iShades: Real Virtual Reality Eyeglasses?


	iShades: Real Virtual Reality Eyeglasses?

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6-1-2009 1:03 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/845a9666-1bfb-41f9-b7ae-bfc05cfcdead/A071031B-56B9-443E-A013-BE16F4410C29/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.disinfo.com/content/" href="http://www.disinfo.com/content/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.disinfo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.disinfo.com/content/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.disinfo.com/img/5C6DDAE3-6A68-45DE-9BDE-0C7A03E39D7E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.disinfo.com/content/">In Sunnyvale California, SBG Labs is developing <A href="http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/virtual-reality/get-ready-ishades-5g">eyeglass frames that house "holographic optics" to project an "augmented reality" directly into the wearer's lenses!</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.disinfo.com/content/"><DIV>"Light-emitting laser diodes in a tiny projector are stored in the side of the eyeglass frame," shooting concentrated beams to lens surfaces with holographic grating to refract digital 3D images to the wearer's eyes, notes a science writer, adding that this could eventually allow selecting a virtual reality overlay for the real world.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.disinfo.com/content/"><DIV>It could also project 3D GPS mapping (or Google Earth) into the wearer's field of vision, as well as projecting personal HDTV and DVD playback directly into their lenses.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.disinfo.com/content/"><DIV>And there's more. "Stand it on its end, and it projects digital media the size of a sheet of paper."</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.disinfo.com/content/"><DIV>He also speculates about the possibility that Apple will eventually market iShade, offering wireless web surfing while receiving images and music directly from your smart phone...	  					  				  <A class="morelink" href="http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Real-Virtual-Reality-Eyeglasses-1">read more</A> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A071031B-56B9-443E-A013-BE16F4410C29/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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