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In car Augmented Reality …

Military pilots can have an augmented reality helmet -for just 400,000$- that let them keep focused on the task at hand and yet be aware of any needed data since they are presented in their field of view. Car drivers are not that fortunate (or may be they are luckier …

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Virtual Holoportation

Over 15 years ago I was fortunate of working at the Future Centre with a team of young people from all over the world attracted to Venice and to the opportunity of envisaging the (a possible) future. One of the future scenarios that was created was about a grandfather and …

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The many faces of Digital Transformation – Societal Scenarios VII

Connected Healthcare The healthcare sector has been digitised (introduction of computers in equipment for analyses, monitoring, diagnoses, medication, genome sequencing …) and digitalised to a certain extent (exchange of data in various processes although privacy and standardisation issues are still limiting the exchange of several data, including the Electronic Healthcare …

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Holoportation is -almost-here!

I read a few articles on Portl, watched a few video clips (there is one at the end of this post) and I should say I am impressed. It seems too good to be true, and as the say goes may be it is not. I sent request for contact …

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Printing skin on a wound

In October 2018 I posted a news of a “skin-printer” created at the University of Toronto that for the first time allowed skin printing using a portable device (skin printing using 3D printers have been around for several years now, operated in laboratory environment – hospitals). Now I saw that …

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