New simulation technology is not just revolutionising gaming, it could transform the way we model everything from disease to economic markets and ecosystems.
By Chris Baraniuk
Category: entertainment – Page 110
The London startup hoping to ‘make the Matrix’
The London startup hoping to ‘build the Matrix’: Improbable reveals record breaking funding to ‘simulate the real world…
A London firm is hoping to turn the world into a simulation, and make ‘The Matrix’ a reality.
Improbable has developed a system to build huge virtual and simulated worlds, and today revealed a massive new investment to boost its smart software.
It is already working with cities around the world to create complex simulations of entire regions to aid planners, and say its software can be used for everything from gaming to creating new worlds humans can live in using headsets.
Can the human brain on LSD take on AI?
Amanda Feilding, a well-known researcher from the Beckley Foundation in Oxford, has long been an advocate for LSD microdosing.
Before it was made illegal in 1968, Ms Feilding would take LSD to boost her creativity, and even found that her performace in the ancient Chinese game of Go, improved.
Speaking to Motherboard, Ms Feilding said: ‘I found that if I was on LSD and my opponent wasn’t, I won more games.
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Pirates may have cracked the code to 4K UHD torrents
Someone may have finally cracked a form of DVD encryption believed to be impenetrable. Potentially, this could mean it’s now possible to download 4K Blu-Ray movies online, though you shouldn’t get too excited yet.
According to TorrentFreak, an allegedly cracked copy of The Smurfs 2 — why that one, of all films, is a mystery — surfaced on HD Bit Torrent community UltraHDClub. There are no other details at the moment.
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Holographic Snake
This AR game puts a new twist on the classic game of ‘Snake’.
Motion Capture Jumpsuit
This suit might change the way animated movies are made.
This Window Film Is Like A Cloaking Device For The Workplace
This razor-thin film can protect your workplace from information theft.
‘Alien’, ‘Blade Runner’ Director Ridley Scott Launches VR Film Division
Ridley Scott Associates (RSA), the film production company of famed director Ridley Scott, is launching RSA VR, a new division dedicated to the production of high-end immersive films using VR, AR, and mixed reality. Scott and co. is known for work on acclaimed films such as Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Gladiator (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001), and more throughout his career as a director now going on 40 years.
RSA today announced the launch of RSA VR, a formalization and expansion of RSA’s recent work in VR space which has included the production of The Martian VR Experience (2016) and a forthcoming Alien: Covenant experience.
In a prepared release, the studio calls RSA VR, “a new division dedicated exclusively to the creative development and production of VR, AR and mixed media.”