The Meta Quest 3 arrived yesterday via mail. I was really exited to try it out, as it is the first real Augmented Reality glasses from Meta that has comparable features to the Apple VisionPro. So it is a kind of a VisionPro light and allows you to get the feeling of how Augmented Reality […]
Last Monday, we had the opportunity to test the Holoride system on the university campus, and it was an interesting experience. Holoride is a new technology that synchronizes the movement of a vehicle with virtual reality content to create an immersive experience for passengers. The test started with us wearing VR headsets while sitting in
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Recently I had the chance to test drive the prototype of the upcoming smart electric car called Sion, developed by the Munich start-up Sono Motors. The Sion is a very special electric car, as it is completely covered with solar panels in order to produce the energy – it requires for driving – by itself.
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The AWE is the worlds largest AR & VR conference and expo and it took place this year in Munich, Germany. I had the chance to take a look at the latest developments in AR & VR software and hardware and was really surprised to see that the general interest for AR seems to explode,
From November 14th to 16th I took part in the International Days on Mobile Development at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. We had three really exiting days together with lecturers in the area of mobile application development from countries such as Belgium, Finnland, the UK, Netherlands, Spain and Germany. On the first day we all gave
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In the course of a semester project in the winter term 2011/12, two of my students (Luca Petrusch and Christph Schulthess) developed a software for controlling a stop-motion camera system. The hardware was developed by a student (Hannes Bucher) of the course audiovisual media in his bachelor thesis. The software runs on an Arduino device
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During the seminar on embedded systems five student teams worked on five different projects and wrote a paper about the results. The topics were: Home Automation with Arduino StepPiano – an Installation with Arduino CAN Bus Simulation with CANoe from Vector iBooze – An iPhone controlled cocktail mixing machine Developing an iOS Accessory The paper abstracts
ISIS is a joit venture between AT&T, T-Mobile USA and Verizon and provides a national mobile commerce platform using NFC chips in the smartphones for mobile payment. A great number of manufacturers now will support the ISIS NFC technology in future smartphones. This will pave the way for mobile payment at least in the US.
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At the CES 2011, Motorola shows Apple and other competitors what the future of mobile phones will look like! The Motorola Atrix is a phone that can be used as a desktop, a laptop and even a multimedia set-top box – all in one device. Equipped with the corresponding docking stations you can (almost) forget about
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The Nexus S will be running Gingerbread (Android 2.3) and support Near Field Communication (NFC). Since 16th December it is available in the US. The release date for UK is 20th December. In Germany rumors say it will come to the stores in March 2011 with Android 2.4 preinstalled! (source: mobiflip). (Why so late?) Gingerbread
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