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OK, let me start by saying that I have been uncertain on writing this post as part of the Digital Reality series. Eventually, I decided to publish it for three reasons: VR in porn is a rapidly growing “reality” VR in porn is facing technological challenges that are so far …

Whilst humanity have long pursued the dream of eternal youth with basically no success so far (although the quest is as strong as ever!) movie makers have taken a few shortcuts to make actors look younger on the screen. So far the application of cosmetics (make up) have allowed the …

I mentioned Alexa as an example of a Digital Reality that is often overlooked as a mere, although smarter, interface. As I pointed out it is actually much more. Digital Reality is becoming pervasive to the point we won’t even realise we are moving in the fuzzy space and through …

Let’s move on and consider, in the consumer space, the existence of services like movies and music on demand. These are present in the cyberspace, in some clouds of a service provider, yet, once we subscribe, they are becoming part of our ambient, our home. Alexa may be a bridge …

Current software libraries for AR, the ones programmers are using to speed up their work, support the creation of a layer where one can insert artefact, digital entities, to overlay of real objects captured by, as an example, the camera of your smartphone. You point your smartphone to a building …

After the somewhat negative thoughts on Digital Reality, I feel the need to look at the other side of the coin. Digital Reality is raising brows, and debate, when we are becoming part of it, however the use of Digital Reality in manufacturing, education, healthcare and more is showing mostly …

tion Our visual sense is steering our perceptions, our dogs apparently are more influenced by the olfactory sense, but nevertheless vision is just part of the story. Unless the brain receives inputs from the other senses that confirm what the eyes are telling it will detect that something is weird …

We have been using tools for as long as we defined ourselves “human”, actually the use of tools pre-dates home sapiens, going back 2.3 million years ago at the time of homo habilis (we, sapiens, started to walk the world some 500,000 years ago). The Human-Tool interface was straightforward you …

I mentioned at the end of last post situations where digital world can represent a reality that is not to be found, pinpoint, in a specific physical objects. There is much more. Remember Second Life? In a few years it created a world wide mania where everybody wanted to develop …

Yesterday (or today, given the time difference) I participated at an Industry Panel, Roadmapping Communications Technologies, and from my part I discussed a few aspects of the Digital Reality Initiative run at FDC IEEE. As I was preparing for the talk I started to feel uneasy on the very name …