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HoloLens Feature: Spatial Sound
The HoloLens's visuals are justifiably getting most of the pre-launch hype, but sound plays just as important of a role in creating immersion in your mixed-reality.
How To: Root a MyTouch 1.2 or Fender MyTouch Google Android smartphone
Unlock your MyTouch 1.2 or Fender MyTouch Google Android's hidden potential by rooting it! Don't know how to root an Android phone? Not a problem. This guide will walk you through the entire process. For all of the details, and to learn how to hack your own MyTouch Android mobile phone, watch this video rooting walkthrough.
AR Spotlight: How Snapchat Lens Creator Audrey Spencer Is Bending Reality on Your Smartphone
The rapid advance of Lens Studio as a platform for easily developing augmented reality experiences is just one indicator that immersive computing is becoming the norm.
News: Read Classic Ebooks for Free — With Formatting You Would Actually Pay For
Volunteer project Standard Ebooks strives to enhance some of the work available from Project Gutenberg and other public domain text sources, making them easier on the eyes.
How To: Use Google Instant to get more search results or turn it off otherwise
Google Instant is one of Google's many search innovations, this one causing search results to emerge continuously below the search bar as you type. This can allow you to find more search results faster, and this video wills show you how it works, including how to turn it off if you decide you want Google to wait until you're finished typing before searching.
How To: Create a personalized Internet radio station with Pandora Radio
Interested in creating a custom radio station using a band you like as a template? This brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started creating your own radio stations on Pandora, take a look.
News: Mastercard, Qualcomm-Powered ODG Smartglasses Use Iris Authentication for AR Shopping
As the level of data being generated grows exponentially, past the Information Age and into the coming Hyper-Information Age of immersive computing — as resistant as many of us are to the idea — personal data security is becoming a necessary consideration in our everyday lives. Recognizing this, Mastercard, Qualcomm, and Osterhout Design Group have teamed up to show what secure shopping could look like in the very near future with iris authentication.
How To: Download device drivers and Froyo 2.2 ROM when rooting a Motorola Droid
Root your Motorola Droid Google Android smartphone and run custom ROMs! This hacker's how-to presents a thorough, step-by-step overview on how to download the drivers and ROM you'll need to root your Moto Droid. For detailed instructions, and to get started rooting your own Motorola Droid phone, watch this free video tutorial.
News: Snap Showcases Storytelling Power of Spectacles 3 Wearable with Film by LA Artist Lauren Halsey
The latest generation of Spectacles aren't AR smartglasses per se, but Snap is intent on demonstrating that the wearables are capable of storytelling powered by augmented reality.
How To: Overclock the hardware in your HP TouchPad for a faster tablet
In this two part segment, we learn how to properly overclock the HP TouchPad. One of the few complaints about the tablet was the occasional slow reaction time of the processor, but now you can speed up your TouchPad for a faster webOS. This guide walks you through everything from downloading Novacom drivers to inputting the Konami code.
How To: Fix a WordPress database connection error
See how to resolve a WordPress MySQL database connection error with this free video tutorial. Every version of WordPress brings with it new features, new functions and new ways of doing things. Fortunately, the very same technology that allows an open-source blog publishing application like WordPress to exist in the first place also makes it easy for its users to share information about its features through videos like this one. Take a look.
News: Microsoft to Host Women in AI & Mixed Reality Hackathon in San Francisco
Over the last few years, the virtual reality space has earned a welcome reputation for fostering better representational balance with regard to gender compared to the general tech industry, with women like Nonny de la Peña and many others leading the charge.
News: Red Cross AR App Takes You Deep into the Life of a Child Plagued by International Warfare
Next to things like natural disasters and disease, the specter of war is one of the only things that threatens to derail the 21st century's long stretch of technological innovation. Now a new app is using augmented reality to remind us of that by focusing on those most impacted by war — children.
