Alice Bonasio
VRScout
United Kingdom
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COVID-19 VR Training With Virus-Free Headsets
Share TweetTwo women-founded XR companies have partnered to provide free COVID-19 training. Back in March, Wendy Morgan, CEO and co-founder of Shift got a call from a fellow entrepreneur asking if she had thought of using VR to train people working in the pop-up hospitals being set up to deal with the extra influx of … → Read More
Precision OS Launches Multiplayer Tool For VR Surgical Training
Share TweetThe new collaborative feature shows how XR can help keep things going in the age of coronavirus. Vancouver-based start-up Precision OS just introduced a new multiplayer feature for VR surgical training platform. This means that surgeons and nurses can work together in the same operating room even if they are physically thousands of miles … → Read More
Unblocking Xbox clips and the future of shareable gaming
In the age of Snapchat and Instagram, sharing is a core part of how we communicate. We almost feel as if something hasn’t really happened until we’ve captured that fleeting moment in digital form and show it to someone else – even if that someone else is a person we’ve never even met. It’s no […] → Read More
Best CBD gummies: your holiday guide to CBD
The science of CBD has grown in leaps and bounds in recent years, as has the demand for the product in its various forms. Startups in that space are raising millions, and the market in the U.S. alone is expected to reach $20 Billion by 2024. Having recently moved to Oregon, I had the chance […] → Read More
The shared economy comes to advertising
So, you want my attention? Then you’d better inform me, entertain me, or offer me something that has a real, clear, and immediate value. Preferably all of the above. While it is true that traditional advertising still generates plenty of revenue, the writing is on the wall as people’s attention spans – already very short […] → Read More
Communication in the Age of AI
I spent many years working with start-ups and large corporations, and invariably they all spent a large proportion of their budgets getting their message across to consumers and other businesses. Yet while there is no doubt that external communications are important, I found that the most successful companies were, in fact, the ones which dedicated […] → Read More
The secret sauce of collaboration
Let’s face it, the world is full of huge problems, and big challenges require matching interwoven ambitious solutions. Cooperation is the cornerstone upon which great achievements are built, and that starts with people who can identify and build bridges between stakeholders, enabling collaboration across disparate organizations. The 5G Open Innovation Lab, for example, is a […] → Read More
Bill V Bowie: How (not) to sell a tech idea
The year is 1995, and Bill Gates sets about explaining to a skeptic David Letterman on his popular late-night why the Internet is, in fact, “the new big thing.” Yet the deliciously vintage clip below actually shows Gates failing miserably at presenting the Internet as something more than a frivolous fad. You would have thought […] → Read More
Snapchat Lens Brings To Life One Of England's Most Notorious Ghost Stories
Share Tweet‘Scream For Me’ this Halloween. Ashley Thorpe first read about the “most haunted house in England” in the Usborne Book of the Unknown: Ghosts. It was the beginning of a life-long fascination with all things supernatural, and led to a career which over the years saw him produce a series of films based on … → Read More
Making diversity fly
I’m passionate about diversity, but not (just) because it’s the right thing to do. Sure, affording people equal opportunity, regardless of which genitalia they happen to be born with is a morally justifiable choice, but to me, it’s mostly a business no-brainer. Over what now feels like an eternity working in the creative and technology […] → Read More
Aliens of extraordinary abilities
It’s a situation I’m all too familiar with from my years working in the London start-up scene. It is a dog-eat-dog environment where it came to attracting, poaching, and holding on to talent. At every company I worked for, I was constantly being offered cash incentives to refer candidates for the many roles that needed […] → Read More
The rise of Pet Tech
It will come as a surprise to precisely nobody that we love our furry friends. Yet although the bond between humans and animals goes back thousands of years, the way we approach pet ownership has changed quite a lot in recent years. Where previous generations would often adopt a pet to either be a companion […] → Read More
How Changing Places In VR Can Teach Employees Soft Skills
Share TweetCan swapping bodies with your employees in VR help you to become a better manager? More businesses across every industry have come to realize that soft skills—attributes that allow you to effectively communicate with others—are far from a “nice to have” and are actually essential in order to maintain a well-rounded and creative workforce … → Read More
What the Fax?
Every nation has its quirks, and it could be argued that the U.S. has more than its fair share, but what stands out the most to me – as a tech journalist who recently made the move across the pond – is that in many ways, the nation of Silicon Valley is still stuck in […] → Read More
Stepping into the immersive classroom
In a beautifully kitted out room in central Paris, Colin Fillaudeau is teaching a group of youngsters how to build in Mixed Reality. Even though my French is far from perfect and I’m unfamiliar with the program he’s using, I’m able to follow along quite well, and the same is certainly true for the 14 […] → Read More
Hands-On With The HoloLens 2
Share TweetAfter four years of waiting, does Microsoft’s new holographic computer live up to the hype? In a word, yes. After unveiling the device last Sunday at MWC, Microsoft then went on to demo it to a select group of invited media (myself included)That’s where I finally got the chance to play around with what … → Read More
The XR Attention Lab Takes Body Language To A Whole New Level
Share TweetBiometric algorithms enable your body to speak through immersive technology. Is this the next phase of human-machine integration? “It’s pretty common knowledge that body language plays a big role in how we communicate in real-life, and the fact is that behavioral studies have been validating the correlation between the body and mind for decades.” … → Read More
Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2
Share TweetMicrosoft debuts their latest mixed reality device at Mobile World Conference 2019. OK, I will be able give a more definite verdict after I actually get a hands-on demo first thing tomorrow, but in the meantime, here are our first impressions from having seen the live demos on the stage here at MWC Barcelona. … → Read More
Kabaq Helps You Settles On A Meal With Ultra-Realistic AR Menus
Share TweetThese AR holograms look good enough to eat. Part of the experience of going to a good restaurant is being presented with lots of tempting choices. When faced with page upon page of delicious and intriguing descriptions, some of us fall back on trusty favorites (my husband will order a steak nine times out … → Read More
Cornerstone Partnership Uses VR As An Intervention Tool
Share TweetUK Social enterprise pilots the use of immersive technology in social care. Over the past five years, the number of children who are looked after by Local Authorities (LAs) and children who require child protection plans to be kept safe from ‘significant harm’ has increased dramatically in England. And while demand for foster carers … → Read More