NYC Media Lab 2016

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NYC Media Lab Five-Minute Pitches

by Chris Chinnock

The Future Media Lab from NYU Engineering profiled their live VR performance of Hamlet during this session and demonstrated it in the nearby demo area. This may be the first demonstration of this kind. …

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FOVE Shows Eyetracking Technology

by Chris Chinnock

Fove had a demo and a presentation at the Exploring Future Reality workshop where they showed their eyetracking technology. This is based upon six IR emitters and two sensors and is integrated into their …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| NYC Media Lab 2016| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Opportunities and Challenges in AR & VR Hardware and Software

by Chris Chinnock

Winslow Burkeson of the Rory Meyers College of Nursing at NYU described what he called “experiential supercomputing”. He is basically trying to build a medical holodeck with funding from the National Science Foundation. It …

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Verizon Describes Its “envrmnt’ Platform

by Chris Chinnock

Christian Egeler noted that Verizon is more than just a wireless cellular service provider. They own AOL, The Huffington Post, Hearst Publishing, Engadget, TechCrunch and more, offering services in big data, security, advertising, IOT …

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360º Experiments with Media Companies

by Chris Chinnock

This session at the NYC event focused on what some leading media companies are doing to develop and distribute mostly VR content. For example, the NY Times started doing 360º VR news stories about …

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Advertising and Marketing Panel Looks at Advertising

by Chris Chinnock

This panel explored how VR and AR are being used by advertisers today. The first conclusion: no one is making money in this area right now and there is no good way to measure …

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The Business of VR Will Grow

by Chris Chinnock

This session featured a summary of market data for VR presented by Justin Hendrix of the NYC Media Lab. He started by showing the famous Gartner hype cycle chart that currently places AR near …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| NYC Media Lab 2016| Press Events| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 46

What is Reality?

by Chris Chinnock

This panel focused on how VR/AR will change the world. In this session, leading AR/VR developers discussed how they have been impressed with this new medium and provided examples of content that had an …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| NYC Media Lab 2016| Press Events| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 46

NYC Media Lab Hosts “Exploring Future Reality” Workshop

by Chris Chinnock

This was a one day event hosted in Manhattan that featured a number of panel discussions, AR/VR exhibits and a series of five minute technology pitches. It was quite a good event and cast …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| NYC Media Lab 2016| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 46