New VR i-Air Touch smartglasses goes beyond Google Glass

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We've all seen quite a number of smartglasses coming after the Google Glass design, but few have gone beyond the standard Augmented Reality it offers to full Virtual Reality (VR). Granted, there are some VR headware like the Occulus Rift already in the market but the i-Air Touch seems to be the first VR smartglasses around. According to designers, this is to allow users to interact in a virtual environment, letting you type in the air and do Minority Report computer-like things minus said computer. The prototype i-Air Touch is already good enough to allow you to touch and interact with projected images. This is done through the use of cameras located on the i-Air Touch smartglasses which track hand movements so you don't need to wear any special Minority report gloves or handwear either. The prototype i-Air Touch comes courtesy of Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute but while it is currently more of a research project than actual consumer device, it marks the beginning of a different form of computing entirely. In related news, Google Glass is rumoured to be coming out with their consumer level Google Glass device. No pricing or Malaysia release dates though.

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