{"id":473068,"date":"2024-03-20T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=473068"},"modified":"2024-03-20T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:00:00","slug":"get-ready-for-disruption-four-takeaways-from-tomorrows-tech-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/get-ready-for-disruption-four-takeaways-from-tomorrows-tech-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for disruption: four takeaways from Tomorrow’s Tech Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you ask Patrick Willer and Aragorn Meulendijks, we are about to witness the disruption AI and metaverse will bring into our lives. The duo spoke during Tomorrow\u2019s Tech Today (TTT<\/a>), an event organized at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven\u2019s (HTCE) conference center by 3EALITY<\/a> and Techonomy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3EALITY is the soon-to-be-open HTCE hub for spatial computing and immersive technology, while Techonomy is a digital marketing agency. The event aimed to showcase the possibilities offered by AI and metaverse tech today and imagine what tomorrow could look like. In fact, AI and immersive technologies will intertwine themselves, resulting in a new way of living. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

TTT’s focal point was indeed the interactive session delivered by tech keynote speakers Willer<\/a> and Meulendijks<\/a>. Willer is a former principal solution engineer at Salesforce and a tech speaker. Meulendijks defines himself as a futurist, and he\u2019s known as Mr. Metaverse. Their presentation delved into the most recent developments in the domain. The duo took the audience on a journey through technology, with plenty of examples of achievements that came to be in the past few years, preparatory for what\u2019s to come soon. Here are four takeaways from the session.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why this is important<\/h2>

Since the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, more of us have become aware of the possibilities offered by immersive tech, as the lines between the physical and digital worlds blur. Meanwhile, AI development keeps going. How are these two technologies going to impact our lives? <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

1. The wave is just setting <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The speakers kickstarted the session by looking back at the timeline of human history, tracing the evolution of technological development over the millennia. Clearly, their logbook had many of the most significant milestones noted in the past centuries. \u201cIn the last 250 years, we had the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, which originated 99,99 percent of the technology we have today. That\u2019s the effect of exponential growth,\u201d said Meulendijks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such growth is just at the very beginning, as their timeline shows a steep rise. The impact of AI and immersive tech are yet to fully manifest themselves. \u201cIt\u2019s very likely that in the next four years, we will see more technological advancement than we have seen in the entire twentieth century,\u201d stated Willer. In his vision, technological developments are paving the way for a disruption of life as we know it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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What is Augmented Reality? How does it differ from VR and the Metaverse?<\/div>
Dive into the captivating realm of Augmented Reality (AR) and explore its inner workings and various applications across multiple sectors.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

2. Smartphone or something more?\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As the audience let the speakers\u2019 statements sink in, the duo kept bringing up examples of exponential growth and how we settled within it as a society. Showing a picture full of devices considered cutting\u2013edge in the 1980s\u2014such as bulky radio cassette players, recorders, and cordless phones\u2014Meulendijks noted how all of them are now embedded in our smartphones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIs it really a smartphone? The answer is no. Because that would imply we mainly make calls with it, but we don\u2019t. The device we have in our pockets nowadays is more like a brain-computer interface. In fact, the only thing we are missing is to have it implanted in our body, and well, we are working on that,\u201d said Meulendijks, hinting at the experiments being carried out by Neuralink<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A moment of the session – \u00a9 Innovation Origins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

3. AI to improve and ease communication\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Another keynote passage focused on the possibilities that AI unlocks regarding communication. An example brought by Meulendijks refers to the study<\/a> of a group of scientists using AI to speak to elephants in their own language. Progress is going on at that end, but there is a lot AI can do to ease human interaction.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recently released Samsung Galaxy S24 comes with a lot of AI-powered functions. One of the most striking features is the real-time translation of phone calls. If, on the other end of the phone, there\u2019s someone talking in Chinese, the phone recognizes the language and simultaneously translates words into your language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. AI and the metaverse will give us all superpowers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the beginning of the session, Meulendijks asked the audience to close their eyes. Meanwhile, he made them wake up in a day in the future with a personalized AI that recaps sleeping stats and the day planning. Then, as the user wears the visor, the room starts coming to life. As more players leverage spatial web tech, the way we do things will shift. The experts also mentioned the examples of platforms like Roblox, where users create an avatar, exchange items, bond with other individuals\u2014 they live another life. And companies as Adidas are starting business with them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In wrapping up the talk, Meulendijks gave his personal outlook on how the future will look like. \u201cArtificial intelligence and the metaverse are going to be the same within just two decades. They will be everywhere, all the time, in everything. And I’m not the only one that believes this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe believe that AI will be about individual empowerment and agency at a scale we’ve never seen before. And that will elevate humanity to a scale we’ve never seen before either. We’ll be able to do more, to create more, and to have more. And intelligence can be integrated everywhere, and we’ll all have superpowers on the planet,\u201d Meulendijks wrapped up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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High Tech Campus Eindhoven opens itself to the Metaverse with 3EALITY<\/div>
High Tech Campus Eindhoven (HTCE) launched 3EALITY, its Metaverse and spatial computing physical innovation hub. <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

HTCE to embrace the metaverse<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

HTCE will thus soon have its own space for spatial computing and immersive technology. The 3EALITY hub, located at HTC37, will allow companies working in the domain to engage, create, and showcase their innovations. Recently, the campus announced Epic Games\u2014developer of the famous videogame Fortnite\u2014as the hub’s first partner<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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