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Read it and bleep: is virtual reality the future of storytelling?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 12.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | virtual reality
Summary | The world of storytelling is changing thanks to virtual reality. Indeed, new media is giving writers the possibility to tell their stories in different ways. What's also changing is the status of author and owner of stories. A festival in New York presented different work resulting from this new trend, where real and imaginary worlds meet. The author of the article explains her experience as she was brought into an imaginary world where she was allowed to influence the story.
Image Description | Photograph of a man wearing VR glasses and looking at a robot, and photograph of a room full of people wearing masks,
Image Tags | male(s)
Augmented reality children's book brings bedtime stories to life in 3D
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 24.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, smartphone, virtual reality
Summary | Companies are trying to incorporate augmented reality to their products. For instance, you can now use an augmented reality app with 5 hardback books and transform bedtime stories in 3D.
Image Description | Video explaining how the app works, photograph of a tablet and a book, photograph of an open book, and photograph of a man and a woman
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), tablet
How Facebook plans to take over the world
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, virtual reality
Summary | Facebook has been constantly evolving to adapting to current trends. The first stage was "personal"; people would share their thoughts and status. The second stage was pictures, and now it's "instant articles". Facebook has a great capacity for transformation. Facebook also tried to be a news industry, and also set its sights on services such as bookmarking, 360-degree video, customer service robots, payments and virtual reality. Facebook's stage 4 is live video, and stages 5 and 6 might be artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
Image Description | Four photographs of Mark Zuckerberg at conferences, and photograph of attendees at a conference
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
The Week in Tech: The Next Big Thing, According to Mark Zuckerberg
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 16.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, research/study, smartphone, texting, virtual reality
Summary | Facebook is already huge: more than three times as many messages are transmitted over Facebook Messenger than SMS messages at its peak. But Facebook is also hugely significant as a video platform and they are investing much of their resources in developing virtual reality. Apparently, Zuckerberg believes that VR is the next big platform after the smartphone. They are even working with anthropologists to make the body language VR avatars more realistic.
Image Description | An image of Zuckerberg doing a presentation with VR goggles projected behind him.
Image Tags | Facebook, male(s)
Allo, Allo, anyone at Home? Google unveils new gadget to take on Amazon's Echo and messaging app to target WhatsApp and Snapchat
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 19.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, texting, virtual reality
Summary | Google has declared war on other Internet giants regarding artificial intelligence. They introduced Google Home, a small speaker that can play music and access Google Assistant. Google also revealed the messaging app Allo that is supposed to bring Google's search engine into personal chats, as well as Duo, a video calling app.
Image Description | Photograph of Mario Queiroz in front of a projection introducing Google Home, photograph of Queiroz holding the device, photographs of Google Home and of Amazon's devices, photograph of Sundar Pichai, different logos, and photographs of conference stages.
Image Tags | logo, male(s)
'Snowden' filmmaker Oliver Stone warns Pokemon Go is creating a totalitarian world filled with robot-like people
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 22.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | game, privacy, smartphone, social media, threat, virtual reality
Summary | The game Pokemon Go has become so popular that it has overtaken major social media in number of active users. Oliver Stone spoke about the smartphone phenomenon as 'a new level of invasion' that could potentially lead to totalitarianism and a culture of surveillance. Internet giants are tracking everyone's online behavior, especially through the game Pokemon Go.
Image Description | Photograph of Oliver Stone, photograph of three male children looking at their smartphone, photograph of actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and photograph of Edward Snowden
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Oculus VR: ‘Classrooms are broken. Kids don’t learn the best by reading books’
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 3.11.2015
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone, virtual reality
Summary | Palmer Luckey thinks that virtual reality is going to be ubiquitous in the next decades, which is a good thing according to him. Not everyone can afford to travel to Washington D.C. or Paris, but virtual reality will give people the opportunity to experience things such as long trips overseas. Luckey also thinks that virtual reality will replace smartphones; we won't need them anymore. With virtual reality, we'll be able to experience physical intimacy with people far away, for instance. It will the change our relationships.
Image Description | Photograph of Palmer Luckey, and video of his talk.
Image Tags | male(s)
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