Virtual reality glasses (VR) for the iPhone there are several on the market. But a new device wants to bring us another reality, the augmented reality, that seems to resist more to enter our day to day. This is Prism, a new AR viewer for iPhone, which for only $ 99, offers some very interesting things, despite not being perfect.
How does Prism work?
The idea is simple. Created by the company Look, we simply place the iPhone in obliquely glasses so that the image reflected in the glass there before our eyes.
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In other words, it has no technology inside, but it does use the iPhone in a brilliant way. Only use the optics to reflect the display of the phone on the transparent viewfinder. While the front camera of the smartphone and its sensors position the image, the app is responsible for dividing the image on the screen, achieving a stereotactic effect.
In this way, our eyes are not completely covered. But we will see reflected in the glasses the images that are represented on the screen of the connected iPhone. So, overlapping the content with the real world.
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” Every time, we are more connected to the digital world and away from the real world, ” says Benjamin Taft, co-founder of Mira Digital Trends. ‘ That happens because the interface to enter that world is a screen. It forces us to focus on the screen or focus on the real world and you can not do both at the same time, “he concludes.
Price and availability
Without a doubt, one of the attractions of Prism is its low price: only 99 dollars. A price far from the almost $ 3,000 that Microsoft asks for its HoloLens. An amount that they obtain thanks to the use of plastics and cheap materials.
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Also, its 4 founders, who got $ 1.5 million investment to push forward their project, told VentureBeat that this is only the beginning. Now they are investing in software in order to create more content. And is that it is not possible to project any image of the iPhone. It can only be content specially designed by Mira, which greatly limits the possibilities.
Even so, according to Matt Stern, co-founder of Mira, although the applications will focus on 360-degree content. The team is looking to be able to offer larger experiences that allow you to move within a room.
The Mira app on the iPhone also includes a code detection system for projecting specific images onto surfaces.
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