Wow! It seems that Facebook shares our vision that interactive 3D graphics and wants to drive VR/AR as a big factor for Future Internet communication: "While the applications for virtual reality technology beyond gaming are in their nascent stages, several industries are already experimenting with the technology," Facebook said in a blog post. "Facebook plans to extend Oculus' existing advantage in gaming to new verticals, including communications, media and entertainment, education, and other areas,". "The history of our industry is that every 10 or 15 years, there's a new major computing platform, whether it's the PC, the web, or now mobile," Zuckerberg continued on a conference call following the announcement. "History suggests that there will be more platforms to come, and that whoever builds and defines these will not only shape all of these experiences that our industry builds, but also benefit financially and strategically." He believe that "vision," in the form of virtual and augmented reality technologies, will form the basis of that next major platform. See: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/03/facebook-purchases-vr-headset-maker-oculus-for-2-billion/ However, we also need to be careful as Facebook is obviously very controversial. For example, Minecraft immediately stopped working on an Oculus version of their game (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/03/minecraft-dev-halts-talks-with-oculus-following-facebook-acquisition/). Still, this acquisition will give the entire field a big boost anyway in particular with respect to non-gaming applications. And the animosity relating to Facebook probably creates many new opportunities elsewhere -- including us. Just yesterday I had talked with Stefan Lemme and Torsten that we should organize a joint meeting discussing how to best drive our WP13 technology for the next two years in FI-Core also taking into account FI-Content and other activities that we are all involved in. We planed to invite for such an event pretty soon and this only makes such discussions much more relevant. Best, Philipp -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) GmbH Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender) Dr. Walter Olthoff Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes Sitz der Gesellschaft: Kaiserslautern (HRB 2313) USt-Id.Nr.: DE 148646973, Steuernummer: 19/673/0060/3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: slusallek.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 441 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://lists.fiware.org/private/fiware-miwi/attachments/20140326/fddf5c7a/attachment.vcf>
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