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JackIn Space

Second of two posts covering the fascinating work of Rekimoto Lab in the field of telepresence.

This project lets users alter perspective from first to third person in an environment made up of various depth cameras and fitted HMDs:

Traditional telepresence systems only supported first person’s view and users had difficulty in recognizing the surrounding situation of the remote workspace. The JackIn Space concept addresses this problem by seamlessly integrating the first person’s view with the third person’s view. With a head-mounted first person camera and multiple depth sensors installed in the environment, the surrogate user’s first person’s view smoothly changes to the out-of-body third person’s view, and the user who connects to the surrogate user can virtually look around the environment. The user can also dive into the other remote user’s first person’s view to look at the environment from the different perspective.

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Pokemon New 3DS up for pre-order ⊟ 

It includes both Red and Blue pre-installed, along with a special Home Menu theme, and two cool Cover Plates. Oh, and the smaller New 3DS system that uses Cover Plates. I can’t overstate how important that bit is.

It won’t ship until around February 27, but you can reserve one at Amazon now.

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Type With Your Brain: Future Tech Ditches Keyboard

At the University of California San Diego, bioengineering professor Gert Cauwenberghs and his team came up with an easy way to monitor the brain. They have built the first portable, 64-channel wearable brain activity monitoring system that’s comparable to state-of-the-art equipment found in research laboratories.