Tag Archives: Virtual Reality

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 …

I had a chance of interacting, several years ago, with LeRoy Heinrichs, a doctor/scientist at Stanford. He showed me how they were training the future surgeons (he was specialised in gynaecology) by using a sort of virtual setting. The real surgeon used a scalpel on the real patient and that …

2. AR as a new way of shopping According to Gartner AR (and VR) technologies have moved quickly on the emerging technology hype cycle curve reaching the point of industrial application (slope of enlightenment) and they are expecting 100 million people using AR in 2020 for their shopping (both on …

The use of virtual reality is … reality for all airlines pilots that have to spend many hours in a simulator and are tested in a variety of situations. I did not expected, though, to see department stores using VR for training and testing their employees. Yet, this is what …

Yesterday I gave a talk on Digital Transformation at COMPSAC, here’s the gist of it. In the beginning, there were atoms, and we aggregated atoms into products, we invented tools, processes for managing atoms and our job was to make and use those tools and the processes linking the various …

NASA has announced working on a supersonic plane, the X-59, that will be able to cross the sound barrier (1234km/h in dry air at 20°C, an easy number to remember) without producing the sonic “bang”.  Such a plane would be able to pass the speed of sound over inhabited area …

I guess I made clear in the precious post what I believe should be the answer to the question “Are social networks and screens changing our brains?”. A strong a clear yes, and I would add “there is nothing new in this”. It may be worth taking a step forward, …

Did you see the Lion King 2019 trailer? Just in case I inserted the clip here. I don’t know about you but it is a long way from Disney animation. Most details look real, can you tell the lion cub is not a real lion cub? Reading the article on …

The Gladius Mini undersea drone, how about taking a plunge with no need to get wet? Image credit: Gladius Drones have become a usual sight and it is unlikely you or one of your friend do not have a drone or at least saw one hovering nearby. The killer application, …

I have to confess I mostly associate VR with gaming. Yes, I am aware of some applications in the education space, in industrial training, in simulation but most of the excitement has been in gaming. Hence, I was a bit surprised to see the applications, and benefit, of VR to …