February 2016 | MRM//McCann LAB13 Blog

Nixie the wearable and flyable camera

Posted on February 23, 2016February 23, 2016 by Eva Herbig with Leave a comment

Nixie – The first wearable camera that can fly.
With a gesture, Nixie takes off, captures the moment, and comes right back.

http://flynixie.com/

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MWC – Samsung announces Gear 360 Camera, Facebook its 360 Video

Posted on February 22, 2016February 22, 2016 by Mark Hollering with Leave a comment

Samsung revealed a 360 camera for shooting 360° videos, which are also viewable in VR. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also announced, that Facebooks 360 video would be available for the Samsung Gear VR within the next few weeks. Samsung users would then be able to create and share content over the world biggest social network. This will be a huge step in the direction of a complete VR ecosystem.

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Building VR in VR

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Mark Hollering with Leave a comment

Epic Games (and Unity also) are developing new tools to create virtual worlds entirely inside a VR environment. VR production is also evolving and is embracing new ways to create content with the upcoming availability of VR devices.

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Robot solves Rubik Cube in 1 second

Posted on February 2, 2016March 8, 2016 by Mohr Christoph

Two guys worked on a robot to solve a Rubik Cube and it was worth it: the robot solves the cube in about one second! It analyses the color patterns with four USB-cameras and their software (on a Linux-system) calculates the next steps based on image recognition.

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Stewart – A mutually trustful interface for a fully autonomous car

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Dario Aprea with Leave a comment

Stewart is an interesting proposal for communicating with an autonomous car. Its movement let the driver (or passenger?) feel what the car is going to do, thus helping gaining trust in the machine. On the other hand, the integrated sensors allow to disagree with the car’s decisions and to suggest a different path or behavior.

It was developed by Felix Ros as a graduation project at the Eindhoven University of Technology. The hardware is driven by an Arduino and the software is based on Processing.

More info at felixros.com

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Tokyo to catch bad drones using bigger drones with giants nets

Posted on February 2, 2016February 2, 2016 by Dominic Beinenz with Leave a comment

The best way to catch a drone? The only way to catch a rogue drone is a crime fighting drone! Tokyo police have put together the nation’s first drone squad in response to a security breach earlier this year.

Refreshable Braille device

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Mohr Christoph with Leave a comment

A team of the University of Michigan has been working on a braille-device and found a solution to handle the refreshment and update of braille with more than one line (which is still common). This enables blind people to read books on an “e-reader” not only line by line but as complete pages.