Ascape is one of many companies that provide 360-degree virtual experiences of famous locations from Serengeti

Sometimes we want to analyze clusters of data (K-means) or reduce the dimensions or features in play (manifold learning) or convert from one type of data to another (autoencoding).

Google wants to be your guide in the real world, and their flagship augmented reality device, Google Glass, is a pure distillation of the company’s goal to “organize the world’s information.” While Glass was famously a consumer failure, it still exists for enterprise use, and the high price tag will come down over time, making it more accessible. G

Six years later, I built my own similar workshop for a few hundred dollars, with a staff of zero. I bought an Oculus Quest from Best Buy, downloaded some CAD software, bought a 3D printer from Amazon, and built an IoT service connecting the two by following a YouTube video. I have no experience in CAD, no training in electronics, nor fabrication. I

“What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.” —Martin Heidegger

Tech isn’t what you do; it’s the underlying foundation to how you do what you do.

Machine learning is not magic; it’s just multidimensional curve fitting.

Microsoft wants the middle, where you integrate the real world with virtual experiences. Like Facebook and Google, Microsoft’s play aligns deeply with its corporate culture.

A ‘Deep’ Technology was impossible yesterday, is barely feasible today, and may soon become so pervasive and impactful that it is difficult to remember life without. Deep Tech solutions are reimaginations of fundamental capabilities that are faithful to real and significant problems or opportunities, rather than to any one discipline.