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A new museum in Paris is letting visitors experience art from the inside: guests can walk around inside blown-up versions of famous paintings.

The museum is called “Ate-lier des Lumières” (English: Studio of Lights), and it fea-tures enlarged depictions of popular artwork that cover walls and even sprawl to the fl oors and ceilings. The immersive experience is managed by Culturespaces company.

The museum’s fi rst exhibit features work by Gustav Klimt and Friedensreich

Hundertwasser. Both artists were born in Vienna. Klimt was a dressmaker and artist during the 19th century

who created portraits and landscapes. Hundertwasser became prominent a number of decades after Klimt did, and

his artwork features abstract shapes and bright colors.

A curated soundtrack plays at the museum while visitors explore the artwork.

A statement on the open-ing of the museum said it comes on the heels of the success of a different estab-lishment, called “Carrières de Lumières,” also managed by Culturespaces.

Culturespaces emphasized the importance of “digital exhibitions,” and said that the Studio of Lights museum will be home to “monumen-tal” immersive exhibitions.

(SD-Agencies)

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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD

Researchers at University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States has devel-oped a bracelet to combat sexual assault*.

The device monitors wear-ers’ vital signs* and can pick up on changes that would signal being under attack. The smart bracelet, still in the prototype stage, alerts a predetermined list of contacts and the police if it senses that the wearer is being harmed. Additionally, it emits a loud alarm and is equipped with red strobe lights* meant to scare away the attacker or get the attention of others in the vicinity*.

Professor Ragib Hasan is overseeing the project led by master’s student Jayun Patel who designed the new product. The bracelet relies on machine learning and sensors to detect signs of assault. It bracelet houses pressure sensors, GPS capa-bilities and microphones, among other tools.

The prototype costs less than US$40. (SD-Agencies)

Smart jewelry can sense attacks and notify police 可自动报警的镯子

You may soon be able to get your hands on a pair of affordable augmented reality (AR*) glasses.

Hand-tracking company Leap Motion has unveiled Project North Star, a proto-type* headset that superim-poses* computer-generated images onto the world around you. The futuristic* AR headset places two high-quality gigantic screens in front of the user’s eyes, enabling them to see virtual* graphics in real life. North Star can also track gestures, turning your hand into a vir-tual wearable.

The AR system is outfi tted with two 1600x1400 trans-lucent* LCD* (liquid crystal display) displays that run at a quick 120 frames per second, creating a 100-degree fi eld of view and a hand-tracking sensor that creates a 180-degree fi eld of view.

Leap Motion said the head-set is just a prototype design, but the fi rm is opening the hardware and software up to developers next week.

The hope is that by making North Star open source, savvy developers can experiment with the technology and, potentially, build it at scale for less than US$100.

The glasses are also equipped with Leap Motion’s advanced gesture tracking technology that let you grab and touch virtual objects with your hands and with-out any controllers, wands or other devices.

(SD-Agencies)

AR headset turns your hands into ‘virtual wearables’ Leap Motion的新型AR设备

Choosing a seat on a plane is always frustrating even with a 2D seat plan. You never quite know how much leg room you’ll get or what sort of view you’ll have.

But these frustrations are about to become a thing of the past, thanks to 3D map-ping technology integrated into the booking process that generates an interac-tive passenger’s eye view of every seat position in the cabin.

The innovation, called “3D SeatMapVR,” will be rolled out on the Emirates* booking system in the near future. Its customers will be able to get a 360-degree perspective from any seat in the cabin.

The company behind the system, Spanish-based Renacen, said: “3D Seat-MapVR is a visualization* engine that displays a 3D 360-degree view during the booking process.

When a customer is choos-ing his seat in a traditional seat map, and he clicks on it, 3D SeatMapVR shows a window with an immersive* view. It allows the customer to see the seat dimensions*, materials and location much better. Customers can really feel the difference between one seat and another.”

It hopes that one ben-efi t for the airline will be a reduction in complaints, because with this mapping technology, nothing should

come as a surprise.The mapping tool is com-

patible* with all kinds of devices, PC, tablets, smart-phones, as it is based on web technology, Renacen said, so the passenger doesn’t need to download any external application or plug-in* to use it. It added: “It is all integrated in the browser, so the user experience is very fl uent. And, for those who really want to feel like they’re inside the plane, it can be used with VR glasses like Google Cardboard.”

The innovation was announced as the winner this week in the Visionary Concepts category at the Crystal Cabin Awards 2018 in Hamburg. (SD-Agencies)

Project North StarProject North Star

以后买机票用VR选座以后买机票用VR选座

Never pick the wrong plane seat again

Inside the Studio of Lights museum.Inside the Studio of Lights museum.

The smart bracelet.The smart bracelet.