Dans cet article nous analysons comment nous avons fait comprendre la valeur de notre produit et donc son prix. Dans notre situation il est assez difficile de diminuer le prix. Nous payons 8,65€ de…
I’m one of those people who falls asleep a little easier if there’s quiet, steady noise around me. Cracking a window open isn’t really an option in February here in New York, so typically I just turn on a small fan in my room to get that fix of white noise. But a couple weeks ago, I learned that Google Home speakers can play white noise audio on demand. And I was pleasantly surprised by how good it sounds — even on my tiny Google Home Mini, which has slightly improved bass compared the Amazon Echo Dot in my living room. I’m sure the effect is better on a regular Home or the Home Max. This also works through Google Assistant on your phone in a pinch, and the sounds can be played on any Assistant-enabled speaker.
You can trigger ambient...
Google is rolling out a few new features to its Google Flights search engine to help travelers tackle some of the more frustrating aspects of air travel – delays and the complexities of the cheaper, Basic Economy fares. With the regard to delays, Google Flights won’t just be pulling in information from the airlines directly, however – it will take advantage of its… Read More
Microsoft’s Slack competitor, Microsoft Teams, rolled out its biggest update since the software’s launch last year, the company says. The focus of the new set of features is allowing users to better work with apps – something Microsoft Teams accomplishes via integrations, new search and discovery features, commands, and more.
Some of the features are, in fact, quite… Read More
Over the past few months, the internet has found a creepy new hobby: using artificial intelligence to paste the faces of celebrities onto porn videos. The technology has some disturbing implications, especially with regards to consent, harassment, and fake revenge porn. But on Reddit, where most of this content is being shared, users have found at least one wholesome (sort of) use for it: inserting Nicolas Cage into movies he never acted in.
Cage has long been an internet favorite, thanks in part to his willingness to appear in just about anything. Now, with the help of AI, his likeness can be seen in an even wider range of roles: replacing Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr. No; standing in as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark; and...
Despite AR and VR headsets being an attractive display option for many companies, some are more interested in an inclusive offerings rather than the single experience headset variant. Denmark-based Realfiction has created DeepFrame, a 64-inch screen that operates the same way as such a headset. DeepFrame is a revolutionary mixed-reality (MR) display that blends the physical and digital elements in real-time. It allows spectators to collectively experience lifelike animations in any size and at any distance without the use of special glasses.
DeepFrame is capable of projecting large-scale holograms thanks to a curved video screen that deflects interactive 3D images in 4K resolution onto a glass optic. This magnifies the image giving the illusion of three dimensions rather than just two. The technology could be used in a number of applications such as museums, amusement parks and retail outlets.
We have seen how virtual reality has been adopted in a multitude of ways, such as a performance piece incorporating dance and VR to create a unique display, or being used to honour the dead. How could you use MR in your business?
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After launching in the US a little over a month ago, Amazon’s Echo Spot is starting to ship internationally. Its first stops are the UK, Germany, and Austria, where the small new Alexa device goes on sale today.
The Echo Spot is Amazon’s second Echo device with a touchscreen. And while it can do all the same things as the much larger Echo Show, its clock-like shape and size mean it’s better used in much different ways, like as a bedside alarm. At least, so long as you’re comfortable with the Spot’s built-in webcam constantly staring at you.
Amazon sells the Echo Spot for $130 in the US, and while that price tag carries over, it ends up being more expensive elsewhere after converting currencies. It’ll sell for £119.99 in the UK (about...
With an app, an Amazon account, and a bright orange bag, you can walk into the Amazon Go grocery store and walk out without waiting in a checkout line.
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Izotope is best known for creating audio software, but a couple weeks ago, I got to check out Spire Studio, the company’s first piece of hardware. Spire Studio is a palm-sized device that musicians can carry with them to record professional-grade multitrack audio anywhere they are.
