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Controversial Hololens military deal moves into production phase at $22B Once demoed as augmented reality hardware for use with video games like Minecraft, Microsoft is moving forward with a $22 billion Hololens deal with the U.S. Army that will put the militarized version of the headset into production. While Hololens wasn't made exclusively for video game applications, when introduced in 2015 it was marketed as productivity and entertainment hardware, with its first concept demo showing holographic calendars in the kitchen, a virtual screen for Netflix, and a holographic ...

Apple's VR, AR headset plans: The latest rumors and reports CNET 3/8/2021 Scott Stein © Provided by CNET Taking a look at Apple's other wearable devices could point to where Apple's rumored glasses are heading. Scott Stein/CNET First came VR. Then came a wave of AR headsets that were high-priced and full of promises of wild mixed-reality worlds. Apple could be blending AR and VR with two different headsets in the next couple of years, but leading the way with a VR headset more like the Oculus Quest, according to a report in January by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. It could be...

tmrJanuary 29, 2021 27 Depth imaging refers to the ability to produce an image that contains depth information at each location in the image. Humans perceive depth using our two eyes to create “stereo vision”. While the applications thus far for 3D image sensing have been in the industrial, military and medical fields, the first consumer products started to emerge around 2010 with the Microsoft Kinect game accessory. Kinect was based on technology licensed from the Israeli company Prime Sense which was subsequently acquired by Apple in 2013. Based on product developments from components...

News Highlights: Point, don’t click: Pison Technology The system makes it possible to control robots and devices with gestures only Alfonso demonstrated Pison’s new gesture control system, a technology that has so far escaped corporate giants like Microsoft, who have spent hundreds of millions trying to perfect it. Pison, a startup emerging from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says it has developed a practical way to control all kinds of digital devices by intercepting the electronic traffic between our hands and our brains and translating them into commands that the machines ...

Point, don’t click: Pison Technology’s system allows the control of robots and devices by gestures alone By Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff,Updated January 26, 2021, 3:45 p.m. Email to a Friend Engineer David Alfonso demonstrates gesture-control technology that his company, Pison, has developed to send commands by hand motions to electronic devices and machines, such as this four-legged robot from Boston Dynamics.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff Senior software engineer David Alfonso of Boston-based Pison Technology doesn’t resemble the sorceror’s apprentice from the old Walt Disney ca...