Importance of the Technology

The Technology in Brief

• Human Augmentation and Human Enhancement
  • Exoskeletons and Biomechanical Power
  • Enhanced Hearing and Vision
  • Neural and Bioelectric Interfaces
  • Neural Implants
  • Telepresence, Teleoperation, and Remote Sensing
• Alternate Realities
  • Virtual Environments
  • Shared Virtual Worlds
  • Augmented Reality
  • Mixed Reality
• Touch and Haptic Interfaces
  • Touch Screens and Touch Pads
  • Haptic Systems and Force Feedback
  • Tangible and Graspable User Interfaces
  • Immersive Media and Motion Platforms
• Wearable Technologies
  • Health and Fitness
  • Fashion and Apparel
  • Lifelogging
  • Wearable Computers
• Alternative Mobile Displays
  • Flexible Displays
  • Mobile Projectors
  • Head-Mounted Displays
• 3D Displays and Related Technologies
  • Stereoscopic Eyewear
  • Naked-Eye Solutions
  • Motion Parallax
  • Hidden Screens and Floating Images
• Human-Machine Dialogue
• Alternative Input Devices
  • Pen Computing
  • Alternative Keyboard Designs
  • Game and Flight-Simulator Controllers
  • Alternative Pointing Devices
• Position and Motion Detection
  • Gesture Recognition
  • Free-Space Position Tracking
  • 3D Rangefinding and Machine Vision
  • Short-Range and Local-Area Presence, Position, and Location Technologies
  • Wide-Area Geolocation

Commercial Development Parameters

• Demand Factors
• General Constraints
• Synergistic Technologies
• Competing Technologies
• Required Resources
• Regulatory Factors

Areas to Monitor

• Conversational Speech Interaction
• Multiplatform UIs
• See-Through Augmented Reality
• Internet of Things
• Mobile Payments
• Handheld Replacement for PCs
• Wearable Technology
• Gesture-Based Interaction for Nongame Applications
• Automotive Interfaces
• Humanlike Intelligent Agents
• Brain–Machine-Interface Breakthrough

Implications of Commercialization

• Mobile Helpers
• Virtual Life
• Smart Spaces
• Mind Interfacing
• Mixed Reality
• Suspended Animation

Opportunities

• Speech Interfaces and Human-Machine Dialogues
• Simultaneous Voice and Data
• Flexible Displays
• Mobile Projectors
• Near-Eye Displays
• Touch Screens and Multitouch Surfaces
• Gesture Recognition
• Stereoscopic Displays, Holographic Displays, and Related Technologies
• Virtual Worlds
• Wireless Pens
• Personal RFID Tags and Readers
• Camera-Phone Image Recognition
• Augmented Reality
• Telerobotics
• Exoskeletons and Exosuits
• Mind and Brain Interfaces

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