Saturday, September 13, 2014

The Oculus Rift








Low Latency 360° Head Tracking

The Rift uses custom tracking technology to provide ultra-low latency 360° head tracking, allowing you to seamlessly look around the virtual world just as you would in real life. Every subtle movement of your head is tracked in real time creating a natural and intuitive experience.




Stereoscopic 3D View

The Oculus Rift creates a stereoscopic 3D view with excellent depth, scale, and parallax. Unlike 3D on a television or in a movie, this is achieved by presenting unique and parallel images for each eye. This is the same way your eyes perceive images in the real world, creating a much more natural and comfortable experience.




Ultra Wide Field of View

The Oculus Rift provides an approximately 100° field of view, stretching the virtual world beyond your peripheral vision. Your view of the game is no longer boxed in on a screen and is only limited by what your eyes can see. The combination of the wide field of view with head-tracking and stereoscopic 3D creates an immersive virtual reality experience.









The Google Glass




Google Glass is a wearable, voice-controlled Android device that resembles a pair of eyeglasses and displays information directly in the user's field of vision.
Google Glass offers an augmented reality experience by using visual, audio and location-based inputs to provide relevant information. For example, upon entering an airport, a user could automatically receive flight status information. Users can also control the device manually through voice commands and a touchpad located on its frame.
The Google Glass operating system is based on a version of Android, and it can run apps called Glassware that are optimized for the device. The glasses have built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and a camera for taking photographs and videos.
Google X, Google's futuristic technology lab, formally announced its work on Project Glass in 2012. The company made the device available to testers and developers in early 2013.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

The iPhone 6

Source: Apple

The wait is over: the iPhone 6 is here at long, long last

The great and the good of the tech world gathered today at the Flint Center in Cupertino for Apple's launch event, and Stuff is still among them. Here's everything you need to know about the iPhone 6, complete with our first hands-on impressions of the device.




Source: Apple




The iPhone 6 is the thinnest iPhone ever made. At just 6.9mm, it makes the 7.6mm iPhone 5s sound positively fat, on paper at least.
Taking a leaf from the iPad design book, the iPhone 6’s overall shape is a lot more organic too. Its softer, rounder edges look as if they’ll feel a lot more comfortable in the hands than the straight, sharp edges of the iPhone 5s.
The power button has thankfully moved to the right hand side for easy access – a welcome change given the overall larger size of the device.


Looking at the release dates of every iphones in the past, I can see Apple love the months of June, July and September and December.
iPhone 1st gen: June 29, 2007
iPhone 3G: July 11, 2008
iPhone 3GS: June 19, 2009
iPhone 4: June 24, 2010
iPhone 4S: October 14, 2011
iPhone 5: September 21, 2012
iphone 5s and 5c: September 2013
iphone 6: September 9, 2014

Hands-on impressions

The metal body is really, really nice, and for anyone who’s teetered between small-but-look-how-wonderful-the-apps-are iPhones and big-but-oh-the-apps-are-slightly-less-wonderful Androids, the iPhone 6 in particular will feel like a nice compromise.
It’s very thin and very light, like a small iPad Air. But while the influence of the Air is obvious, there’s a sharp difference between it and the previous iPhone, last year's 5S. Or rather, there's a blunt one: where the 5S is an edgy, chamfered block, the 6 is much softer. Think of an HTC One (M8), but lighter and thinner.

iphone 6 Plus Features:

Specs of the iPhone 6





                                        Iphone 6


Source: Apple

Retina HD display

4.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit widescreen Multi‑Touch display with IPS technology
1334-by-750-pixel resolution at 326 ppi
1400:1 contrast ratio (typical)
Iphone 6 Plus

Source: Apple

Retina HD display
5.5-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit widescreen Multi‑Touch display with IPS technology
1920-by-1080-pixel resolution at 401 ppi
1300:1 contrast ratio (typical)