VR + DIY = Google Cardboard.

Immersive Insights: IBM’s AR Data Visualization Tool at SXSW – Medium

The IBM is making space at SXSW from March 10–14 showcased dozens of projects in AI, robotics, VR, AR, and other emerging technology fields. My team and I had the fortunate opportunity to demo our AR project, Immersive Insights.

Immersive Insights aims to be a tool that provides data scientists with insights to large-scale data through a spatial visualization experience. While the demo is still in an early stage, we have real-time data streaming to the headset and displayed in 3D, fully manipulable and scalable. It is also our way to begin exploring, creating and refining the next generation of enterprise applications for data analysis.

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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

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Blue hour in Bruges by Steve Olmstead

Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium

NASA is crowdsourcing the search for exoplanets

To those of you who dream of going to space: Sorry, but that may never happen. However, NASA is once again counting on the public for help understanding what’s beyond our world. All we have to do is look at some photos online. Today marks the launch… http://dlvr.it/NNnlVr

Venice - Italy (by Michela Simoncini) 

The disparity in online access is also apparent in what has been called the “homework gap,” or the gap between school-age children who have access to high-speed internet at home and those who don’t. Some 5 million school-age children do not have a broadband internet connection at home, with low-income households accounting for a disproportionate share.

Digital divide persists even as lower-income Americans make gains in tech adoption, Monica Anderson, Pew Research Center

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It breaks my heart that there are children struggling to keep up at school because they don’t have the same access to the Internet as their peers. If you also want to help, please consider donating or volunteering: http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/education/digitaldivide/

How the Hololens can influence the communications, more about hololens

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It’s posing questions and coming up with a method. It’s delving in.

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