Virtual reality aims to make users experience an alternative existence, which isolates them as far as possible from the real world. This artificial illusion prioritizes user-centered control, replicating users’ behavior and gestures. Virtual reality devices such as Oculus Rift and HTC Vibe support vision, sound, and touch with accompanied controllers and headsets.Virtual reality with full…
Hologram Augmented Reality
With the recent development of Augmented Reality, I believe the technology that can display interactive digital objects and characters as holograms within the real environment will soon be popular. Maybe it will need to have holographic projectors, combining with hand gesture technologies, shape, and face recognition. The possibilities are endless. We might don’t need that…
Historical Errors
Here the mistake is that the video says the Codex is the earliest format of the book, however it is known that there is evidence of codexes first appearing in 1st Century AD (Peterson). Here the video claims paper was first invented between 179-41 BC, however the exact date of papers origins is still unknown,…
The future is AR Glasses.
As we observe the evolution of augmented and virtual reality, we can already confidently predict that our world of technology will no longer be confined to 2D screens, but begin implanting in the world all around us. It seems one of the next stems in our future of AR is through glasses. Apple is soon…
Sara Little Turnbull – Innovative Product Designer
Sara Finkelstein (née Finkelstein; September 21, 1917 – September 3, 2015) was born in Manhattan and raised in Brooklyn. She attended Parsons School of Design on scholarships from the School Art League of NYC and the National Council of Jewish Women, graduating in 1939. She acquired the nickname, “Little Sara,” during school due to her…
3D printer and Interaction design
For my senior thesis project, I am focusing on the popularization of 3D printing technology and sustainable fashion. My idea is that: offering everyone to have a chance to print the customizable clothes they like in their home with a simple user flow. The current technology and textile are not feasible to allow everyone to…
Redesign the E-reader for disable people
Accessibility refers to whether a product or service can be used by everyone — no matter what they encounter. Accessibility regulations exist to help people with disabilities, but designers should try to accommodate all potential users in many situations of use. There are clear benefits to this, especially better design for everyone. With the technology…
Virtual Reality=Alternative Reality?
Death is inevitable, but how to deal with it is varies from person to person. The coronavirus pandemic, for instance, has recently led to a spike in zoom funeral since people need the virtual space for interactions. This change raises some questions: What if you could reunite with your loved ones in virtual reality? This…
Catt Small-Advocate of Underrepresented Group
In today’s society, many designers are working hard for the underrepresented group, and Catt small is one of the designers that can not be ignored. She is a product/interaction designer and game developer. Catt began to code websites and games at the age of 10. Now she has 20 years of programming and design experience,…
Augmented Reality in Healthcare
The phenomenal of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality has a great impact on many industry from real estate to healthcare. Global Healthcare Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality market is projected at $5.1 billion by 2025 by Zion Market Research. The technology brings in more flexibility in dealing with complication in healthcare industry. However, it is…
Lynne Yun-Find the Code Behind Type Design
Lynne Yun is a type designer and educator based in New York City. She is famous for her work in typography, hand lettering, and calligraphy. Lynne enjoys the balancing act of form and function that is required when designing tools for communication, from crafting handwritten calligraphic pieces to designing type for the screen. As a…
Future technology should focus on giving people more possibilities instead of limiting
The “Black Mirror” Nosedive clip combines AR technology, social media, and socioeconomic systems. In this worldview, people can rate each other from 1 to 5 stars during interactions. Each person’s final comprehensive score will affect the social resources they can get in life. Such as apartment qualifications, air tickets, discounts, etc. I am very longing…
“Nosedive” versus Real-world
The “Nosedive” deals with an era in which social network scores determine everything in life. The only person who can decide who “I” is the SNS score given by the opponent. If they have caused trouble to others or done something wrong, anyone who has witnessed the sight can cut their reputation scores. I don’t…
Thoughts on Privacy in Sci-Fi and IoT
Sci-fi movies bring people not only visual and sensory experience, but also philosophical and political thinking about science and technology and the future. Many sci-fi books or movies have mentioned topics like “chip” and “consciousness upload”. Similar elements appear in the trailers of Feed and Alternative Carbon, which shows that people have never stopped thinking…
The Ethics of The Technology
“Nosedive” not only looks at how social media affects society, but also imagines how it might be changed in the future. The Atlantic describes this episode as “a version of America where every tiny interaction is ranked by the people involved on an app that [is synced] with augmented-reality contact lenses.” The episode focuses on…
A Dystopian Utopia
When we think about the word “dystopia,” we usually think about movies that have to deal with zombies or catastrophic disasters. We visualize the dystopian world as an apocalyptic atmosphere or a disoriented society with people that are consistently suffering. However, technology dystopia may pull the trick on us to believe otherwise, shaping the illusion…
Prospects and expectations for future technology
Now Oculus is selling hot, and people have already experienced the way of playing games and watching 3D movies at home with virtual reality goggles. This does not rule out the possibility that people are dissatisfied with the bulkiness of goggles and produce VR contact lenses in recent years. Just like the high-tech contact lenses…
The Future of Technology &Safety
Safety is the term that came out of my mind when I was watching those trailers. In the shows, the society is under the control of technology, which human lost the ability to dominant. None of the world from those shows seems safe for me.What is the purpose of technology? From my point of view,…
Today’s Sci-Fi Shows, Tomorrow our life?
By looking at those Science Fiction television shows, it brings out a lot of really cool idea of how technology in the future might look like. Even though some of them are kind of too futuristic, we might not see them in a short time. However a lot of them are already in progress, some…
The “Shock-Factor”
Science Fiction provides viewers with a stylized portal into the future, where we can see what it may look like. These shows are based on the writers’ understandings of today, implying that our current reality informs the trajectory of the future. With that said, many science fiction today include either a deliberate or inherent “shock…
