MIT researchers have developed a prototype for a cinema-sized 3-D movie screen that would allow users to watch 3-D movies without glasses, reports Mary Beth Griggs for Popular Science. As people generally sit in fixed seats in a cinema, the researchers developed a prototype that “can tailor a set of images for each individual seat in the theater.”
CSAIL researchers have developed a way for people to watch 3-D movies without glasses, writes Kevin Slane for Boston.com. The new display the researchers developed “would use a series of lenses and mirrors to allow audiences to see the same three-dimensional image from any seat in a theater.”
"You're going to swallow a pill and know English,” said Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab in a TedTalk video reviewed by Sara Gates of The Huffington Post. Negroponte discussed the possibility of being able to learn information by ingesting pills in the future.
Writing for Wired, Olivia Solon describes a new algorithm that can identify human action in video. “The activity-recognising algorithm is faster than previous versions and is able to make good guesses at partially completed actions, meaning it can handle streaming video,” Solon writes.
Jon Gold reports on how MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that can identify human activity from video input. “The researchers drew on natural language processing techniques,” Gold writes, “to create a 'grammar' for each action they wanted the system to recognize.”