Continuing the analyses of the Huawei’s proposed 2025 technology trends: 3. Super Sight Augmented and Virtual Reality are quite widespread if we think, as an example, about the use of a smartphone as a lens providing a translation of a text by overlaying the translated text on the original one …
Read More »DT evolution in Manufacturing – XVIII
The future of Digital Twins remains to be written, although what is going on now and what is going to happen in the coming 2-3 years is pretty straightforward. DTs are a reality in manufacturing and their use will further expand to cover more equipment and processes. The association of …
Read More »We are getting smarter!
Few days ago I stumble onto the Flynn effect, the significant -average- growth of the IQ of world population, as shown in the graphic. Basically, it was noticed that in the last century, that is as far as we have data to compare, the intelligence level of the population worldwide …
Read More »Personal Digital Twins: Memes 2.0 – VIII
This points to the “when” question. What is the likely roadmap that will steer this evolution? Digital twins have been adopted, and finely tuned, by industry (over 15 years ago). Industry has set up a whole environment to host and in which leverage digital twins (the digital transformation has been …
Read More »Are VR/AR a consumer product for the masses?
As in the past 5 years many companies have showcased at CES their wares to support VR and AR. You can take a peak to what went on at CES 2022 in this area in the nice clip below. As you will see the host in the clip, Cas, is …
Read More »First AI discovered drug to enter clinical trial
Insilico Medicine, a Hong Kong start up, has announced the start of the first clinical trial of a drug “discovered” using AI. The company had made the news two years ago when they released their GENTRL AI system as open source software to stimulate the search for drugs using artificial …
Read More »AR and VR shopping: a peek at the future
Shopping is partly “need” partly “fun” (and for some, partly” compulsive”). If it is a response to a need any technology that can help in taking a decision would surely help the customer. If it is for fun any technology that can increase the emotional feeling will be a hit. …
Read More »Macro changes ahead – IV
4. Healthcare The whole Healthcare system is on a journey of change learning to leverage on data. The Digital Transformation, DX, of healthcare started slow, in spite of the huge amount of data available, because of the sensitivity of the area where the wellbeing of a single individual may become …
Read More »Teaching AR vs Teaching through AR
5 billion smartphones and tablets provide a huge platform to deliver augmented reality content everywhere to everybody. The growth and pervasiveness of high speed communication infrastructures (wifi, 4 and 5G) plus the huge storage capacity of devices (acting as a local solution where connectivity is not available) is another enabling …
Read More »Outlook 2025: where are we? where are we going? – I
5 years ago, back in 2017, I prepared a graphic summarising the expectations of several industry leaders I contacted, directly and indirectly through members of the Industry Advisory Board of the IEEE Future Direction Committee. The questions those leaders were asked to answer were prodding their feelings on the relative …
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