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Mixed reality comes to your iPhone thanks to the Bridge headset

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There's something more than a little magical about seeing the world in front of you being devastated by dragons or augmented with arrows pointing you to your next meeting. Alas, while mixing realities like that with our smartphones is already possibl...

The future’s future!

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VR is definitely the future of media. It’s a given. We’ve already begun developing VR content, and VR devices are a dime a dozen, but just like the first ever car, or first ever plane, or phone, the VR Devices of today are rudimentary in a way. They mostly just house mobile phones, and the biggies, like the Vive or Rift, still have a long way to in terms of design and functionality. The Oculus Bridge envisions a future of the future of media. The aesthetic takes on VR Devices in a way that reminds me of what Tron did for transportation design and prop design!

The Device for one, balances out its design, allowing it to shift from a front-heavy gadget, to a more refined device that hosts a CPU at the back, allowing the gadget to rest comfortably on one’s head, rather than opting for the ugly elastic band approach. The shell of the device is also flexible, eliminating the need for elastic bands of any sort. The shell flexes inwards or outwards, allowing the device to fit snugly around your skull so that you can watch your 360 degree YouTube cat videos undisturbed!

Designer: Andy Uhm

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Chinese Glass-bottom Bridge (Probably) Won’t Collapse

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China isn’t exactly known for its safety guidelines and building standards. It’s more known for cutting corners and having few protections in place for people and the environment. I’d be a bit nervous about walking on a bridge that was 590 feet in the air and had a glass bottom no matter where it was.

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Knowing that the glass panels probably came from the vendor with the lowest bid would make the trek even more terrifying. The glass-bottomed bridge opened at the Stone Buddha Mountain in Shiniuzhai Geopark, and spans 984 feet across.

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The glass panels making up the walkway are said to be 25 times stronger than window glass and replaced the wood floor that was previously installed. Visitors who walk across the bridge are given special booties to cover their feet, and there are protective guard rails along the sides.

Still, some visitors have been so afraid, they had to be pulled along to cross the bridge. Would you walk across this bridge?

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[via DailyMail]

Autonomous Quadcopters Build Rope Bridge: Temple of Drones

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Someday explorers and rescuers could carry quadcopters not just to survey but to build bridges literally on the fly. Researchers at ETH Zurich were able to successfully demonstrate a system of autonomous quadcopters that can create a usable rope bridge with minimal human intervention.

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Headed by Federico Augugliaro and Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea, the researchers coded programs that allow them to “simulate, sequence, and evaluate the structure before building.” Once satisfied with their model, all they need to do is build the scaffolding or anchor points on each end of the planned bridge, measure the bridge’s openings and then enter those numbers into their software. The computer then gives the orders to the quadcopters, which are each equipped with a motorized spool to deploy the rope.

Head to ETH Zurich’s website for more on the project.

[via Engadget]

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Indiana Jones Cat Bridge is the Cat’s Meow

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One of my favorite scenes in the Indiana Jones movies is where Dr. Jones and his gal are caught on the bridge and have to fight. That bridge scene always gave me the creeps growing up. Over on Etsy, someone going by CatastrophiCreations has created a cat version of that Indiana Jones bridge.

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The Catiana Jones bridge is handmade from wood, twine, rope, and pine. You can order your own cat bridge built to match your doorway dimensions. You can choose the length of the bridge and the color the wood is stained.

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Each one is made specifically to order and will set you back $150(USD). That is a seriously big cat lounging on the bridge in the images.

Ring Around the River

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Located between two major bridges at the Rhine Carée, a significant public urban space of Cologne, the RheinRing represents the new center & links the two halves of the city. The circular construction serves as a pedestrian walkway directly accessible from the historical city center on the west, the Rhine Boulevard on the opposite side, as well as the flanking Rhine bridges. Situated over this landmark river, the ring allows for an innovative experience as an urban space in the inner city, frequented by pedestrians and cyclists. The gained urban space has great potential for cultural events, sports & leisure activities.

The free-floating ring above the river Rhine is a light arch construction that picks up formal references to the flanking Rhine bridges as well as to the special buildings nearby such as the LanxessArena event center, the main station building, the Museum Ludwig and more. The geometry of the RheinRing is based on the mathematical model of a super ellipse, a flattened ellipse that mediates between the square and the round forms. The bridge above blends smoothly into the square of the Rhine Carée and, following the same formal principle, forms wider and narrower areas, which arise from the planned utilization.

The geometrical model introduced in 1959 by Danish writer and inventor Piet Hein describes a form that is pleasing to the eye and which he himself describes as follows: “The superelljpse has the same convincing unity as the circle and ellipse, but it is less obvious and less banal, it is a relief from the straightjacket of the simpler curves of first and second powers, the straight line and the conic sections.” The cantilever arch bridge forms a barrier-free and inviting access with its generously rounded passages to the water’s edge and to the existing Rhine bridges. Here the new pedestrian promenade joins the existing route forming a multi-layered road network. Since the support-free suspension requires no additional bridge piers in the Rhine Carée, river traffic moving along the north-south axis remains unaffected.

Designers: Marco Hemmerling
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Why Every Employee Should Be Building Weak Ties At Work

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Oftentimes we focus on building strong relationships with people, strong ties. After all, the better we know someone and the stronger the relationship is, the more valuable it is for us right? ...