Popcode: Markerless Augmented Reality
With “markerless” augmented reality, just about anything can be turned into an interactive game. Researchers at Cambridge University have developed a cool augmented reality app called Popcode. An update to the app recently made it available for iPhone 4 and Android, and the app is being featured at the University of Cambridge Science festival being … Read more
Hologram messaging coming of age
STREAMING HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGES IN NEAR-REALTIME Many different perspectives of the object or person (1) are captured on a series of cameras arranged in an arc or circle That information is processed (2) and sent through a computer link. It could conceivably be sent anywhere in the world The 3D holographic printing system (3) receives the … Read more
TUI (Thought User Interface): Brain link lets people choose images by thought alone
IMAGINE being able to manipulate images on a screen by thought alone. That’s the tantalising prospect raised by a brain-machine interface that lets you control which of two competing images you can see on a screen. Moran Cerf at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and colleagues recruited 12 volunteers who had electrodes implanted in … Read more
