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.
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.
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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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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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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