Two interesting thought bites today around mind controlled virtual reality (!) + the trials and tribulations of contactless pay.
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A fascinating look at the history of virtual reality
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All three areas that were “hot” this year at CES this year: robots, drones, and virtual reality – are a subset of the larger trend of artificial intelligence. www.indestry.com/blog/2016/1/7/the-forgotten-ancestors-of-virtual-reality
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…and the problem is that sub standard graphics display in a VR headset (the kind you might get with a computer that can’t handle the graphics) can easily make you queasy, dizzy, or sick. Read more at Business Insider.
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Every flight attendant’s dream! Rows of people completely immersed in being somewhere else 🙂 Read more at Tech Crunch
Getting away from it all Read More »
Reminds me of the short science fiction story where the children let the virtual reality room lion eat their parents when they try to take them out of the VR room (The Veldt by Ray Bradbury) …. from Upload VR: “This could be an interesting twist in the upcoming VR wars but Palmer thinks room scale is “fantasy that few games will utilize.” More info @ Upload VR
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As an old ex-Second Lifer, and a huge fan of the commercial applications for both Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality; would love it if Second Life had, well, a second life. For those who aren’t familiar with it, Second Life was (is, still) a 3D virtual world launched in 2003, where you could buy an “island” and create/interact with your own virtual world (or other people’s). It got a lot of flack for being uber-geek at the time (although a lot of real money was made there by buying and selling both virtual real estate and
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Article out today on Fast Company, titled “The Smartphone Revolution is Over.” And I agree. In terms of form they’ve pretty much reached the limit of the current form factor. They got small, now they’re getting bigger, flatter, bigger screens, etc. Sure they might develop a model with a folding screen (to make it bigger again), or smaller (to fit on a wristwatch – oh joy!), or curvier, or in purple. But personally, I think if products lead with “now available in a color” in their advertising (as Motorola’s Razr is doing) the category has
Ho hum: Where’s the innovation? Read More »