How To: Share Photos & Videos from Your Google Glass to Facebook & Twitter
The ability to see the world around you and instantly share that "vision" is something that makes Google Glass great for everyday use. No reason to pull out your phone to show off the amazing sushi plate you were just served—look at it, give a couple of quick taps and voice commands, and boom, your social network is salivating in jealousy.
News: HTC U11 Plus Rumor Roundup — Bezel-Less Display, Translucent Back & More
HTC is heading in a strange direction lately. Instead of releasing just one flagship in the spring season, they released two top-tier phones, with one having last year's specs and both having last year's design. They were also supposed to manufacture both the Pixel 2 and 2 XL, but Google was unimpressed by the HTC-made Pixel 2 XL and looked to LG for the bigger device. Now it seems, HTC isn't finished yet.
Apple AR: CurioPets Demo Is Nintendogs but with Magical Adventures
Augmented reality dogs have been a big hit with developers using Apple's ARKit. RoVR hit YouTube a few days ago and people have been clamoring for it ever since. Not to mention the Good Dogs Game created by the people behind the famous We Rate Dogs Twitter.
News: Captain Blimey Seeks to Plunder the Pokémon GO Craze
A Seattle development team is putting the "ARRRR" in AR with the maiden voyage of Captain Blimey, an augmented reality game for iOS and Android devices that puts a pirate premise on Pokémon GO.
How To: Use the FaceTime video chatting app on the iPhone 4G
See how to make and receive video calls over a WiFi network when using an Apple iPhone 4G. Whether you're the proud owner of an Apple iPhone 4G or perhaps just considering picking one up, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial. For more information, including a detailed overview, watch this iPhone user's guide.
News: Goodbye Twitter, Hello Google Buzz?
Are Twitter and Facebook in trouble with the advent of Google's brand new social networking tool, Google Buzz?
How To: Bypass web filters with a web proxy
How to bypass web filter with a web-based proxy server. Bypass web filters with a web proxy.
News: Join Loki on His Time-Traveling Adventures with This Snapchat Lens
Like its predecessors WandaVision and Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Marvel's latest series for Disney Plus, Loki, has its own augmented reality experience.
News: EtherWars Brings Real-Time Strategic Space Battles into the Living Room
If you want to quickly understand EtherWars, imagine a game like StarCraft where you build out your base on your living room floor instead of on a computer screen. Before we had computer games to help us imagine what space wars might feel like, we played with toy ships and used our imaginations. EtherWars combines those two elements by replacing toys with holograms that actually react to your choices.
How To: Use a proxy and understand why they are important
In this video you are shown how to use proxies and why they are important. Proxies are useful because they shield you and make you anonymous over the internet, it also prevents websites from logging your IP address. To see how important it is to prevent this go to whatismyip.com. It will show you your IP, click on it and go to 'look up'. It will show you all the personal information that can determined from your IP address. The easiest way to proxy are VPN's, which stands for virtual private ...
Market Reality: Apple Assembles AR Team, Google & Amazon Invest in New UI, & Qualcomm Powers Next Vuzix & Meta Devices
The Augmented World Expo is winding down in Santa Clara, where Qualcomm, Vuzix, and Meta Company were among the companies making big announcements.
How To: Use Google Reader with RSS, Atom, & XML feeds
In this video, learn how to use Google Reader with RSS, Atom, and/or XML feeds. Feeds allow sites to "pull" information from the web without having to visit the site manually. It also helps prevent web users from having to go "check" a site for updates because the feed will check for you! In this video, learn how to add and remove feeds from Google reader and get tips on how to sort & read them these feeds effectively.
How To: Rename your name servers with your hosting servers
Edit name servers in the domain management area. If you're buying domain and web hosting from a single provider, like Hostgator, then the domain name automatically has a corresponding host.
How To: Use FileField and jQuery Media modules to host video
Here's a fast lesson in hosting video on your own Drupal website using the FileField and jQuery Media modules. The Filefield and jQuery Media modules are a one-two knock out combination for allowing users to upload media files to fields in your custom content types and then playing back the media files in their matching player or handler. It represents a positive direction for treating fields containing files and is a great starting point for researching your own implementation of this recipe.
