Deep Tech: Demystifying the Breakthrough Technologies That Will Revolutionize Everything

They want to build a world for you, an oasis you can escape to and live in, comprised of games, work, and of course, your social fabric. Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus VR was a clear evolution in this quest.

The ability to recognize patterns in a set of noisy data is similar whether it’s through audio, images, video, electrical pulses, financial data, or many other signals. The mathematical representation of these data is called a tensor (think of it as a matrix containing other matrices).

Using hand gestures, he manipulated a 3D virtual object and sent it to a 3D printer, where it was fabricated in titanium. Though it was largely a demonstration, it gave an early glimpse of what modern 3D industrial design could be. Fast-forward a couple of years, and Ford Motor Company’s immersive vehicle laboratory started to demo how they design

Author Kurt Vonnegut once said, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

Normally, proctoring takes days of planning and travel for just a fifteen-minute consult. This single project allowed the best specialists in the world to consult with dozens of cohorts in a day rather than just one or two a month and at a fraction of the cost.

Ascape is one of many companies that provide 360-degree virtual experiences of famous locations from Serengeti

Beyond virtual reality, mixed reality is also a valuable tool for extending real-life experiences into the past. We can save historical sites like Pompeii from being littered with informational plaques and navigation signs, offering augmented digital information instead. It’s a new form of travel, where ancient sites may be experienced as they were

Microsoft wants the middle, where you integrate the real world with virtual experiences. Like Facebook and Google, Microsoft’s play aligns deeply with its corporate culture.

Google wants to be your guide in the real world, and their flagship augmented reality device, Google Glass, is a pure distillation of the company’s goal to “organize the world’s information.” While Glass was famously a consumer failure, it still exists for enterprise use, and the high price tag will come down over time, making it more accessible. G