science & technology

Virtuix Omni and Oculus Rift combined for full VR experience

16 May, 2013 エスピオン 0, 17 views
Virtuix Omni and Oculus Rift combined for full VR experience

The Omni is a natural motion interface for virtual reality applications, allowing players to move freely and naturally in their favorite games.

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IllumiRoom – augmented reality projections to enhance your games and movies

16 February, 2013 エスピオン 0, 107 views
IllumiRoom – augmented reality projections to enhance your games and movies

By combining a Kinect camera and a projector, IllumiRoom augments the area around your television to increase immersion in the game you’re playing or the movie you’re watching.

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Drone – episodes 1-4

09 February, 2013 エスピオン 0, 19 views
Drone – episodes 1-4

Drone is a 4 part sci fi short film created & directed by Robert Glickert, about a humanoid drone stronger and faster than any soldier.

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Creepily realistic robot can hold conversations and answer questions

18 January, 2013 エスピオン 0, 103 views
Creepily realistic robot can hold conversations and answer questions

Jules is a Conversational Character Robot designed and built by David Hanson.

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Bionic LED contact lenses with 8 pixel resolution

12 January, 2013 エスピオン 0, 201 views
Bionic LED contact lenses with 8 pixel resolution

The research team led by doctor Parviz are on the very early stages of developing true bionic lens display, with an eight pixel display in one lense capable of reproducing symbols.

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A guided tour of the ISS International Space Station

19 December, 2012 エスピオン 0, 37 views
A guided tour of the ISS International Space Station

Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory of the ISS.

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Aerofex’s Tandem Duct Aerial Hover Bike

19 December, 2012 エスピオン 0, 45 views
Aerofex’s Tandem Duct Aerial Hover Bike

Aerofex is a company that has been working on a prototype of a pilotable hover vehicle that lifts its rider up to 15 feet in the air.

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interactive gravity levitation with ZeroN

19 December, 2012 エスピオン 0, 36 views
interactive gravity levitation with ZeroN

What if materials could defy gravity, so that we could leave them suspended in mid-air?

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Multi robot system and self assembly

19 December, 2012 エスピオン 0, 56 views
Multi robot system and self assembly

Flying drone robots combined with groups of ground based robots can assess a situation and overcome obstacles by communicating with each other.

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The Evolution of High Speed Robotics

19 December, 2012 エスピオン 0, 20 views
The Evolution of High Speed Robotics

The Evolution of High Speed Robotics by Masatoshi Ishikawa, Akio Namiki, Taku Senoo and Yuji Yamakawa.

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‘Terminator’ arm is world’s most advanced prosthetic limb

19 December, 2012 エスピオン 0, 88 views
‘Terminator’ arm is world’s most advanced prosthetic limb

Nigel Ackland lost his arm in an accident six years ago has been given a new lease of life by a hi-tech bionic hand which is so precise he can type again.

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Rollin’ Justin Robot Catches Balls Tossed in its Direction

19 December, 2012 エスピオン 0, 29 views
Rollin’ Justin Robot Catches Balls Tossed in its Direction

Catching Flying Balls and Preparing Coffee: Humanoid Rollin’ Justin Performs Dynamic and Sensitive Tasks.

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Project Grizzly – Real Life Robocop Suit

24 October, 2012 エスピオン 0, 142 views
Project Grizzly – Real Life Robocop Suit

A clip from a documentary about Troy Hurtubise, who has been on a quest to construct a RoboCop suit to make military troops invincible in war.

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Virtual Reality Head Tracking and Realtime Motion Capture in UDK

Virtual Reality Head Tracking and Realtime Motion Capture in UDK

3 videos demonstrating head tracking, realtime motion capture and head mounted display for an immersive virtual reality experience in Unreal Engine.

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Sight short film

07 August, 2012 エスピオン 0, 125 views
Sight short film

A short futuristic film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo about how LED contact lenses could be integrated into our lives in the future.

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Suidobashi Heavy Industry Mech Robot

30 July, 2012 エスピオン 0, 196 views
Suidobashi Heavy Industry Mech Robot

Suidobashi are an organization which aims to spread human ride robots. They mass-produce and sell prototype KURATAS by Kogoro Kurata.

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Vicon Bonita and Ergoneers Dikablis Gaze Tracking System

26 July, 2012 エスピオン 0, 106 views
Vicon Bonita and Ergoneers Dikablis Gaze Tracking System

Watch this video to see how Ergoneers Dikablis and Vicon Bonita motion capture systems can be combined to get full 3D gaze tracking.

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Speech Graphics – Automatic Lip Sync from Voice Recordings

Speech Graphics – Automatic Lip Sync from Voice Recordings

3D facial animation takes a leap forward, with automatic lip sync technology from Speech Graphics.

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Flying Delorean

28 April, 2012 エスピオン 0, 127 views
Flying Delorean

RC model flying DeLorean Time Machine from the movie “Back to the Future” from Russia.

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audi e-sound for e-tron electric vehicles

18 April, 2012 エスピオン 0, 42 views
audi e-sound for e-tron electric vehicles

For future use in its electric ‘e-tron’ models, audi has developed ‘e-sound’, a realtime technique of generating synthetic motor sounds.

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Augmented Reality Contact Lenses

05 April, 2012 エスピオン 0, 262 views
Augmented Reality Contact Lenses

Over the past several years, researchers have been working to make LED contact lenses which would display navigation data, personal emails, or any other sort of info superimposed on the world before your eyes.

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Project Glass – Augmented Reality Glasses

05 April, 2012 エスピオン 0, 146 views
Augmented Reality Glasses

Google have revealed “Project Glass” along with some early concepts and prototype designs of their augmented reality glasses.

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Assassin’s Creed for Kinect Announced!

01 April, 2012 エスピオン 0, 218 views
Assassin’s Creed for Kinect Announced!

Official announcement for the first Assassin’s Creed game with full motion control!

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QBO Robot in front of a mirror

31 March, 2012 エスピオン 0, 172 views
QBO Robot in front of a mirror

A small experiment in which Qbo is put in front of the mirror to see if he can learn to recognize himself.

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Launching into Space in 2 Minutes

15 March, 2012 エスピオン 0, 133 views
Launching into Space in 2 Minutes

A High Definition video recording of a NASA Space Shuttle, from takeoff, into orbit.

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