Tag: glasses technology
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Snapchat At It Again With launch of Bizarre Vending Machine
One of the hottest products gaining as much momentum as a runaway freight train is Snapchat’s sunglasses. This video capturing eyewear has taken the social media world by storm. Continuously hitting the headlines, Snapglasses has gone one step further in the run up to the holiday season. As if taking videos on the move was…
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You Can Now Explore Mars Thanks to Microsoft HoloLens
If the closest you’ve ever come to exploring Mars is nibbling on a chocolate bar, you’ll likely be excited that, by putting on a Microsoft HoloLens mixed reality headset, you can now explore the Red Planet’s rocky terrain. Yes, it’s very much a virtual experience – but also a great indicator of how far the…
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The Fascinating Evolution of VR Eyewear Since the 1980s
Virtual reality might be increasingly “in”, but it’s taken a while for the technology to progress beyond being merely a slightly amusing gimmick. The eyewear for escaping into virtual worlds has become more stylish-looking, too! To see just how far VR eyewear has come, here are some notable examples of it through recent history –…
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How iPhone Users Can Enjoy Virtual Reality Right Now
While Google has obviously been very busy with its exploits in virtual reality, it’s not so obvious how Apple plans to utilise this technology. Still, there remain many ways in which iPhone users can don a fancy headset and throw themselves into awesome virtual worlds. Could Apple be working on a VR headset? Could we…
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Virtual Reality: Why Google Makes It Fun for the Masses
Among the technologies currently rising to prominence, virtual reality is one of the most exciting. But, isn’t it also rather expensive to try out at the moment? How many of us can afford to shell out money on VR headsets on top of our usual expenses? Thankfully, Google has cut the usual cost, while still…
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Microsoft HoloLens: The True Future of Augmented Reality?
Tech companies are certainly doing some clever stuff with glasses at the moment – to the extent that an emerging product category, that of “smart glasses”, has been tipped to see sales of over 12 million by 2020. We’ve been particularly intrigued by one of the early projects in this area, Google Glass – but…
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Google Glass 2: Without A Screen?
It seems like things on the surface are not as they appear over at Google. In spite of the tepid reception these glasses received, everything doesn’t seem all that its cracked up to be! Since the initial product was introduced back in 2013, it has attempted to captivate audiences. Offering its slick design coupled with…
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Tech: Keep Track of Your Health with New Jins Meme Glasses
When it comes to our own health some take the attitude that out of sight is out of mind. However, for many of us, health monitors and trackers have been taken to all new levels. This is largely in part thanks to our smartphones which have opened up a world of tracking. The way in…
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The Super Sci-Fi Future of Eyewear
According to CBS News there are currently more than 149 million adults who wear eyeglasses. Most non-eyeglass wearers assume that this means people usually have one pair of prescription glasses, but this isn’t necessarily so. Actually, as many as 50 million people needing prescriptive eyewear carry multiple pairs of glasses: one for reading, another for…
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Professor focused on cheap glasses
We found an interesting article on the BBC News website earlier this week that we thought would be of interest to our readers: A retired Oxford University physics professor has designed adjustable glasses that can be used by people in the developing world. Professor Silver’s spectacles are altered by injecting tiny quantities of fluid into…