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The Smartphone’s Future: It’s All About the Camera
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 30.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | privacy, smartphone, translation, virtual reality
Summary | Now that smartphones are as thin and as fast as possible, they need to develop into another realm. The camera will be used in new ways to, for instance, improve privacy by unlocking your phone by showing your face. Another innovation is the possiblity of taking a picture of a restaurant menu and having it instantly translated. Augmented reality also relies on the camera enabling users to, for instance, project a 3D model of a piece of furniture they want into a picture of their living room to see what it would look like.
Image Description | Illustration showing a smartphone scanning a woman's face.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
'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
"Es liegt eine Magie darin"
("There's a lot of magic in it")
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 17.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, privacy, virtual reality, WhatsApp, YouTube
Summary | Facebook is planning to create innovations to accommodate their users' obvious desires to watch videos on Facebook to the extent that Facebook can curently compete with YouTube for views. The sharing of videos has shot up on Facebook as of late. Facebook's live streaming feature also helps with that. Future plans include virtual reality options. Many users are worried about privacy issues because Facebook is connecting data from WhatsApp with Facebook data.
Image Description | N/A
Esta es la tecnología que matará a tu ‘smartphone’
(This is the technology that will kill your smartphone)
Newspaper | El País
Date | 25.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, smartphone, threat, virtual reality
Summary | According to some experts, augmented reality is threatening the future of mobile phones, and soon smartphones will disappear. Facebook is interesting in creating a parallel universe. In April, at a conference, Facebook talked about the possibility of writing directly from the brain. Virtual reality is the future, and it will offer information in an non-intrusive way. Experts point out, however, that the great challenge of such a technology is its high cost.
Image Description | Video about augmented reality
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