Tag: glasses
These $349 smart glasses have ‘AI superpowers’ and a comical charging nose
There’s a new pair of smart spectacles in town — and this time, it’s the $349 Frame glasses said to give you multimodal “AI superpowers.” The open-source eyewear comes from a startup called Brilliant Labs, which touts Frame as a way to get AI translations, web search, and visual analysis right in front of your eyes.
As shown in a video posted by Brilliant Labs, you can use your voice to ask the glasses to do things like identify a landmark you’re looking at, search the web for a particular pair of sneakers you’re seeing, or even look up nutrition information for the food you’re about to eat. The information appears as an overlay that shows up directly on the lens.
Frame comes in three colors you can preorder now: black, gray, and clear….
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Shocking moment ‘Coventry and Brentford fans’ fight in street with glasses thrown and KOed man kicked on floor
THIS is the shocking moment football fans, believed to be Coventry and Brentford, fight in the street.
Footage shows glasses being thrown as a KO’ed man is kicked on the floor outside London Euston train station.
The group of football fans started brawling outside Euston[/caption]
British Transport Police were called to the scene[/caption]
A video circulating on social media shows the large group of men brawling in the street.
The mass confrontation kicked off on Saturday night after both sets of fans were making their way home from different matches.
It started with beers being thrown as the footy fans goaded each other.
One man then leaped forward punching and kicking before backing off as he appeared to be kneed and punched in the head.
As another fan stands in the middle of the scrap he’s punched in the side of the head and knocked to the floor.
Falling flat on his back, members of the public stood in the road help him up.
A man lying helplessly on the floor, who appears to be passed out, is then repeatedly kicked and punched.
The thug responsible then runs off swearing.
Onlookers watched from nearby pubs with some shouting at the group to stop.
The Sun understands the British Transport Police were called to the scene.
Cov beat QPR 3-0 in the capital while Brentford were headed home from a defeat against Wolves.
You can play Half-Life: Alyx without VR glasses using a handy new mod
Right from the start, modders tried to make Valve’s virtual reality shooter Half-Life: Alyx work without needing VR glasses. Now another such mod has reached the point of Alyx being fully playable from start to finish on a regular monitor with keyboard and mouse. This new mod looks more polished than some others, and claims it’s the “easiest to use and most flexible” of the lot. I’m not too interested in a VRless Alyx but I’m sure it’s welcome news to some.
Researchers built sonar glasses that track facial movements for silent communication
A Cornell University researcher has developed sonar glasses that “hear” you without speaking. The eyeglass attachment uses tiny microphones and speakers to read the words you mouth as you silently command it to pause or skip a music track, enter a passcode without touching your phone or work on CAD models without a keyboard.
Cornell Ph.D. student Ruidong Zhang developed the system, which builds off a similar project the team created using a wireless earbud — and models before that which relied on cameras. The glasses form factor removes the need to face a camera or put something in your ear. “Most technology in silent-speech recognition is limited to a select set of predetermined commands and requires the user to face or wear a camera, which is neither practical nor feasible,” said Cheng Zhang, Cornell assistant professor of information science. “We’re moving sonar onto the body.”
The researchers say the system only requires a few minutes of training data (for example, reading a series of numbers) to learn a user’s speech patterns. Then, once it’s ready to work, it sends and receives sound waves across your face, sensing mouth movements while using a deep learning algorithm to analyze echo profiles in real time “with about 95 percent accuracy.”
The system does this while offloading data processing (wirelessly) to your smartphone, allowing the accessory to remain small and unobtrusive. The current version offers around 10 hours of battery life for acoustic sensing. Additionally, no data leaves your phone, eliminating privacy concerns. “We’re very excited about this system because it really pushes the field forward on performance and privacy,” said Cheng Zhang. “It’s small, low-power and privacy-sensitive, which are all important features for deploying new, wearable technologies in the real world.”
Privacy also comes into play when looking at potential real-world uses. For example, Ruidong Zhang suggests using it to control music playback controls (hands- and eyes-free) in a quiet library or dictating a message at a loud concert where standard options would fail. Perhaps its most exciting prospect is people with some types of speech disabilities using it to silently feed dialogue into a voice synthesizer, which would then speak the words aloud.
If things go as planned, you can get your hands on one someday. The team at Cornell’s Smart Computer Interfaces for Future Interactions (SciFi) Lab is exploring commercializing the tech using a Cornell funding program. They’re also looking into smart-glasses applications to track facial, eye and upper body movements. “We think glass will be an important personal computing platform to understand human activities in everyday settings,” said Cheng Zhang.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/researchers-built-sonar-glasses-that-track-facial-movements-for-silent-communication-171508573.html?src=rss
EastEnders’ Jessie Wallace, 51, looks a world away from Kat Slater with ‘cute’ short hair and glasses after makeover
EASTENDERS’ Kat Slater star Jessie Wallace has a brand new look – and there’s not even a whiff of leopardprint.
The 51-year-old looks almost unrecognisable compared to her character after a major makeover.
She looked very different in a selfie showing off her new short hair[/caption]
Jessie posted a picture of her with a much shorter haircut and glasses in a simple black T-shirt.
EastEnders fans were bowled over, with one writing: “I love your new haircut and glasses! You look great!”
Another said: “Wow your hair really suits you and actually ,akes you look younger” while several called it “cute”.
Another asked Jessie, referring to her co-star Letitia Dean: “Are you and Shazza Watts drinking a magic potion? How do you stay so youthful and gorgeous?”
The actress credited her acclaimed hairdresser Lino Carbosiero, 58, for the cut in the caption on Instagram referring to him as “the scissorhands magician”.
She added that her black and white Nimmo top was a tribute to the electronic music group. Jessie wrote: “Rocking my new T-shirt from the coolest band.”
One fan joked, referring to the decades of heartache and drama Kat has endured on EastEnders: “You look marvellous for all the stress your character carries!”
The Sun revealed last month that Jessie and carpenter boyfriend Justin Gallwey, 50, are getting married after at least a year together.
Pals said the actress would be inviting her friends on the BBC soap, including Alfie Moon star Shane Ritchie.
A source said: “Jessie is over the moon about her engagement and is starting to put plans in place for her wedding.”
Jessie has had a string of boyfriends over the years but never been married.
She was set to get hitched at a £300,000 star-studded ceremony in 2011 to fiance Vincent Morse before it was called off at the last minute.
But she is said to have told pals she is ready to settle down with Justin and marry. A source explained: “Jessie has been proudly wearing the ring.”