{"id":1896,"date":"2012-12-11T06:02:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T06:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2012-12-11T06:02:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T06:02:56","slug":"seeing-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/seeing-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s face it people, we have successfully reached that point that we envisioned as \u201cthe future\u201d when we were kids.\u00a0 Sure we may not have flying cars, well, we <strong>do <\/strong>have planes and we have other nifty and \u201cfuturistic\u201d things.\u00a0 The one item that has really blown me away lately is virtual eyewear.\u00a0 In spy and futuristic war movies they always had some eye piece or contact lenses that gave them special information, and it\u2019s the thing that makes me say \u201cWow! We truly live in an amazing time.\u201d\u00a0 I for one both welcome and fear this change.\u00a0 Glasses that show you text messages? I\u2019m cool with that.\u00a0 VR headpiece for gaming?\u00a0 Even better.\u00a0 Anything I have to put IN my eye?\u00a0 Nightmare fuel.\u00a0 Enough of my rant, let\u2019s look at some of the technologies that will take our vision to the next level.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google Glasses \u2013 <\/strong>I think Google\u2019s marketing team is going to struggle making glasses seem cool to people who don\u2019t already wear them, but the technology behind it is jaw dropping.\u00a0 The Google Glass project, network enabled computerized glasses, are shipping earlier next year to a set group of enthusiasts and eventually to the rest of us.\u00a0 The glasses will connect to your smartphone and display text messages and incoming calls (including video), allow you to take pictures, and display directions.\u00a0\u00a0 All of this with the weight of normal sunglasses.\u00a0 With Google\u2019s open market, the possibilities are endless.\u00a0 Google is on to something very unique and impressive, but we have yet to see if they will be affordable, or how the fashion community will react to them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9c6W4CCU9M4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oculus Rift<\/strong> \u2013 This is for the gamers out there.\u00a0 We all remember playing terrible virtual reality games at the arcade when we were kids.\u00a0 I always dreamed of playing great games like Doom 3 or other PC titles through a VR headset, but honestly, never thought it would happen in my lifetime.\u00a0 I am so happy to say I was wrong.\u00a0 Not only are they making a VR headpiece, they are making one that looks <em>fantastic<\/em>.\u00a0 With endorsements from John Carmack (creator of Doom), Gabe Newell (Founder of Valve), and Cliff Bleszinski (Former Director of Game Development for Epic Games), this product has to be all it\u2019s talked up to be.\u00a0 Inventor Palmer Lucky used kickstarter to fund his design, making a shocking 2.4 million dollars.\u00a0 The Rift, unlike most VR headsets, will be consumer priced, somewhere around $300.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uzCwczY1jTM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Megapixel Augmented-Reality Contact Lenses \u2013 <\/strong>What if you could see tiny objects without the need of additional optics? What if all you needed to do it was a contact lens?\u00a0 That\u2019s what wearable display company Innovega is trying to create with their Megapixel Contact Lenses.\u00a0 Now not many people have tried these, but one reliable source has, DARPA.\u00a0 Innovega has developed a special contact lens for DARPA that allows \u201ca wearer to view virtual and augmented reality images without the need for bulky apparatus and that allow users to focus on both far away objects and images placed very close to the eye.\u201d\u00a0 DARPA\u2019s goal is to eliminate the intelligence and surveillance gap at the soldier level.\u00a0 Equipping the regular soldiers with these devices would allow them to preform recon just as well as other units. This would prevent friendly fire, civilian casualties, and also make target spotting easier.\u00a0 But this also would have great uses in the civilian world.\u00a0 Imagine being able to have video feeds or data streamed directly to your lens?\u00a0 Or perhaps engineers would able to focus closer on a device without the assistance of optics?\u00a0 Just think of all the ways our lives could be made easier.<\/p>\n<p>This is just the beginning for us, and I can\u2019t wait to <em>see <\/em>what comes next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s face it people, we have successfully reached that point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[508],"tags":[846,847,848,392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}