[From PSFK] The Aeon Project: AR & Virtual Reality In Vehicles By Emma Hutchings on August 3, 2011 Designers Michaël Harboun, Fabien Chancel and Akki Reddy Challa have been working in collaboration with Dassault Systems to explore augmented reality inside vehicles. In the future, when our cars are autonomous and can drive themselves, Harboun and his colleagues have been questioning what we’ll be doing while travelling along. The Aeon Project features three levels the user can select from the heads up display (HUD): augmented reality, mixed reality and virtual reality. So they can choose from text information, 3D integration and complete…

[From Popular Science] Video: ‘Unlimited Detail’ Graphics Tech Surfaces Again With Tantalizing New Demo Using point-cloud construction rather than polygons, the software promises digital environments that are 100,000 times more detailed than the current state of the art By Clay Dillow Posted 08.02.2011 A little more than a year ago, we wrote about an Australian hobbyist named Bruce Dell who was claiming–with video evidence to back it up–that he’d created a new graphics technology that could deliver unlimited power. That is, rather than working with a limited number of polygon shapes (restricted, of course, by computing power), a graphic environment…

[From The Sport Blog of The Guardian] [Image: Technology is being developed that will make TV viewers feel like they are watching matches from the stands. Photograph: Stephen Pond/Empics] Fantasy football is about to become reality with immersion technology The Premier League is in talks to develop an Avatar-style viewing experience that makes it feel like you are watching a top-flight game live from the stands Dominic Fifield guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 2 August 2011 The Premier League’s desire to innovate is about to become a virtual reality. English football’s elite division has long prided itself on an ability to refresh the…

[From the University of Maryland Newsdesk, where the story includes more images and a 2:15 minute video] [Image: Harsha Agashe, a Ph.D. student in Contreras-Vidal’s lab wears the Brain Cap, a non-invasive, sensor-lined cap with neural interface software. Photo Credit – John Consoli, University of Maryland] UMD Brain Cap Technology Turns Thought into Motion Mind-machine interface could lead to new life-changing technologies for millions of people For Immediate Release July 27, 2011 Contacts: Lee Tune, 301 405 4679 or ltune@umd.edu College Park, Md. – “Brain cap” technology being developed at the University of Maryland allows users to turn their thoughts…

[From BBC News, where the story includes a 3:00 minute video] When the home help is a robot By Mark Ward Technology correspondent, BBC News, Istanbul 3 July 2011 In the future, we will have robots in our homes. They will do all the dirty and boring jobs that we don’t want to do because we’ve got better things to do such as sip cocktails or play with our children. Or at least that’s what many films, novels and media articles have promised. Reality is taking some time to catch up. So far, the only domestic robots enjoying significant success…