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Buggin’: One of the alternate reality headset designs at Holland’s AR+RFID Lab. The goal is to make the devices convenient and attractive enough to allow people to operate in both the real world and AR simultaneously.

IBM and Linden Labs (creators of the alternate reality Second Life) are developing headsets and other “wearable computing” devices to deliver humans into parallel realities, where they can control their experiences.

Linden Labs, for example, is developing a wearable speaker system that Second Lifers can use to communicate semi-privately in AR while continuing to function in the real world, at least at some basic level.

But at the moment, AR eyewear and headphones are typically bulky and expensive, and too distracting for the wearer.

Students at the AR+RFID Lab at the Royal Academy of Art in the Netherlands are shaping new designs for AR headsets (more below), to include cameras and projectors, and tracking devices.

clipped from www.kabk.nl New headset design Students of the Post Graduate Course Industrial Design at the KABK and AR+RFID Lab partner Fabrique are working on the prototype design of the Augmented Reality headset based on the elements of Visette 45 SXGA, minituarized embedded camera platform and an inertia tracker.