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"Alder Hey, an important children's hospital in Liverpool, England, is working on integrating Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality technology into its operating theaters. The HoloLens is a headset that is able to overlay digital images onto a person's field of view, essentially mixing virtual reality with the real world. The hospital partnered with Black Marble, a Microsoft partner based in the UK, to implement the HoloLens so that it can be used by surgeons to easily access imaging and other data during surgery."

Chatbots Webinar for KIN and KCN by Steve Dale

"Chatbots and intelligent virtual agents: a framework for humans and machine..."

"Apple's long-rumored augmented reality headset will have virtual reality capabilities built in, too. It's codenamed T288, and it's currently scheduled to be released in 2020. While Augmented Reality, or AR, maps digital objects onto the real world, virtual Reality, or VR, immerses users entirely in a digitally-generated environment."

"To help space travelers recover from the kinds of mishaps that can occur in the reaches of deep space-mishaps that can end missions and potentially end lives-Lockheed Martin is combining machine learning and artificial intelligence with augmented and virtual reality interfaces to provide a bit more self-reliance to manned space exploration missions at distances at which it could take more than 40 minutes to get a reply from mission control."

"PwC has developed a virtual reality (VR) experience for its clients, allowing them to explore and better understand the range of potential future disruptions that could impact their organisation."

"In Virtual reality, your screen becomes your world while in Augmented reality, the world is your screen."

Machines, even virtual ones, have biases. They are designed, necessarily, to favour some kinds of data over others. Unfortunately, we rarely question the judgments of mathematical models and, in many cases, their biases can pervade and distort operational reality, creating unintended consequences that are hard to undo.

Virtual assistants get infuriating when they fail to do something we expect to be within their capabilities. Researchers are interested in studying how people form expectations about what such systems can and can't do-and how Virtual assistants themselves might be designed to nudge us toward only asking things that won't lead to disappointment. One of the research questions is how do you reset a user's expectations on the fly when they're interacting with a Virtual assistant.

Google believes that artificial intelligence (A.I.) virtual assistants (VA) and the conversational user interface (CUI) will largely supplant search engines and mobile apps for many users. We're moving into an "A.I.-first world," according to Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

IBM wants to combine blockchain's distributed ledger technology with its artificial intelligence arm to make the billions of smart devices connected to the internet safer, and by doing so it would allow virtual time travel by letting regulators rewind to the point when the problem occurred and see just what happened.

Jaron Lanier - who pioneered virtual reality - stressed that we need to divide "artificial intelligence" into two different things: -the engineering and the science on the one hand -the storytelling about it, the narrative that we have about it, the fantasy life of it - perhaps the religion of it. It doesn't mean one is good and one is bad, but they're just different sorts of beasts.

Terence Brake Blog

"worth tracking if you're involved in Global Virtual teams"