At the moment, most augmented reality applications run on mobile phones, which is actually a good fit – modern cell phones have nice screens, cameras and enough processing power to make this a practical platform. Holding your phone out in front of your face, however, is far some seamless.
I have no doubt that at some point AR will compliment what we see by feeding us information on people, places and things that enter our field of vision. Until we use some sort of contact lens or neural/retinal implant that accomplishes this, we may have to make due with glasses like the Wrap 920AR, which debuted this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
From the press release:
With the new Wrap 920AR, users can view the real-world environment and computer-generated imagery seamlessly mixed together; allowing video game characters to jump out of the TV and come to life in your living room, or magazines and books with animated links back to the web in real time.
The stereo camera pair delivers a single 1504 x 480 side-by-side image that can be viewed in 3D stereoscopic video, while the video eyewear provides an unprecedented 67-inch display as seen from 10 feet. The Wrap 920AR also includes a 6 Degree-of-Freedom Tracker, which allows for absolute accuracy of roll pitch and yaw and also X, Y and Z positioning in 3D space.
The glasses are set to retail for $799.99.
(Via Engadget)