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5 Consumer Trends and Behaviors During the Coronavirus Crisis
[Consumer]
2021/11/02 09:08
Amidst the Delta variant, US consumers exhibited strong optimism and spend in July and August, driven by higher-income and younger consumers.Trend 1 : Consumer optimism and spending have remained strongHigh levels of optimism and spend through July and August, even as the Delta variant spread in the US, have been driven by higher-income and younger consumers (optimism at 57 percent and 59 perce...
(Paper) TransforMR : Pose-Aware Object Substitution for Composing Alternate MR
[Tech]
2021/11/02 09:07
Despite the advances in machine perception, semantic scene understanding is still a limiting factor in mixed reality scene composition.In this paper, we present TransforMR, a video see-through mixed reality system for mobile devices that performs 3D-pose-aware object substitution to create meaningful mixed reality scenes. In real-time and for previously unseen and unprepared real-world environm...
Gartner - Top 10 Strategic Predictions for 2022
[Business]
2021/11/02 09:06
Synthetic data, NFTs, composable business and agile development — and customer breakups — are among the top strategic predictions for 2022 and beyond.It’s time to break up with your bad customers. Organizations often try to keep customers at any cost — even when they aren’t a perfect fit. But trying to cater your product for the wrong audience is costly, emotionally and financially. Mounti...
(Video) Adobe's Project Morpheus Uses AI to Automate Frame-by-Frame Video Edits
[Tech]
2021/11/02 09:05
Something Adobe does at nearly every one of its annual design conferences is preview experimental features that may one day make their way to its apps. In 2020, it was a tool called Sharp Shots. This year, it was Project In-Between and a feature called Project Morpheus.Building on the Neural Filters Adobe debuted last year, Project Morpheus is capable of automating frame-by-frame video edits in...
Future of Autonomous Vehicles - 3 Wheeled Experience Pod
[Design]
2021/11/02 09:04
There is no second thought about the future of mobility being fully autonomous, providing a sustainable and predictably safer way for people to move about at the touch of a button. When the future is here, we could have autonomous experience pods gliding on the roads with interiors alterable at will.Future casting is a term used loosely to imagine whatever the will permits in order to stay ahea...
(Infographic) 5 Trends Shaping the Future of eCommerce
[Business]
2021/11/02 09:03
By 2025, it’s expected to reach $4.2 trillion in revenue. But the fast-growing eCommerce market is evolving just as quickly as it’s expanding. And because of rapid innovation in this space, tomorrow’s eCommerce landscape could look vastly different from today’s.While we can’t predict the future, there are some telling signs of what’s to come. This graphic sponsored by Logiq explores five...
(Patent) Apple has Won a Patent for a Smartglasses that Work with a Direct Retinal Projector
[Tech]
2021/11/01 09:10
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to a VR Headset and/or smartglasses that uses a direct retinal projector system to resolve convergence-accommodation conflict. Apple has been working on this for a few years now. Apple was granted another patent related to this project back in September 2021. One of Apple's first in-depth patent application cove...
(PDF) Deloitte - Streaming Video on Demand, Social Media, and Gaming Trends
[Consumer]
2021/11/01 09:09
Media companies are trying to retain paid subscribers on their streaming video services. But they also compete with social media and gaming, which offer both entertainment and social interaction.At the start of 2021, we launched our 15th annual Digital media trends survey, deep in the second wave of COVID-19. With more time for home entertainment, streaming video providers were competing for su...
2021 Red Dot Design Concept Best of the Best - Poppu Go Board
[Design]
2021/11/01 09:08
The Go board gets a portable and inclusive revision with this paper-based game design.Go or ‘Weiqi’ is a strategic board game that is immensely popular in many East Asian countries, especially China. It’s an intriguing two-player game, wherein both the players attempt to capture and surround more territory than their opponent. However, the traditional game set is often ergonomically difficul...
