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 Everything in your field of view shot of a tiny camera and sent to the expert's control desk via 3G or satellite. When he is indicative of the screw you should release, looks like a real hand out - almost - as your own in the glasses. The technology is now being launched in February and is one of more products being developed by XM Reality in Linkoping. The company, which mixes real and virtual worlds, was started four years ago by a group of researchers at FOI Defence Research Agency. - We want to give the user an enhanced or new capacity. Superman's X-ray eyes and Terminators additional information in the visual field are our role models, "says CEO Torbjorn Gustafsson. One of the challenges is to get the virtual objects to comply with and really blend in with reality, when the user moves around. Without annoying lag, it requires, inter alia, advanced computer graphics and accurate measurements of the location of and in which direction he or she looks. When New Technologies are testing the glasses the situation is particularly dramatic. Theodore Stock's virtual hands show around the kitchen cabinets and coffee vending machines in the office in Linkoping. A bit weird feeling, but the instructions are easy to follow. XM Reality aiming for more critical or entertaining applications for its patent-pending technology. Here are some examples: Expert advice on distance. The new glasses will be tested by the Armed Forces in an exercise in the Baltic Sea in spring, if all goes as planned. The technology can also make civilian use, such as a secluded power plant breaks at or a passenger injured on a ferry. Entertainment and information. With its newly launched telescopes can museums show the historical events live, and architects can show how a new building affect the cityscape. Medical Technology. A handheld projector provides medical X-ray gaze to a work with CMIV, Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization. Example, one can see straight into the mind of the patient to understand a tumor's location. |
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