Tuesday, October 22, 2024
eXtended Reality & the Future of US All Current Status & The Next 4 Years
eXtended Reality & The Future of US ALL
Current Status & The Next 4 Years
Please join us for a deep dive into the world of
eXtended Reality & The Future
FREE! ONLINE!
10/23/2024 6-8 PM
WE REGRET THAT
DUE TO A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED.
Topics include:
>> Why eXtended Reality will be so important for you during the Next Four Years!
>>> and... What exactly is it!?
Plus…
>> Introduction to AI (especially for Story-Tellers)
>>> Opportunities & Hazards
>> What’s New in Headsets
>>> Living in 3 and more dimensions - real & imaginary
Plus …
>>> a pile of resource links to download and jumpstart your
explorations.
FREE. ONLINE.
TICKETS: https://XR_Now_and_Next_Four_Years.eventbrite.com/?aff=Q
WE REGRET THAT
DUE TO A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED.
Schedule:
6:00 – 6:30
Registration & Networking
6:30 – 7:30 Presentation
7:30 – 8:00 Q & A and Networking
SPEAKER: Eric Roffman invented the term eXtended Reality
in 2015 in his website/blog QPORIT (https://qporit.blogspot.com/2015/09/some-variations-on-reality-extended.html)
where he reports on video, theater, new technology (like XR!), science,
and public issues. He is currently beta testing QPORIT XR, a
3D 360 webXR extension of QPORIT.
Eric has a
PhD in theoretical physics, investigating fundamental properties of elementary
particles and quantum field theory (in 3 & more dimensions; of
course using xR HMD's). He also founded “THE AMERICAN FILM MAGAZINE”,
later selling the title to the AFI, and created the award-winning multimedia
computer game “Millennium Auction”.
(Image
above, a 20?? Robot with an nD 360 XR headset, by GPT 4o &
Adobe Photoshop Beta; prompts by EHR.)
CONTACT: qporit@aol.com
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FOR THE LATEST NEWS, FUTURE NEWS!
AND
CONTINUING INFORMATION ABOUT XR,
AI, STORY-TELLING, NEW TECHNOLOGY, IMMERSIVE THEATER,
FILM & VIDEO, SCIENCE, AND PUBLIC ISSUES
PLEASE!
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REALITY MEETUP
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STORYCODE NYC
Labels: 180, 3D, AI, Amazon, Apple, AR, Blockade Labs, eXtended Reality, Future, Google, Headsets, MR, MS, NotebookLM, NVIDIA, Open AI, RunwayML, video, VR, XR
Monday, July 15, 2019
Preview: VOICE CONFERENCE JULY 22-25 AT NJIT, NEWARK, NJ
VOICE SUMMIT
July 22-25, 2019
A major conference on voice technology is coming to the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark NJ. The organizers expect more than 5,000 developers and more than 150 companies to participate. The conference is sponsored by Amazon Alexa; participation by speakers from Google and Microsoft are on the schedule as well.
Here's the description:
"VOICE Summit sponsored by Amazon Alexa is the world’s largest voice-tech conference attracting 5,000+ developers, conversational designers, startups, brands, agencies and executives at the forefront of the voice-first era.
Organized by Modev, the multi-day conference will feature 15 tracks with keynotes, panels, workshops and an EXPO of more than 150 companies from around the world. Vertical industries covered include healthcare, fintech, transportation, entertainment, gaming, media, search, retail, enterprise, smart home, smart cities, hospitality and accessibility."
Location
New Jersey Institute of Technology
104 Lock Street
Newark, NJ 07103
Speakers
Labels: Alexa, Amazon, Bixby, Cortana, Google, Microsoft, Modev, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJIT, speech recognition, text-to-speech, voice, Voice Summit, Voice Technology
Friday, March 01, 2019
ZUCKED, EXTENDED REALITY, AMAZON & NYC
"ZUCKED" by Roger McNamee
and
EXTENDED REALITY (XR)
AMAZON & NYC
Seconds after Amazon posted its notice cancelling plans to build a new HQ in NYC, news appeared in a text flash on CNBC, and a few seconds later there were tweets on twitter.
