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Light Field Lab,
Immersion marks the third shift in content,
Second Life creator Philip Rosedale,
Rosedale’s latest creation, High Fidelity, is a fully-immersive VR world. Eagleman’s startup, NeoSensory, has built an “exoskin” that’s designed to work in that world.
Los Angeles–based Dreamscape
participatory moviegoing replaces big-screen blockbusters as the summer’s best thrill ride.
of “affective computing,”
understand and simulate human emotion.
cognitive psychology, computer science, and neurophysiology, combined with accelerating technologies l...
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presentation style if the learner...
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Affectiva,
Rosalind Picard,
Lightwave, another emotional-computing startup,
It’s already been utilized by Cisco to judge a startup pitch competition, helped DJ Paul Oakenfold increase listener engagement at a concert in Singapore, and measured viewer reactions during a pre-screening of The Revenant.
Startups like Ubimo and Cluep are providing everything an emo-entrepreneur needs, from affective app development platforms to highly personalizable emotional-content delivery services.
Here, There, and Everywhere
Enter the augmented reality of Magic Leap and the company’s stated purpose:
Magic Leap
AR is projected to create a $90 billion market. “I regard [AR] as a big idea like the smartphone,”
Mojo Vision
brain-computer interfaces (or BCIs).
BCI-specific games like MindBalance and Bacteria Hunt.
The Future of Education
One Billion Android Teachers Per Year
“Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, [but also] found the on-off switch… [and] powered it up. Within five days, they were using forty-seven apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked [the] Android [operating system].”
Magic Leap, helping use augmented reality to birth his illustrated primer, version 1.0. Magic Leap’s technology allows you to place holograms in the world around you.
Martine Rothblatt’s
CRISPR, genomics, stem cells, 3-D printing, electric vehicles—the
On the front end, the convergence of sensors, networks, and AI is upending medical diagnostics. In the middle, robotics and 3-D printing are changing the nature of medical procedures. On the back end, AI, genomics, and quantum computing are transforming medicines themselves.
The first is the shift from sick care to healthcare, from a system that is retrospective, reactive, and generic, to one that is prospective, proactive, and personalized.
The next is a change in management. For most of the last century, the healthcare industry was an uneasy partnership between big pharma, big government, and the full spectrum of doctors,
nurses, and trained medical professionals. Now we’re witnessing an invasion. Many of the big technology companies are getting into this game, all intent on making an impact. “If you zoom out into the future,” Apple CEO Tim Cook recently said (in that same interview with the Independent where he talked about the potential of AR)...
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Racing Apple are Google, Amazon, Facebook, Samsung, Baidu, Tencent, and others.
On the whiz-bang side, there’s Exo Imaging’s AI-enabled, cheap, handheld ultrasound 3-D imager—meaning you will soon be able to track anything from wound healing to fetus growth from the comfort of your home.
DxtER,
“mobile health,” a field predicted to become a $102 billion market by 2022. Step aside, WebMD. The idea here is to put a virtual doctor, on demand, in your back pocket.
Human Longevity Inc. (HLI),
“Health Nucleus,” an annual, three-hour health scan consisting of whole genome sequencing, whole body MRI, heart and lung CT, electrocardiogram, echocardiogram, and a slew of clinical blood tests—essentially the most complete picture of health currently available.
it’s that half of the thirty-two thousand most common genetic disorders are caused by an error in a single base pair—meaning one letter in the code is out of place. This may be something we can soon correct. We’re not there yet, but before too long, between traditional gene therapy and CRISPR, we will soon gain the ability to purge sixteen thousand diseases from our lives.
here
A: Verb Surgical, a partnership between Alphabet and Johnson & Johnson.
Israeli startup, Bionaut Labs.
CAR-T (for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell) therapy.
generative adversarial networks (or GANs).
Insilico Medicine on the campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,
They called it AlphaFold.
forty-three protein-folding problems to solve.
got twenty-fiv...
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AlphaFold’s progress to Insilico’s GANs and add in the anticipated breakthroughs in ...
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individually customized medicine will move from science fiction to ...
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