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The Infinite Retina

The Infinite Retina

By : Irena Cronin, Robert Scoble
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The Infinite Retina

The Infinite Retina

By: Irena Cronin, Robert Scoble

Overview of this book

What is Spatial Computing and why is everyone from Tesla, Apple, and Meta investing heavily in it? Irena Cronin and Robert Scoble answer that question to help you understand where Spatial Computing - an augmented reality where humans and machines can interact in a physical space - came from, where it's going, and why it's so fundamentally different from the computers or mobile phones that came before. They present seven visions of the future and the industry verticals in which Spatial Computing has the most influence - Transportation; Technology, Media, and Telecommunications; Manufacturing; Retail; Healthcare; Finance; and Education. The book also shares insights from leading experts, industry veterans and innovators, including Sebastian Thrun, Ken Bretschneider, and Hugo Swart. They dive into what they think will happen in the medium term and what it could mean for humanity in the long term. This new second edition has many substantial updates, including two new chapters on the relevance of Generative AI to Spatial Computing and a new chapter on the impact of the Apple Vision Pro. Each existing chapter has been updated to have the most current information and commentary.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Part I: Why Spatial Computing and Why Now?
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Part II: The Seven Visions
14
Part III: The Spatial Business
19
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20
Index

Dancing into Different Worlds

The storm of change will mean that the nerds who used to build the computer software of old, by typing thousands of lines of code into a black box on a flat screen, might need to learn to dance.

Yeah, if you watch someone play in Virtual Reality, you might think they are dancing, but that isn’t what we are thinking about. There’s a new type of computer science underway: one that uses choreography to train the AI systems that control autonomous cars, robots, and virtual beings, and even present humans in augmented and Virtual Reality with interfaces that better serve us.

Machines can be cold. In the worst of cases, they can crush us on factory floors, or kill us in the streets, like a computer-controlled car developed by Uber did one unfortunate night in Arizona. In the best of cases, they can give us superpowers and make our lives easier, but even then they often can be made to better serve humans in a dance, of kinds.

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