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Corporations Hiring Hooky Hunters 610

No longer satisfied with your crinkled doctor's note, a growing number of corporations are hiring "Hooky Detectives." Private investigator Rick Raymond says he's staked out bowling alleys, pro football games, weddings and even funerals looking for people using sick days. From the article: "Such techniques have become permissible at a time when workers are more likely to play hooky. Kronos, a workforce productivity firm in Chelmsford, Mass., recently found that 57 percent of salaried employees take sick days when they're not sick — almost a 20 percent increase from statistics gathered between 2006 and 2008."
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Augmented Reality To Help Mechanics Fix Vehicles 81

kkleiner writes "ARMAR, or Augmented Reality for Maintenance and Repair, is a head mounted display unit that provides graphic overlays to assist you in making repairs. An Android phone provides an interface to control the graphics you view during the process. Published in IEEE, and recently tested with the United States Marine Corps on an armored turret, ARMAR can cut maintenance times in half by guiding users to the damaged area and displaying 3D animations to demonstrate the appropriate tools and techniques."

Comment Re:eye focus (Score 1) 100

I have used the display, and that is exactly what you can do. They can build them to any real depth.. the one I have used is set at about 25mm depth (about an inch for those of you still stuck in imperial units) but they can be manufactured up to 150mm or more. Some confusion reigns here about how these actually work too.. they do NOT use autostereoscopic principles (Sharp's and Philip's 3D displays do). You get just TWO DISCRETE depths. They are NOT really useful for content with a continuously variable z dimension. But they are very useful for overlaying data on top of a conventional 2D display - a bit like a heads up display. The displays aren't perfect - they are a bit thicker than conventional LCD's, generate a bit more heat, and the rear display is the tiniest bit fuzzy because it is being viewed through another LCD. Apart from those limitations, they're very cool displays.

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