How To: Play Hungry Sharks on an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch
Need some help figuring out how to play Hungry Sharks on an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch? This video tutorial presents an overview of the game's essential rules and objective. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started playing Rollercoaster Extreme on your own Apple iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 or iPod Touch, take a look.
How To: Remove malware from your Windows PC with HijackThis
Want to know how to make HijackThis, the popular malware scanning program, display only malicious registry entries? Learn how to use the Ignore List to acheive just that with this free home computing how-to from the folks at CNET TV, which offers complete instructions on how to tweak HijackThis to make removing viruses and spyware a breeze. For more information, and to get started protecting your own Windows PC from malicious software, watch this handy how-to.
How To: Control and Limit Your Internet Data Usage in Windows 8 Phone
How to control and limit your internet usage in your windows 8 phone? You may want to restrict your internet usage and want to set limit for apps also. If you set your usage limit internet will stop automatically after reaching the limit. Follow the video to employ in your own phone.
News: Google Glass Resurfaces as a Tool to Help People with Autism Improve Their Social Skills via AR
Considered by many (perhaps unfairly) to be a very public failure, Google Glass can add another plot point to its comeback story, this time as a tool to teach social skills to children and adults with autism.
News: CastAR's Financial Woes Lead to Layoffs & Liquidation
What began as a highly successful Kickstarter campaign has all but ended, according to an updated report by Polygon. CastAR, comprised of a few people from Valve's former research and hacking arm, has released a large portion of their team. Only a small core of the group remains, trying to sell the technology they have created.
News: Apple Just Hired an AR Specialist from NASA
Apple likes to play their cards close to the vest, don't they? The iconic company doesn't usually reveal much about their projects until it's time for an official announcement. But sometimes ... They can't stop a leak of information from happening, or they just leak the news themselves like Steve Jobs used to. That brings us to today's news. It appears the tech giant has hired an augmented reality specialist from NASA to join their AR team.
How To: Find your IP address with 3 different methods
In this video, we learn how to find your IP address with 3 different methods. First, go to the bottom of your screen and click on the computer icon you see. The next way is to go to WhatismyIP. When on the site, you will be given your IP address. The last way is to go to start, then run, and type in "CMD". Now, type in "ipconfig" and press enter. Once on here, you will be given your IP address. All of these will give you the same number, just use whichever option is easiest for you to use!
How To: Use imgur for easy photo-hosting
Taking photos is great, but what about being able to share them with the world wide web? There are countless of image hosting options out there to get your photos on the internet, but imgur is probably one of the simplest and easy image uploading sites out there.
How To: Unroot an HTC Hero Google Android smartphone
Have rooter's remorse? Want to restore your HTC Hero's factory firmware and put your cell phone back as it was? Here's how you do it!
Spraffl: A New Location-Based Social Network That's Completely Anonymous
The long standing popularity of 4chan has been due to the entirely anonymous setup. The site's anonymous community and culture has provoked media attention, in turn inciting larger audiences. On the other side of the spectrum is Facebook—popular for its connectivity and easily identifiable names. With the brush of keyboard stroke, you can be connected with your entire high school class in a matter of seconds.
How To: Use a proxy to get on Facebook at school
Are you trying to access Facebook when you shouldn't? This video will help. Watch and learn how to use a proxy to get to blocked websites, like Facebook. Now you can go on Facebook and other websites anywhere, even at school.
How To: Set up ADB when rooting an Android smartphone on a Microsoft Windows PC
Want to install and set up ADB on your Windows PC? It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this rooter's guide can present a complete overview of the complete process in just over four minutes. For all of the details, including step-by-step instructions, take a look.
News: Google Adds New AR Galleries & Audio Guided Tour to Arts & Culture App
With NFTs taking the art world by storm, it's a bit refreshing to know that you can enjoy world famous masterpieces in the comfort of your own home via augmented reality without emptying your cryptocurrency wallet.