Virtual Reality

Step aside Alexa and Siri, a new digital assistant is taking over the Internet: Samsung Sam. A batch of 3D rendered images of a virtual woman went viral over the weekend, with millions swarming around the latest virtual human to appear online. The only catch? Samsung didn’t officially make Sam, or even acknowledge her.

New York Times is already talking about the YOLO FOMO LOL Economy. The big question behind this all: Are we all playing a great online game?

Researchers have shown that deepfake technology can be used to manipulate satellite imagery to produce real-looking — but totally fake — overhead maps of cities.

Sometimes the Internet makes you feel like a boomer. Why should you buy virtual clothes for your avatar?

This week we focus on deepfake technology. For starters, the FBI warned in an alert that malicious actors “almost certainly” will be using deepfakes to advance their influence or cyber-operations in the coming weeks.

The giant container ship Ever Given that has blocked traffic in the Suez Canal for the last week, bringing a key global trade route to a standstill and capturing the world’s attention, was partially refloated as we’re writing this newsletter.

Playing with Reality is a weekly newsletter in which SogetiLabs’s Research Institute VINT examines the future where synthetic reality becomes part or our objective reality. The newsletter is also a preview of our upcoming book Playing with Reality. Subscribe here.

What began as primitive cave paintings and signed language has now transformed into endless of varieties to express oneself.

VR/AR/MR, what's the difference? Dive into some practical code examples and learn how easy it is to build super cool AR applications.

Capgemini presented one of the numerous keynotes that were a feature inside SIFER. This keynote is about Virtual Reality and the Augmented Reality at the service of the verification and the validation of systems.

Learning is hard. But imagine if all you had to do to pick up a new skill is make a…

Our current research topic is called “Digital Happiness” and we’re exploring new ideas about how companies should interact with their clients…