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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 …

OK, I wouldn’t have published this news on April 1st, it would surely have been taken as an April fool. I had to check in several places to be convinced it is not a prank. I even looked at the original in Russian: cows are enjoying Virtual Reality! На ферме …

Do you remember MS FlightSimulator X, released in 2008? The tag line was “As real as it gets”. Well, next year MS will be back after ten years since its last FlightSim product with a new Flight Simulator that will be “as real as it CAN get”! Now, I know …

There are platforms and then there are platforms In the opening post of this series I considered the “big nine” mostly from the point of view of their capability to offer storage, processing and access (this latter mediated by Internet). These nine platforms are quite different from one another, as …

One of the topic addressed in the Digital Transformation Course developed by EIT Digital and IEEE Future Direction in its Digital Reality Initiative is that of Platforms. In these last few weeks I have been discussing platforms with a number of key people in several industries and now I take …

Augmented reality is slowly, but definitely, entering the Operating Rooms in many hospitals around the world to help the surgeons and the operating team. We have seen surgeons wearing the Google Glass (you can find a comprehensive review of their use here) and as technology evolves, both in terms of …

5. AR augmented by Artificial Intelligence Connecting AR ro AI (and the other way round) is a no brainer. AI (and Machine Learning) are becoming basic tools in exploring the huge data sets that are available and connecting them. The emerging information can be made visible, and graspable, by using …

4.  AR powered solutions for the enterprise Google Glass were aimed at the mass market but they were probably too soon too little (both in content and in battery power). Additionally, they generated a strong wave of potential privacy violation concerns that contribute in their marginal uptake. However, several professionals, …

Once upon a time men decided to build a tower, the Babel tower, just after the great flood, to reach the heavens. At that time all men spoke a single language. Apparently God didn’t like the idea of such a tower and decided to confound the workers by giving them …

When I started working, back in 1971, magnetic tapes where seen as a magic form of data storage. One could store an unbelievable 1.1 MB of data! At that time the alternative was storing data on paper tapes… This very old technology (in Moore’s clock reference) has kept improving, although …