Manus VR Experiment with Valve ’s Lighthouse to Track VR Gloves
< p > < span style= " font-size: 8pt; " > Via < a href= " http://www.roadtovr.com " > Road to VR < /a > < /span > < /p > < p style= " text-align: justify; " > < span style= " font-size: 8pt; " > The Manus VR team demonstrate their latest experiment, utilising Valve ’s laser-based Lighthouse system to track their in-development VR glove. < /span > < /p > < p style= " text-align: justify; " > < span style= " font-size: 8pt; " > Manus VR (previously Manus Machina), the company from Eindhoven, Netherlands dedicated to building VR input devices, seem have gained momentum in 2015. They secured their first round of seed funding...
Source: Positive Technology Journal - December 26, 2015 Category: Information Technology Tags: Telepresence & virtual presence Virtual worlds Source Type: blogs
Manus VR Experiment with Valve’s Lighthouse to Track VR Gloves
Via Road to VRThe Manus VR team demonstrate their latest experiment, utilising Valve’s laser-based Lighthouse system to track their in-development VR glove. Manus VR (previously Manus Machina), the company from Eindhoven, Netherlands dedicated to building VR input devices, seem have gained momentum in 2015. They secured their first round of seed funding and have shipped early units to developers and now, their R&D efforts have extended to Valve’s laser based tracking solution Lighthouse, as used in the forthcoming HTC Vive headset and SteamVR controllers. The Manus VR team seem to have canibalised a set of St...
Source: Positive Technology Journal - December 26, 2015 Category: Information Technology Tags: Telepresence & virtual presence Virtual worlds Source Type: blogs
How to reduce costs in Cyberpsychology research
Cyberpsychology is a fascinating field of research, yet it requires a lot of financial resources for its advancement. As an inherently interdisciplinary endeavor, the implementation of a cyberpsychology study often involves the collaboration of several scientific disciplines outside psychology, such as experts in human-computer interaction, software developers, data scientists, and engineers. Further, an increasing number of cyberpsychology studies consist of clinical trials, which can last several months (or even years) and involve a significant investment of economic resources. On the other side, finding adequate funding...
Source: Positive Technology Journal - December 26, 2015 Category: Information Technology Tags: Cybertherapy Research tools Source Type: blogs
The new era of Computational Biomedicine
In recent years, the increasing convergence between nanotechnology, biomedicine and health informatics have generated massive amounts of data, which are changing the way healthcare research, development, and applications are done.Clinical data integrate physiological data, enabling detailed descriptions of various healthy and diseased states, progression, and responses to therapies. Furthermore, mobile and home-based devices monitor vital signs and activities in real-time and communicate with personal health record services, personal computers, smartphones, caregivers, and health care professionals.However, our ability to ...
Source: Positive Technology Journal - November 17, 2015 Category: Information Technology Tags: Blue sky ICT and complexity Physiological Computing Positive Technology events Source Type: blogs
Gartner hype cycle sees digital humanism as emergent trend
The journey to digital business continues as the key theme of Gartner, Inc.'s "Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2015." New to the Hype Cycle this year is the emergence of technologies that support what Gartner defines as digital humanism — the notion that people are the central focus in the manifestation of digital businesses and digital workplaces. The Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies report is the longest-running annual Hype Cycle, providing a cross-industry perspective on the technologies and trends that business strategists, chief innovation officers, R&D leaders, entrepreneurs, global market develo...
Source: Positive Technology Journal - August 23, 2015 Category: Information Technology Tags: ICT and complexity Source Type: blogs
Blind mom is able to see her newborn baby son for the very first time using high-tech glasses
Kathy Beitz, 29, is legally blind - she lost her vision as a child and, for a long time, adapted to living in a world she couldn't see (Kathy has Stargardt disease, a condition that causes macular degeneration). Technology called eSight glasses allowed Kathy to see her son on the day he was born. The glasses cost $15,000 and work by capturing real-time video and enhancing it. (Source: Positive Technology Journal)
Source: Positive Technology Journal - January 25, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: Brain training & cognitive enhancement Neurotechnology neuroinformatics Source Type: blogs
Neuroprosthetics
is a relatively new discipline at the boundaries of neuroscience and biomedical engineering, which aims at developing implantable devices to restore neural function. The most popular and clinically successfull neuroprosthesis to date is the cochlear implant, a device that can restore hearing by stimulating directly the human auditory nerve, by bypassing damaged hair cells in the cochlea. Visual prostheses, on the other hand, are still in a preliminary phase of development, although substantial progress has been made in the last few years. This kind of implantable devices are designed to micro-electrically stimulate nerves...
