The camera maker did, however, take the opportunity to shed some light on its US plans for the head-mounted display yesterday at an event held in Manhattan's Classic Car Club.
The first hi-res shots from the head-mounted navigation camera.
If it finds a matching reference, it'll bring up contextual information that is displayed on the Brother head-mounted display that accompanies the SMI glasses.
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Hocking says developer enthusiasm's been particularly intense for split-screen, even more so than the holographic and head-mounted display technologies that Sony's working on, and we may see the feature integrated in Bravia televisions should the idea take off.
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Peli has been conducting research on the use and impact of head-mounted displays for two decades, and he has been consulting with the Glass team for nearly two years.
The talk will include "technical content involving head-mounted display hardware and its interaction with the human perceptual system, " with Abrash examining one real world discrepancy to which human perception is sensitive.
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Similarly, the movements of the rats were tracked in their cage and used to control an avatar projected into the VR world the human subjects experienced via a head-mounted display.
One of the more entertaining posts we wrote up at last year's CES was for the Golden-i, a head-mounted computer that lets field workers control their machines using voice commands and by moving their heads.
Her head was mounted in a rigid frame as the doctors studied computer-enhanced images of her brain.
Virtually Better, based in Atlanta, Georgia, is arguably the world leader in therapeutic software, with a range of virtual environments (viewed using head-mounted displays) to treat problems as diverse as crack addiction, fear of storms and eating disorders.
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