Microsoft HoloLens: Converging Virtuality Into Reality

HoloLens is a headset device based on the concept of virtual reality. It's much similar to the VR headsets by Samsung, Oculus and many others except one feature that HoloLens will allow you to see the virtual and the real world, both at the same time.

The other devices will transform you completely into a new virtual world in a surprisingly convincing way, while the HoloLens superimposes a computer generated virtual image right on your work place. The features of HoloLens are very astonishing but currently it's far less convincing than other VR headsets.

It's a way new concept for software developers, but they can develop applications for HoloLens using the regular Windows 10 platform. These apps can create a holographic image-like-objects like a real object just in-front of your eyes.

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A video recording carrying through the HoloLens doesn't have peripheral vision. Whatever it records, it transmits to the screen you watch the video. So, if you're watching a video via HoloLens, you'll notice that HoloLens itself doesn't have a peripheral vision.

It's like something out of the Matrix, only, well, it's a little too much like the Matrix. When you watch that movie on your TV, it's stuck inside that 16 x 9 box, too.

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Top 10 Best Android Wearable Apps of 2015

Do you own a Smartwatch? Staging the best collection of Android wearable apps for your smartwatch to make your wrist look adorable.You've got a new Android Wear smartwatch, and still relying on those default apps. Get some new Android apps and make your Wearable the most intelligent one around.

 

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Smartwatches are new in the market, and they're not considered as a "Must Have" device till date. In that case a good app installed on your wearable will add-up more value to your device, keeping you away from your smartphone.

Listed Below are the 10 Must-have Apps for Your Android Wear

1. Aeris Wear Weather

This app brings the weather forecast right on your wrist. It provides you an instant access to the weather conditions so that you can plan your weekends or holidays easily. Currently Aeris is one of the best app for wearables.

Free | Download from Google Play

2. Todoist

This is an app used by more than 3 million people around the world. This app provides you an amazing interface to create your to-do-list in very simple way. Now you can keep track of all your important tasks.

This app has been awarded as the best Google Play app of 2014.

Free | Download from Google Play

3. Yo

Always stay connected with your friends, family and closed ones. It provides you free calling and unlimited chat anytime and anywhere. Register to Yo and get your 0817 number and experience the real time communication.

Free | Download from Google Play

4. WhatsApp

The biggest names have come to Android Wear. Now WhatsApp is also available to the small screen of your smartwatch. It also helps in replying via voice commands and saves your time that you may have consumed in pulling out your mobile and answer.

Free | Download from Google Play

5. Toggles Wear

It helps you in controlling the mobile toggles from your Android Wear without even pulling out your mobile phones from your pocket. Operate your mobile toggles instantly via this app easily.

$0.99 | Download from Google Play

6. Wear Orbits

This is an app for space adventure lovers, you need to save your planet by changing its orbit frequently. You need to avoid the stars and other planets which are hurtling towards you. You have to change the orbit of your planet to avoid a fatal collision.

Free | Download from Google Play

7. MyRoll Gallery

This app is the fastest growing and first ever photo gallery app for Android Wear. This app is also chosen by Business Insider as among the top 100 app worldwide. MyRoll gallery is free app and complete replacement of native photo gallery.

Free | Download from Google Play

8. Wear Buddy

Wear Buddy is an Android Wear app designed to control the features of your Android devices, without taking out your device from your pocket. This is the very first version of this app, soon there'll be more features rolling-out in the upcoming versions.

Free | Download from Google Play

9. UK Trains for Wear

This app provides a real time data for any information related to UK trains right on your Android smartwatch. No need to pull-out your Android device, get the latest update of your train's schedule on your Android Wear.

$0.99 | Download from Google Play

10. Uber

Uber is your personal cab driver in more than 50 countries. Just make a request and get you Uber ride within 5 minutes. This is an on-demand services, that means, no reservations required and no more waiting in taxi lines.

Free | Download from Google Play

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Top 7 Augmented Reality Apps for Education

Augmented Reality is a very fast growing technology emphasizing on real models and augmenting them with the help of computer, using different dimensions and sound. Augmented Reality can be easily demonstrated using a mobile app. Capture any image using your smartphone or any other device, and the AR app will conceptualize it and generate a 3D animation or video, acquiring every single object visible in your screen. This creates a computer-generated virtual lively image, exactly similar to the real one.

Nowadays, Augmented Reality apps have gained immense popularity, and thus app developers are also developing AR apps for several genres such as education, fun and for commercial use.

Illustrating some of the best Augmented Reality apps catering education

1. Aurasma

This Augmented Reality app has changed the way millions of people used to see, as it's the only app where you can create and share your Augmented Reality experiences. It brings objects and other physical locations to life such as 3D animations and videos. Explore the featured sections of this app and find more interesting augmented reality features.

