Google Brille mit Display for Augmented Reality

It sounds very much like everything but the future: search engine giant Google will begin to offer this year a pair of glasses with built-in display. This device will allow users to access applications, augmented reality (augmented reality). The New York Times reported that the glasses to the end of the year on the market and cost 250-600 dollars. In addition, Google's come Andorid mobile operating system used. The device is controlled via the user's movements. In addition, the glasses with a built-in camera and use of GPS data over a 3G or 4G connection to gather information about the whereabouts.

The presentation of the collected content will be specially adapted to the screen and glasses are presented not as smart phones in the form of Web sites. With the glasses, it would be possible to represent, among other things information about friends, places or buildings nearby. Remember user should not be mistaken with the glasses on his nose through the streets: the device was not designed for long wear and more like a smart phone should be used only when needed. Is whether and at what price the augmented reality goggles on the market, Google will show us the future.

Source: New York Times

AOC Releases New 3D Widescreen Monitor

The 3D technology is becoming increasingly popular. More and more TVs and monitors will reflect a 3-D feature, which is content with the impression of depth features. So also can the Taiwanese manufacturer AOC jump on the train and show presents a new 3D Widescreeen monitor, the 3D content without the expensive Nvidia 3D vision.

The AOC has e2352Phz a 23-inch diagonal screen and is based on the LED-backlit technology. When design is reminiscent of the widescreen monitor is a bit of a Samsung model, because here is set to black piano lacquer. In the production of monitors is for environmental reasons completely abandoned mercury. The brightness is 300 cd / m² and the screen can be a full HD resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels.

Thus, to the screen thanks to the response time of five milliseconds for games and movies, but also well suited for office applications. The 3D feature is not one on Nvidia's 3D vision method which works with shutter glasses, but to the polarization method, which is also used in the cinema, but is required for this purpose a pair of glasses. For the attachment is HDCP compatible HDMI input.

The AOC e2352PHz 3D widescreen monitor is expected to be available in mid-July this year. The suggested retail price is 249 €. Whether the technique also can enforce Zalman used in its monitors remains unclear, since the copies have become very rare. But for the price, this could be expensive compared to the Nvidia 3D vision technology is an affordable alternative for those who want to come enjoy the benefit of 3D content on your home computer.

Source: AOC

Samsung Smart One AF315: New All-In-One computer with 3D

All-In-One computer systems, short AIOs are now next to the flood of tablets and notebooks often used as a new desktop version, since they combine computer and monitor in one unit. Especially popular is the Apple iMac, which even then was with the G3 in 1998 to celebrate a great success and to date received a nearly annual update. Samsung is trying with such a combination, initially in the Korean market to land, with the latest device called Smart One AF315.

The All-In-One Computer System AF315 (the device on the left picture below) has a 23-inch Full HD screen on board, which can be a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels. He also has a 3D feautures, which however is still based on the stereoscopic technology and therefore requires a shutter glasses to view 3D content. However, this is already included in delivery. The opportunity to represent 2D content in 3D is. The frame rate could therefore be 120 Hz, but to no details were provided. The hardware configuration consists of an Intel Core i5 Processor, 4 GB RAM and a hard disk with a size of 1 TB and 7,200 rpm. The graphics unit could be made ​​by AMD, the most obvious model of the Radeon HD 6000 series, including support for USB 3.0 provides, according to images.

Furthermore, SRS 3D sound, a TV tuner, Blu-Ray player and an integrated webcam above the screen. Supplies include a black-held mouse-keyboard combo, remote control and the aforementioned 3D shutter glasses. The Samsung Smart One AF315 is available in Korea for 2:19 tomorrow million won, the equivalent of € 1,400 available. Whether and when the 3d All-In-One computer will be available from us is still unclear.

Source: TechConnect Magazine

Samsung: 2,560 x 1,600 pixel 10-inch display at work

Not only that Samsung mobile phones and hard drives sold many should be known. Among other things, you also work with the partner Nouvoyance on a new display for the 10.1-inch tablet format. This WQXGA display is expected to be presented next week at SID Display Week in Los Angeles and would be with its resolution of 2,560 x 1,600 pixels and a pixel density of 300 pixels per inch and within the defined by Steve Jobs retinal border.

Fundamentally, the display uses Samsung's PenTile RGBW technology that adds the colored sub-pixels in addition to another white, according to Samsung which are 40% less power is needed.
For the Mobile World Congress had been presented in mid-February with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 A larger tablet with a resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels. After having presented early March, the Apple iPad 2 of the public pulled one back but again on the grounds that parts of the tablet still "inadequate"and that they would need to be improved.

A few weeks later, then showed the final version that was thinner than minimal iPad 2 and was supplemented later by the smaller Galaxy Tab 8.9.
To the release of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 has something to boost you to the Google I / O Developer Conference distributed 5,000 instruments, the start date is the 8th June planned.

 Such a message can of course Apple is not cold and so do rumors wide that iPad 3 not offer such a high resolution, with 2,048 x 1,536 pixels, the iPad the two but at least doubled. Apple also apparently pulls the tarp before switching technology to the PenTile version of Samsung.