6. Dubai – Metaverse as biz Dubai set up a “Dubai Metaverse Strategy” aiming to be one of the top world economic centres based on Metaverse. By 2030 the goal is to support 40,000 jobs and attract 1,000 companies focussing on Blockchain and Metaverse technologies, adding 4 billion $ to …
Read More »From Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0 – IV
Technology is a tool, it has always been a tool. However, there have been some technologies that have shaped evolution and actually prompted evolution. The very first technologies (stone cutting -extracting and shaping-, bronze smelting, and iron/steel production) gave the name to entire epochs. More recently we have had use …
Read More »How smart should the Metaverse be?
The Metaverse has become the talk of the town, particularly so after Facebook decided to change their name to Meta. I am currently involved in setting up an event in Milan targeting a very specific industry, the Lottery industry (can we call it “an industry”?), and I was asked to …
Read More »Making Zoom and the likes a thing of the past …
Microsoft has announced its Mesh platform and t their Ignite event. You can get all details, and there are plenty, in their Innovation Stories and take a look at the clip to see how it may look like. I am saying “it may look like” because the way it can …
Read More »Could the convergence of Mixed Reality, Robots and Social Networks be the future of hybrid attendance and participation in conferences and other gathering events?
Posted on behalf of Louis Nisiotis and Lyuba Alboul As a result of the recent outbreak of COVID-19 and the wide-reaching recommendations for discouraging or even prohibiting large gatherings, many conferences, concerts, matches and tournaments, and various meetings have either being postponed, cancelled or changed venues, with some of them deciding to …
Read More »Augmented Reality for Biz
The new generation of Google Glasses, Enterprise Edition 2. Image credit: Google Google launched its first digital glasses back in 2013 but they were met with mixed feelings and discontinued in 2015. The first glasses were targeting the mass market, even though their price was not really on the cheap …
Read More »Evolution trends for Virtual and Augmented Reality
In these last few months I have been monitoring the web for news on Augmented and Virtual Reality, trying to spot emerging trends. As it always happens in the first months of the new year you get plenty of forecasts in many market and technology segments and AR/Vr is no …
Read More »From Digital Reality to Reality – I
It is now over 25 centuries that philosophers have been discussing about the meaning of reality, someone stating that there is not such a thing as reality, since what is now was not what it was a moment ago and it will no longer be a blink of an eye …
Read More »Mixed Reality moves forward but it still does not look real…
Progress continues in developing more advanced devices to deliver “as real as it gets” sensation of augmented, mixed and virtual reality. If we look back just 2 years we are surprised at how much bulkier the devices were. The last one coming soon to market, the One Creator Edition from …
Read More »A more convincing Mixed Reality
The fading boundary between bits and atoms is “fading” more and more as technology finds better and better ways to trick our eyes, actually our brain. Varjo, a Finnish company, has presented a new visor that from a technological point of view is a marvel and from the experience point …
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