Check out a video of some revolutionary glasses that do a great job of mimicking Tony Stark’s interactive holographic displays from the movies below the article:
“From a sprawling mansion up in the hills overlooking Silicon Valley, a 50-man team has been working day and night to bring some of the world’s most futuristic technology to life.
After years of designing and months of perfecting prototypes, Meta is ready to launch the most advanced wearable technology to date – the first ever 3D augmented reality glasses.
SpaceGlasses use technology previously only seen in films such as Iron Man – the ability to create 3D objects in mid-space using just your fingertips, and then apply the design to build them in the real world.
Tiny projectors allow wearers to see the non-existent objects beamed out in front of them, while sensors detect hand motion and allow interaction.
The possibilities are endless; from typing out an email without the need of a physical keyboard, to playing a virtual game of 3D chess with another user, to sculpting your own vase and sending it to a 3D printer to be made.
The Meta team was inspired by Iron Man’s own entrepreneur Tony Stark, whose picture adorns the walls of their remote multi-million-dollar workplace-come-home in Portola Valley, California.
CEO Meron Gribetz even recruited Jayse Hansen – the designer behind Stark’s holographic interfaces in the films to help create similar interfaces for their own glasses.
Bigger players have already had a stab at this kind of wearable technology, and Meta has faced comparisons with others such as Google Glass.
“We’re just not in the same game”, said the company’s head of marketing, Mattan Kitchales, who rejected the similarities. “Google has created a notification machine, which gives you small bits of information through pop-ups.
“SpaceGlasses are the most powerful wearable computers out there. We have created a fully immersive 3D experience with full-depth vision and surround sound.”
He is not wrong when he says there is no comparison. The SpaceGlasses screen is 15x the size of Google’s and it boasts 10x the power of an iPhone, making it more like a smartphone for the face.
The glasses feature two 1280×720-pixel LCD displays, each with 40 degrees field of view and aligned for stereoscopic 3D; twin RGB cameras; 3D surround sound; depth sensors; and a 9-axis integrated motion unit with accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass.
They are also relatively lightweight at just 6.3 ounces and have been designed to look like Ray Ban sunglasses so as not to be too noticeable.
Despite all the complex technology, Meta works under the philosophy of “natural computing,” attempting to emulate what your brain does without a computer.
Using your hands enables a more natural interface to shape an object and navigate the application with low latency and high dexterity.
Meta is finding the glasses have very practical uses too. They have already teamed up with one local hospital, which has used their technology to design 3D model patients for medical students to practise on. The application could potentially save them millions of dollars on the expensive dummies they use now.
“We want to be in everyone’s home in the near future. and one day even come to replace smartphones and laptops,” said Mr Kitchales.
“This is stuff of the future …. we just brought it forward.”
SpaceGlasses are available for preorder now for $3,500 (£2,000), with the first shipment expected next month.”
Source: Telegraph
