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Virtual Reality Video Games Using Real Bullets: The Ultimate Billionaire Toy
Forbes

Originally developed for law enforcement and military purposes, Machine Guns Vegas also provides a similar experience for entertainment. Customers are provided 750 different scenarios, where you are immersed in a virtual experience where you can shoot using live bullets. Read more

Forget Pokemons – in world first, Hongkonger applies augmented reality to surgery
South China Morning Post

A graduate from the University of Hong Kong has pioneered the use of augmented reality for medical imaging during keyhole surgeries, solving one of the limitations of minimally invasive surgery. Currently using pig livers, the team aim to move on to clinical use in two years. Read more

Ford acquires SAIPS for self-driving machine learning and computer vision tech
TechCrunch

Ford outlined a few of the ways it’s aiming to ship driverless cars by 2021, and will be partnering exclusively with Nirenberg Neuroscience, to bring more “humanlike intelligence” to machine learning components of driverless car systems. The research focuses on restoring sight to patients with degenerative retinal disease, but Ford thinks the tech can be used to help its virtual drivers greatly improve their own vision systems, and process information in ways similar to how human drivers would. Read more

Director Werner Herzog Talks About The Intersection of Humanity and Artificial Intelligence
Popular Science

With a 50-year film-making career, Werner Herzog, directs a new film ‘Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World.' Funded by an internet security company, Herzog examines the changing roles technology plays in our lives and how artificial intelligence has the potential to enhance ­society, but that a consequence could be losing touch with the very things that makes us human. Read more