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Sony Entertainment Access Technology

Sony is going to be releasing heads-up display glasses to theaters for accessibility issues (read as: hearing and visual overlays of subtitles).

3915-EntertainmentAccessTechSheet-2.pdf

Sony Entertainment Access Technology.

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Release_Candidate Wearable computing

Lumus’ OE-31 optical engine

Lumus’ OE-31 optical engine = wearable displays

And yet more from the wearable display front…the way that modern gadget production works seems to be very much a sort of punctuated equilibrium. There are ideas, then a breakthrough in sensor production and pricing causes an explosion of forms, which then settle down into a few winners (see: eReaders in 2010, Tablets in 2011, etc). I am very curious where this particular explosion is going to take us.

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FutureTech Release_Candidate Wearable computing

Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End – NYTimes.com

We’re inching one step closer to Rainbows End every day. I’ll admit, even though I’m a certified Apple guy, I’d buy these in a hot minute.

Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End

People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have another option: a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time.

 

According to several Google employees familiar with the project who asked not to be named, the glasses will go on sale to the public by the end of the year.