UC Berkeley build implantable, dust-sized wireless sensors Telemetry from your body — is nothing private anymore? Engineers and scientists from the electrical engineering and computer sciences and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, at Berkeley, have built the first dust-sized, wireless sensors that can be implanted in the body, bringing closer the day when a Fitbit-like device could … Read more
3D now and forever It never hurts to be skeptical, and after so many false starts, it’s hard to believe the crazy huge numbers predicting the success of VR and AR. So, go right on ahead, don’t believe them. If people don’t want to wear 3D glasses in their living room, and openly make fun of the poor brave Google … Read more
One sensor plus tablet sensors for SLAM Eonite develops middleware software to take advantage of a mobile depth cameras, inertial sensor (IMU), and RGB data for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). The software runs on a tablet-class GPU. Eonite works closely with OEM’s including their software in new devices including helping to select and calibrate the sensor. The company’s Reality … Read more
What happens when the sharing economy, the desire for sustainability, and the standardization of hardware meets the cloud. We’re going to find out in 2017. For a hint, we can look at the software industry. Customers may not like it, and many vendors are afraid of it, but subscription or metered usage approaches are going to become the norm. One … Read more
What did CES actually accomplish for you? Most of the dust has settled, most of the hangovers are over, most of the pain in your legs, and other more sensitive parts of your body has abated, and most of your money is gone—one hell of a party, no? We love it, can’t get enough of it Now you’ve seen all … Read more
Nvidia and Mercedes are taking the steering wheel away from me. CES was a triumph of announcements for Nvidia, even more so than past Nvidia press events at CES. The icing on the cake however was the announcement that Nvidia and Mercedes-Benz have been working together the past three years and will be rolling out a product with Nvidia technology … Read more
Millennials – yes, they’re the bulge in the belly of the snake and these people will be ruling our lives. Right now, it’s through their influence – they’re spending money, they’re having children, and they have defined their lifestyles. It’s pretty likely that every new generation entering the workforce proudly proclaims they’re going to do it different and they’re going … Read more
CES—TVs and cars Nvidia began pursuing the automotive market as an outlet for its Tegra products in 2008, and first shipped Tegras into the Tesla Model S in 2012. One powered the 17” touch screen and one powered the all digital configurable cluster. Since then the company has had a steady stream of announcements and design wins, and has continued … Read more
Trimble announced that it is adopting technology from Umbra 3D graphics to develop mixed reality applications for BIM for its Mixed Reality Pilot program. Umbra’s technology has been widely used in games because it optimizes the way large models are handled with pre-processing and evaluation so that the triangle count is reduced, level of detail is appropriate for the scene, … Read more
Microsoft isn’t the only company to want it all, flexible envionmnents that combine VR and AR to equal MR. It can be argued that there are applications and usage models that draw a sharp line between the technologies. For instance in Industry the isolation of VR doesn’t make sense, people need to be aware of there surroundings. Also, we’d say … Read more
Why? Because we can. At CES, Miraxess launched The Mirabook, a clamshell device with a 13- inch HD screen that accepts (via USB) a smartphone and becomes an extension screen and keyboard, suggesting the smartphone can be your laptop. The premise being that many people are already using their smartphone as their primary device, so for those situations where you … Read more