Source: Positive Technology Journal - December 16, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: Neurotechnology & neuroinformatics Source Type: blogs
SoftBank's humanoid robot lands job as Nescafe salesman
(Reuters)Nestle SA will enlist a thousand humanoid robots to help sell its coffee makers at electronics stores across Japan, becoming the first corporate customer for the chatty, bug-eyed androids unveiled in June by tech conglomerate SoftBank Corp.Nestle has maintained healthy growth in Japan while many of its big markets are slowing, crediting a tradition of trying out off-beat marketing tactics in what is a small but profitable territory for the world's biggest food group.The waist-high robot, developed by a French company and manufactured in Taiwan, was touted by Japan's SoftBank as capable of learning and expressing h...
Source: Positive Technology Journal - November 1, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: AI & robotics Source Type: blogs
New Technique Helps Diagnose Consciousness in Locked-in Patients
Via MedgadgetBrain networks in two behaviourally-similar vegetative patients (left and middle), but one of whom imagined playing tennis (middle panel), alongside a healthy adult (right panel). Credit: Srivas ChennuPeople locked into a vegetative state due to disease or injury are a major mystery for medical science. Some may be fully unconscious, while others remain aware of what’s going on around them but can’t speak or move to show it. Now scientists at Cambridge have reported in journal PLOS Computational Biology on a new technique that can help identify locked-in people that can still hear and retain their consciou...
Source: Positive Technology Journal - October 18, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: Cognitive Informatics Information visualization Research tools Technology & spirituality Telepresence virtual presence Source Type: blogs
Leia Display System - promo video HD short version
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Source: Positive Technology Journal - October 17, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: Telepresence & virtual presence Source Type: blogs
TIME: Fear, Misinformation, and Social Media Complicate Ebola Fight
From TIMEBased on Facebook and Twitter chatter, it can seem like Ebola is everywhere. Following the first diagnosis of an Ebola case in the United States on Sept. 30, mentions of the virus on Twitter leapt from about 100 per minute to more than 6,000. Cautious health officials have tested potential cases in Newark, Miami Beach and Washington D.C., sparking more worry. Though the patients all tested negative, some people are still tweeting as if the disease is running rampant in these cities. In Iowa the Department of Public Health was forced to issue a statement dispelling social media rumors that Ebola had arrived in the ...
Source: Positive Technology Journal - October 16, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: ICT and complexity Social Media Source Type: blogs
MIT Robotic Cheetah
MIT researchers have developed an algorithm for bounding that they've successfully implemented in a robotic cheetah. (Learn more: http://mitsha.re/1uHoltW)I am not that impressed by the result though. (Source: Positive Technology Journal)
Source: Positive Technology Journal - October 12, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: AI & robotics Source Type: blogs
New Material May Help Us To Breathe Underwater
Scientists in Denmark announced they have developed a substance that absorbs, stores and releases huge amounts of oxygen.The substance is so effective that just a few grains are capable of storing enough oxygen for a single human breath while a bucket full of the new material could capture an entire room of O2.With the new material there are hopes those requiring medical oxygen might soon be freed from carrying bulky tanks, while SCUBA divers might also be able to use the material to absorb oxygen from water, allowing them to stay submerged for significantly longer.The substance was developed by tinkering with the molecula...
Source: Positive Technology Journal - October 12, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: Blue sky Research tools Source Type: blogs
New Scientist on new virtual reality headset Oculus Rift
This article appeared in print under the headline "Deep and meaningful" (Source: Positive Technology Journal)
Source: Positive Technology Journal - October 12, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: Virtual worlds Wearable & mobile Source Type: blogs
Is the metaverse still alive?
In the last decade, online virtual worlds such as Second Life and alike have become enormously popular. Since their appearance on the technology landscape, many analysts regarded shared 3D virtual spaces as a disruptive innovation, which would have rendered the Web itself obsolete.This high expectation attracted significant investments from large corporations such as IBM, which started building their virtual spaces and offices in the metaverse. Then, when it became clear that these promises would not be kept, disillusionment set in and virtual worlds started losing their edge. However, this is not a new phenomenon in high-...
Source: Positive Technology Journal - October 6, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: Blue sky Serious games Telepresence & virtual presence Virtual worlds Source Type: blogs
