Tag Archives: VR

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I mentioned Alexa as an example of a Digital Reality that is often overlooked as a mere, although smarter, interface. As I pointed out it is actually much more. Digital Reality is becoming pervasive to the point we won’t even realise we are moving in the fuzzy space and through …

I mentioned at the end of last post situations where digital world can represent a reality that is not to be found, pinpoint, in a specific physical objects. There is much more. Remember Second Life? In a few years it created a world wide mania where everybody wanted to develop …

OK, I wouldn’t have published this news on April 1st, it would surely have been taken as an April fool. I had to check in several places to be convinced it is not a prank. I even looked at the original in Russian: cows are enjoying Virtual Reality! На ферме …

Clearly there is much more than voice based interaction.  So let’s explore other technologies and their implication first by looking at voice (and typing that we have already considered) alternative technologies and then taking the plunge into multimodal interactions (that is our natural way of interacting as human being!). Let’s …