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Binocular Omni Orientation Monitor The Binocular Omni Orientation Monitor or BOOM is one of the oldest VR displays, and direct ancestor to the HMD. It consists of a 3-D display device suspended from a weighted boom that can swivel freely. The viewer holds the viewport of the device to their eyes, viewing the 3-D environment stereoscopically through it, without supporting any of its weight on their neck. Below, we offer a selection of links from our resource databases which may match this term.
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The Binocular Omni Orientation Monitor or BOOM was one of the very first immersive VR interfaces, predating even the HMD. Massive and unwieldy, they none the less have some valuable properties which still see them in use today. 
 The omni-focus is a camera system with the ability to function much like the human eye - capturing objects in its field of vision regardless of the distance, in perfect focus. It even adapts an algorithm from VR, in order to do so.
The Genesis DM is a heath monitor computer designed for long-term telehealth. Weighing in at 0.9kg, it is light enough to be carried by even the most frail individual, and plugs into a variety of larger telehealth monitoring systems.
Doctors Kevin Biglan and Ray Dorsey from University of Rochester Medical Center in the US have been conducting tests on whether telemedicine is an appropriate option for getting patients and physicians together, to monitor the development of Parkinson's disease.
Using a process of machine vision, not altogether different from OCR, a Santa Monica, California, based company has created an application which identifies physical world objects held in front of a camera-phone, regardless of orientation. Resource Type not Available Resource Type not Available
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We receive much of our information through our visual system, but it was unknown how much of this visual information is actively involved in short term memory. Psychologists John T. Serences from the University of California, San Diego, alo...
(26/08/2013)
A study in mice reveals an elegant circuit within the developing visual system that helps dictate how the eyes connect to the brain. The research, funded by the National Institutes of Health, has implications for treating amblyopia, a visio...
(28/07/2008)
Barco has created a monitor with a resolution of 3280 x 2048. Its designed for both DICOM and PACs data, and can split into stereoscopy on demand ? two monitor displays, independent, and each with a resolution of 1640x 2048 each, t on the ...
(01/08/2007)
Physical location and orientation data?such as that provided by GPS?will be one of several keys to information technology business growth in the next several years as IT becomes more and more consumer-centric, says market-research firm Gart...
(19/12/2008)
A system that can recognize human gestures could provide a new way for people with physical disabilities to interact with computers. A related system for the able bodied could also be used to make virtual worlds more realistic. The system i...
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