Listen to the story {Play} The latest news of augmented reality (AR) is that it is continuing to grow in popularity and adoption. The global AR market is expected to reach $60 billion by 2023, and there are now over 1.4 billion mobile AR users worldwide. One of the biggest …
Listen to the story {Play} Interactive fiction has been around for decades, but the internet is providing novel ways to tell stories where readers shape the outcome. For IRL, Shanti Mathias investigates how creatives in Aotearoa are exploring the format. You have a choice. You are guiding Māia, a warrior, …
Listen to the story {Play} Lenovo’s ThinkReality A3, which I first wrote about last year, is among the first of a new breed of hybrid smart glasses that offset most of the processing and connectivity to a host device such as a smartphone. But with Lenovo releasing the occasional computer …
Listen to the story {Play} In simple words, AR occurs in the real world with an additional layer of virtual things or content. Augmented reality can be used in multiple ways. These include smartphone cameras to perceive and view filters and AR glasses that combine computer visuals with natural settings. …
Listen to the story {Play} It can feel quite strange to use a digital medium in everyday life. These concepts have been explored in well-known movies such as Source Code, Blade Runner, Her, etc. Smartphones have also become widely used in everyday life and in 2019 there were 2.5 billion …
Listen to the story {Play} AR has arrived, in fits and starts. Ikea has an app that lets you see, on your phone, what a piece of furniture would look like in your home. Splunk has an app that helps field workers repair industrial systems, accessing performance metrics and repair …
The first decade of the 21st Century was the childhood of the flat ebook. It was the printed book in a digital format with some additional features depending on which e-reader you were using. The eBook was still far from taking advantage of digital technology even at that time. The …
The benefits of video conferencing are obvious e.g. no travel-time, no administrative planning, no restraints on the environment and so on. However, there is still a distance that not easily can be over-bridged. And it still works like an advanced phone call with many people at the same time. The …
The University of Rochester is launching a new initiative to apply augmented and virtual reality to doctoral education. Where the focus is directed on health, education, product design, remote communication, entertainment, and other fields. 62 doctoral students are to be trained in the skills needed to advance AR/VR technologies. With …
Millennials, the generation born between the 1980s to the beginning of the 21st Century, are more demanding than other generations when it comes to mobile- and internet technology, Ericsson Mobility Report 2017 shows. As this generation does not know a world without ICT they are now taking the lead towards …
