Canon Demos New Head-Mounted Augmented-Reality Display 53
Press2ToContinue writes with this excerpt from ExtremeTech: "With products like Google's Glass, the Oculus Rift, and even certain features found on the Nintendo 3DS, augmented, mixed, and virtual reality are starting to make some headway in the consumer space. Canon, best known for its cameras, is looking to break into the mixed reality scene with its new head-mounted display. ... The core of the setup is the Canon HMD (head-mounted display) which works in conjunction with various sensors — optical and magnetic, as well as visual markers — to help create the mixed reality environment. The HMD employs two cameras located in front of each eye that captures video and shoots it off to an off-board, tethered computer. The computer then combines the real-world visuals with computer-generated visuals, and beams that back to two monitors placed in front of the eyes within the HMD. The unit combines with a development platform, dubbed the MR Platform, which allows companies to create mixed reality images to display on the HMD."
Dear Canon, (Score:3, Insightful)
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But the 1990s called
You at least warned them about 9/11 though, right?
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No, we warned them about Bush instead. Cause vs result...
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Oh please! Everyone knows that 9/11 was planned all the way back to 1961 when Obama was born.
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Apple no?
Re:Canon? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes... feeeel the hate. Let it flow through you, consume you, make you stronger. Know the power of the slashdot.
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No. If a competitor is the Occulus Rift at $300 and this Canon unit is $125,000 with a $25,000 annual maintenance charge I think they've blown right past 50% more expensive.
I'd rather get the Occulus with the optional Tesla S Performance and save a few bucks.
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No. If a competitor is the Occulus Rift at $300 and this Canon unit is $125,000 with a $25,000 annual maintenance charge I think they've blown right past 50% more expensive.
I'd rather get the Occulus with the optional Tesla S Performance and save a few bucks.
The parent comment is the very definition of insightful.
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I thought HD porn was great. Now HMD porn... fantastic.
You do know that this means instead of seeing your old wife in some crappy $50 lingerie, you'll strap on your $125,000 HMD and see your old wife in some crappy virtual lingerie.
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I thought HD porn was great. Now HMD porn... fantastic.
You do know that this means instead of seeing your old wife in some crappy $50 lingerie, you'll strap on your $125,000 HMD and see your old wife in some crappy virtual lingerie.
Porn. You're doing it wrong. His wife isn't whom I will be looking at.
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However, if you get to see your wife in over 2500 different piece of virtual lingerie, the system will have paid for itself.
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However, if you get to see your wife in over 2500 different piece of virtual lingerie, the system will have paid for itself.
...or to save time, you could just view your wife in one virtual NASCAR Sprint Cup Car.
(Danica Patrick only.)
That's quite a price tag (Score:1)
$125,000 up front plus $25,000 per year in maintenance. Almost nobody will actually see one of these in real life.
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How many people saw the older ones in real life? The only reason I saw the '80s era gear in person at all, was that the Science Center bought a rig 10 years after it was obsolete. I vaguely remember the '90s era consumer gear and it wasn't as good as the '80s era gear, except for the resolution. It lacked the interface and cost about half the price of a new computer of the era.
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$125,000 up front plus $25,000 per year in maintenance. Almost nobody will actually see one of these in real life.
I saw this at SIGGRAPH. It was cool, but not useful in any consumer level way. There are full immersion HMDs for gaming, and Google Glass for AR.
You might see this at the retail store level: trying on virtual clothes, customizing your new car, etc.
Marketed for the Military (Score:5, Informative)
since it has a $125k price tag.
No one else is that stupid to pay that much.
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For $125K, I could deliver Occulus Rift + Google Glasses in a month, and still have enough left over for your education. And the month is only to find some current owners who will part with their treasure.
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No one else is that stupid to pay that much.
Except the taxpayers...
Please tell me this is a joke (Score:2)
Sriously - I think I'd rather wear Stimpy's Happy Helmet than this thing.
