Monthly Archives: September 2022

Nreal’s $380 AR glasses want to be a virtual monitor for MacBooks

Enlarge / Nreal depicts someone using the Air glasses to extend their MacBook desktop. (credit: Nreal) As augmented reality (AR) glasses continue to try carving a place among tech enthusiasts, we’re seeing another option hit mass availability in the US. In addition to selling the sunglass-like Nreal Air specs in America, Beijing-based company Nreal also announced…

Voyagers made it to Hawaiʻi thousands of years ago with no compasses. Here’s how.

Meryl Rowin THE MOST IMPORTANT moments of a day on Hōkūleʻa, a 62-foot-long deep-sea canoe, are sunrise and sunset. That’s when the navigator can know for sure where the sailboat is headed. In between, the swell—the direction of the waves—helps hold course, but “you have to have known what direction it’s coming from based on where the…