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 …
Read More »Evolution trends for Virtual and Augmented Reality
In these last few months I have been monitoring the web for news on Augmented and Virtual Reality, trying to spot emerging trends. As it always happens in the first months of the new year you get plenty of forecasts in many market and technology segments and AR/Vr is no …
Read More »VR gets untethered…
Quite a bit of excitement for the availability on the market of Oculus Quest (and Oculus Rift S but it is the former that is stealing the thunder). It comes to market on May 21st, 2019. A few of them have been made available to several VR aficionados and you …
Read More »From Digital Reality to Reality – VI
Time to do a bit of recapping. I started by noticing that Digital Reality, made possible by technology evolution and its adoption, is creating a new world in the cyberspace, something that was clearly “artificial”. In a little while two forces have started to blur this separation: The easiness of …
Read More »From Digital Reality to Reality – V
The reasoning I have followed has pointed so far to the evolution from a reality “out there” to a digital reality that is being created and that we can perceive in various ways using technology. Furthermore, as technology becomes more and more advanced, both in the creation and in the …
Read More »From Digital Reality to Reality – I
It is now over 25 centuries that philosophers have been discussing about the meaning of reality, someone stating that there is not such a thing as reality, since what is now was not what it was a moment ago and it will no longer be a blink of an eye …
Read More »Uhm, is this a photo?
Lots of excitement on April 10th as a team of scientists released the first ever photo of a black hole. The news has leaked through the media but still something was unexpected. It was not the black hole in our Galaxy but one in the M87 galaxy, farther away from …
Read More »A world that is becoming responsive is a world where boundaries are becoming fuzzier
Now Alexa and the likes are making talking to the ambient we live in normal. More than that, actually: they are leading us to expect that it is normal that the ambient answers our questions, execute what we are demanding of it. This is brought forward by advances in speech …
Read More »The Closet in the Cloud
I am no expert in many areas, but if there is one I am no expert at all, well that is fashion. But I can tap on top-notch expertise at home. Anyhow, on Wired, March 10th, there was a nice article on shared economy applied to fashion. A number of …
Read More »Digital Transformation – Scarcity vs Abundance
The Digital Transformation everybody is talking about today is fuelled by advances in technology, mostly transducers –i.e. sensors and actuators- and semantics extraction tools –i.e. artificial intelligence supporting data analytics. The reasons why industries and institutions alike are interested in the Digital Transformation, however, is based on economics. The Digital …
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