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Book Review: Mark Pesce’s “Augmented Reality: Unboxing Tech’s Next Big Thing”

ARPost

Throughout the rest of the work, Facebook and Niantic are established as strong examples of how AR can go wrong and how it may continue to go wrong in terms of user-data manipulation for profit. From the introduction, Pesce moves onto a history of computing and user interface beginning – where else – with Classical-Age Egypt.

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Educators make lemonade with Virtual Worlds

Hypergrid Business

Architecture students from Egypt and the United States meeting in Second Life. This is what Microsoft did in the 1980s with office automation. Image courtesy Jon Brouchoud.). Educators are using virtual worlds, but not in the way they had used them in the past, and not in the same numbers.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Of course it also has telepresence, so you could be virtually present in a place like Egypt – not in real time, but in space and simulation.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Of course it also has telepresence, so you could be virtually present in a place like Egypt – not in real time, but in space and simulation.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

While the results of the data capture–led by Prof. While it might have been possible to edit the scan data, this was impractical in terms of time and money. So we worked with Pascal to replace all the scan data from the Plastico di Roma Antica with new procedurally-generated models of the ca. Meanwhile, every century (i.e.,