In 1951, a major event happening at around lunch time, would be in an afternoon newspaper probably by 5:00. (Historical note: There were morning, afternoon, and evening newspapers in 1951.)
There were no smart phones in 1951. President Kennedy would not become President for more than 10 years, to announce the space program, leading to satellite communications, and GPS. TV’s were rare, large, heavy, and bulky, but with small, low resolution, black and white screens. Transistors were still in the laboratory – radios used vacuum tubes. That was less than 70 years ago.
Since the commercial introduction of transistors, the power of computation has doubled every 2 to 3 years (“Moore’s law”). That’s exponentially. When something doubles every few years it means that every few years, in each new cycle, we can do, again, as much as we ever did in all the previous years put together.
eXtended Reality is the combination of VR, AR, MR, AI, IoT, 5G computing, and all the other content and technology made possible, now, by this exponential growth in computing power.
A computing system’s main subsystems include: the inputs (for example, IoT sensors); the computations and applications (for example, AI), the communications within and amongst all its parts (for example 5G), and the outputs (for example, VR, MR, and AR). And when these systems work together new hybrid applications are possible (for example, Social Media; and Robots, including autonomous vehicles).
Unfortunately, while computing power is increasing exponentially, social and human evolution is not.
A decade from now the current versions of Facebook, Apple, Google, Smart Phones, automobiles, health care, and jobs, will have been totally obliterated, made obsolescent by new technologies. But people and social institutions may not keep up with the changes in technology.
The opposition to Amazon’s headquarters in NYC came from people who are concerned about the disconnect between the business opportunities made by and for Amazon, Amazon's business practices, and the lack of concern for the real-life, current and future prospects for the people and neighborhood where the HQ was to rise, including the needed infrastructure improvements.
NYC needs the Amazon HQ, but NY was not properly prepared, and did not properly prepare for Amazon’s arrival.
The support for Trump in “rust” states came from the disconnect between the business opportunities for those in tune with exponential technology power (mostly on the coasts), and those whose professional and social progress was not only not exponentially growing, but facing headwinds from technology.
One cannot… Not even a president, not even a king, not even a mythical figure (King Canute), can stop the tide. Neither can the exponential growth in the power of technology be stopped. We will have as much change in the next few years as all the change we've had since 1951!
Since change started in the 1950’s with the use of the transistor, change has become about 220 times faster, that’s about a million times faster, and in a few years it will be 2 million times faster, every few years making possible as much new change as has ever happened before.
Our job is to help social evolution evolve to adapt to the exponential growth in opportunity, allowing its benefits, and preventing its potential harm.
Roger McNamee saw the potential benefits from social connections engineered by Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. He now sees the potential harm and has written about it powerfully in “ZUCKED.”
He sees the danger in the ability of Facebook to get users to contribute personal, private information about themselves. One danger is the ability of others to use that information to improperly influence elections, as Russians and their enablers did in the 2016 election.
He sees the danger in the inability of Facebook to prevent false, malicious, dangerous, and even murderous communications being efficiently sent from bad actors to huge numbers of Facebook users.
ZUCKED is a clear, penetrating look at some of the current and potential dangers of Facebook and other social media companies, and a stab at some ways to prevent, or mitigate, or correct the problems.
Moreover, McNamee is working to create a conversation on these issues, and is working directly to effect positive change. The final appendix in the book includes an excellent bibliographic reference for additional self-education on the power and harm of social media.
Privacy, Security and Convenience are at war with each other. A’s desire for security is at war with A’s desire for convenience. Also, A’s desire to keep its privacy, is at war with B’s desire for A to be transparent. And vice versa: Think Apple (wants security) vs the government on encryption (wants Apple’s transparency); and the government on classified documents (wants secrecy) vs newspapers (want the government to be transparent).
