Many tech insiders are waiting for augmented reality to go mainstream, but if you look around hard enough, you'll find that it's already gone as mainstream as possible, thanks to talk show host Ellen Degeneres.
Taylor Momsen, who plays Dan Humphrey's rebellious sister, Jenny, on "Gossip Girl," may be in the same cast as some of New York's most attractive mainstream beauties, but she's not just an average pretty face.
Benny Benassi is one of the biggest names in mainstream house music, and his distinctive synth sounds can be heard at clubs the world over. In this video you'll learn how to emulate one of his signature effects using Reason 4.
Hyundai is finally getting the respect it has long deserved as automaker, and their Sonata mainstream sedan is more popular than ever before. In this video you'll learn how to replace the rear brake pads and rotors on a Hyundai Sonata quickly and easily.
iChat is gaining steam as a mainstream online chat program. Fortunately for you, you little prankster, it is exceptionally easy to change someone else's iChat away message to whatever hilarious thing you want from your computer! This video will show you exactly how to do it, with no software to download or anything. Aren't easy hacks great?
This square video teaches the following square dance calls on the mainstream list: Promenade Full 3/4, Grand Square, Half Sashay, Roll Away with a Half Sashay, Ladies In, Men Sashay
This square dance video teaches the following square dance calls on the mainstream list: Tag the Line, Half Tag the Line, Recycle, 8 Chain 4/Thru, Spin Chain Thru
This square dance video teaches the following square dance calls on the mainstream list: Spin the Top, Alamo Style Wave, Wave Balance, Circulates (Column, Box, Split, 1 1/2), Chain Down the Line, Sweep a Quarter
This square dance video teaches the following square dance calls on the mainstream list: Left Square Thru, Cast Off 3/4, Walk & Dodge, Pass to the Center, Dixie Style to an Ocean Wave
This square dance video teaches the following square dance calls on the mainstream list: Back Track, Lead Right, Circle to a Line, Bend the Line, All Around your Left Hand Lady, See Saw
This square dance video teaches the following square dance calls on the mainstream list: Right & Left Thru, Courtesy Turn, Box the Gnat, Wrong Way Grand, Ladies Chain (Heads, Sides, 3/4, All)
This square dance video teaches the following square dance calls on the mainstream list: Allemande Left, Right Hand Turn (Turn Thru), Right & Left Grand, Weave the Ring, Star Left/Right
This square dance video teaches the following square dance calls on the mainstream list: Square Thru (2,3,4), Wheel Around, Star Thru, Slide Thru.
This square dance video teaches the following square dance calls on the mainstream list: Do Paso, Thar, Allemande Thar, Slip the Clutch, Shoot the Star, Wrong Way Thar.
This square dance video teaches the following square dance calls on the mainstream list: Ocean Wave, Swing Thru, Run (Boys, Girls, Centers, Ends), Pass the Ocean, Trades (Boys, Girls, Ends, Centers), Dive Thru, Extend.
This square dance video teaches the following square dance calls on the mainstream list: Cross Run, Left Swing Thru, Single Hinge, Separate, Trade By, Wheel & Deal (Lines of 4).
This square dance video teaches the following square dance calls on the mainstream list: Touch a Quarter, Scoot Back, Flutter Wheel, Reverse Flutter Wheel.
This square dance video teaches the following square dance calls on the mainstream list: Circulates (Ends, Centers, Couples, All 8), Ferris Wheel, Zoom.
This square dance video teaches the following square dance calls on the mainstream list: Veer Left/Right, Wheel & Deal (Two Faced Line), Ladies/Gents Promenade.
This square dance video teaches the following square dance calls on the mainstream list: Pass Thru, U Turn Back, California Twirl, Partner Trade, Star Promenade.
This square dance video teaches the following square dance calls on the mainstream list: Couples Trade, Couples Hinge, Folds, Cross Fold, Centers In/Out, Split the Outside Couple, Double Pass Thru, Cloverleaf.
The era of AT&T and Magic Leap has quietly entered a new phase that ramps up the mainstreaming of the cutting edge augmented reality device.
Judging by her beautiful (sometimes braided) loose, carefree hairstyle, Pocahontas was the original bohemian It girl. Before stars like Nicole Richie made being a hippie - and dressing like one - mainstream, Pocahontas was doing her thing authentically.
80-ball is one of the many great games that you can play of your pocket-pool table, and involves all the layers of strategy of it's more mainstream pool game brethren. This video for 8-ball beginners will give you tips for evaluating and recognizing problems in different kinds of racks, equipping you to make the shots and decisions that will win you games.
Filmed in what appears to be a single continuous shot, war film 1917 is now the front-runner to conquer the Best Picture category of the Academy Awards after bringing home the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture in the drama category.
Pop superstar Gwen Stefani needs little help looking cool. She did, after all, singlehandedly bring back rasta prints and made Japanese Harajuku prints and designs popular in the mainstream.
Pole dancing has gone mainstream, and was even featured on an episode of Oprah! Here are a few basic moves to help you get into the act.
What does mainstream augmented reality look like? I'm not talking about the stuff you see in concept videos and science fiction films. No. What does it really look like?
Action figures may be on the way out as mainstream toys, but all your old ones are awesome, we swear. If you don't mind modifying your precious toys a little bit, check out this video to learn how to insert LED lights into plastic action figures and make them light up awesomely.
Nissan began to offer Level 2 driving capacities in a mainstream model when it debuted its ProPilot self-drive option for its Serena minivan in Japan last year.
"California Love" by 2Pac, Dr. Dre, and Roger Troutman is one of the best rap songs ever and brought Roger Troutman's incredible use of the talkbox to mainstream audiences. If you have a talkbox and a keyboard, check out this video to learn how to play this hip-hop classic on the best instruments to do so.
While North has yet to add third-party app support to its Focals smartglasses, the company has been diligent as of late in its efforts to add more functionality to the bare-bones AR device.
Just over two months ago, smartglasses startup North opened the doors at its two brick-and-mortar retail locations in Toronto and New York and began accepting orders for Focals. On Thursday, the company announced that those initial customers can get ready to pick up their wearables, as the first shipments have now arrived in stores.
On Thursday, waveguide maker WaveOptics announced that semiconductor and microelectromechanical systems supplier EV Group (EVG) will provide the manufacturing infrastructure for the production of its waveguide displays designed to support lower-cost, third-party augmented reality wearables.
Driverless transportation is definitely coming closer to the mainstream, but most companies developing the technology have said it will be another couple of years before we see autonomous vehicles being used as an alternative for typical transportation.
The long and somewhat tumultuous journey of Leap Motion has come to an end, thanks to another startup.
Another contestant has emerged in the race to deliver a mainstream augmented reality car navigation system, with Silicon Valley-based Phiar picking up $3 million in seed funding to launch its own artificial intelligence-based mobile app by mid-2019.
As we predicted earlier this week, the focus has already begun to move from Magic Leap back onto Apple's rumored augmented reality smartglasses. The latest credible whispers come from none other than longtime Apple-focused analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
The Microsoft HoloLens has a fairly passionate, yet relatively small group of users pushing the developer-centric device forward, mostly spreading the word about the device through word of mouth and meetups. But this weekend, during the annual NBA All-Star festivities, we got a look at how Microsoft may be planning to market the device if it ever goes truly mainstream.
The would-be role of Snap Inc. as the first step toward mainstreaming wearable tech in the form of glasses has stalled, and now we have proof. In the company's third quarter financial results report, released on Tuesday, Snap Inc. revealed that it will lose nearly $40 million due to unsold Spectacles, the camera glasses first sold at kiosks throughout the US.
