Sony announced pre-order of its SmartEyeglass Developer Edition in February, 2015 while Google published the Google Glass several years ago and kept updating (though just in January Google halted sales of Glass). Here is my comparison between the two glasses: Spec Comparison SmartEyeglass Google Glass Glass Mass 77g 43g Auxiliary Mass 45g – AR Binocular see-through HUD…
HoloLens + Minecraft @ Microsoft E3 Gaming Conference
9:30AM, Pacific Time, the Microsoft E3 Gaming Conference was held in Los Angeles. The theme is “Jump Ahead with XBOX One”. The most amazing part is, this time, they presented a “live” demo of playing Minecraft using Microsoft augmented-reality headset – HoloLens. As my former comparison article says, the images renderred in HoloLens appeared distractingly transparent; in return, Minecraft is very suitable…
[Comparison] MagicLeap vs. HoloLens vs. Oculus Rift
Introduction The most popular industrial trends in VR/AR must be the competition among MagicLeap, Microsoft HoloLens and Oculus Rift (together with cheaper version of Rift such as Google Cardboard) According to [1], the MagicLeap team seems to use either optical waveguides at the nano scale or dense microlens arrays and create lightfield at the pupil. Here is a…
[Summary] Oculus Press Event · June 11 – Consumer Rift Spec Revealed
Right now, everything is published at https://www.oculus.com/en-us/rift/ Here is the summary: This is the beginning of VR gaming – Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Oculus Rift Consumer Model for Q1 2016 2160 x 1200 resolution, one resolution over two OLED displays slightly higher than what I have for DK2: 1920 x 1080 OS: Windows 7 SP1 or newer Hardware: 8GB…
[Summary] Apple WWDC 2015
First, let’s have a look at the majestic WWDC 2015 Conference Hall. Here links the live movie from Apple. 1. OSX, iOS, WatchOS We can always learn a lot from the presentation style from Apple: Simple slides, fluent animation and live demos. But most importantly, tell a story to your audience. OSX Apple released OSX El Capitan. The…
[Summary] Google I/O 2015
Trailer photo from Google JUMP. The big things from Google I/O I think are Brillo, JUMP, Project Soli and Jacquard. Android M App privilege control: something that iOS has 2~4 years ago… Chrome enhancement: tabs & autopassword, something that iOS has 2~4 years ago… Send to app: something that iOS has 2~4 years ago… Android Pay: something that iOS…
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