by Lee Rickwood
A lot of today’s VR experiences are fictional, dramatic, even fantastical in their role play opportunities. But this is not a VR game, and it’s not a first-person shoot ‘em up: it’s a techno-enabled investigation of actual history and real culture.
by Lee Rickwood
It’s not just legitimate sales that are being lost to counterfeit goods, but national and local tax revenues, above-board employment and job opportunities, even customer health and safety, according to the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network.
by Lee Rickwood
A Toronto-based company has developed a high-tech surgical planning platform that combines navigation, visualization and informatics tools in an integrated system that’s used before, during and after surgery.
By Gadjo C. Sevilla
“The Canadian startup scene is electrifying,” said Google Canada’s Managing Director Sam Sebastian who opened up the summit by citing some of the unique success stories from Canadian innovators. Sebastian explained that next to Silicon Valley, “the Toronto-Waterloo Corridor has the most number of start-ups.”
by Lee Rickwood
The processing power of the cloud allows for predictive prevention, in which collected data and powerful algorithms are combined to the predict places and times where crimes are most likely to occur.
by Lee Rickwood
The sensors track a patient’s movement and a software program developed by MDDT captures, converts and incorporates that sensor data for further medical monitoring and assessment.
The Nintendo Switch, which was teased recently for a March 2017 launch, is essentially a hybrid gaming platform. It can be used in the old school way connected to an HDTV and it can also be undocked and taken on-the-go with a unique controllers that attach to the main unit.
by Lee Rickwood
It’s not only gaming and entertainment, of course: corporate applications like team-building and VR white-boarding; lifestyle activities including low-impact fitness and relaxation exercises; academic education and training, and more.