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technique which improves our perception of reality by allowing us to see interesting
information that pops up as we look around. The effect is almost like having a sixth
sense! Augmented Reality has recently started to become widely available thanks to
new generation of mobile devices. Smart phones, which embed digital compasses and
video cameras, are able to calculate where the user is pointing the device and overlay
data onto a scene accordingly. This hardware was the missing link to finally offer
Augmented Reality applications to a wide audience.
There is still a drawback though. Imagine if you walked around constantly
looking at the real world through the screen of your mobile phone, your hands would
always be busy holding the phone out in front of you and, in all truthfulness, you
would look most peculiar. This is when the new contact lens, developed in
Washington, comes into play. "An image projection system based on contact lenses
offers an interesting platform for augmented reality," confirms J. Webster Stayman at
Michigan Tech Research Institute (Michigan, USA), who has years of experience in
the design of imaging systems. We could think about overlaying all kinds of images
onto a scene: annotations, metrics, and virtual objects. Moreover, since different
images can be placed in either eye, it is also possible to do depth encoding for 3D
objects, making the displayed virtual objects appear even more real. "All of this,"
adds Stayman, "can potentially be accomplished in a relatively small unobtrusive
package that is already familiar to millions of people, such as a contact lens."
The new technique developed by the researchers at the University of
Washington allows to place circuitry, including light emitting diodes (LEDs), onto
contact lenses. "We are working on converting conventional contact lenses into
functional displays," Parviz explains. "On this behalf, we have just demonstrated
powering and controlling light sources on the contact lens through a wireless link."
Notes:
• self-assembly - самосборка
• embed - вставлять, врезать, вделывать
• super-impose (on) - накладывать (одно на другое)
• perception - восприятие, ощущение
• drawback - препятствие; помеха, преграда, препона
Task 1. Finish the sentences according to the text:
1. Super contact lenses look like ordinary contact lenses, but …
2. These contact lenses can offer…
3. Now researchers are working on …
Task 2. Find synonyms for the following verbs:
Accomplish, wonder, retrieve, offer, generate, impose, allow, explain.
Task 3. Find in the text the expressions that mean:
• meet somebody/something unexpectedly
• fix (an object) firmly and deeply in a surrounding mass
• a feature that renders something less acceptable; a disadvantage or problem
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