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Playing to Win: Microsoft Joins Facebook in the Metaverse with $69bn Acquisition
Last month, technology giant Microsoft acquired gaming giant Activision Blizzard in a landmark $69 billion deal that represents both Microsoft’s biggest ever acquisition and the biggest deal in the history of the gaming industry. Activision is a major force in the gaming industry, maker of several hugely successful titles including Call of Duty, Overwatch, Warcraft, and Candy Crush, and […]
Buildings, Workplaces, & the Metaverse Future
Today Facebook officially rebranded as “Meta” underlining their clear intentions to become a leader in Metaverse development. The term “Metaverse” will no doubt trigger a new era of challenging explanations, potential applications, and endless hype within technological circles, just as we saw with the IoT, the cloud, the internet, or electricity. The term metaverse was […]
BIM: Beyond Building Construction to Operation & the Digital Twin
Building Information Modelling (BIM) has established itself as a key software in the fields of building design, construction, and more recently operation. Each new iteration of BIM software introduces features that open up new opportunities for buildings and compel the building industry to imagine what might be possible in the years to come. BIM is now […]
IoT Lays the Foundation for the Emergence of AR in Smart Buildings
Augmented reality (AR) is one of those technologies that inspire futuristic visions of the world. AR blurs the line between the real and the digital worlds by allowing users to view the environment around them through a data-rich lens, literally seeing a digital interpretation of their physical surroundings. Using cameras and screens, or AR glasses, […]
The Virtual Reality of the Post-COVID “New Normal”
“Man is by nature a social animal…” said Greek philosopher-politician Aristotle over 2000-years-ago. His words may never have been more relevant than they are today, in our current crisis-induced era of social distancing. Socializing has not stopped, however, we are social creatures and we have the technology to remain social for work and play, even […]
Samsung Underlines its Commitment to the IoT with Launch of New Platform
The world’s largest smartphone and computer chip manufacturer, Samsung, has taken a significant step into the Internet of Things (IoT) world with the launch of an IoT platform which uses artificial intelligence (AI) and sensors to manage buildings. This October, at the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC 2017), the Korean firm announced SmartThings Cloud, which will […]
Video Surveillance: Aggregation, Automation & Augmentation!
In this, our third video interview, we ask Bjorn Skou Eilertsen, CTO of Milestone Systems, about the future of video surveillance and video management software. Why he believes that in 5 years, 50% of streams managed by video management systems will be from mobile recording devices and explains his mantra of Aggregation, Automation & Augmentation. […]
Building Smart Buildings Smartly – The New Technology of Construction
The construction industry is not known for its willingness to implement new technology but even it can’t ignore the wave of new technology flowing around it. As the abilities of artificial intelligence, drones, augmented reality, 3D printing and other new technologies continue to grow; it looks increasingly like construction is ready to open up to […]