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Video: Robert Scoble - Futurist UploadVR at CopenX, September 2016 01:00:01

Robert Scoble - Futurist UploadVR at CopenX, September 2016

Going Beyond Mobile. Augmented Reality is coming. Virtual Reality will take entertainment minutes away. Over the next decade we will look at our smartphone screens less and less as we use things like Magic Leap more and more. In this eye-opening keynote you will: - Discover the companies that are bringing futuristic technologies to you today, including those in airports, football stadiums, and shopping malls - Demystify cloud - We will discuss how cloud is everywhere in this new world and the trends that are soon to be hitting us, whether in self driving cars or augmented reality glasses - Learn what your business can do now to keep up and ahead of these coming trends.Robert Scoble is a Futurist at UploadVR. As entrepreneur in residence at Upload VR, formerly Rackspace's Futurist, Scoble travels the world looking for what's happening on the bleeding edge of technology and brings that learning to Facebook and other places like his newsletter and blog. He's interviewed thousands of executives and technology innovators around the world and co-authored "The Age of Context" and “Naked Conversations” with Shel Israel, and they are working on a third named “Beyond Mobile” expected to be published November 2016. Scoble engages with his one million strong following on social media. As entrepreneur in residence at Upload, he'll be spending 2016 working with the virtual reality ecosystem to figure out what media and conference businesses Upload needs to build next. He'll also be assisting startups in the Upload Collective (a co-working space) in their efforts to get to market.

Video: Rolf Nordahl - Aalborg University at CopenX, September 2016 28:54

Rolf Nordahl - Aalborg University at CopenX, September 2016

Virtual reality technologies have existed for more than half a century. Knowing their development as well as understanding the human senses and their interactions facilitate the creation of meaningful simulated experiences. In the Multisensory experience lab at Aalborg University Copenhagen for the past ten years we have been exploring the possibilities and limitations of the senses using technologies to simulate visual audio and touch. We are interested in applications of virtual reality that have a benefit to society, such as bringing people to places where they cannot physically go, rehabilitation of people with disabilities and use of virtual reality for training and exercise.Rolf Nordahl is Associate professor in media technology at Aalborg University and co-director of the multi sensory experience lab together with Stefania Serafin.His PhD thesis defended in 2010 explored presence in interactive virtual environments. He has been involved in several European projects including the EU funded project Natural Interactive Walking, exploring how to allow to experience VR by real walking.His interest in VR started in 2005 when he was involved in the EU funded project BENOGO (being there without going), where visually and sonic scenes were captured in real places, and delivered thought head mounted displays. His research lies within presence and interaction in VR, cinematic VR and evaluation techniques for VR.