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National Parks Street View-style trails goes live, avoids the Google cars (video) Mar 8th 2012, 13:02 After tooling up a team of hikers with an impressive camera tripod and unleashing them on the likes of the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Park, Nature Valley has published its fully rotational Trail Views online. You'll be able to effortlessly follow several routes across the great American countryside and for those too lazy to even click the forward arrow, there's an autoplay mode. Three different locations -- with multiple trails -- are online now and you can check out how the granola-grinding company captured it all right after the break. Continue reading National Parks Street View-style trails goes live, avoids the Google cars (video) National Parks Street View-style trails goes live, avoids the Google cars (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  Nature Valley Trail View  | Email this | Comments Facebook loses friends in Germany over privacy breaches Mar 8th 2012, 12:34 Before you've even sipped your morning brew, a regional German court has delivered yet another stern judgement affecting a multinational organization. This time it's Facebook back in the dock over the Friend Finder feature, which uploads a user's contact list to Zuckerberg's bunker without proper warning. Another offense involves the ownership of data -- any original photo or music track uploaded to Facebook supposedly belongs to the company and can be used however it likes, which has now been deemed to breach data protection laws. Someone ought to add this to the Harvard Student Handbook. Facebook loses friends in Germany over privacy breaches originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink MacWorld  |  VZBV (German), Berlin.de (German)  | Email this | Comments Tobii EyeAsteroids 3D lets you destroy virtual space stones with a gaze, we go eyes-on (video) Mar 8th 2012, 12:01 We've touched and tapped our way through a variety of gadgets at CeBIT, but it's the devices that operate without traditional user interfaces that have really grabbed our focus. Tobii was on-hand to demonstrate its eye-tracking technology earlier this year at CES, but the company is peddling its wares here in Hannover as well, and we decided to drop by for a second look. This time, it's all about gaming, with EyeAsteroids drawing quite a bit of attention on the show floor. The demo pairs Tobii with a SeeFront glasses-free 3D panel for a fairly engaging extraterrestrial shootout. We weren't really sold on the glasses-free 3D, unfortunately, which provides the same unconvincing three-dimensional image from any angle, but Tobii was spot-on, letting us hone in on those infamous space rocks to save our planet from destruction without even raising a finger. Like SeeFront's display, you're able to make visual selections from any angle (within reason) just as easily as you can from directly in front of the panel. There's a seconds-long calibration process each time you start the game, so Tobii can locate your eyes and pair your pupil orientation with a target on the screen. After that, it's open season -- you simply focus on an asteroid to destroy it, and you can add your name to the leader board and navigate menus as well, just as we saw with the Windows 8 demo back at CES. Is this the future of gaming? That remains to be seen, and while the eye-tracking seemed to work just as described, old school gamers will likely prefer tilting a joystick and (violently) tapping on arcade buttons. We still had a lot of fun playing without using our hands, though, as you'll see in our glare-filled demo just past the break. Gallery: Tobii EyeAsteroids 3D hands-on Continue reading Tobii EyeAsteroids 3D lets you destroy virtual space stones with a gaze, we go eyes-on (video) Tobii EyeAsteroids 3D lets you destroy virtual space stones with a gaze, we go eyes-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments Qantas trials in-flight WiFi between Australia and US Mar 8th 2012, 11:48 While plenty of US domestic flights have their WiFi provisions sorted, international connectivity remains pretty rare. Attempting to bring another time-killing option alongside all those middling in-flight Marvel movies, Qantas has started testing wireless internet on its 14-hour flights between Los Angeles and Australia. The trial will run for eight weeks across six of Qantas' A380 super-jumbos. Access during the trial will be free, however it'll be limited to first and business class passengers, with data allowance currently capped at a weedy 100MB for laptops and 32MB for mobile devices. Well, at least you're not walled inside an online store. Qantas trials in-flight WiFi between Australia and US originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink The Register  |  Qantas  | Email this | Comments

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