LinkNotes: Panoramic

2012-01-09

Sensics SmartGoggles

Headset Sensics Smart Goggles on Android | iPedia - Latest Technology News, iPhone, Apple, Gadgets

Android operating system has penetrated almost all electronics, from in-vehicle infotainment systems, and ending wristwatch. However, producers that was not enough and they decided to find a new habitat popular platform: SmartGoggles.

The company Sensics, speaking developer SmartGoggles, released a video teaser of the future gadget, which is a helmet with a display in front of the user’s eyes. As noted above, Sensics SmartGoggles runs on an operating system Android, which version is not specified.

Source: Headset Sensics Smart Goggles on Android | iPedia - Latest Technology News, iPhone, Apple, Gadgets

Sensics SmartGoggles | A new 3D, 360 degree gaming and entertainment platform

Source: Sensics SmartGoggles | A new 3D, 360 degree gaming and entertainment platform

Sensics

Sensics Introduces SmartGoggles™: a New 3d, 360-Degree Gaming and Entertainment Platform

COLUMBIA, MD (12/22/11) – Maryland-based Sensics plans to unveil SmartGoggles™, a new 3D, 360-degree gaming and entertainment platform at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show.

Sensics’ SmartGoggles™ technology powers new types of gaming and entertainment goggles that are mobile and feature real-time, 360-degree tracking of the hands from the user’s perspective, adding intelligence, natural interaction, and true portability to goggle designs.

Source: Sensics

Technology | Sensics SmartGoggles

What’s inside?
SmartGoggles are a unique architecture for smarter, better virtual reality goggles. Delivered as a ‘system on a module’, SmartGoggles technology provides consumer electronics companies with an engine for building goggles that customers will love to use.
SmartGoggles typically include the following components:

A powerful application processor, typically running Android or Windows Embedded, allowing you to download, run and store applications locally – on the goggles – and take them with you.

A unique system for first-person hand tracking, providing natural interaction with the applications. By using hand tracking data – provided through the libSensics™ software library, application developers can use the hands to interact with 3D content, to play a 360 degree 3D game and to provide on-board user interface.

A virtual reality engine that provides almost everything you need to build goggles: display drivers, predictive head tracking, video processing, communications and more.

Ready to dive deeper into the architecture of SmartGoggles? Click here for a detailed block diagram.

Source: Technology | Sensics SmartGoggles

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2008-01-30

GigaPan -- Gigapixel Panoramic Images

GigaPan the newest development of the Global Connection Project aims to bring distant communities and peoples together through very high-resolution (gigapixel and up) panoramic images.

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clipped from onemansblog.com

GigaPan consists of three technological developments: a robotic camera mount for capturing very high-resolution (gigapixel and up) panoramic images using a standard digital camera; custom software for constructing very high-resolution gigapixel panoramas; and, a new type of website for exploring, sharing and commenting on gigapixel panoramas and the detail our users will discover within them. The GigaPan website allows hosting and sharing all kinds of panoramas, and so the robotic GigaPan mount is recommended but is certainly not required to be part of this community.