Artificial Intelligence, or AI, increasingly performs tasks that usually require human intelligence. These include face recognition, speech recognition, decision-making, and gameplay. AI has had a parallel development to Virtual Reality, beginning decades ago with an initial burst of optimism and then slowing down in the 80s and 90s. However, over the past decade, it has quickly accelerated with a new wave of developments.
In the near future, AI will be used to render virtual reality display technologies to support foveated rendering. It will also drive virtual avatars, personalizing immersive experiences, and creating new ethical challenges.
As VR and AR continue to progress, it is the convergence with artificial intelligence that will have the most significant impact.
Samsung’s Neon project was the talk of CES 2020 – no mean feat at a conference that boasts 4,000 exhibitors and over 200,000 attendees. It’s hard to find anything at CES, but seemly, everyone found Samsung’s …
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Dalí would be delighted. Absolutely delighted by the deepfake Salvador Dalí experience. In Dalí Lives, the complicated, unpredictable Surrealist artist is bought to life by the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. It’s a remarkable experience, …
Thinking of setting up an AI ethics board? Google offered a quick lesson the past two weeks on how not to tackle the ethical questions in artificial intelligence. On March 26th, Google announced the formation of …
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You may have seen Talespin’s announcement earlier this week for VR and AI soft skills training. It’s just the proverbial tip of the iceberg of what’s to come as artificial intelligence begins to integrate into virtual …
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We’re on our way to the Sundance VR program at the popular film festival in Park City. We’ll have some reflections later this weekend and next week (assuming my fingers aren’t too cold to type) once …
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We missed this video a few weeks back but it looks like NASA may have accidentally given us a glimpse of Microsoft’s upcoming HoloLens 2. As Next Reality noted, it’s a version that certainly looks different from the …
We’re still digesting the news out of LEAPcon, Magic Leap’s first public event for developers. Putting aside the idealism and offbeat approach, the most remarkable moment was the introduction of Mica, their Mixed Reality AI Assistant. …
Augmented Reality and Voice Assistant platforms seem like a natural fit. So it comes as no surprise that Vuzix has announced AR Smart Glasses with Alexa integration. In terms of AR interfaces, it’s an essential development. From …
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Digital Bodies was founded at SXSWedu so the conference has always had a personal dimension for us. For Spring 2018 we’ve submitted two proposals and would love to have your support. SXSWedu listens to you – the …
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Given that VR hijacks your senses, it’s no surprise that startups are looking to do Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy. It’s actually not all that new. USC has a very successful program using virtual reality to provide …
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F8, the Facebook Developer conference, has become a go to event for Virtual Reality developments. But this year’s F8 veered off in a new direction to focus on Augmented Reality and AI.
Here’s DigitalBodies’ three picks for the top tech toys this year. We love to play with tech and our criteria for this year’s selection was affordability, experience and mobility. Here’s our list which includes VR, AR, …