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The new year is here and some of the tech sector’s biggest announcements are just around the corner. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) takes place this week, and we will be hearing a lot more about spatial computing and mixed reality from the companies keynoting and exhibiting at one of the tech world’s biggest events.
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A century ago, a little-known series of books about the future tackled everything from science to religion to monogamy. Max Saunders argues that it deserves to be rediscovered – and not just for its striking prescience.
One hundred years ago, towards the end of 1923, the geneticist JBS Haldane published a short book imagining the world that lay ahead. Fewer than 100 pages long, Daedalus, or Science and the Future was an extraordinary whistle-stop tour of all the sciences, taking in everything from the future of human reproduction to energy generation.
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With CityXR, Psychic sees cities like Tokyo being transformed into augmented, immersive playgrounds featuring 'spatial entertainment'. By adding augmented content to physical spaces, Psychic proposes "a new form of entertainment that uses XR technology to extend the city space itself into an experiential media."
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When virtual objects move or interact in a way that feels unnatural, this breaks the sense of realness by creating a visual “hiccup” that sticks out and disrupts the user experience. With MR apps, the seamless and physically accurate blending of virtual and physical objects is paramount for preventing these types of user experience breaks.
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The foundation of generative AI is data from the past. This raises a question: how does the past generate a future? The human answer to this is embedded in ideologies. We arrive at a set of values, and engage in social arrangements that reflect those values. We sustain these beliefs by confirming those values through the films we watch, the media we consume, the conversations we have and who have them with.
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Metaverse blurs the realities between the real and virtual worlds. Architects and designers hold the superpower to transform these digital entities into interactive built spaces — only they'll be free of earthly concerns.
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BMW aims to educate the public about the role of mixed reality (MR) technology in regard to the future of passenger economy and entertainment. That said, this isn’t some boring classroom type of education or your average MR gaming experience using a handheld controller. The immersive experience that BMW created using VR allows drivers to feel the vehicle’s various features and interact with its surroundings in real-time. It’s unlike anything that’s been done before, according to Hountondji.
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As heat waves get hotter, longer, and much more frequent, better air-conditioning alone isn’t enough to keep occupants comfortable—we also need to redesign buildings to help them stay cooler, and avoid millions of ACs straining the grid so much that the power goes out.
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The 1600-year-old basilica, which was accepted as one of the 10 most important discoveries of the world in 2014, when it was detected near the shore of Lake Iznik, will be opened to visitors in a virtual environment with augmented reality "metaverse".
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The rapid ascent of electric vehicles has presented designers and carmakers with an intriguing opportunity to rethink the service station. And while most current EV charging facilities are more infrastructure than architecture, a radically new type of service station is on the horizon that takes advantage of the time gap people spend waiting for their cars to charge.
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