MINNEAPOLIS -- In a cavernous basement laboratory at the University of Minnesota, Thomas Stoffregen thrusts another unwitting study subject -- well, me -- into the "moving room." The chamber has a ...
Leap Motion CEO and Co-founder Michael Buckwald announced yesterday that the company's advanced hand tracking that I had previewed at their offices last Fall is now in public beta for developers. From ...
Motion sickness has been around for as long as humanity can remember, but scientists are still struggling to understand why some groups of people are more affected than others. It's estimated that ...
I wish Angry Birds had been around when I was teaching high school physics. Please don’t think of the game as a hate crime against hogs, or an avian anger management program—instead, think of it as a ...
Tech evangelists predicted that 2016 would be “the year of virtual reality.” And in some ways they were right. Several virtual reality headsets finally hit the commercial market, and millions of ...
The Nintendo Switch has a motion control problem. To fix it, the company could revisit how it cracked the Wii. In the gestational days of the Wii, Nintendo's best minds hit a roadblock. The R&D squad ...
The Detroit Lions under offensive coordinator Ben Johnson don’t use pre-snap motion a ton in the passing game, but when they do, it’s generally effective and explosive. Through the first three games ...
During the Tablet PC / UMPC meetup, I had an opportunity to chat with Motion Computing’s Product Manager, Michael Johnson. I knew better than to peg him about new, unannounced products ( never gets ...