As mandatory quarantine locks the world at home, billions of people’s real lives have transformed into virtual ones on the Internet. More than ever before, humanity searches for connection within virtual worlds. I’ve written about the social impact of virtual reality...
"Artful Design" by Ge Wang, is a manifesto declaring the importance of merging art with technology. The symbol on the cover, the Chinese word for "person," 人 (ren), captures this idea of form and function coming together. The book is written in the style of a comic...
Have you ever wanted to relive your dreams? What about creating your own story in virtual reality? One booth at the L.A. Times Festival of Books just might have made my dreams become a reality. The Festival of Books, held at USC on April 13 and 14, was host to...
Video games are one of the most popular forms of entertainment today. Fueled by over $100 billion of worldwide revenue in 2017, the video game industry far exceeds the global industries of film and recorded music. But what kind of impact is all this gaming having on...
I was recently invited by Snapchat to create an AR Face Lens for the Snapchat app. With Snapchat’s new AR Lens creation tool, Lens Studio, I created “Fly Me To The Moon.” This interactive lens transforms your face into a yellow, emoji-derived, moon. When you open your...
Virtual Reality is beginning to transform education, healthcare, business and entertainment in ways never before thought possible. If you’ve ever tried VR, you know what it’s like to be a digital adventurer, completely immersed in simulated environments. While this...
Augmented Reality is taking on a more defined format for the consumer market: mobile devices. Google sees AR’s potential for educational uses. At the Augmented World Expo, I met with Jared Finder, a Google software engineer working on Tango, the company’s new...
Something caught my eye as I walked through the gigantic show floor at the Augmented World Expo. Although people were lining up like crazy to try out Microsoft Hololens and the ODG R8 AR glasses, just around the corner, there was a lot of buzz about something called...
On April 14 and 15 at the L.A. Convention Center, the VRLA Expo, the largest Virtual and Augmented Reality convention in the world, showcased some of the most exciting advancements in immersive technology. Hundreds of people came to try out the newest and coolest VR...
When you think of hacking, you probably imagine a shady guy wearing a hoodie, frantically typing at a laptop, and trespassing the digital securities of banks and governments. While this may be true, new types of coding competitions known as "hackathons" are changing...
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