Gadgetory

hi we're here at CES 2014 I'm Scott Stein and I'm Bridget Carey and this is part one of a three-part wearable tech show we're doing we're looking at headgear now there are so many wearable tech products at the show it's kind of nuts there's too much to track there's startup ones so to speak they're startup ones there are all sorts of different parts of the body so we're breaking it down and we're starting with the eyes Google glass obviously you may have heard about that I'm the resident glass whole yes so you know obviously apps are being developed for that but there's more stuff going on as well and one of the others is oculus rift you've heard about that's really something using it you know a living room entertainment what dreams are going mobile but there are other things that are looking to get that home entertainment experience one of them is the avocado and this is a different type of projection technology some companies are looking at developing new types of projection technology I'm gonna try it on right yeah this is a virtual retinal display this is using Texas Instruments DLP technology to put a 720p display on your retina it's projecting and it can project 3d images it can also project 2d it can connect via HDMI so you're looking at entertainment with this it's designed in a you know a high-end style headphone you know rig his headphones you word on your head like this and then you flip down the visor which has got the eyepieces yeah here we go so you talk about your experience can you can you see it yeah so I'm watching a movie actually actually and it's very easy to see I mean it's not uncomfortable at all it's very clear I'm not going cross-eyed I feel a little bit like Geordi LaForge yeah this scanner now you know this the idea here is that you're not going to obviously scanning the environment around you but there are other there is a peripheral vision element so that you don't you know walk into something hopefully we're not gonna walk while wearing these but no I can't see you yeah so that's the idea here and there is the potential to do more virtual reality type stuff with a head with head tracking capabilities this is a this is launching a Kickstarter for $4.99 and you know this technology we looked at at CNET and it was before it actually had a design and now it has this design which i think is it's pretty awesome that was built in the headphones and it's got a control on the back on the side here they're actually buttons and a little little spin flywheel yeah that takes care of you know all of your media controls and it's hooked up to an iphone right now playing a movie you can actually play real racing on it we should you want all right so I was just watching pitch perfect you put them on okay there's actually a text coming into and it will mirror it's it's it's a it's a mirrored connection so you could actually navigate your phone and open up any app it's it's man is it it's treated like a display so you're really looking at display technology here the iPhone screen oh and now the game loaded up let's see and why don't we just play this part where you go ahead good idea here I'm just gonna grab this and go ahead can you see it really just seeing the screen in front of me this is kind of interesting alright it's loading up right now this is like having a massive like game system in front of you it's kind of cool I mean when I use them they actually can can adjust with diopters two different prescriptions I'm a really intense prescription of minus 9 and this I you know I was still able to make out there was very vivid I felt like there was there was a more vivid look to the display you don't really see that pixels quite as much but it's it amounts to a 720p resolution this is pretty cool I feel like I'm in one of those like arcades were like you're just totally immersive into it it's like a little movie theater in your head it's like a little projected screen I'm someone who gets prone to being dizzy when I'm into something like this and absolutely not like its penis no not at all although I kind of stink at this game I'm getting better you're doing okay yes you can look down looking up his harder but you can look down it to the sides when you're wearing it yeah that's you know that's a look at let's look at the Abigail if I know I can see myself being on the subway totally ignoring everyone with this I think it's actually not just for the tech but again what do you do with these displays well how do you wear them Google glass you know it is small but it looks like something that's hanging from your face this is trying to look like something else it's an interesting idea now going into you know there are mented reality technologies there are a lot of them here at the show some of them are in startup booth some of them are behind closed doors Epson already had a pair of augmented reality smart glasses before the MOE Vario bt100 this is the mo very OBT 200 and the idea here is that this will be for consumers and for for other people for more you know be for business use and these are gonna be available for $6.99 now the design is kind of funky but the display is actually projected right in the middle of the lens these are a 60% thinner than before unlike glass we just kind of have to look up and decide to see it's right in the middle of this vision this is right in the middle and it's a middle ground because instead of something floating in the corner of your eye you're gonna see you should try these yeah and we have someone here from from Epson as well maybe cuz you want to set up to use it thank you well we get set up I am just seeing right in front of me like free like in this little chunk yeah I can squeeze it so the display hangs right in front and again can project 3d as well as 2d oh and if you look at this control it's this is not a smartphone at all this is the touchpad and as I move my thumb I can see my cursor girl it's an Android console so this can run apps this actually has and it you know it's Android 4 it has you know full touch controls and a little micro SD card slot and it could connect via Wi-Fi connects via bluetooth and you control it with a tray and we've also got sensors built into the glasses so that it detects motion as well as a front-facing camera so it's really an ideal augmented reality platform so I'm gonna hit the home screen and what you're gonna see is a series of apps it looks like an Android home screen either in front of you and yeah grab the glasses real quick so I can load up some content for you and so I tried using this and you you could stream something like 3d YouTube videos we can stream 3d content from the internet and then for everything else it kind of goes back to that entertainment mode where you could play and use you know any content on it and be able to see it floating in front of you but then there's the second element of augmented reality applications where there are there are some ideas and games you can move your head around and you know shoot things out of the sky there that are floating around you or pick out points of interest there's another alternative it's it's a floating in front of your face alternative to glass yeah so the game I'm gonna load up for you is called cyclops it was actually developed by a you know a well known glass developer Sean McCracken and it is a kind of a light virtual reality game it is done in rolled dark colors so you can actually see through it and you'll sweep your head around and you're gonna be immersed in this virtual city and if you look up you're actually gonna see spaceships kind of shooting down at you and what you want to do is focus your target on them and you can shoot them out of the sky so let me now apologies we're originally get a bridge this to show what it was gonna look like via Wi-Fi direct on the screen which it's capable of doing but we're having some shoddy connections here so you're gonna have to watch somebody using it which is it you know I will try to make directly gesture facial expressions to express how great this is I've already tried this and so you know give it a whirl oh so what am I looking for here oh oh I see them it's right over our boss's head sorry Lindsey I'm shooting you right now yeah so they're kind of like floating among the crowd right now it's kind of interesting you know I mean I look like a little bit of a geek I mean you can't really see my eyes if you're trying to make a conversation with it's like I've got crazy bifocals on or some sort of futuristic multi lens I think it's cool that they are right in the middle of the lens and that you don't have anything you know right on the outside it projects through a little bit Epsons vision for these glasses it's really not to have an always-on type of use case you know it's really for specific purposes so when you want to have some big screen entertainment content on the go or even some of the stuff you touched on earlier Scott was enterprises cases so we were working with a number of fortune 100 companies with the partners of ours apex Labs to help out what they call the desk list worker you know really making workers more efficient in their jobs well thank you so I mean that's that's a look at the Epson mo Vario bt 202 is which are here at CES and one of a lot of different types of display tech we didn't even get in oculus rift but they are showing stuff behind the scenes with new positioning technology and they've improved the blur and that's pretty impressive too but there are more and that's a brief look at some of the tech in wearable glasses now that is actually 2014 I can pretend I'm working also play games exactly so and that's that's a bit of the spectrum I'm Scott Stein I'm Bridget Carey and that's glasses wearable tech at CES 2014 here in Las Vegas we'll be right back with more wearable tech next you