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The Story in Our Eyes – Eye-Tracking Tech #CES2018
If the eyes are the portal to the soul, then the Swedish company, Tobii may be the electronic way to enter that portal. At CES2018, Tobii demonstrated their eye-tracking technology integrated into gaming laptops, as well as a virtual reality headset. And the results are amazing, as demonstrated in their virtual reality headset. Their virtual…
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A Forum for Broadband and More
Lincoln Lavoie, Senior Engineer for the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab, provides an overview of the Broadband Forum’s October 27th, 2018 BASe event. The event covered all types of next generation access, whether wired (e.g. NGPON2) or wireless (e.g. 5G), as well as access within the home. Lavoie, who is also Technical Committee Chair of the…
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The Desktop Hologram Monitor #AWE18
A video hologram was the eye-catching display and product of Looking Glass at the Augmented World Expo. Starting at $499, this HDMI connected device, allows artists, designers, teachers and marketers represent their works and offerings in three-dimensions. With an SDK that has interfaces to Unity, SketchUp and more, it is possible to take 2D and…
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The Invisible, Magic Hand
Using a single low-cost camera to detect 26 skeletal points and mimic hand gestures in real-time is the trick that uSens has seemingly mastered. Using a relatively lightweight, deep learning algorithm, their software runs on android smartphones and only requires a single core of processing power and no external calls to a cloud compute engine.…
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New 20+ Hour Fire Power from a Hidden Dragon #CES2018
20 years ago, Qualcomm’s demonstration of Windows running on the Snapdragon process would have probably been the headline news of CES. Of course, 20 years ago, a lap-top computer with an always-on, wireless broadband connection and with battery life of more than 20 hours would have been unthinkable. The above video from CES2018 shows a…
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Beyond Secure Access – Safe Access #CES2018
One of the biggest challenges for security, whether in the physical or cyber world, is correctly identifying those who should have access to a given domain. Being able to verify multiple signatures of an individual is great, but it must be simple to use, while not causing significant delays. At CES2018, Global Net Solutions demonstrated…
