What is the ultimate form of wearable? Hello Kitty iPad Air
If you look at the way information is obtained, there is no doubt that the future King of the wearable device must be in your eyes. Specific to the digital 80% information from the eyes, 15% information from the ears, 5% information from others, such as touch, smell, and so on. So while in the field of science and technology the most visionary and creative companies Google has Google Glass away from the public eye, but there are still many startups in similar studies, such as Meta.
Meta Campus: geek heaven
"The big companies can't pack light. "In the Meta's Office, CEO of Meta Meron Gribetz said. "For example, Windows is Microsoft's burden. Windows interact represents the past, and the time for when you need a new way of interacting, small companies like ours have an advantage. "
(For Meta headquarters perspective)
Meta based in Portola Valley, mountain, belonging to the edge of the Silicon Valley area. And VC is Stanford University gathered at the foot of the mountain Sand Hill Road, a beautiful environment, overlooking the panoramic view of the Bay area. Here was the world's biggest private tank collector Jacques Littlefield's estate, including a swimming pool, tennis court and a movie theater. Israel Army engaged in augmented reality technology research of Meron, this is without a doubt the best environment. "Before the Israel Army when we were working six days a week, working 55 hours a day, I paid only $ 200 a week, but I feel that this work is very exciting. So here, I will try to create the same environment. "
(Tanks of the former warehouse, has become a Meta hardware lab)
Meron will be referred to here as "Meta Campus." And those using "Campus" to call their headquarters of young tech giants (such as Google, Facebook), META here into a can meet the needs of engineers a simple self-contained little Kingdom, where engineers can develop without distractions. Working hours every Sunday to Friday, most employees stayed here for more than 12 hours a day – which may be why Meron said, "an advantage" part, which like Microsoft used to nine-to-five big firms is unthinkable.
"This is a geek's paradise. "A staff member exposure knock on the table of the House code and we said. "Work and play here. "
More natural interaction Hello Kitty iPad Air 2 Case
Meta has two products: Meta 1 Developer version and version Meta Pro for consumers, which in September last year has already been shipped, which still further improvements, further progress is expected in the second half of the year will be disclosed. Meta's most amazing is that the combination of virtual reality and interactive, build a hologram, and through gestures, grabbing, clicks, zoom in and out, like Tony Stark in iron man (Tony Stark) show. In fact, the Meta is not only the iron man played by Robert Downey Jr doing endorsements, also brought in the iron man in the holographic interface designer Jayse Hansen designed Meta, Meta user interface will have some of iron man's shadow.
(Entrance to the Meta iron man stills)
So, Microsoft Hololens compared with Meta and what's the difference? "Hololens wants to do in many places and similar to META, also through gestures, but only a finger is not indicative of future, Hololens pattern essentially is a Windows-based interactions, and interaction in the future must be a more natural way, your brain is your operating system. "
Meron further examples, such as Smartphones, iPhone innovation is a more natural way of interaction, two or three year old child can easily use. But even so, this set also features requires some learning, and Meta had to do was make this section more natural, even your grandma can master.
Meron's professional background is computer and Neural Sciences, throughout the interview, he also stressed this point. In his view, whether it be Google Glass, Hololens or other similar devices are mobile operating system portable to wearable devices, while META is hoping to go further, abandoning traditions before human-computer interaction, through a more natural way to interact with the brain, and gesture is just a lot of "more natural" interact with one another in one.
Meta can do?
In cinema modification "war room" where I put in and experience the Meta Pro. Meta Pro looks like a large pair of sunglasses, wearing "sunglasses", realistic stereoscopic 3D models and appears in front of the image, you can enter text, crawls through the gestures, blow up games in the asteroid, 360 degree rotation, a new car, to understand its internal structure, but an outsider you just point fingers.
(Meta "war room")
Of course Meta can do only this. As the first virtual reality and gesture interaction of smart devices, Meta is changing the way we communicate with data, and others will allow us to better communicate and collaborate, allow us to a better way to create, provide a more immersive entertainment experience ... ... Especially in industrial design, data visualization, medical applications, simulation and training, communications and games these verticals, Meta's strengths can be fully enlarged, but also by other application developers on Meta are concentrated in these areas.
Meta challenge
If Google places a small-screen Glass just in front of right, allow users to more easily obtain information relating to social, played only a "little Secretary" role of Meta is more imaginative, more emphasis on active and natural interaction in the creation of a virtual reality applications. To achieve this goal, Meta must complete solution from hardware to software, user experience, interactive identification, data collection and processing, and so on a series of questions, which further strengthen the commercialization of its complexity and degree of difficulty. While the areas of both AR and wearable, whether in technology as well as on the popularity, there is still a long way to go.
But from another perspective, representatives of Meta is the future direction of wearable display devices. Augmented reality in the future leader of the race, Meta has made a good start.
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Google Cardboard glasses
Cardboard is an approachable solution for virtual reality. You just need to fold paper into a preset shape, download the corresponding application, mobile phones into Android, and put it in front of you, will be able to experience the wonders of virtual reality.
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