Back at the end of January, I told you about Making Things See: 3D Vision With Kinect, Processing, Arduino, and MakerBot, a new book published by O'Reilly. My review copy arrived about a week ago, but I admittedly haven't found sufficient spare cycles to crack it open yet, far from give it a proper perusal […]
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Shopping at the local Safeway is becoming an increasingly annoying experience. The number of human-staffed checkout lines steadily diminishes, replaced by self-checkout stations guaranteed to cause my blood pressure to skyrocket. Assuming the card reader correctly scans the magnetic strips on my frequent-shopper and credit cards (always a crapshoot), the optical scanner is invariably unable
Robotic Assistance And Item Identification: An End To Grocery Store Frustration? Read More +
Today’s mobile devices truly do make it possible to work anywhere, whether you’re accessing your desktop on the go or conferencing and collaborating with colleagues across time zones. See how Texas Instruments' OMAP processors are powering the new world of work. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player
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Try on and shop for the latest accessories – without ever leaving home. This demonstration of an augmented reality mirror uses face detection and tracking to give you a realistic preview of how accessories like Ray-Ban glasses will look before you buy. This demonstration is empowered by TI's OMAP processor and partner Total Immersion. video
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Watch as Tobias Elbe from metaio shows off two OMAP platform-empowered augmented reality demos. First, outfit a virtual room with new furniture, electronics and even people or figures – all in 3D. Then, see how metaio's junaio browser allows you to interact with "flat" surfaces all around you, such as billboards and buildings. video platformvideo
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Dear Colleague, In the previous newsletter, I told you about embedded vision-related developments coming out of the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, Spain. Since then, two additional notable conferences have come and gone, both including plenty of embedded vision news of their own. CeBIT took place from March 6-10 in Hannover, Germany, while the
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Austin, TX – March 13, 2011 – The release of the new iPad brought a number of incremental upgrades but also raised interesting questions, as Apple’s competitors aggressively incorporate a number of advanced user interface technologies at a faster pace. IMS Research believes Apple will need to embrace embedded vision-based technologies in its next product
Are Apple and the iPad Falling Behind Competitors in User Interface Technologies? Read More +
Last October, shortly after Apple's unveiling of the latest-generation iPhone 4S cellular handset, I published an analysis of the system's capabilities (both absolute and relative to predecessors and competitors) as an embedded vision application platform. Five days ago, for those of you who haven't already heard, Apple launched the "new iPad" (colloquially the iPad
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In early August of last year, I pointed out that Microsoft had released the first public beta of its Kinect SDK for Windows in mid-June, followed by a Kinect-cognizant services suite for Robotics Developer Studio R3 in mid-July. And, at the end of September, I mentioned that Microsoft had unveiled a beta for the follow-on
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Austin, TX – March 7, 2011 – With the release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Microsoft has shown its continued commitment to advances in user interfaces, including a deeper embrace of the gesture and voice control technologies it introduced with the Kinect for Xbox 360. IMS Research expects Windows 8 to be the main
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