Holographic-like video conferences are already possible at low resolution, using off-the-shelf technology and DSL lines.
Instagram, Twitter pictures, and countless fun applications on smartphones will upload low resolution snaps with cute effects and funky filters in place.
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The clip, embedded after the break, is allegedly a low resolution version of a promotional video for Google Now on iPhone and iPad.
There's Gorilla Glass 2 to protect it, though, and the 4-inch non-PenTile RGB Super LCD looks bright and crisp, despite the slightly low resolution.
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One, the magnocellular path, processes information rapidly, but at low resolution.
One glitch: the first generation smart glasses have fixed focus, low resolution cameras, which require agents to hold up papers at a very specific distance to be correctly scanned.
While Apple and Palm talk up the legibility of screens on their diminutive devices, the nano and z22 have relatively low resolution when compared with more expensive models.
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The photos shared on the app are meant to be taken with the built-in cameras on mobile devices and their low resolution a perfect match for Instagram's grainy film filters.
With the wealth of user-generated content on video streaming apps like YouTube and Vimeo, Samsung Smart TVs also offer De-Blocking and De-Mosquito picture filters that significantly improve the viewing experience for low resolution video.
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"With the high resolution Mars Orbiter Camera images, things that look smooth at low resolution appear very rough from high resolution and vice versa, " said David Spencer, mission manager for the Mars 2001 mission.
Yet most of the photos taken with these phones will be grainy and of low resolution fine for capturing the essence of a moment to send to friends and family, but not good enough to frame for the wall.
When Green's photo of one of the Boston bombing suspects fleeing the scene first surfaced, there was considerable doubt as to its authenticity because of the very low resolution of the image, which made the photo appear to be a composite image.
It all started when Hasbro released the portable, disc-based VideoNow player, which used a proprietary format to play back grainy low-resolution monochrome video at a low frame rate.
It followed up with the VideoNow Color, which uses a proprietary format to play back grainy, low-resolution, color video at a low frame rate.
The camera offers both "high-resolution" (a measly 352 x 288 pixels) and low-resolution (176 x 144) settings, as well as a short video clip mode.
Just above the screen, a VGA front-facing camera will be able to deal with (admittedly low-resolution) video-calls.
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By feeding video input into a computer, Philips makes the LED tubes function as a low-resolution video screen.
When phone makers first started adding tiny, low-resolution cameras to their devices, the camera industry was not terribly threatened.
Eventually speeds of over 300 kilobits per second would allow MP3 files and low-resolution videos to stream right to handheld devices.
Furthermore, when compared to low-resolution displays that hindered by jagged lines and characters, this ultra-high resolution display enables exceptionally clear lines, letters and characters approaching typographic quality levels.
Consider a low-resolution image of 640 pixels by 480 pixels.
The low-resolution photo depicts a large number of people.
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There were a few people who didn't feel the illusion, but Ehrsson explained that this might have been due to the low-resolution on the virtual reality goggles which don't perfectly mimic human vision.
Ideal for viewing content from any source, the XBR-HX950 LED Internet TV includes the X-Reality PRO Engine, a two-chip digital video processor that optimizes any type of HD, SD or low-resolution Internet video.
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There's really no way to get around the extremely low NTSC resolution, so as always, expect a lot of your favorite pages to range between hurtin' and near-unreadable, but usually useable to a good enough degree.
And (speaking of real estate) which sort of ad is more likely to sell a house nowadays: the newspaper's truncated description with a single, low-resolution thumbnail, or a virtual tour with live mapping services and geographical and geopolitical information with feature comparisons to other properties available?
The two-wheeled bot is equipped with a low-resolution monochrome camera that feeds images back to the Operator Control Unit, and since it weighs just a single pound and fits in most cargo pockets, the whole platoon could carry their own in order to really scope out the next bend.
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What about tying defense payments to the successful and low-cost resolution of cases?
Reliable touch detection provides extremely high sensitivity with very low capacitance measurement resolution, offering a highly accurate and robust solution.
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