A couple years ago we saw Epson’s Moverio make its debut. It was kind of like a double-eyed Google Glass, but it had a lot of issues. It was bulky, it was dim, it didn’t have any sensors. Basically, it didn’t do much. Today, the BT-200 is here, and it’s undeniably much, much better. The only question is, who’s it for?
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It’s not always easy for nurses to find the right vein for an intravenous drip — the target vessels are sometimes hidden below the skin. Evena Medical’s new Eyes-On smart glasses may make those injections a little easier. The Moverio-based eyewear overlays a 3D blood vessel map on the patient, helping the nurse insert even a tricky IV line on the first try. It can also tap into a hospital’s medical records and share imagery with doctors in remote locations. There’s no word on just which hospitals will use Eyes-On when it ships in the first quarter of 2014, but don’t be surprised if it makes your hospital stay a little more bearable in the near future. Check out a video promo for the glasses after the break.
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Source: Evena Medical
Epson’s Moverio BT-100 is one of the more hackable headsets thanks to its Android control box, but few developers have given it a good look. The company may have an incentive for those coders — it’s holding its first-ever Moverio hackathon on August 24th and 25th. Those who visit Epson’s Long Beach headquarters on those days can design and pitch an augmented reality concept in hopes of winning a either $1,000 grand prize or one of two $500 runner-up awards. Space is very limited at just 50 slots, so you’ll want to sign up quickly if you’re interested. Whether or not you can attend, the hackathon is good news for Moverio owners that could soon get more use out of their $699 eyewear.
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Source: Eventbrite
Epson’s 3D display glasses, the Moverio BT-100 have been floating around as a development platform for a couple years, and APX Labs is the latest to hack the headset. APX Labs is a software firm best known for creating Terminator Vision augmented reality tech for the US military, and it decided to use the BT-100 as a vehicle to develop and showcase a smart glasses platform it’s built to work for both business and consumer applications. In order to get the functionality it needed, APX grafted a 5 megapixel camera, mic and a full suite of motion sensors to provide nine-axis head tracking onto a Moverio headset.
All that gear is shoved into a 3D-printed module and attached to the BT-100 to turn it into a pair of smart glasses. In addition to the cameras and sensors, APX also hacked an Epson daughter board onto the Moverio’s controller to allow an HDMI video feed from a smartphone to be shown on the displays. This result? A system that understands where you are, what you’re seeing and hearing and a UI that allows users to glean information from the world around them using voice commands and head gestures. That should sound familiar to fans of Google Glass, but by using Epson’s binocular displays, these smart glasses can convey depth in a way Mountain View’s monocle cannot. (Not to mention that Glass doesn’t even do AR apps… yet). The hardware we got to see was a crude prototype built for demo purposes only, but the software platform shows promise and Epson’s got a version two Moverio headset in the works — so perhaps you can see a bit of the future of smart glasses in the video after the break.
As you watch the video above, be amazed at the ingenuity of the human mind, as well as ask yourself just whether you have the brains and passion to contribute positively to this particular project. The Epson Moverio BT-100, which is actually Epson’s see-through wearable display, was seen to be able to facilitate a conversation between two men which would not have been made possible but for the clever implementation of a bunch of components as well as slight modifications made to the Epson Moverio BT-100.
Epson is right now on the lookout for feedback from the masses as to how this particular application can be refined and enhanced. It does seem that this has the potential of being an incredible communication tool for the hearing impaired, and Epson has also hosted a developer program so that hackers, modders, programmers, and fellow geeks who want to contribute can share their app ideas as well as modding suggestions.
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Bummed that your $700 Moverio BT-100 headset doesn’t have video input? Well, Epson’s here to tease you with a board that plugs into the trackpad and accepts any composite video source. Despite best attempts to hide the identity of hardware it’s being tested with and give the lawyers a weekend off, it’s shown to receive feeds from a PS3, an iPad and a 360 with Kinect. Check out the honk-filled video of all the fun you’re not having, and contact Epson if you’ve got an interesting idea for using the board, because they might just give you one. How about — “I want to play games on it?” That sounds like a pretty good reason to us.
[Thanks, Joe]
Filed under: Displays, Home Entertainment, Peripherals, Wearables, HD
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