We all hear about Virtual Reality. Virtual reality is used to provide an experience of “being there.â€? Virtual reality systems fabricate a detailed model of an environment and render it in response to user actions. In video games, for example,…
Video or Photo
Home video is becoming popular medium to capture important moments. The notion of ‘Kodak Moment’ is changing from capturing an experience of a ‘moment’ to really of an ‘interval’. By capturing short videos one can capture the dynamics better and…
Death of Databases
Gartner to DBAs, BI vendors: Time to reinvent yourselves by ZDNet‘s David Berlind — As long as the reach, bandwidth, and targeting of networking technologies — particularly the wireless kind — continues to improve on a nearly Moore’s Law like…
Living in Virtual World
Christopher Caldwell has a thought provoking — some may find it even disturbing — piece in NYTimes today about how many ways to live in the virtual world may take human species to the next level. It is not only…
Folk Events and MobileTV
According to all reports, the technology for video and TV on mobile phones is rapidly gaining in popularity. The competition in this area is increasing very rapidly. A business week article describes this situation very well. It appears to me…