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www.PirateLifestyle.com Quickie for the Pirate Lifestyle TV Show. I have my own pirated prototype of Google Glasses. Themost excellent way to be supportin’ Capt Rob and Pirate Lifestyle TV is ta LIKE & FAVORITE & THUMBS UP this video an’ be sharin’ it wit’ ye friends on Facebook an’ Twitter. A humble pirate "thank you" fer doin’ this. Arrrrr. YouTube www.youtube.com Subscribe: www.youtube.com *** Don’t be missin’ a show. Sail Around the Web-O-Sphere wit’ Capt Rob! Website: www.piratelifestyle.com Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com Google+: Gplus.to This is a different and much more complicated style of video. I really hope you like it. I spent many hours editing and getting everything just right. This video is made of multiple short clips, with a LOT of editing to get it all together. Arrr. I’m sure you have heard of the Google Project, or what everyone knows as Google glasses. So this pirate has created his own Google glasses prototype. Let’s put these bad boys on and see what we can see. Scanning…Sailboat. Scanning…Shrimp boat Scanning…Paragliding dumbass Scanning…Blue Angels badass Scanning…Big bird Scanning…Tiki Scanning…Scarlet Scanning…Hot babe Important incoming message. From your Admiral. When you get done playing around with your Stupid Glasses get your butt back to the sailboat! I hope you enjoyed this pirate lifestyle TV video. Be sure ta be subscribin’ so you won’t be missing a thing. With ye help, me goal be ta motivate and <b>…</b>

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www.freescale.com – Augmented reality puts a virtual view on top of your real world. Freescale’s i.MX multimedia processors, Xtrinsic sensors and software offer a new level of user experience for next-generation mobile devices. Image recognition is triggering specific applications. The navigation inside the immersive virtual reality showroom uses sensors for the panoramic viewing and tilting to display specific content. Another application is discovering the inside of Freescale’s SABRE platform.

Today this form of 3d immersive, interactive, communication, visualization and simulation system is widely used in a variety of industrial, scientific, educational and entertainment applications among others. It’s now also becoming technologically feasible and affordable to consider this class of tech for home use. Imagine for example playing games, watching sports, concerts, plays, travel the world, video calling or immersed in a Movie or TV show and interacting with it! Bringing this type of viewing experience into your home still has a few steps left and a key one is, do people want it? What are your thoughts about this type of an home entertainment system? Please feel free to leave your comment or vote the like or dislike button. We’ll have another iCube video on how it works here soon, stay tuned to ElectricTV. Special thanks to EON Reality’s Edward Robertson, Director of Technology Services for presenting this informative and fascinating iCube demo experience. For more info visit: eonreality.com Video best viewed full screen.

Skyrim played through a simulated Virtual Reality environment using a head mounted display, head tracking, motion sensing and speech recognition. I’ve also written up a walkthrough on how you can do it yourself too: zookal.com This is what was used for the demo: – Skyrim – A first person action role-playing game for the PC. – Sony HMZ-T1 – High definition head mounted display with Stereoscopic 3D. – Microsoft Kinect – Track movement and gestures. – TrackIR 5 – Head tracking. – TrackClip Pro – Used with the TrackIR 5 for more accurate head tracking. – Shoot – Speech recognition software. – FAAST 0.9 – Software used to map Kinect gestures to the keyboard I’ve setup the Sony HMZ-T1 head mounted display to use Stereoscopic 3D as well as attached the TrackClip Pro on it for head tracking. I had to place the TrackIR 5 on a wire hanging from the ceiling as it needed to be around head level to track my head movements properly. The Kinect was setup on the PC using PrimeSense’s OpenNI drivers. I used FAAST 0.9 with a custom script to map certain gestures with the keyboard, such as walking on the spot to move in the game, leaning left, leaning right, jumping and moving my right arm forward to use the sword. Shoot was used to map several speech commands with actions in the game as well, such as saying ‘Open Menu’ and ‘Close Menu’ to trigger the in-game menu, as well as using commands to navigate through the menu. All the devices to do this cost less than $1500, although it is still <b>…</b>

At Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Professor Jeremy Bailenson has created a thoroughly convincing virtual reality environment. SmartPlanet’s Sumi Das tours the lab to find out what technology makes it happen and how VR is likely to be used in the future.

Smart phones have endless applications that keep users connected to the real world. But researchers from the Mixed Reality (MxR) Lab at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies are developing ways to use these ubiquitous devices to transport people to virtual worlds as well. Beginning Sunday, March 4, at the Workshop on Off-The-Shelf Virtual Reality, they began handing hundreds of manila envelopes, each containing a FOV2GO, a portable fold-out iPhone and Android viewer that turns the smartphone screen into a 3-D virtual reality system. Downloadable software allows users to create their own virtual worlds or environments to display. Developed with researchers from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the folded paper device, constructed for under five dollars, is one of a growing number of do-it-yourself projects that are decreasing the overhead and hardware required for fully immersive virtual reality experiences. These low-cost, lightweight systems can be used to create portable virtual reality applications for training, education, health and fitness, entertainment and more. "I am happy to be able to introduce the FOV2GO at the IEEE VR Conference," said Mark Bolas who heads up the MxR Lab at ICT and is also an associate professor in the interactive media division of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. "This conference has been the premiere venue in the field of VR since its inception in 1999 and now more than a decade later we can put <b>…</b>

PD&D TV Host Louise Rainone talks to Jason Kaplan of Sensics at CES 2012 about head-tracking 3D Smart Goggles, a new spin on virtual reality goggles. With an embedded android processor, the headset is essentially a computer that you mount to your head. The goggles have cameras designed into the front of the mask, which sense the movement of peripherals (arms, steering wheel, etc) and integrate it into the game. The platform is also built to incorporate augmented reality. Louise takes the Smart Goggles for a test spin and destroys a few virtual buildings in the process. Check out more CES 2012 coverage on www.pddnet.com.

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