Android Tech

Voice User Interface (VUI) Since the ‘ Put That There ‘ video presentation by Chris Schmandt in 1979, voice recognition has yet to meet with a revolutionary kind of success. The most recent hype over VUI has got to be Siri , a personal assistant application which is incorporated into Apple’s iOS. It uses a natural language user interface for its voice recognition function to perform tasks exclusively on Apple devices.     However you also see it as the supporting act in other user interface technologies like Google Glass itself. Glass works basically like a smartphone, only you don’t have to hold it up and interact with it with your fingers. Instead it clings to you as eyewear and receives your commands via voice control . The only thing that is lacking now in VUI is the reliability of recognizing what you say . Perfect that and it will be incorporated into user interfaces of the future. At the rate that smartphones capabilities are expanding an...

Augmented Reality (AR) We are already experiencing AR on some of our smartphone apps like Wikitude and Drodishooting , but they are pretty much at their elementary stages of development. AR is getting the biggest boost in awareness via the upcoming Google’s Project Glass , a pair of wearable eyeglasses that allows one to see virtual extensions of reality that you can interact with. Here’s an awesome demo of what to expect.   AR can be on anything other than glasses, so long as the device is able to interact with a real-world environment in real-time. Picture a piece of see-through device which you can hold over objects, buildings and your surroundings to give you useful information. For example, when you come across a foreign signboard, you can look through the glass device to see them translated for your easy reading. AR can also make use of your natural environment to create mobile user interfaces where you can interact with by projecting displays on...