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EMPEROR 200

Built with industrial grade components since 2010, the Emperor is a comfortable, immersive and aesthetically unique environment for people that spend many hours in front of their computer monitors. Customize your Emperor XT to meet your needs, from an outstanding office to a state-of-the-art command and control center.

With an exceptional load capacity, a low energy standby mode, a wide range of adjustments from fingertips, the Emperor is ideal for individuals expecting the most from themselves and their work environment.

The Emperor XT now features two highend seats to satisfy the most demanding user. The Iron Horse 3000 is engineered to withstand the demanding environments of control rooms, surveillance rooms, and dispatch centers. It features the latest ergonomic designs and commercial grade components. Through extensive market knowledge and known customer requirements, Iron Horse will exceed your expectations. The ergonomic excellence of the IRON HORSE have been developed to meet the demands of 24 hour, multi-shift environments.

Reduce costs by shrinking the overall footprint of space while consolidating your workforce.The Emperor can help organizations optimize their real estate by delivering a high-performance work environment in a effective footprint without compromising individual wellbeing.

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MERGE VR

There is considerable development activity at the high end of hardware and content creation for virtual reality and augmented reality, as well as such AR aliases as mixed reality, extended reality and others.

Most industry investment is aimed at leading-edge gaming and industrial application development. However, the low-end of the market is also worth looking at, to see how people and institutions without big budgets -- consumers and education -- might adopt these technologies sooner, rather than waiting years for all the advancements to trickle down to lower price points.

First, Merge VR built a soft plastic headset (which they call "goggles") that fits any smartphone, even the largest. The optics worked well for me. The physical controls to adjust the optics are easy to use, the headset is comfortable to wear, the plastic is easy to clean, and it is inexpensive (US$60 retail in mid August 2017). Two indirect touch buttons provide limited in-app touch control while the smartphone is mounted in the headset. Cord management is easy -- both for keeping the smartphone powered and for plugging in headphones.

Most AR registration marks are two-dimensional; rotating a 2D registration mark a few degrees can throw tracking off. The Merge Cube can be tracked in any orientation, at any angle. The tracking software knows that the Merge Cube is a cube, and that each side is unique. It knows what order the sides are in -- which sides are connected to which other sides -- so that as the Merge Cube spins, tracking software can anticipate the next side to be exposed.

The Merge Cube can be used without the Merge VR headset -- for instance, by holding the smartphone without a headset at all. It can be used with any other smartphone-based VR headset, but that headset would have to expose the smartphone camera. I have not tried surgery on an actual cardboard version of Google Cardboard, but that should work.

Any recent smartphone, mounted in a Merge VR headset (with the camera exposed) and running an app developed with the Merge Cube SDK, can turn the Merge Cube into... something else, anything else. Wearers spin the cube in any direction and interact with the graphics superimposed on the Merge Cube, all at a very fluid fame rate.

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AeroMobil, a Slovakian company, plans to start selling its creation, the AeroMobil 3.0, in 2017.

The company claims on its site that the vehicle "transforms in seconds from an automobile to an airplane" by using "existing infrastructure created for automobiles and planes."

The vehicle is gas-powered and has wings that fold, which allows it to be parked like a car, though it is nearly 20 feet long.

The company's web site features a video where the AeroMobil 3.0 drives out of a hangar and goes down a highway, sharing the road with regular cars until it arrives at an airstrip. The car then unfolds its wings and takes off from a stretch of grass, rather than a paved tarmac, and flies through the air like any other small airplane.

The vehicle seats two people -- the pilot and a passenger - and its single propeller is located to the rear of the plane.

The company said the car's top speed on the road is at least 99 mph and while flying is at least 124 mph. It can fly for 435 miles before running out of gas.

The price is expected to be at $1.5million. The range between a sports a car and a light sports aircraft.

AeroMobil is an exceptional vehicle. It‘s a real flying car, with all that a car and an aeroplane have to offer. Because of its true flexibility, you have a choice: road or air. 

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Volkswagen Aqua - Hovercraft

The Volkswagen Aqua, also known as "Chinese off-road vehicle"  is a futuristic hovercraft concept invented by a 21 yr old designer from China, Yuhan Zhang. Yuhan just graduated with awards from Xihua University with a degree in Industrial Design.

The Volkswagen Aqua hovercraft concept is designed to be used in lakes, rivers and coastal waters, to roads, wetlands and snow and ice. 

The Volkswagen Aqua, like many hovercraft, uses more than one engine. The primary motor unit is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, and is used to drive the main fan which inflates the rubber skirt around the vehicle. This then raises the Aqua just above the ground and provides lift. The fans at the rear of the Volkswagen Aqua are powered by individual electric motors to provide forward thrust and directional control.

The styling of the Volkswagen Aqua hovercraft is extremely clean and minimalist. There's very little clutter to the lines, except perhaps at the rear due to the quartet of fans. The interior has space for two, and again its a rather Spartan affair. The driver controls the Aqua hovercraft using a telescopic steering wheel with an unusual flexible column. The instrument panel is fully digital.

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ZenFone AR (Augmented Reality)

ZenFone AR is the first smartphone to feature AR and VR. It uses Tango to make you interact with the real world. It uses Daydream so you can experience high-quality VR experience.

ZenFone AR’s camera is a TriCam which is built for the features of Tango. Tango uses motion tracking that tracks an object’s location and its movements, depth sensing that measures its distance from the object and a 23-megapixel camera that provides every single detail of the object. Together, it can create a three-dimensional model of the objects around it.

With Tango’s feature you can design your room, place virtual furnitures without the hassle of carrying real furnitures from one place to another.

ZenFone AR also features super amoled screen, wide quad high definiton resolution of 2560x1440 and a gorilla glass 4. It also has Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 processor and 8gb ram to work things very smoothly. 

The ZenFone AR overall is a good smartphone for entertainment, gaming and especially for photography.

Source: https://www.asus.com/us/Phone/ZenFone-AR-ZS571KL/

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