Tag Archives: Virtual Reality

Immersive reality, augmented reality, mixed reality and virtual reality are all new ways of stimulating our senses and hence our brain. Although intuitively one can assume that the more stimuli we provide to our brain, the more it will learn, when one start to reflect on this doubts creep in. …

As a follow up to yesterday post on the deployment of autonomous systems, it is interesting to notice that it may happen in different ways. An example is provided in the trucking sector where we already have “platooning” with a “column” of trucks and a single driver at the head …

As part of the human augmentation studies carried out in the IEEE FDC Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Initiative consideration is being given to the sense of touch. We often underplay the relevance of our touch, considering it well below seeing and hearing, yet it is a very important sense (it would …

Self driving cars are not a reality yet, they are still drawing the attention of people around as they drive. In the next decade they might become more usual, although I would put my bet in the decade following the next one, in the 2030ies. Tesla has announced several times …

Virtual Reality has the potential of changing several areas in the next decade, from education to entertainment, from real estate to design (and Industry 4.0 can leverage on that). Some of the required components are here, like high processing capacity and advanced software or rendering. Our brain is extremely sensitive …

The amount of data that is becoming available on the brain, both the human one and the ones of those animals, like the mouse, that are used to study brain structures keeps growing on a daily base and has already reached staggering levels. There are now hundreds of terabytes of …

I haven’t been posted for quite a while news on the evolution of storage performance. Moore’s law has come to a halt in 2015 in terms of economic squeezing of cost per transistor but industry kept working on improving storage media under the pressure of end users demand. The shift …

At the recent Dubai Airshow 2017 Emirates has presented its new first class cabin, to fly early next year which includes virtual reality windows to smooth the flight of the poor fellows that cannot get a real window seat… The aircraft is equipped with three camera per side that capture …

Brains are amazing, and I mean all brains, not just the human one. As little as 5000 neurones are sufficient to a fruitfly to control its flight, a feat that requires millions of software code lines and a huge amount of power in a commercial aircraft. Scientists, researchers and engineers …

Leonardo (daVinci) is a robot that has been in use for quite a while allowing surgeons to perform operations that go beyond their “physical” capability. With Leonardo a surgeon can make incisions at the sub mm level, suture capillaries and so on. This feat is made possible on the one hand …