Conversational AI (artificial intelligence) has become a hot topic in tech in recent years, in part because of its ubiquity: if you have a smartphone, you've got access to it. Merely saying “Hey Siri” into your iPhone or “Hey Google” into your Android devices gives you access to the automatic...
We probably don't think of it this way, but interactive video is already a big part of our lives. Most of us can’t go more than a couple days without joining a Zoom call or Teams meeting. And while you may think of that as just video conferencing, these technologies – which have become features of...
From Science Fiction to Commercial Reality Ever since Facebook rebranded as Meta last year, there’s been a lot of buzz about The Metaverse, and a renewed interest in virtual worlds. It’s looking like a hot topic for the next several years, because despite the long history of the concept of virtual...
In the broader context of AR, VR and The Metaverse, we're talking about a few different types of experiences. We can think of the virtual side as a fiction-versus-nonfiction paradigm. Some of our virtualized experiences will take place in virtual worlds that are entirely fictional, while other...