Blair MacIntyre on Argon – a standards based AR browser April 26, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment Last month I got the opportunity to meet up with augmented reality veteran Blair MacIntyre. Blair directs the Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia Tech, and his research focuses on educational, entertainment and gaming applications of augmented and mixed reality environments, especially those that use personal displays (ie. ranging from see-through head-worn displays to video-mixed handheld… Read More
Asus Eee Pad, the first Tablet that can actually offer more then the iPad April 22, 2011 | perivision | 2 Comments I cannot count how many tablets have come out saying they are better then the ipad this way or that way, all bullocks of course. However, now we have and offering from ASUS that at least appears as a viable competitor. The ASUS Eee Pad. Strange name I know, but a very straight forward offering.… Read More
Terminating Reality with OLED Eyetracking head mounted displays April 22, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment I think most are familiar with the scene from Terminator 2 when Arnold walks into the biker bar after going back in time and uses his ‘Terminator view’ to scan the environment. Bringing this science fiction one step closer to science fact is Fraunhofer IPMS. IPMS (Institute for Photonic Microsystems) is one of fifty six… Read More
iPhone 5 will not have 4G LTE. Sigh.. April 21, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Many of us really thought the next iphone, the 5 would be a 4G i.e. LTE. Well, seems that comments from Apple COO Tim Cook, who said that “first generation of LTE chipsets force a lot of design compromises,” during the Apple’s earnings conference call on Wednesday. Well, sounds like this is about as accurate… Read More
AT&T seems both evil and dumb with t-mobile and FCC filing April 21, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Sometime, you just have to shake you head when a company as large as AT&T fails in its attempt to convince people that its not the death star. First seem in Ars Technica, AT&T tried to convince everyone that T-Mobile its low grade, not worth talking about and that this really will not change the… Read More
Your iPhone is spying on you and how to map view the GPS data April 20, 2011 | perivision | 1 Comment The news broke out at where 2.0 that if you pull a .db file from your iphone, it has a record of everywhere you have been in the past year. WOW. Worse, this file in NOT encrypted. So the question is; why are they collecting this in the first place? Perhaps the government wants it?… Read More
Jailbreak 4.3.1 was released, bugs seems to be worked out. April 19, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment So first off, the post from the dev team blog Only a few weeks after the 4.3.1 untether created by @i0n1c was released, Apple pushed out firmware 4.3.2. Thankfully, it appears Apple didn’t have a chance to fix the hole used by @i0n1c’s untether, so he ported his code over to 4.3.2’s kernel. Today’s redsn0w has… Read More
Paper Culture Plants One Million Trees by 2020 April 19, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Paper Culture Plants One Million Trees by 2020, Reinvents Consumers’ Thoughts about Stationery Company’s modern, eco stationery never cuts new trees & plants a tree for every order MILLBRAE, Calif. – April 19, 2011 – Having already hooked design lovers on its modern, eco stationery, Paper Culture, in partnership with The Arbor Day Foundation, has… Read More
Evernote gets a big upgrade for Android April 19, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment I have not checked this out myself since my Android is at home, so I will simply pass on what I read on venturebeat. I will check into this later and update the post. The version is called Evernote 3.0, and the company says this upgrade is huge. There are added sharing and organizational features,… Read More
App away your privacy April 17, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment I am no stranger to apps that collect an obscene amount of information, but after reading this post from Computer World titled ‘Snooping: It’s not a crime, it’s a feature‘, this is too much. The article highlights apps like Color and Shopkick that access the microphone in your phone to listen to ‘noise’ around you… Read More
Augmenting the Facts .. the cake is a lie April 15, 2011 | Damon | 3 Comments !Warning, this is a rant! With the growing interest in augmented reality, I continue to notice where presenters, bloggers, researchers, and other have misinformed their audience about the subject. To use the most generic of references, “Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or an indirect view of a physical, real-world environment… Read More
You cannot do email, calendar etc on the new RIM playbook without a blackberry phone. What? April 14, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Just to be clear, I have not played with the RIM Playbook for more then a few min and that was a beta model. It seemed pretty good for a beta back then and I was looking forward to seeing how it will do when finally released to the market… Then I read this on… Read More
Flipped Off! April 13, 2011 | Damon | Leave a comment A quick moment of silence for my favorite hand cam the Flip. Yesterday Cisco announced it was closing down its division of Flip, a fun little handheld camcorder, as part of the restructuring of its consumer business unit. Cisco purchased Pure Digital, the maker of the Flip, in 2009 for $590 million when they were the… Read More
Samsung Galaxy Tab Mobile Computer Tablet Review By @24k April 13, 2011 | @24k | Leave a comment This review post was written by Christopher Rauschnot and originally posted to Samsung Galaxy Tab Mobile Tablet Computer Review. You can follow him on Twitter @24k & @24kMedia and the 24kMedia Facebook Page Sets of tablets were announced in late 2010 that were going to be shown off at the upcoming International Consumers Electronics Show… Read More
3D on the iphone ipad without glasses using head tracking! April 12, 2011 | perivision | 5 Comments Remember Johnny Chung Lee who did that really cool hack on the Nintendo Wii awhile back? He created a 3D simulation using head tracking… Video below the post in case you do not remember. Anyway, seems Jeremie Francone and Laurence Nigay from the Engineering Human-Computer Interaction (EHCI) research group at the Grenoble Informatics Laboratory did… Read More
How to downgrade to older firefox 3.6 if 4.0 is crashing on you April 12, 2011 | perivision | 1 Comment When I first installed Firefox 4 it was REALLY buggy for me. Lots of crashes and lock ups. I then started removing plugins and its starting to behave much better now. I still have the occasional hiccup, but nothing like in the beginning. However, if you are STILL having crashes and lockups on FireFox, here… Read More
Tron light cycles in my web browser! April 8, 2011 | Damon | 1 Comment I have discovered my own ‘Angry Birds’ style game addiction with Cycleblob. Released earlier this week, this Tron inspired game allows the player to control a light cycle and compete against other computer controlled racers on various 3D tracks. Beyond the cool factor of being able to race a Tron light cycle, the game utilizes… Read More
Mobipark Helps You Find Your Car April 8, 2011 | Chia Hwu | Leave a comment Mobipark is free until end of day 4/9/11. Download it now and get the app for free instead of $1.99 US. Where did you leave your car? When do you need to move it to avoid a costly ticket? How do you get back to a location if you’re in an unfamiliar city? Mobipark combines… Read More
iphone mmorg game Yslandia is now free April 8, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment Just got this in email. If your into MMORGS, its free so give it a shot. Here is information from the press release. Yslandia a world apart: Yslandia above all cherishes its players, and we are proud to announce that Yslandia today represents more than 100,000 players from around the world, hundreds of whom form… Read More
Tapcloud, Movement Through Real Space in a Casual Game April 8, 2011 | Chia Hwu | 1 Comment A new and fresh game that Qubop made that makes use of the camera, the gyros, and other hardware in the phone. The clouds are randomly generated around you in 3D space, find them, tap them, and get points. See the world through the camera and play the game layered on top of reality. The… Read More