18. Hi-Res VR in Retail VR – Virtual Reality- and AR – Augmented Reality- have been the talk of the town for quite a while. In the beginning the focus was on VR, the possibility of exploring with our senses virtual worlds in an immersive way to the point that …
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9. Living in a software “cocoon” Some of us have already achieved a familiarity with AI assistants, like Alexa, GoogleHome or Apple HomePod. The obvious evolution is towards an increased smartness of these assistants and, in turns, this will be leading to a “personalisation” of the interactions. Think about it: …
Read More »New shoes for a new world
Our brain has been shaped by evolution to process and understand a multi-sensorial flow of data and to interpret them in a 4 dimensional space. Data that are generated in a lower dimensional space are re-interpreted by the brain to fit its 4 dimensional framework. So, when we watch a …
Read More »Digital Transformation: Impact on jobs – VI
jo Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, more and more, are becoming the tools to access the cyberspace. As more and more data are available and artificial intelligence/data analytics dig into these data creating new ones the complexity of the information exceeds the analytical capability of the single worker, yet this …
Read More »Lights and Shadows… let’s wrap it up – II
Organisations and Processes As companies scrambled to adjust to the pandemic they had to face the suitability of present processes to the new reality. Organisation and processes are a crucial component of today’s business. They shape the company and provide the competitive advantage. Changing processes and the organisation is more …
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The re-invention of the Brick and Mortar business In all Countries where the lock-down was in place the brick and mortar shops saw their business plummet. At the same time the Amazon of the world saw the demand for on-line shopping grow at double digit rate. Back in 2019 1.92 …
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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 …
Read More »The many faces of Digital Transformation – The Enablers IX
Growth of distributed Clouds Centralisation vs decentralisation has been on designers’ table for several decades and over this period we have seen the shift of interest moving back and forth. The fact is that there is no silver bullet and as technology evolves, and its adoption spreads, the context changes …
Read More »Drones took to the skys. Where are they going? – III
Drones are being used by industry, municipalities and institutions to create high resolution maps of an area. These maps are digital representations that can be used in a variety of situations. Mevea has started to use drones to recreate in VR the future operation fields of their machines (backhoes). These …
Read More »What if …Reality+Digital Reality becomes … Reality – VII
OK, let me start by saying that I have been uncertain on writing this post as part of the Digital Reality series. Eventually, I decided to publish it for three reasons: VR in porn is a rapidly growing “reality” VR in porn is facing technological challenges that are so far …
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