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By ThreeZero | Alexander Zaxarov

Mirror World, AR Winter, Tech in Eye, Magic Leap, Art World, Unreal Engine 5

#5・ May 22, 2020

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Today: Mirror World, AR Winter, Tech in Eye, Magic Leap, Art World, Unreal Engine 5

Your Blind Passenger by Olafur Eliasson. Photography courtesy Tate Modern.

The mirrorworld will reflect not just what something looks like but its context, meaning, and function. We will interact with it, manipulate it, and experience it like we do the real world."

AR Will Spark the Next Big Tech Platform—Call It Mirrorworld

We are building a 1-to-1 map of almost unimaginable scope. When it’s complete, our physical reality will merge with the digital universe.

Read: 20 min

www.wired.com

The Untold Story of Magic Leap, the World’s Most Secretive Startup

Virtual reality is posed to become a fundamental technology, and outfits like Magic Leap have an opportunity to become some of the largest companies ever.

Read: 40 min

www.wired.com

“Our vision is that VR / AR will be the next major computing platform after mobile in about 10 years. It can be even more ubiquitous than mobile - especially once we reach AR - since you can have it always on… Once you have a good VR / AR system, you no longer need to buy phones or TVs or many other physical objects - they can just become apps in a digital store.’ — Mark Zuckerberg, 2015

The VR Winter — Benedict Evans

This should be VR’s moment, but instead it’s still stuck as a subset of games consoles, and that isn’t why Mark Zuckerberg bought Oculus. How will that change? Do we get another VR winter?

Read: 7 min

www.ben-evans.com

How a crisis propelled the art world into a new virtual reality

Nick Compton explores how galleries and fairs have seen virtual reality shift from creative testing ground to the status quo.

Read: 5 min

www.wallpaper.com

Unreal Engine 5 | Next-Gen Real-Time Demo Running

Benedict Evans

@benedictevans

Everyone is sharing this new PS5 graphics demo. It looks very pretty. But, no-one thinks it will make games consoles break out of the 150-200m installed base. Now read across to VR. https://t.co/54hjNTr6Gg

1:23 PM - 15 May 2020

Mojo Vision's Steve Sinclair: “Tech in your eye”

‎The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Steve Sinclair, product head at Mojo Vision, to talk about “smart” contact lenses, why glasses are harder, working on this for ten years, gambling as a killer app, the possibilities of “invisible computing”…

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