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Augmented Reality Experts Say Google Glasses Video Is Over-Hyped
This past week Google released a demo video of Google Glasses, an augmented reality project in the Google X Labs. The video showed an individual wearing glasses where the lenses would show him icons, maps, and other overlays. However the Google Glasses in the video were not really glasses because they lacked full lenses and it involved small rectangular pieces of glass hovering over the right eye of the person wearing them.
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MIT Developing Software For Simulating Labs And Interacting With Professors
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is developing software that simulates labs for students to interact with professors and other students. Students can also earn certificates through the simulated labs.
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Apple Board Member and Former Chrysler CFO Jerry York Passes Away
Its a very sad day in the tech and auto community. Apple Board member and Chrysler CFO Jerry York has passed away according to a brief statement by Apple. He was hospitalized after suffering from a burst brain aneurysm yesterday morning. He died shortly after.
York was the chairman, President, and CEO of Harwinton Capital. He was also the former CFO of IBM and Chrysler. And he joined the Apple Board of Directors in 1997.
York was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1938 and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy. He also received an M.S. from MIT and an MBA from the University of Michigan. “It’s been a privilege to know and work with Jerry, and I’m going to miss him a lot,” stated Apple CEO Steve Jobs. [PRNewsWire]
MIT’s SENSEable City Lab Uses Flickr To Create “The World’s Eyes”
Every time someone on Flickr uploads an image, they let people know the location of where each photograph was taken. Each photo is also tagged. In the Design Museum in Barcelona, the above video is being used and the display is called “Los Ojos Del Mundo.”
The display tracks local photographers throughout their adventures around Spain and transmits it into the video. According to the MIT City Lab website:
When posting photos online, users of the photo sharing platform Flickr transmit to the world their perspective of a place or event through the lens of a digital camera. Each digital photo file codes both the time when that photo was taken and the location it captures. Analyzing this information allows us to follow the trail that each Flickr photographer travels through Spain. (Un)photographed Spain maps thousands of these public, digital footprints over one year. As photos overlap in certain locations, they expose the places that attract the photographer’s gaze . In contrast, the absence of images in other locations reveal the unphotographed spaces of a more introverted Spain.
[via GearCrave]
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