Bleeding edge: the best of emerging tech
VR SEEMS TO have given up its quest of changing the world this month, with researchers at Microsoft and Google striving to create virtual worlds as close as possible to our existing physical one. Any Iron Man fans reading this will be pleased to know you might get your very own EDITH smart sunglasses in the not too distant future. Apart from this, AR also seems to be introducing live digital organ models for surgeons, free parking space mapping and powersuits for spinal injury patients. Architects are at risk of obsolescence as AI shows it’s awesome at adaptive internal floor sketches, and the machines also get a bit ‘handsy’ as the first AI robot hand shows it can solve a Rubik’s Cube.
