. The technol... Read more
The proposed system (Augmented Lecture Feedback System – ALFs) seeks to improve communication between students and professors Scientists at la Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) have de... Read more
The campaign target has already been exceeded many times over When we first checked in on the Omni, an omnidirectional treadmill from Virtuix designed to translate the user’s physical... Read more
