3d printing limbs
I think this is one of my favorite applications for 3d printing. Such excitement on their faces! Looking forward to the day when fanciful, colorful body enhancements don’t even get a second glance.
3d printing houses
This is neat. They are experimenting with a variety of cheap, commonly found materials to create 3d printed objects and structures. I know NASA was working on 3D printers that could use moondust as feedstock to print whatever they would need on visits to the moon (vs having to carry everything there) – love to see that same thinking applied to structures here.
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Alternative uses for VR: Training for real life
This is an excellent case study in how VR can be used for training. Of all types. Some of the commenters don’t understand why inmates get to “play” with VR for free, while “regular” people can’t afford headsets…VR can be about play, of course; but it’s also a powerful tool to help someone “practice” interacting with others. It’s potentially a huge empathy building tool. I was asked this morning how it could be used to train young women to deal with bullying, and harassment, for example. Will give that one a think too.
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360 Video Virtual Reality
This is actually quite momentous, and something I’ve been musing about (how it would work) for a while. High def *video* capture – NOT CGI, not a 3d model, but something that you can experience in virtual reality space as if you were standing there in the real world. This is a critical shift, eliminating the need for the artificial creation of worlds/experience. Can you interact with it (touch anything)? Probably not. But it will come. I knew there were companies working on taking moving pictures and interpolating the 3D models out of them
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Addendum / Manufacturing and automation
A follow up article by Technology Review addressing some of the points I touched on in my last blog post,” Learning to be Human“. “Those who would help displaced factory workers need to think much more urgently about how to provide for and accelerate what policymakers euphemistically call “adjustment” for the victims of economic shocks like deindustrialization.”
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Air cooler from water bottles
This is really neat! Go go physics.
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