The virtual display can fully replace your real field of view putting you into a totally convincing fully immersive virtual environment.
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This will allow the virtual display to show things such as weather and other aeroplanes, further increasing the pilot's awareness when it is too foggy or dark to see outside.
That opens up the possibility of putting virtual objects into the real world, letting you "pick up" a computer-generated 3D architectural model and spin it around in your hand, for instance, or gesture to control a virtual display appearing on an actual wall.
The device has similar features to the iPad, letting users click on applications with their fingers and type on a virtual keyboard on the display.
While this usually works, Facebook fails to display this virtual menu button for some reason, forcing us to live with the annoying default notification settings.
On each end is a touchscreen display that shows a virtual turntable, and in the middle is a small mixing and FX section.
Pilots will navigate the virtual racetrack projected as a tunnel onto a heads-up display while viewers at home will see the rockets superimposed onto the virtual course just like that yellow first-down-line you see while watching American Football.
With a virtual 6 x 9 inch color VGA display, a small joy stick and mouse buttons operable by the index finger when using the phone during a conversation the StarTac phone provided the ability to viewed shared subject matter, photos or documents while talking, 15 years ago.
Beaming combines both robotics and virtual reality and tries to improve on flatscreen display-based video conferencing techniques.
Facebook makes its money primarily through display advertising, but also facilitates the purchase of virtual goods in games and applications running on its platform through Facebook Credits, a virtual currency.
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There have been other attempts at a camera-based solution, but the new Cambridge company - InView Systems - says the solution it is developing with Jaguar Cars involves creating a virtual image in front of the driver, like a military "head up display".
If you've been waiting for the least burdensome tablet you could find, Sony's 17.5 ounce, 6.9mm thick Xperia Tablet Z is now up for pre-order in the US. On top of being the lightest, slimmest 10-inch slate on the market, it's not exactly slumming spec-wise either: there's a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor, Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, 2GB RAM, an 8.1-megapixel Exmor R camera, NFC, LTE, S-Force virtual surround sound, 32GB storage and a 10.1-inch 1, 920 x 1, 200 display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2 tech.
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