Author: Andreas Richter

Image credits: © European Union/ECHO/Anouk Delafortrie (CC BY-ND 2.0) Not my future? If egocentric people care little about the long-term consequences of global warming, it’s because their brains don’t represent the distant future, according to the results of an experiment by Tobias Brosch and his colleagues at the University of Geneva. What could be more obvious than glasses to solve this “short-sightedness for the future”?   According to Tobias Brosch, VR glasses could show people with selfish tendencies the future they don’t want to see. “We could imagine psychological training that uses projections to stimulate this brain region in virtual...

WHAT ARE THE BEST AR SMARTGLASSES? Augmented reality is believed to have the biggest potential for mass consumption. AR has the backing of investment of huge tech giants, who are investing not only in the hardware but also working with developers to create user-friendly toolkits and SDKs (software development kits). AR can be delivered on hardware that we already own and use: smartphones. In addition AR is available on Wearable AR glasses (smart glasses) and tethered AR HMDs. Aniwaa shortlisted the best AR smartglasses by using a metascore based on ratings indexed from trusted sources and community feedback. Read more...

Algorithm Endel ‘signed’ a major label contract. Is Artificial Intelligence the future of music? The app Endel, developed by a Berlin based team of artists, developers and scientists, creates automatically music that fits our mood, but unlike its human counterparts it won’t cause scandals for excessive drinking of alcohol, use of drugs or sexual harassment. A behaviour that record labels certainly appreciate. As Warner Music has recently announced, the first major label deal with an algorithm was recently negotiated. Endel is therefore now on a label with Madonna or Ed Sheeran. The algorithm has already produced five complete albums...