Tag Archives: Virtual Reality

Entertainment It used to be the national television and radio programs and the providers new basically nothing about me (the state, in Italy, knew you had a television set because they charged you an annual “tax” on that). Now, I subscribe to Netflix, to Apple TV, to Amazon Prime, and …

Sony researchers were due to present a paper at CHI 2020,  scheduled at the end of April in Honolulu, Hawaii, but because of the epidemic the conference was cancelled. Their paper, however, is available. And it is a paper worth reading. The title, “Evaluation of Machine Learning Techniques for hand …

As I am locked down I turn to the cyberspace to regain a bit of freedom and maintain some sort of human touch. The use of Bluejeans, Skype, Teams, Zoom and similar has increased significantly, in synch with the epidemic, I would say. That is fine, and actually I am …

Posted on behalf of Louis Nisiotis and Lyuba Alboul As a result of the recent outbreak of COVID-19 and the wide-reaching recommendations for discouraging or even prohibiting large gatherings, many conferences, concerts, matches and tournaments, and various meetings have either being postponed, cancelled or changed venues, with some of them deciding to …

3. Increased knowledge/intelligence Although the evolution through enhanced energy, materials and tools is happening, the most important and possibly radical evolution in this century is rooted in the exponential growth of knowledge and ability to tap onto this knowledge. This is different from genome evolution but it is closely tied …

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 …

So where are they going in this decade? I can see a broader adoption by industry and municipalities for surveillance and inspection, they are bound to become a common alternative in logistics to ferry small loads. They may also become part of the delivery chain to fit specific needs (like …

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 …

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 …

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 …