{"id":5960,"date":"2016-03-02T06:42:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T06:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/?p=274490"},"modified":"2016-03-04T08:50:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T08:50:34","slug":"first-natural-machine-augmented-reality-product-meta-2-launches-to-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2016\/03\/02\/first-natural-machine-augmented-reality-product-meta-2-launches-to-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"First &lsquo;natural machine&rsquo; augmented reality product Meta 2 launches to developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_275083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 440px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><img class=\" wp-image-275083\" title=\"Meta_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/Meta_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"273\" \/><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meta 2 (credit: Meta)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last month, Meta CEO Meron Gribetz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/stevenrosenbaum\/2016\/02\/17\/meron-gribetz-wants-to-build-the-ios-of-the-mind\/#4771e66b34bc\">wowed TED<\/a> with a sneak peak at the company&#8217;s new Meta 2 augmented-reality product. Today, Meta announced that the Meta 2 Development Kit is now available for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/metavision.com\" >pre-orders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meta 2&#8242;s Iron-Man-like immersive functionality appears similar to Hololens and Magic Leap, but with a wider 90-degree field of view, 2560 x 1440 high-DPI display, and natural hand-controlled operation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_x9462x6A0k?rel=0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Meta | Meta 2 Development Kit &#8212; Launch Video<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Technology pundit and futurist Robert Scoble called Meta 2 \u201cthe most important new product since the original Macintosh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his TED Talk, Gribetz, a neuroscientist, described a neuroscience-based design that &#8220;merges the art of user interface design with the science of the brain, creating \u2018natural machines\u2019 that feel like extensions of ourselves rather than the other way around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meta 2 was designed with input from nearly 1000 companies that were users of the first-generation Meta 1 (see &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/metas-ar-headset-lets-you-play-with-virtual-objects-in-3d-space\" >Meta\u2019s AR headset lets you play with virtual objects in 3D space<\/a>&#8220;). Meta believes the new version has the potential to &#8220;fundamentally change the way people collaborate, communicate and engage with information and each other, including medicine, education, and manufacturing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_275078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 441px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><img class=\" wp-image-275078\" title=\"car\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/car.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"232\" \/><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Meta, you&#8217;ll be able to directly grab items you&#8217;re interested in and<br \/>interact with them. (credit: Meta)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Importantly, Meta 2 is fully hand-controlled; no input device required. Meta says types of AR application include 3D modeling (has advantages over 3D on a screen), web browsing (add holograms to any existing webpage) and remote collaboration (colleagues can view and manipulate holograms with their hands).<\/p>\n<p>Meta 2 has an on-board color camera (720p) and four speakers for near-ear audio. It supports Windows-based applications (Mac later this year) and initially requires a modern computer running Windows 8 or 10.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_275076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 256px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><img class=\" wp-image-275076\" title=\"SteveMann_SequantialWaveImprintingMachine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/SteveMann_SequantialWaveImprintingMachine.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"184\" \/><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Mann with 3 of his inventions: EyeTap Digital Eye Glass, smartwatch, and SWIM (Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine) phenomenological augmented reality. (credit: Steve Mann)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Meta&#8217;s chief scientist is legendary inventor <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Mann\" >Steve Mann, PhD<\/a>., a professor at the University of Toronto (see &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/first-attack-on-a-cyborg\" >First attack on a cyborg<\/a>&#8220;).<\/p>\n<p><iframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ClVEwvLWk6w?rel=0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Meta | Meta Pioneers: Holograam<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Meta CEO Meron Gribetz wowed TED with a sneak peak at the company&rsquo;s new Meta 2 augmented-reality product. Today, Meta announced that the Meta 2 Development Kit is now available for pre-orders. Meta 2&prime;s Iron-Man-like immersive functionality appears similar to Hololens and Magic Leap, but with a wider 90-degree field of view, 2560 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,43,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cognitive-scienceneuroscience","category-news","category-vraugmented-realitycomputer-graphics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5996,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions\/5996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}