While there are lots of gadgets on the market for portable recording, most interfaces I’ve seen need to be plugged in to your phone, cater to recording a specific type of instrument, or are wired and need lots of dongles. Spire Studio, on the other hand, has a lot of use in a very small footprint, and connects to your phone wirelessly. On the front is a built-in mic and headphone jack, while the back has two XLR/TS combo jacks, another headphone jack, and a...
Car head-up display maker Navdy is shutting down. The company sent emails to customers noting that it is liquidating its assets and that units already bought by customers may soon stop working.
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I was all set to dislike the “flick,” a time unit just recently invented by Facebook (technically the Oculus team), because I thought it was going to be something worthless like “the average time someone looks at a post.” In fact it’s a very clever way of dividing time that theoretically could make video and audio production much more harmonious. Read MoreIt looks so cool!..(Read...)
After more than a year of employee-only testing, the Amazon Go grocery store in Seattle is finally open for business. The premise is simple -- just walk in, grab what you want, and then walk out. But will it really work?
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Between the flooded booths and convention center blackouts, CES 2018 has been kind of a disaster. But for me, at least, one little gadget saved the whole thing by reminding me why the show exists in the first place. Sony is rolling back the years with Aibo, the resurrection of the robot dog line that was one of its most iconic brands during its ‘90s and 2000s heyday.
The new Aibo is quite simply adorable. It has touch sensors on its head, chin, and back so you can pet it. It responds to touch and voice, and 22 actuators enable more realistic movement than previous models. Its eyes are OLED panels. It has a camera on its nose to help it recognize family members and search for its bone — which is called Aibone — while a camera on its back...
Still not sure if Hidden Path Entertainment’s Rift-exclusive real-time strategy (RTS) game, Brass Tactics, is for you? You’ll soon be able to find out at no extra cost.
Hidden Path today announced that the game, which was delayed from last 2017 into 2018, will be getting a free version called Brass Tactics Arena. In this version, you’ll be able to play unlimited online and single-player matches on one of the game’s maps with a handful of the units available in the full version. You can play competitive and cooperative modes on this map to your heart’s content and then, if you like what you play, you can unlock more by picking up the full version.
The full edition of Brass Tactics will boast over 20 maps, more units and a six-hour campaign to play through as well as a suite of online options. Brass Tactics Arena will launch on February 15th for those that register over here, giving players a week to hone their skills before the entire game launches on February 22nd.
Brass Tactics was first revealed back at GDC 2017 and we were big fans of it. The game presents its brand of warfare as a tabletop diorama that you can explore to your heart’s content, capturing defense points and advancing on the enemy base. We’re hoping it will set the bar for RTS games in VR going forward.
Pre-orders for the full game open today at a discounted price of $24.99. When the game launches it’ll cost $39.99.
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We’re recovering today from the mad dash that was CES 2018 in Las Vegas. We weren’t able to see everything running back and forth between the Las Vegas Convention Center, The Venetian, and elsewhere in the city, but we nonetheless saw some incredibly interesting VR demos in our three days there.
Not everything we tried was consumer ready or perfect just yet, but we were very impressed by each of the five technologies we outlined below. There’s still a long road ahead for progress with immersion in VR and these five demos showed major potential to improve the state-of-the-art.
It was wonderful to see Vive Pro’s resolution upgrade. The 2880 x 1600 combined display (1440 x 1600 per eye) showed a great amount of detail and the headset overall seemed to offer a better weight balance. The company says the headset will have the same minimum specifications as the current generation and Vive Pro will work with the current base stations installed in VR dens around the world as well as upcoming 2.0 systems that can be used in 4-station tracking configurations offering the freedom to move around much larger areas.
The headset featured loud over-the-ear integrated audio with a nice snug fit from the headset’s strap.
We didn’t get to see Pro combined with the Vive Wireless Adapter, but we did try wireless with the regular Vive and it worked great!
Google, Apple and Facebook are among the tech giants that have purchased eye-tracking companies over the last few years in anticipation of what they can do if they can make future gadgets that know where you are pointing your eyes. Tobii hasn’t been purchased yet and still sells modified Vives with eye-tracking added.
