The MREAL System for Mixed Reality (that's the full name -- or, if you want to drill down even further: the headset is the HM-A1 and the software platform is MP-100) generates video of one's surroundings using a pair of cameras positioned in front of the wearer's eyes, which is combined with computer-generated graphics.

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They used CT scans and photographs of the skull, combined with a specialist computer programme, to reconstruct the king's face.

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This has mirrored progress in fields as diverse as speech recognition and credit-card fraud detection, where modern techniques combined with a continuing explosion in computer power have made possible behaviour that seems very like human intelligence, albeit limited to a specific domain.

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The lower capacity products are intended for dual storage Ultrabook computer configurations where the mSATA SSD will be combined with a HDD in an Ultrabook with performance approaching that of a pure SSD laptop but with overall storage costs approaching those of a HDD.

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The YouTube video shows some of the various standard applications that come with the XO-1: Firefox, an unnamed instant messaging program, a variant of Abiword (word processing), and an application called eToys that looks like a combination of traditional computer games (such as Chinese Checkers) combined with something resembling the children's art program Kid Pix.

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Still, the result is likely to be an entertaining romp with cutting-edge computer graphics and the superb animation that comes from the combined effort of 700 technicians and artists.

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