I may think that the Google Glass is a bit overhyped, but at least it doesn't look like you just strapped your Canon Point and Shoot to your forehead.
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Sorry for the craptastic spelling.
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Goooooooooooooooood!
Application ideas: (Score:5, Interesting)
Adblock RL: Replaces all billboards, posters and other advertising with blank space.
Social-app: Automatically recognises the faces of everyone you are supposed to know and overlays name and a history of recent interactions, allowing you to pretend you care enough to remember who they are.
Nudievision: Construct a 3d model of figures and overlay, effectively removing clothing.
Pure Eyes: Blocks any sexual images, including women showing more flesh than would be considered modest in an Amish town. Marketed at the super-devout Christian market.
Halal Eyes: Actually just Pure Eyes with the logo changed, but marketed to Muslims instead.
Child compass: Receives GPS position from offspring's mobile phone and maintains a continually updated directional indicator to aid to recapture when they run off.
Pedofinder: For every face seen, perform automatic lookup in public sex offender databases. A vital app for all paranoid parents so they know when to shun people.
Gaydar: Tags an icon over any other Gaydar user.
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Gaydar: Tags an icon over any other Gaydar user.
I don't think that's how 'gaydar' is supposed to work. Straight people can have gaydar, and gay people might not. (Gay people probably _try_ to have it, but that doesn't mean it works.)
You actually could implement a gaydar feature, though. It theoretically should be possible to statistically detect slight sexual attraction towards others. Watch other people's sightline, and check their pupils for dilation and what their eye stops on, etc. You could even de
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I'm not entirely sure what you're saying, but it's easy to track someone's eyes relative to the _tracker's_ POV. You put a camera above a computer screen, it can easily know what what you're looking at once it's calibrated correctly.
The hard part is actually figuring what the person is looking at when it _isn't_ a computer generated picture, and isn't head-on. Hell, it's hard enough for a computer to figure out the _distance_ to something in a video image.
Basically, the camera would have to identify someo
So much bullshit in one video (Score:3)
The video has so much bullshitting going on in it that it's really impressive.
It reminds me of all the people I've seen when creating my start-up. Why do people in emerging businesses think it is a good idea to make ridiculously bold statements about technology that clearly isn't that world shaking?
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The video has so much bullshitting going on in it that it's really impressive.
It reminds me of all the people I've seen when creating my start-up. Why do people in emerging businesses think it is a good idea to make ridiculously bold statements about technology that clearly isn't that world shaking?
I feel bad for the engineers who worked on this product. It's probably a very good product and then marketing gets their hands on it a F#@ks it all up. Nothing worse than having all your great ideas and hard work be diminished by some lousy marketing campaign.
I see a lot of people living in mixed reality (Score:2)
Not too many people, really. Most of them hang out by the train station. They don't pay anything for mixed reality. It just happens, and most of the time they didn't do anything to deserve it. You see a lot of other people doing this too, but they usually have to buy a plastic bag full of this funny dried up plant stuff. Then they--get this--smoke that crap. It smells funny, but it works. They're almost immediately living in "mixed reality".
Now tech companies are doing this? I guess I shouldn't be
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Not too many people, really. Most of them hang out by the train station. They don't pay anything for mixed reality. ...
Agreed. The difference with this system (apart from the $125,000) is that you can control the mixed reality you're in.
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You must not be a very experienced 'mixed reality' user.... I control my mixed reality, no matter the source!
It's so refreshing to see psychotics represented here on /.
Yikes (Score:3)
I realize this is for AR more than VR, but I'd rather take a $300 Rift with a huge FoV than a $125k Canon thingy with a tiny FoV...
Sleezy Ad (Score:1)
sex with virtual women (Score:1)
I would love this, I would like to sit on my couch with my fleshlight and have a virtual woman go up an down and see her boobies bounce when I move my fleshlight up and down, that would be awesome! I would pay $25,000 for that.