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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
Other Books You May Enjoy
20
Index

Breakthroughs in Sensors

David Hall had a building to fill. In the 1980s, the company he started, Velodyne, built subwoofers. Back in the day, they were the best subwoofers because they were the first to be digitally controlled. Audio fans lined up to get one since they made your audio system dramatically better. However, by around 2000, he realized that China had taken over manufacturing, so he sent his production to China since he couldn’t get parts anymore to build them within the United States, as he told us in an interview1.

Figure 1.8: Velodyne founder/former CEO, David Hall, shows off his LIDARs and talks about his career as an inventor of everything from new kinds of subwoofers to self-leveling boats. Photo credit: Rocky Barbanica.

That left him with an empty building, so he started looking for new things to do. He heard of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge, a prize competition for American autonomous vehicles, funded...

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