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May 30, 2013
TIME - Atheer’s Augmented Reality Glasses Tech Looks Cool
Google Glass may be the world’s best-known pair of augmented-reality glasses, but Google is far from the only company developing a product in the category. And the founders of one of them, Soulaiman Itani and Allen Yang of Silicon Valley-based Atheer Labs, are doing a tech demo this morning here at the D11 conference. I recently got a sneak peek of the company’s platform; it’s both promising and meaningfully different from Google’s take on the same overarching category.
May 30, 2013
VentureBeat - Atheer Labs demonstrates a 3D, virtual-reality headset technology
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA — Google Glass is nice, but its display cards are so two-dimensional. Atheer Labs adds an extra dimension with a head-mounted 3D display that can help you layer a virtual world on top of the real one.
May 30, 2013
GigaOM - Atheer’s augmented reality platform bring the web’s information to you, not to a screen
A startup called Atheer unveiled a platform for superimposing the information form the web on the real world using the cloud and a gesture-interface. But the Atheer glasses raises question about the future of design. I’m a big believer that the future of the web is taking the information and relationships that we currently have online and making them part of our real lives. Not through putting screens in more places, but by bringing the digital life seamlessly into our real ones.
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May 30, 2013
Engadget - Atheer Labs unveils 3D augmented reality mobile platform and a natural human UI (hands-on)
With the advent of Google Glass and the continued development of platforms like the Epson Moverio and Vuzix Smart Glasses, head-mounted wearables are getting a lot of attention these days. Atheer Labs is a small company looking to catch that wave of interest with a new set of intelligent spectacles and a novel way for folks to interact with them. What you see above is company founder Sleiman Itani wearing Atheer's prototype device that delivers 3D augmented reality and implements what the company calls a "natural human interface."
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May 30, 2013
WIRED - Atheer’s Mobile 3-D Interface Is Augmented Reality on Steroids
A California company has answered a question few people have probably thought to ask: What would happen if you combined the wearability of Google Glass with the gesture-based control of Microsoft Kinect? The answer is a pretty cool wearable interface you can control using your voice or gestures.
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