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Digital Fashion The FTI’s report presents an interesting scenario on the evolution of fashion: the emergence of digital fashion, flanking the usual one. That this scenario is rot a figment of the imagination can be seen considering that a number of companies, including the big brands, have started to invest …

Microsoft has announced its Mesh platform and t their Ignite event. You can get all details, and there are plenty, in their Innovation Stories and take a look at the clip to see how it may look like. I am saying “it may look like” because the way it can …

In the last few weeks I have flown a Cessna 172. I started from Italy for a round the world tour, so far I have reached Iran and I have enjoyed amazing landscapes from the green hills of Lebanon, the many islands in Greece to the deserts of Saudi Arabia. …

Aaron Elster was a Holocaust surviver. He had a concern, expressed in several interviews, that once he and all the other who lived the Holocaust would have gone, the memory of that tragedy would fade away. Yes, it was engraved in books but one thing is to read about it …

The evolution of Digital Twins is towards the acquisition of an autonomous role, i.e. a digital twin may start to act as an autonomous entity performing task on behalf of its physical twin. Although this is a natural evolution as digital twins shift from a static copy to a dynamic …

Over 15 years ago I was fortunate of working at the Future Centre with a team of young people from all over the world attracted to Venice and to the opportunity of envisaging the (a possible) future. One of the future scenarios that was created was about a grandfather and …

I read a few articles on Portl, watched a few video clips (there is one at the end of this post) and I should say I am impressed. It seems too good to be true, and as the say goes may be it is not. I sent request for contact …

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 …

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 …

I have seen quite a bit of talking avatar, animation that sometimes look like the real thing and some other times are clearly intended to represent an artefact. What surprised me when I saw the video clip (watch it) was the amazing capability of endowing a life into a still …