I was so impressed by my demo I think it makes a lot of sense for developers to invest in an eye-tracking developer kit in anticipation of how the technology will enable new ways of interacting with virtual people and things. In one demo embedded above, objects in a home theater environment are selected just by pointing eyeballs at them, and a trigger pull or finger swipe is used to adjust the setting.
Newport Beach-based NextVR showed a significant upgrade to the resolution of its VR broadcasts. The company has been a leader in livestreaming sports and events to VR, delivering a 3D scene that looks great in current VR headsets like Gear VR or Playstation VR. At CES though, the company showed reality captures tuned for higher resolution headsets like Samsung Odyssey.
In a hands-on demo we found the increased detail to offer an incredible upgrade over existing NextVR content, and it produced a stronger sense of in-person viewing in VR of an event from the real world. At one point a dust cloud kicked up from a dirt track and I could see millions of tiny dirt particles floating through the air in intricate and fast moving patterns.
NextVR is working to combine the resolution increase with 6dof freedom, which was shown in a separate (but also impressive) demo at CES.
The most impressive thing David Jagneaux tried all week was Contact CI’s latest haptic glove prototype.
To simulate touching objects in a virtual world the team at Contact CI mechanically recreated the way your muscles move your fingers. It wasn’t polished or finished and tracking wasn’t perfect, but David nonetheless felt like he was touching parts of a virtual world with his fingers for the first time.
The glove allows the company to combine the sensation with visual cues and provide an experience that is “super, super close to the real thing, my mind is telling my finger, ‘You just pressed a button so stop pushing your hand forward,” and that’s exactly what happens.”
The “Elf’ is a super slim reference VR headset (seen at the top of this post) featuring a 2k by 2k per eye microdisplay from Kopin. For comparison, the Samsung Odyssey and upcoming Vive Pro feature 1.4k by 1.6k pixels per eye OLED panels from Samsung (Vive and Rift offer roughly 1.1k by 1.2k for each eye).
The Kopin demo was said to run at 60 frames per second and in my hands-on demo I noted two subtle but distracting horizontal lines in the display. Kopin was unsure the cause, but I otherwise found it to offer a super high resolution picture with a screen door effect I couldn’t notice. The company says its display can run up to 120 frames per second, and the resolution bump might require eye tracking to do foveated rendering to provide the greatest detail right in front of your eyeballs. We’d love to see a demo with active content and six degrees of freedom tracking too, but the promise shown in the Elf reference design is a VR headset that would be far slimmer and more stylish than those of today with a picture that is far more crisp.
If Kopin’s display tech could perform under the same kind of rigor that Samsung OLEDs are subjected to then it could offer a pathway to far more immersive virtual worlds. A representative from the company mentioned the potential of jumps to 3k or 4k per eye solutions.
And for a more robust rundown of everything we saw, along with a live Q&A, you can watch our livestream from CES yesterday above.
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Samsung is unveiling Flip today at the Consumer Electronics Show, a 55-inch digital whiteboard that can be flipped between portrait and horizontal orientations. It’s designed for meeting rooms, and comes with a height-adjustable stand that can be wheeled around offices freely. Samsung isn’t revealing exactly what operating system or software is powering the Flip, but it looks like the company will support note taking, photos, and other collaborative scenarios on its 4K display.
Samsung’s Flip also includes wireless connectivity, USB, PC, and mobile ports so you can connect pretty much any device to the display. You can even share the contents of the screen itself to other PCs, smartphones, and tablets. Up to four people can also draw on...
Display startup MirraViz is here in Las Vegas this week for CES to show off a gadget that at first blush looks like some arcane trickery, allowing two off-the-shelf DLP projectors to layer images on top of one another so two people can view two different images simultaneously. The technology, which is actually built into the multilayer projector screen, is now on sale as a standalone product the Fremont, California-based startup is selling for $499.
Officially called the MultiView Screen, the product takes advantage of how reflective surfaces handle incoming light sources. “The basic physics principle for one of the key optical layers includes the use of retro-reflection (RR) optical elements which are also used in traffic signage and...
