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The Future of Reading: Augmented Reality Books

Kitaboo

Learners can use an AR app or a device to scan the pages of a physical textbook to have a more engaging 3D experience. Apart from educational books, AR can also do wonders for children’s books, atlases, travel guides, etc. How will the learning experience benefit by adding sounds, visual effects, and other 3D elements?

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Valve’s Gabe Newell on new games, brain-machine interfaces, and moving employees to New Zealand

GeekWire

He occupied his time in-country with pursuits such as benefit concerts, teaching his travel companions how to play Valve’s DOTA2 computer game, and firing random bits of statuary into orbit. OpenBCI’s Ultracortex Mark IV is a 3D-printable headset that can be used by researchers to record brain activity. OpenBCI Photo).

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

Chung developed the curriculum and conducted training for the government’s in-house futures course, Futurecraft. She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. She travels across the globe to present speeches and lead workshops.

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How Australia became the test bed for tech regulation

The Verge

But from a personal perspective, I haven’t had to be on a plane every week or every month to go see people in the United States, or travel around the world and see our staff. We started off really building one product in Sydney called Jira — which is still our largest product — that started off as a bug tracker for software developers.