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.
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.
New modelling techniques shed light on the ancient city of Ugarit and can help plan effective conservation.
Sex technologies and ‘erobots’ could help address issues related to human desire, and physical and emotional needs of astronauts in space.
The convergence of technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence and virtual reality may offer hope for the way we manage future bushfire disasters.
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 be more than a mirror that gives you a realistic simulation of the current world: it can bring the past into the present.
Our attempt to bring dinosaurs to life via a smartphone app was met with excitement – then it hit a brick wall.
Before augmented reality products and apps take over the world, they’ll have to get out of their own way.
Chinese customers spend billions on Nov. 11. Why, and what does it mean for the global retail marketplace?
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.
Are you dreaming that you’re awake or are you living in a computer simulation? There might be no way to be sure.
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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, augmented reality and serious games can help train people to respond to terrorism and kidnappings.
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.
The biggest mobile technology showcase of the year wrapped up in Barcelona yesterday. We took a look at some of the highlights.
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.
Upcoming innovations suggest that 2018 might be the year when the promise of augmented reality begins to be realised.
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, SOAR Fellow., University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Architecture, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor – Information & Communication Technology (ICT), CQUniversity Australia
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Associate Professor in Interaction Design, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, Digital, Political, Media, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing, University of the West of Scotland
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Researcher in Virtual Reality, Auckland University of Technology
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Enterprise Fellow, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor of Computer Games and Associate Dean Engagement, Bond University
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Senior Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University
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Omar H. Fares is a Friend of The Conversation.
Lecturer in the Ted Rogers School of Retail Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor of Fashion Marketing, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor, Family & Sexual Violence, RMIT University
