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The History and Future of Wearable Computing and Virtual Experience
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Summary
Amber Case talks about the road from virtual reality to augmented reality and what is needed to build to get there. She talks about various topics on the history and future of wearables, human augmentation, infrastructure, machine vision, processing, distributed computing and wireless data transfer, a church dedicated to VR, computer backpacks, heads up displays, reality editing, and so on.
Bio
Amber Case is currently a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She is a cyborg anthropologist and user experience designer. She studies the interaction between humans and computers and how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think, act, and understand their worlds.
About the conference
Software is changing the world. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.
Dec 02, 2016