VR, AR, music and droids of all sorts: iRobot, Laundroid, and of course the Star Wars variety, as seen at the newly opened Disney’s Galaxy’s Edge land. Continue reading →
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In all the wrong places — the example for this show, as surgical robots! But before we get to that, let’s start with the latest news in augmented reality. Michael and Michael explore the newly announced Magic Leap One Creator Edition AR glasses, using a couple of links & videos to discuss the merits and challenges. The co-hosts struggle to come up with the right word to describe the look — steampunkesque was among those suggested. Moving to robotics, which is becoming more and more of a trend on the podcast lately, this time surfaces in the form of exoskeletons … Continue reading →
Augmented reality and self-driving automobiles. Two great topics that really get Michael and Michael’s engines revving! Staring off with the Mashable articles, one of which inspired the episode name with it’s similar name, the pair talk about ways for holographic projection can be used for augmented reality without glasses. The first example is the Hydrogen phone by the high end video camera manufacturer Red, which projects the holographic image up from the phone. A second example from the Future Interfaces Group at Carnegie Mellon University is an augmented reality projector that fits into a lightbulb socket and projects down from … Continue reading →