It’s not a simple question of value: Consumers value the convenience of using Social Media for connections much more than they value the security of their personal information (until they are affected directly). Consumers value clear automated information much more than ad-hoc human advice (despite GPS directions that may send them to a dead end, a dangerous crossing, or the middle of a lake).
The problems that McNamee is calling our urgent attention to, will be both ameliorated by the fact that exponential growth of the elements of eXtended Reality will make obsolete the current versions of Facebook and other companies, and exacerbated by the exponential growth of new opportunities for help and harm.
Our job is to understand the mismatch in the rate of change between technology and people, and devote substantial effort to understanding and then implementing how to manage progress so it is a positive force.
In ZUCKED, McNamee has done a vital service in furthering this understanding, and beginning to plan the implementation of policies for management of the future.
MEETS
LINKS
Roger McNamee will be speaking about ZUCKED at the Greene Space, on Monday March 4.
http://www.thegreenespace.org/events/thegreenespace/2019/mar/04/team-human-live-roger-mcnamee-and-ron-kim/
http://www.thegreenespace.org/events/thegreenespace/2019/mar/04/team-human-live-roger-mcnamee-and-ron-kim/
ZUCKED – AT AMAZON
ROGER MCNAMEE – ON WIKIPEDIA
EXTENDED REALITY – ON QPORIT
Labels: Amazon, eXtended Reality, FACEBOOK, nyc, Roger McNamee, XR, ZUCKED
Sunday, March 04, 2018
NYXR CELEBRATES PI DAY (March 14)!
NYXR – The New
York eXtended Reality Meetup
CELEBRATES Pi-DAY
The Future
(near
term:
next
few
years)
of EXTENDED
REALITY
and what that
means for you!
I would like
to invite you to join us in celebrating Pi-Day,
at the NYXR Meetup, for our CELEBRATION OF π DAY, in recognition
of this important day!
Pi-DAY, 3/14, March 14 is a day to celebrate Truth, Mathematics, Education, Science, Imagination, and Culture -- important things that help civilizations improve, in support of Life, Liberty, Equality, Truth, and the Pursuit of Happiness!
Pi-DAY, 3/14, March 14 is a day to celebrate Truth, Mathematics, Education, Science, Imagination, and Culture -- important things that help civilizations improve, in support of Life, Liberty, Equality, Truth, and the Pursuit of Happiness!
If you can't join us in NY
we invite you to join institutions around the world
or create your own celebration!
WIKIPEDIA ON PI DAY
For Pi-Day we will present an overview of how eXtended Reality will develop and evolve over the next few years.
eXtended
Reality is our perception of the world
we live in, currently being transformed, explosively! by the exponentially
increasing power of digital technology. Some features of XR are described below.
As we
finalize our program at the NYXR Meetup I would greatly appreciate your
help, support, advice, and suggestions, for speakers, volunteers, and venue sponsors.
This is a call for speakers for this and future NYXR events: Ideally, speakers will give an overview of some
aspect of eXtended Reality, and how it is evolving, and include links to
pointers for developers who wish to move into that arena. A talk can be 15 min
to an hour. There may just one or up to 4 speakers, with a total presentation
time of approximately 1 hour followed by a Q&A.
Pi-DAY is
March 14. The event is free. The event will be
recorded in Virtual Reality.
Here is the
tentative topic agenda:
The Future
(near term: next few years)
of EXTENDED REALITY
and what that means for you!
- · Intro – Predicting the Future
- · AYE!WEARE -- The evolution of HMD’s
- · The evolving voice interface
- · Important new XR opportunities for developers
- · The importance of "Ready Player One"!
- Public issues
- · Q & A
We welcome all suggestions for speakers, topics, and
venue sponsors for this and future NYXR events.
(Possible topics include anything suggested by the discussion below, as well as
any related topics not mentioned here that the speaker knows should have been mentioned!)
