Saturday, April 23, 2022
QPORIT XR NEWS for 2022-04-23 - MIXED REALITY HEADSET FROM CANON
Canon is releasing a new Mixed Reality (MR) headset MREAL X1 in Japan in June. The price has not been announced, but an earlier version of the headset cost more than $35,000.
It is not clear why this HMD is superior to Magic Leap or Hololens HMD's, or even the simpler Snap Spectacles.
This headset does use "Passthrough" technology, which means it uses cameras to photograph the outside world, and then composites (in more-or-less real time) the external video with the computer generated content digitally before displaying it on an opaque screen. (Magic Leap and Hololens use semi-transparent screens and mix the computer generated images more-or-less directly with the more-or-less directly viewed external scene.)
Here's the Press Release from Canon, and an English language video preview, plus an article from RoadToVR:
LINKS
MREAL X1 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyFN8pSbLyQ
MREAL X1 - CANON PRESS RELEASE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH
MREAL X1 - CANON PRESS RELEASE (ORIGINAL, IN JAPANESE)
https://www.canon-its.co.jp/news/detail/20220421mr.html
ROAD-TO-VR ON MREAL X1
https://www.roadtovr.com/canon-mreal-x1-ar-headset/
Labels: AR, Augmented Reality, Canon, eXtended Reality, Mixed Reality, MR, MREAL X1, Passthrough, XR
Saturday, November 07, 2009
i560 USED INK TANK FULL
Canon seems to have arranged that certain printers, including the i560, fail after a while with an error:
There seem to be various complex and messy procedures on the internet (though Canon's own web site is not too helpful... I'll try e-mail support) for addressing this problem; and the cost of giving it to some service center for repair is about comparable with the cost of the printer (now about $100).
So, basically, they are saying -- or designing into the product the requirement -- that the printer should be replaced every couple of years.
Sorry, but I won't replace it with another Canon... Ill try something else.
Products should live longer.
Labels: Canon, obsolescence, used ink tank full
