We warned you. We gave you plenty of time to prepare. The time is now. Vuzix has officially made available their 1200vR video 3D glasses. You know what these do don’t you? They inject an immersive 3D image right into your eyeballs. The future is here!
The Wrap 1200VR glasses enable you to view a simulated 75-inch, 3D (or 2D, if you’d prefer) 16:9 display at ten feet away. These bad boys feature a single 852 x 480 monitor per eye and support input resolutions of up to 1280 x 720. The VR in the name comes from the included Wrap Tracker 6TC with compass, which enables head-tracking with three degrees of freedom. Pretty cool right?
They will set you back a bit. A pair of these futuristic monstrosities cost around $600. ..read more
Posted in: Eyewear, Eyewear Display, Vuzix
The mad geniuses over at LG just don’t stop do they? Next up? A pair of passive clip-on 3D glasses that actually function as, well, your regular glasses. It’s true. All you have to do is clip them on to your regular glasses and you can watch and experience 3D like the rest of the world. No need for that whole humiliating “double glasses” thing.
It’s not just 3D, however. The clip-on goodness also extends to UV protection and something the company calls “seamlessly interacting with your TV.” Not sure what that one entails.
The LG AG-F220 can be purchased online at an astounding price of just $20 for a pair. That’s pretty darned cool if you ask this bespectacled freakazoid.
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Ah, Sony. You never give up do you? At least year’s CES the company showed off a rather bizarre wearable 3D concept. Nobody really felt it was in the cards to become a retail device. Sony, however, had other ideas. This thing is coming and its coming fast. One might even say it’s in, sigh, three dimensions.
This thing features two 1280×720 0.7-inch OLED panels mounted in front of each eye giving the wearer an experience similar to viewing a 750-inch screen from 20m away, as well as 5.1 surround sound from headphones integrated into the Head Mounted Display (HMD).
So we are not quite looking at the holodeck, but perhaps we are inching ever so closer. Thank goodness. This whole set up will cost you around $783. It releases this November ..read more
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The worst about reading subtitles in the movie theater? The fact that your face is so comfortable, with no glasses anywhere to be seen. That may soon be changing if Sony and England has anything to say about it.
Sony is developing Subtitle Glasses that allow the wearer to see the subtitles for a film projected right there via the glasses. The company is planning on launching the items next year in England as a sort of trial run for the worldwide market. This, of course, would be of no use if you are one of those people who knows other languages. If you are like the rest of us, however, then your face is in for a treat.
We’ll let you know more as this develops, in the meantime try brushing ..read more
Posted in: Eyewear, Sony
You know what most pairs of binoculars lack? The ability to see into the third dimension. That’s not the case anymore thanks to Sony and their new pairs of 3-D enabled binocs.
The DEV-3 and DEV-5 digital binoculars are the world’s first digital binoculars. They shoot in HD, to make matters even cooler. The only difference between the two models? The DEV-5 has a built-in “GPS receiver that automatically geotags video clips as you travel” and 20x zoom versus the DEV-3’s 10x zoom and lack of GPS.
How much does the third dimension cost? The DEV-3 will set you back $1,400, while the DEV-5 is $2,000. Both will be released this November.
Posted in: Eyewear, Sony
There’s been some cool advancements in sonar technology in the past few years, but nothing compares to this. Grathio Labs has readied its Tacit. This device could single handily revolutionize how the blind deal with their surroundings. Why? The Tacit is a hand-mounted sonar device.
The system works using ultrasonic sensors that are mounted to a device that the user simply holds in their hand. Dangerous objects are sent to the user via an Arduino-controlled controller and the end result is smooth sailing in the walking department. The device lets the user know if objects are close by squeezing around their hand, which seems more elegant than letting out a beep or something.
The whole thing is powered simply by a 9V battery. Of course, it’s a ways off from being available ..read more
Posted in: Eyewear, Grathio Labs, Sound
Vuzix are back ya’ll! The eyewear company that could has just prepped their recent mad genius creation. Ok, so we all know when you watch something in 3D you have two parts. The glasses and the screen that the glasses interact with. Certain smartphones and game devices(3DS) have been trying to eliminate the glasses, but where are the devices that are eliminating the screen? Nowhere, until now.
Vuzix’s Wrap 1200 glasses actually embed the 3D in the glasses. The glasses simulate a 75-inch display. That’s a lot of inches. iPhone and component video cables are included in the box, letting you plug in to a variety of content. Finally, we are one step closer to a virtual reality world where we don’t have to actually talk to one another. Cool!
This tech ..read more
Posted in: Eyewear, Vuzix
Slowly but surely, the world of at-home 3D displays are eschewing those cumbersome glasses. Glasses-free 3D has a major problem, though. You have to be in just the right spot to see it well. This means that roomfuls of guests will often be left out in the 3D-less cold. That is not good for Avatar-themed dinner parties. LG is on it, though. Don’t you worry your pretty little head.
Give a hearty g’day to LG’s 20-inch DX2000, an LED backlit glasses-free 3D display with an integrated webcam that tracks your eyes, so the 3D effects work from any angle. No more “sweet-spots” where the 3D needs to be viewed straight-on, like on the Nintendo 3DS. This is the wave of the future, folks. I know this tech is not actually “wearable” ..read more
Posted in: Eyewear, Eyewear Display, LG
Thanko makes some weird stuff. They also make some really useful stuff, as made evident by the company’s new Water Camera. This handy-dandy pair of sea-goggles takes video underwater. It’s time to finally release your inner Jacques Cousteau.
The goggles feature a 2MP CMOS camera, 4MB internal memory, and a USB 2.0 port. It shoots video in 1280×960 resolution (AVI) and pictures in 2560×1920 (JPEG). It even comes with a remote control. See that ring the hand is holding in the photo above? That’s it. It lets you turn the camera on and off with virtually no effort. Just touch the darned thing.
Thanko is selling the goggles on its Japanese website for $99. What are you waiting for? Stupid fish videos are the new stupid cat videos.
Posted in: Accessories, Camera, Eyewear, Thanko
Let’s hear it for wearable tech! The rumor mill has been gristling lately. That gristle has been saying that the Navy SEALs that took down 9-11-perpetrating, porn-loving Osama Bin Laden were using night vision contacts during the mission.
According to Kit Up’s editor Christian Lowe (the smartest guy in the room regarding military tech), he heard a rumor that “contact lenses that literally give the wearer night vision for a limited time without having to wear the bulky, heavy NVGs (Night Vision Goggles).”
Of course, this is just a rumor. Still, it’s nice to think that one day all manner of wearable tech will be put to good use. Now where did I put my Nike+?
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