Here
are some of the most relevant rapidly evolving XR
technologies and issues:
- · HMD’s – VR MR AR Light-field, Spatial audio, Navigation …
- · AI – Speech Rec, Image Rec, Algorithms (Prediction, Personalization, Copyright, Hate speech), …
- · Computing – Quantum, Ambient, Nano, Extending Moore’s law, Blockchain, WebVR, …
- · Smart Things – Sensors, Wearables, Robots, Appliances, Autonomous vehicles, …
- · Apps – Everything …
- · Content creation -- Software (OS & languages), Middleware, Cameras, …
- · Video & app (Content) distribution -- Live streaming, OTT, Ads vs Subs vs Item sales, User generated vs pro content, Libraries, Navigation …
- · Networking -- 5G, fast local networks, network security, …
- · Issues -- Job displacement, Security, Fake news and advertisements, Hate speech & bullying, …
- · More Issues -- International competition, Income inequality, Market segment monopolies, Net neutrality…
- · $$$ -- Methods of financing, methods of generating revenue (ads, subscriptions, item sales, services), Business services …
Major companies: Apple, Alphabet & Google; Amazon & AWS; Facebook, Microsoft, and Samsung are developing a portfolio of these technologies; Disney, Sony, Vive, and several Chinese companies also have major efforts underway; innovative companies like Magic Leap, and international companies like Netflix are developing with a more narrow focus but are significant players. Some portfolio examples:
- · AMAZON – AWS, Audio Processing, Sumerian, Video, …
- · APPLE – ARkit, Face Recognition, Vertical Ecosystem, Wearable Sensors, …
- · FACEBOOK – Rift & Gear VR (Samsung), Social Media, …
- · GOOGLE – Daydream, AI, Audio/Video Home Devices, ARcore, Assistant, YouTube, …
- · MICROSOFT – Windows 10 On Everything, Mixed Reality, Holographic computing, Azure, Cortana, Gaming, …
- · SAMSUNG – HMD’S, Smart things, Bixby, …
We invite everyone to join NYXR and come to our CELEBRATION OF PI-DAY.
This is a call for speakers, volunteers, and venue sponsors
for this and future NYXR events.
for this and future NYXR events.
We welcome all suggestions!
Please contact:
qporit.casting@gmail.com
For the final program and exact location please see:
NYXR - The New York eXtended Reality Meetup
LINKS
NYXR - The New York eXtended Reality Meetup
LINKS
NYXR - The New York eXtended Reality Meetup
WIKIPEDIA: ON PI DAY
WIKIPEDIA: ON PI (π = 3.14159265358979323846264...)
Labels: 3/14, Amazon, Apple, eXtended Reality, Google, March 14, Microsoft, NYXR - The New York eXtended Reality Meetup, PI, Pi-Day, VR, XR
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
OCULUS RIFT + OCULUS READY COMPUTERS
PRE-ORDERING
THE OCULUS RIFT
The Oculus Rift CV1 (Consumer Version 1) is about to ship. Pre-orders for the Rift and an Oculus Ready computer to operate the Rift are now being accepted.
The Oculus Rift is currently the most advanced, most powerful Virtual Reality system available to consumers. The “system” consists of the Rift (a "headset", "head mounted display" or "HMD"), an Oculus Ready computer, a controller, a position sensor, a remote, and software.
To operate the Rift it must be connected to a computer which -- it is "recommended" -- should have at least the following specs:
Video Card >> NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 equivalent or greater
CPU >> Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
Memory >> 8GB+ RAM
Video Output Compatible >> HDMI 1.3 video output
USB Ports >> 3x USB 3.0 ports plus 1x USB 2.0 port
OS Windows >> 7 SP1 64 bit or newer
Discounts are currently being offered for a "bundle" consisting of a Rift and an Oculus Ready computer. The minimum computer configuration can be pre-ordered together with a Rift, for about $1600 (total cost for the bundle). Every order of the Rift includes a headset, sensor, remote, cables, Xbox controller, and "Lucky’s Tale".