You don't want to raise your voice to chat with your virtual assistant. Luckily, Netatmo understands, and has now unveiled the Netatmo Smart Home Bot, a personal assistant that promises to manage your connected home.
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This is officially the world's smallest fully functional mobile phone, the Zanco tiny t1($50). It weighs just 13 grams, operates on the 2G network, and features a NANO SIM card slot. It stores 300 numbers & 50 SMS messages as well as the last 50 in/out numbers. The battery has 3 days standby and 180 minutes talk time. Recharges via microUSB."This fully functional, talk & text mobile phone is unbelievably tiny!"..(Read...)
Bring your living room into the 21st century with the Sobro coffee table drink cooler. Apart from the ample refrigerated compartment, this versatile piece comes with built-in LED lights, charging ports, and Bluetooth speakers.
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Amazon a publié un brevet qui porte sur un miroir dont la technologie est chargée de vous habiller virtuellement et de placer votre reflet dans un décor virtuel. S’il est de notoriété qu’Amazon éprouve un fort attrait pour le secteur de la mode, le dernier brevet en date vient appuyer cette affirmation une fois de […]
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Amazon has shown off some stats for the holiday season, and as usual it hasn't held back with the superlatives. Among the data we learn that one of its smart speakers was its biggest seller this holiday season.
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Quoi de plus amusant que de jouer aux jeux de société en famille ou bien entre amis le temps d’un après-midi ou d’une soirée ? Par contre, il y a toujours une partie moins amusante, le moment où vous devez expliquer les règles du jeu en lisant un long manuel. Vos interlocuteurs ne sont pas toujours à […]
Google announced today that it’s shutting down its high-end smartphone augmented reality platform, Tango, in order to focus on the more mass market ARCore product. The company had already confirmed this much to us when they announced ARCore in August, but now we have an official timeline for Tango’s demise. Read More
Right before jumping on the phone Friday afternoon, Andrew Mason, who then ran a walking tour startup called Detour and ran Groupon, was hand-correcting a transcription of a speech by John F. Kennedy — which was transcribed by some new software he and his team built in-house. But Descript, Mason’s new startup that’s spun out from Detour, isn’t designed to just… Read MoreScientists at Binghamton University in New York developed a breakthrough stretchy, textile-based, bacteria-powered bio-battery which could one day be used to power wearable devices.
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There’s no shortage of projects that replace your regular board game dice with an electronic version of them, bringing digital features into the real world. [Jean] however goes the other way around and brings the real world into the digital one with his Bluetooth equipped electronic dice.
These dice are built around a Simblee module that houses the Bluetooth LE stack and antenna along with an ARM Cortex-M0 on a single chip. Adding an accelerometer for side detection and a bunch of LEDs to indicate the detected side, [Jean] put it all on a flex PCB wrapped around the battery, and into a 3D printed case that is just slightly bigger than your standard die.
While they’ll work as simple LED lighted replacement for your regular dice as-is, their biggest value is obviously the added Bluetooth functionality. In his project introduction video placed after the break, [Jean] shows a proof-of-concept game of Yahtzee displaying the thrown dice values on his mobile phone. Taking it further, he also demonstrates scenarios to map special purposes and custom behavior to selected dice and talks about his additional ideas for the future.
After seeing the inside of the die, it seems evident that getting a Bluetooth powered D20 will unfortunately remain a dream for another while — unless, of course, you take this giant one as inspiration for the dimensions.
Apple is finalizing a deal to acquire Shazam, the app that lets you identify songs, movies, and TV shows from an audio clip, according to TechCrunch. The deal is reportedly for $400 million, according to Recode, which also confirmed the news.
For Apple, the obvious benefit of acquiring Shazam is the company’s music and sound recognition technologies. It will also save some money on the commissions Apple pays Shazam for sending users to its iTunes Store to buy content, which made up the majority of Shazam’s revenue in 2016, and drove 10 percent of all digital download sales, according to The Wall Street Journal.
A side benefit is if Apple decides to shut down the app, it will hurt competing streaming services like Spotify and Google Play...