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2. Layar

Connect your digital content with the real world using the app Layar. Observe the rich digital experiences of Layar and interact with whole new real world in a better way. Explore and be alive with videos right on top of the page, connect with several links and share them on various social media channels.

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3. Google Sky Map

If you like astronomy, then this augmented reality app gives you an ultimate experience of learning astronomy. This app provides an interesting way to identify your favourite stars and constellations directly using Google Sky Map.

Download from Google Play

4. Junaio

Junaio is among most technically advanced browsers currently used in smartphones. This app is very fast and provides a smooth way to discover the world around you. Find local events, offers and listings; scan QR codes and barcodes to get access to the information that you've never thought before. Get augmented content just like real ones to experience new virtual interactions.

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5. FETCH! LUNCH RUSH

This app is about, Ruff Ruffman, canine host of the PBS KIDS TV series, FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman, is making a movie!

In this multi-player augmented reality game, you need to keep an eye on the lunch orders from Ruff's movie crew, your challenge is to check how many sushi everyone in the crew wants. It's a wonderful augmented reality game funded by a grant from the department of education.

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6. Anatomy 4D

This app transforms a simple image of the human body into an interactive 4D experience of human anatomy. Anatomy 4D is an excellent app for teachers, students, medical professionals and others who wants to learn about the human anatomy. This app uses augmented reality and other cutting-edge technologies to cater the best methods of learning.

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7. Science AR

This app is for school kids, and as the name of the app suggests, it brings the science AR posters come alive. These science AR posters can be easily downloaded from appsbypaulhamilton.com. Once you've downloaded the posters, simply hold your mobile device up to different parts of the posters and watch the poster come alive with 3d models, videos and scientific diagrams.

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There are very few augmented reality apps for education, but the trend is coming-up, as augmented reality and other new technologies are developed to make learning more fun and interesting.

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Apple launched iOS 8.4 Beta for Developers with Revamped Music App

Apple today seeded the first beta of iOS 8.4 to registered developers for testing purposes, just five days after releasing iOS 8.3 to the public. The beta, build 12H4074d, is available for download from the iOS Developer Center, alongside the Xcode 6.4 beta.

iOS 8.4 introduces a newly-revamped Music app, which includes a new design that shows pictures of artists in the Artists view and offers personalized playlists.It also offers a new MiniPlayer, a redesigned look for "Now Playing," global search capabilities that make it easier to search from anywhere within the Music app, and a streamlined design for iTunes Radio to improve music discovery.

Streamlined iTunes Radio. Discovering music with iTunes Radio is easier than ever. You can now quickly return to your favorite stations in Recently Played. Choose from a selection of hand-curated stations in Featured Stations, or start a new one from your favorite artist or song.

New MiniPlayer. With the new MiniPlayer, you can see what’s playing and control playback while browsing your music collection. To open Now Playing, just tap on the MiniPlayer.

Global Search. You can now search from anywhere in the Music app — just tap the magnifying glass. Search results are conveniently organized to help you quickly find that perfect song. You can even start an iTunes Radio station right from Search.

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iOS 8.4 follows hot on the heels of iOS 8.3, which introduced new diversified emoji, a revamped emoji picker, Wireless CarPlay, and more. iOS 8.4 and the new Music app come ahead of Apple's new streaming music service, rumored to be debuting in June at the Worldwide Developers Conference. 

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Apple Watch Records Over One Million Pre-Orders On The First Day

Almost 1 million people in the bought an Apple Watch on the first day of pre-orders, forcing many of the models to go out of stock for months.

Slice Intelligence, a shopping research firm, said that data from receipts indicated that 957,000 people in the US ordered the Watch.

Around 62 per cent of the shoppers bought the cheaper Apple Watch Sport, they said. That model begins at £299 in the UK, with the more expensive Apple Watch collection beginning at £479.

Most customers pre-ordered their Watches in Apple’s “space gray” aluminium cases, which represented 40 per cent of pre-orders. Stainless steel was the next most popular, followed by silver sliminium and the “space black” steel.

The average spend on Watches was $504 (£345), according to the data, and the average order was for 1.3 smartwatches.

The black sport band was the most popular strap, and represented nearly half of orders.

Few enough people bought the luxury Apple Watch Edition — which sells for between £8,000 and £13,500 — that the orders didn’t show up in Slice’s data.

Slice used data from 9,080 customer receipts to work out the data, which is focused solely on the US, and so it is possible that it could be skewed. Apple has said that it won’t publicly tell anyone how popular the Watch is, wrapping them up with other products when it reports its quarterly results.

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