It may be wise, especially if you wish to develop your own applications for the Rift, to use a computer which is more powerful than the minimum configuration. It might make sense, for example, to get more than 8GB memory, to get OS 10, and to get lots and lots of disk space. There are more powerful CPU's than the i5, and more powerful graphics cards than the 970. You may also want USB ports left over, after you connect the Rift.
The Rift and the computer can be pre-ordered from OCULUS or from one of its partners. As of March 29, they anticipate new orders will ship the Rift in July; (shipping the computers should be possible in just a week or so).
The Rift can be ordered from OCULUS here:
or more directly here:
On this page, there is a download for a program that will check the computer you are using and will tell you what features are OK and what features are not powerful enough to run the Rift.
An Oculus Ready computer can be purchased from ASUS, DELL or ALIENWARE. (Dell also sells Alienware computers.) There may be a discount when pre-ordering a Rift and an Oculus Ready Computer at the same time. However, you may need to obtain a "coupon," an e-mail, or something similar (verifying the Rift pre-order) from Oculus to use for the computer purchase to get the best discount "bundle" price.
There are lots of options, so make sure before you checkout from your cart that you have exactly want you want.
There are lots of options, so make sure before you checkout from your cart that you have exactly want you want.
ALIENWARE
DELL
ASUS
It is also possible to obtain a Rift/Computer bundle from Oculus' retail partners, Microsoft, Best Buy and Amazon.
MICROSOFT
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/categoryID.71021100
BEST BUY
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/oculus-rift-virtual-reality-headset-alienware-area-51-series-desktop-package/9999260600050004.p?id=pcmprd259000050004&skuId=9999260600050004
MICROSOFT
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/categoryID.71021100
BEST BUY
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/oculus-rift-virtual-reality-headset-alienware-area-51-series-desktop-package/9999260600050004.p?id=pcmprd259000050004&skuId=9999260600050004
AMAZON
http://www.amazon.com/Oculus-Rift-Certified-G11CD-WS51-Desktop-Bundle/dp/B01BHFI4XG
http://www.amazon.com/Oculus-Rift-Certified-G11CD-WS51-Desktop-Bundle/dp/B01BHFI4XG
MORE POSSIBILITIES FROM AMAZON
CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW FOR
OCULUS READY COMPUTERS & BUNDLES
AGAIN
There are lots of options,
so make sure before you checkout with your cart
that you have exactly want you want.
MORE ABOUT THE RIFT!
Note: These pages are EN-US. Also, pages for setup and "experiences" may change frequently after April 2016, once Rifts are shipped and usage rises.
OCULUS RIFT SETUP PAGE
https://www.oculus.com/en-us/setup/
OCULUS RIFT "EXPERIENCES" -- AVAILABLE APPS
https://www2.oculus.com/experiences/rift/
If you want to create applications or videos for Rift, or just understand Virtual Reality, it may be worth while to become an "Oculus developer" (it's free) and check out the Oculus documentation.
OCULUS HOME PAGE
https://www.oculus.com/en-us/
OCULUS DEVELOPER SITE
https://developer.oculus.com/
https://www.oculus.com/en-us/setup/
OCULUS RIFT "EXPERIENCES" -- AVAILABLE APPS
https://www2.oculus.com/experiences/rift/
If you want to create applications or videos for Rift, or just understand Virtual Reality, it may be worth while to become an "Oculus developer" (it's free) and check out the Oculus documentation.
OCULUS HOME PAGE
https://www.oculus.com/en-us/
OCULUS DEVELOPER SITE
https://developer.oculus.com/
Labels: Alienware, Amazon, Asus, Best Buy, DELL, Microsoft, Oculus, Oculus Ready, Oculus Ready computer, Oculus Rift, Rift computer bundle, Virtual Reality
