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Tech companies have big plans for augmented reality, but all of them involve huge amounts of surveillance of our everyday lives.
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There are more than 101 ways to immerse yourself in a foreign place, without having to leave your living room.
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Powerful owls need old, hollowed-out trees to nest in, but humans keep chopping them down. Now, designers have partnered up with ecologists to build them high tech artificial nests.
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New modelling techniques shed light on the ancient city of Ugarit and can help plan effective conservation.
As plans for space exploration expand, how will sex and desire be addressed in these larger, longer missions?
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Sex technologies and ‘erobots’ could help address issues related to human desire, and physical and emotional needs of astronauts in space.
In many countries including America, computer models are being used to predict how a fire will burn.
The convergence of technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence and virtual reality may offer hope for the way we manage future bushfire disasters.
Notre-Dame de Paris in all its digital splendour – virtual reality and immersive mediation.
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After the tragic fire at Notre-Dame de Paris, planning for an ambitious reconstruction is already underway – and the latest digital technologies will be at the forefront.
Virtual reality can bring historical sites to life.
Virtual reality can be more than a mirror that gives you a realistic simulation of the current world: it can bring the past into the present.
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Our attempt to bring dinosaurs to life via a smartphone app was met with excitement – then it hit a brick wall.
Is that Pikachu on the street right next to you?
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Before augmented reality products and apps take over the world, they’ll have to get out of their own way.
A mascot for Alibaba’s online shopping site Tmall urges customers to buy on Singles Day.
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Chinese customers spend billions on Nov. 11. Why, and what does it mean for the global retail marketplace?
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It’s withstood the test of time, and it’s leading people to get out of the house, travel around and spend more time with their families.
Is this the real life? Or is this just fantasy?
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Are you dreaming that you’re awake or are you living in a computer simulation? There might be no way to be sure.
Could music one day be something we experience through augmented reality, responding to the way we move through the world? Sound supplemented with colours and shapes?
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Today, we're hearing about a researcher who records birdsong, how tech changes music and why song might help address Indigenous language loss.
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We’ve never needed Oculus Rift to provide immersive experiences – they’ve been around for as long as we have.
Virtual reality is helping train counter-terrorism officers.
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Virtual reality, augmented reality and serious games can help train people to respond to terrorism and kidnappings.
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In this vision of the future, everything that we currently do in the real world – going to school, going to work, socialising, leisure – is done in a vast virtual environment.
A visitor arrives to Fira Barcelona congress centre on the third day of the Mobile World Congress.
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The biggest mobile technology showcase of the year wrapped up in Barcelona yesterday. We took a look at some of the highlights.
Season two of the Netflix series Stranger Things featured a video game called Dragron’s Lair.
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New gaming headsets promise to seamlessly integrate the digital and the physical world, but they also typically limit the vision of those digital objects to the person wearing the headset.
WayRay’s holographic AR device displays information tailored to drivers and passengers.
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Upcoming innovations suggest that 2018 might be the year when the promise of augmented reality begins to be realised.