Amazon patents headset-free augmented reality: reportDecember 3, 2015 - 14:25 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Amazon.com Inc. is trying to lower the cost of augmented reality to bring a technology normally associated with futuristic military training and video-game conventions to living rooms, Bloomberg reports. The Seattle-based company received two patents that outline a set of technologies that would project a digital world into someone’s room and let them navigate it by moving their bodies, or using some form of camera or headset to interact with it using virtual reality. One patent for “object tracking in a 3-dimensional environment” would allow people to control devices through hand gestures that are monitored by cameras recognizing different parts of the hand. The technology attempts to solve the problem of tracking a user’s hand over time to control devices. The other patent for “reflector-based depth mapping of a scene,” would use computer projections to transform a room into a virtual setting that responds to the user’s senses. The system would accomplish this with a single light source, differentiating it from existing technologies that rely on multiple light sources that have to be frequently re-calibrated, making them expensive, according to the patent. The patents reveal Amazon’s hardware ambitions beyond its existing line of products, which include the voice-activated Echo speaker/personal assistant that can play music, deliver news and be synced with calendars. It can also control home lighting and heating systems. An Amazon representative couldn’t immediately be reached to comment on the patents. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Russia provides info about arrested Armenian ex-MP Russian law enforcement agencies have provided information about the arrest of Tigran Urikhanyan. Lemkin Institue slams Pashinyan's “cryptic engagement with Genocide denial” The Lemkin Institute is alarmed over Pashinyan’s statements “questioning Armenia's legal basis to pursue justice against Turkey”. 41 detained as antigovernment protests continue in Yerevan 41 people were detained in Yerevan as people demanding Pashinian’s resignation stage campaigns of civil disobedience. Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 10 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine. |