Grant Access to Your Digital Accounts After You Die
Life is unpredictable, and you can’t be certain of what fate has planned for you. Uncertainty is the prime reason to be prepare our affairs […]
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Designing fun experiences: Learnings from Game Design
Experiential marketing is a way for organisations to enable consumers to experience a brand in a fun, tangible and offline manner. But what is fun? […]
Architecting for Digital Businesses
Technology is advancing at a rapid pace and can be confusing to a business leader who has to keep up with buzzwords and terminology like […]
Sharing among various P2P Services in the Digital Economy
The term “sharing economy” gets thrown around quite often and I was trying to make sense of the definition, and the types of service providers […]
Blockchain in Retail
Blockchain technology provides the opportunity to unlock value in multiple industries, and the retail industry is no exception. Across the value chain from producers and […]
Blockchain & esports – Emerging Industries. Rising Opportunities
Many people may wonder what blockchain has to do with esports. Moreso, many are still wondering what is esports? I’ll try to break it down in […]
From Enterprise to Startup: Bridging Best of Breed Excellence
As a consultant offering technology advisory to both the enterprise and startup sector, I’m surprised by the amount of requests I receive for end-to-end bespoke […]
Blockchain and Gaming: MMORPG’s
I am sold on the idea of blockchain technologies be employed to operate as a decentralised database to record data, where multiple people with incentives […]
AdTech versus MarTech – evolving with a changing demographic and environment
It seems like I’m not the only person questioning the difference between AdTech and MarTech (or MarketingTech), as I’ve found dozens of resources discussing the […]
A Guide to IoT and the opportunities it presents to succeed in the 4th Industrial Revolution
The Internet of Things (IoT) refers networked or internet connected devices which have embedded electronics such as sensors or actuators that can exchange data, be […]
Gamescom 2017 – Observations
I visited Gamescom, the largest game expo in Europe. I’m no gamer so playing games doesn’t interest me. I just hack mockups in Unity to […]
Tech Open Air 2017 – Impressions
The Tech Open Air Festival was WiCKeD (that’s awesome)! I attended the conference and exhibition, met some cool companies, attended interesting sessions & have been […]
Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Digital Business
Data itself and the amount of it has no value, but what businesses do with it that matters. Artificial Intelligence (machine/deep learning) which is also […]
Digital Business Transformation requires Digitization of the Business Strategy and Operating Model
We’re now living in a digital age where the way we react to technology and interact with it is increasing at an accelerated speed. Some […]
The lighter (hilarious) side of VR
Since VR consumer solutions are fairly new, there’s bound to be some funny reactions when people are introduced to these new situations. Thanks to video […]
Virtual Reality and Robotics
While a lot of the West’s focus on VR has been on software development, better head mounted displays and controllers; much more has been happening […]
Microsoft Hololens – a step towards a future with holograms
There’s a cool TED talk that showcases what it’s like to see through the Microsoft Hololens, and what the future hold for us. Alex Kipman […]
Creativity – A top skill now required for the Digital Age
According to the Future of Jobs report published by the World Economic Forum, we’re entering what they are terming as the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), […]
8 VR/AR trends for 2017
While 2016 did not exactly become the year that Virtual Reality became mainstream (as so many had predicted in 2015), huge progress has been made […]
Milestones leading to winning the 2nd prize in the Innovation Hub’s GAP ICT 2016 competition
Immersive Authority entered The Innovation Hub Management Company’s (TIHMC) GAP ICT 2016 competition which opened on 11 April 2016. With 3 prototypes already completed, Immersive Authority submitted […]
Hologram Illusions using the Peppers Ghost technique
If you’ve been to the Haunted Mansion at Disney World, to a high-tech music concert or watched some of the cool projection-based World’s Got Talent […]
Mixed Reality versus Virtual and Augmented Reality
Unless you’ve been studying immersive technologies very closely, you may not have seen the rising use of the term Mixed Reality. Everyone probably has a […]
The VR Popcorn Dilemma
Virtual Reality is awesome and it’s going to change the way we interact with various media solutions. However there are a few cons and hazards […]
A reminder that you can unplug from VR at any time
Virtual Reality is defined as “an artificial environment which is experienced through sensory stimuli (as sights and sounds) provided by a computer and in which […]
Virtual Reality is very dangerous!
As content creators are slowly experimenting with Virtual Reality we’re beginning to see some great use cases. Virtual Reality headsets can be used by wearers who […]
Virtual Reality for the benefit of customers in Financial Services
Many role-players are experimenting with virtual reality technologies, particularly in the fields of brand & marketing which target customers in mass. When I consider Virtual Reality I’m not […]
The VR Divide
As VR is slowly gaining more mainstream adoption (even though it is really early days) we need to consider the social consequences. VR has the […]
What is Immersive Technology?
Immersive technology refers to all forms of perceptual (input to the user) and interactive (output from the user) hardware technologies that blur the line between the physical […]
Immersive Technology Role-Players, Services Offered & Target Market
In my attempt to understand what commercial services are enabled by various Immersive Technologies, and which role-player generally offers it I created the matrix attached […]
2015 Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Tech: VR & AR
A press release on Gartner’s 2015 Hype Cycle for Emerging Tech published on 18 August 2015 recently caught my attention. The technology research & advisory firm has […]
App Development Guide for VR and AR
In order to create a VR or AR application you should: Decide which VR or AR device you’re aiming targeting your app on, e.g: On a […]