I’ve ranted a lot in the past about how I don’t see a future in VR. Fortunately, some developers have not listened. We now have a host of new Virtual Worlds coming out, all based on Full Immersion Virtual Reality technology. This new generation of Virtual Worlds is much…
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Zappar – The gateway to Augmented Reality
Those who have followed my articles knows that I personally thing Augmented Reality is the path to the future, rather than Full Immersion Virtual Reality. Or, to be more precise, I think FI-VR will be implemented through AR. I have followed the VR/AR technology advancement closely over the past decade…
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Gadget Show Live – My impressions
I was at the Gadget Show Live in NEC Birmingham and got a sneak peak at some of the best technology in the world. There are way too many things to talk about in a single article, which is why I’ve decided to make a number of spotlight videos for…
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#VirtualWednesday: Why I think Virtual Reality has some way to go yet
A few months ago, I made a video about why I don’t think Virtual Reality headsets will take off to the extent that many others seem to think. Today I want to follow that up with further evidence of the hurdles the industry has put in the way. First off, let’s…
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Intellectual Property laws and Interactive Websites
To fully understand how future laws may affect virtual worlds, we must also look at how they affect other areas of the word wide web. Mainly, we need to see how the lawmakers and lawyers react to the parts of the web that allows users to manipulate and share content.…
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Intellectual Property laws and Virtual Worlds
Welcome to the Future of Virtual Worlds article series. In these articles, I will try to analyze all the things that speaks for and against the success of massive virtual worlds, such as Second Life and its future iteration, Project Sansar. Keep in mind as you read, that I am…
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Skype, Microsoft servers and the issues these brings
Monday of this week (21 sep 2015) the global community saw a strange thing happen. Skype and several other services were acting really weird. On Skype, all your contacts would be listed as offline, but you could still message them or even call them. You would not be able to…
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Does school computers help or hinder results?
At the moment of writing, there’s a big buzz on British social media, after BBC reported on a recent OECD study that showed no increased results in pupil performance when introducing computers to the class rooms. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) educational director Andreas Schleicher even goes so far…
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Tech Time – March 12 2015 #TechThursday
In this week’s episode: Robot hotels, mobile mobilisation, resurrected technology and anti-bullying actions on Twitter.
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MCM Midlands Feb’ 2015 Review
As MCM’s go, or conventions more generally, there was not that much gaming stuff on display. There was a 2 page spread in the show guide though. It briefly talked about “Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain”, “Final Fantasy XV”, “Batman: Arkham Knight”, the new “Crackdown”, “HALO 5: Guardians”,…
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