Environmental field trips in AR - Weekly Mash-Up 205
October 27, 2017
Environmental field trips in AR - Weekly Mash-Up 205
VR and AR are creating a new genre of educational experiences -- “electronic field trips” that mimic hikes, dives and treks. One of the most exciting applications for this is to enable students to travel back and forth in time -- to go on birding trips back in the time of saber-tooth tigers, or to see future environments that have undergone climate change. This immersive experience has the potential to strongly enhance learning for environmental science students by bringing their discipline to life. Read more
We Need Computers With Empathy
MIT Technology Review
“Emotion AI” is an emerging application for Artificial Intelligence that could enable technology to understand our emotions. Different fields of AI offer different solutions to bring this tech to life -- for example, Computer Vision has the potential to recognise our facial expressions. Industry experts predict a future where self-driving cars recognise when we are tired and offer to take the wheel -- Emotion AI could enable our devices to act more intelligently and sensitively to users’ needs. Read more
Digital: The New Delivery Paradigm
Accenture
Accenture has spotlighted AI and AR as two technologies that have the potential to revolutionise post and delivery services. AI could learn the fastest and most cost-effective delivery routes, cutting travel distances by 30%. Accenture also estimates that AR could reduce warehousing errors by 40% by presenting real-time information to staff. Accenture predicts that digital will have “a profound impact on post and parcel organisations” with the use of tech like AI and AR. Read more
Forward Thinking: Shipping will benefit from augmented reality
Marine Electronics & Communications
Augmented reality offers exciting opportunities for the future of the shipping industry. It has the potential to create tools to improve worker performance and execute tasks faster and more intelligently. The industry is anticipating engineers being able to view entire ship plans in 3D on a table in front of them -- this is just one application of many exciting possibilities for AR within the shipping industry. Read more
