Happy New Year from Digital Bodies
As we enter 2020, we wish you a Happy New Year if you celebrate the holiday. We’ve just completed a remarkable decade, so it’s worth a brief review as we plunge into the future. And we’ll …
Future
The Future will be dramatically transformed by technologies such as Wearables, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality. Technology is not only disrupting how we work, learn, and entertain ourselves. It will also transform our social structures and how we relate to each other.
If we look back at the past, it is filled with erroneous predictions. Understanding the future is not about trying to accurately predict it, but understand the implications of technology developments for human beings and society.
AR/VR Predictions from 2010 – Predicting the Future isn’t Easy
There’s a fascinating article in PC Gamer that covers AR/VR predictions from 2010. As Tyler Wilde notes, it’s easy to make bold predictions about technology ten years out. Few ever bother to check and see if …
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The ShapingEDU Humersive Learning Project
We are excited to announce the ShapingEDU Humersive Learning Project as part of our roles as Innovators in Residence at ASU’s ShapingEDU community. As part of our charge, we will lead an actionable exploration of the intersection of …
Ten Years of Augmented World Expo
Augmented World Expo takes the stage again this year, marking its tenth anniversary. A lot has happened since AWE’s formative years when it was a much smaller conference. It now hosts over 7,000 attendees, 250 exhibitors, …
Can You Resist a Deepfake Salvador Dalí?
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, …
Microsoft HoloLens Demo Fail at Build 2019
Microsoft’s Build 2019 conference got underway today with announcements, surprises and one major HoloLens demo fail. There are lessons here for all of us working in VR and Mixed Reality, and you have to applaud Microsoft …
The Ethics of a Brain-Computer Interface in VR
There was no better way to wrap up the GDC 2019 conference than Valve Software’s Mike Ambinder talking about a brain-computer interface in VR. No need to worry about any immediate developments in BCI (as it’s …
Live-Stream of Microsoft Future of Computing from MWC 2019
We’ll be following the live-stream this morning of the Microsoft Future of Computing event from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. HoloLens was introduced four long years ago. Let’s see Microsoft plans in spatial and Holographic computing. …
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This Mixed Reality project could make you flee your home
You have to love the Weather Channel’s mixed reality project. First, they did a tornado in their studio, then a rising wall of water by the ocean. And now, forest fires get the mixed reality treatment. …
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Idealism and fun at the first Magic Leap Mixed Reality event
No one should be surprised that the first Magic Leap Mixed Reality event would open in its own unique way. The L.E.A.P. conference, or LEAPcon, didn’t follow the usual pattern of Oculus Connect or other polished product …
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The future of VR is not (moving) chairs in movie theaters
Movie tie-ins are a quick win for generating content in virtual reality, but you won’t find the future of VR in movie-like experiences. What sparked this thought was the news that Universal Pictures is releasing a promotional …
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