Tag Archives: VR

Hybrid virtual and in-person workforce Of the three elements I mentioned in the previous post, volume, quality and way of working, the FTI report focuses on the latter and I feel this is correct, since the long term impact of the pandemic will be most felt on the way of …

  Senses Augmentation We already have a number of “tools” that let us explore the “reality” out there beyond the possibility offered by our senses. Think about the telescopes that have opened up the vision of other galaxies, and even better think about the radio telescope that has allowed us …

The pandemic has forced individuals and companies to move to the cyberspace and a metrics to gauge this shift can be the increase of conf calls all over the world. Microsoft Teams, see graphic, had seen a 6x increase in use in the period Nov. 2019 – Oct. 2020, Zoom …

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 …

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: …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …