This week, the first fatal autonomous vehicle crash was reported and occurred with Tesla autopilot, WebVR is coming to Android Chrome Beta and Dev editions, Pokémon GO was released in various countries (yay!), AI is being used to fight parking tickets, country-wide IoT networks were released in the Netherlands and South Korea, and IoT Week at SitePoint has begun!
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Virtual Reality
Google’s Android Beta and Dev browsers are adding a simple toggle to enable WebVR! Hooray!
Make shows you how you can play pinball in virtual reality with real haptic feedback!
A tip from one VR agency — feeling present in virtual reality worked best when using a dark shadow where your feet would be.
A code of ethics is being developed for both the VR and AR industries.
An exploration of why the new social VR app “Rec Room” is making players smile.
GamesRadar+ looks at why they believe Batman: Arkham VR is the start of VR experiences we need to have — franchises will ease people into it.
This virtual reality experience lets you explore a breast cancer cell.
HTC has sold almost 100,000 Vive VR headsets according to a new estimate.
HTC have also spun their Vive virtual reality unit into a new subsidiary.
FOVE has been updating its VR hardware and software over the past month.
NBC will be offering 85 hours of VR Olympics programming with Samsung Gear VR.
Is virtual reality for our own memories really such a great idea?
Nintendo believes VR is currently only suited to short-form experiences as they continue research.
Virtual reality headsets are cool, but can they help car dealers boost sales? It turns out in this one experiment, reality kicked in and the dealer ended up banning them.
A fascinating look at how sci-fi literature imagined virtual reality would be.
Augmented Reality
The long awaited day has arrived! Pokémon GO is now available for Android and iOS too! On the store! For some! Look! Download! I wish my internet was faster!
A discussion of using augmented reality or virtual reality in architecture.
Is the industry engaged in wishful thinking around AR, declaring its promising future too early?
Google Glass 2.0 is coming to the workplace. Here’s what some of its specs might be.
Augmented reality headsets could help helicopter rescue pilots fly in dense fog.
Wearables
We are in a new generation of wearable tech and it’s kinda cool.
Wondering what people in the know are wearing? Here are the Wareable team’s favourite wearable tech they use each day.
Not only are the Olympics coming to VR, Olympians just might be using a range of wearables too.
What to expect from the upcoming Samsung Gear S3, according to the rumours.
This patent reveals a strange morphing Samsung device.
How to install watchOS 3 on your Apple Watch.
A look at Samsung’s upcoming Gear IconX hearable.
Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics and Drones
A Tesla driver died in May as a result of the first fatal crash while using autopilot.
Reports say the Tesla crash driver may have been watching Harry Potter on a DVD player.
Security mastermind Troy Hunt shares his thoughts on self driving cars after the Tesla incident.
Satya Nadella’s rules for AI are important to discuss for our artificial intelligence future.
Here is a 4-foot real life transformer robot that turns into a car in seconds.
This guy built AI that fights parking tickets in the UK. It has gone so well that he’s considering bringing it to Australia.
Toyota is looking at using helper robots for car production and home help for our aging society.
Chatbots are not as AI-driven as you might think (yet) according to Venture Beat.
Why AI’s massive disruptions may be just what you’re looking for according to CNET.
Here is how deep learning could be the next step in cancer detection.
DeepMind’s first medical research gig will use AI to diagnose eye disease.
A great look at Lidar technology and how it is enabling autonomous robots, cars and drones.
Bring voice to your Raspberry Pi using Alexa for this Hackster.io challenge and you could win prizes — like actual Amazon Echo devices!
Internet of Things
The Internet of Things could soon be interplanetary! NASA is building an Internet for the whole solar system. I’ll be incredibly sad once even interplanetary internet is faster than my connection here in Australia…
Decentralizing IoT networks through blockchain.
Netherlands rolled out the world’s first nationwide IoT network last week!
Shortly after, only just missing out on the “world’s first” crown, South Korea has launched their first country-wide Internet of Things network.
The Internet of Things is coming to the home brew industry!
Wish you had the time for all this creating? Here are five ways to find time for makingyour side projects.
5G and IoT — how a faster network could transform smart devices.
At SitePoint, I assembled the editors together to create IoT Week — a week of articles all about the IoT from every channel at SitePoint! In the first one, the PHP editor over there, Bruno Skvorc, looked at whether PHP and the IoT have a future together.
Kassandra Perch looked at securing your IoT devices and services with JSON web tokens.
Here is a look at the four unique design challenges of the IoT for IoT Week at SitePoint.
Wondering if the IoT thing can work as a business? Here are 5 success stories from the emerging IoT market.
SitePoint and Flippa had a hack day recently too, here’s how they hacked their first IoT project.
Know Ruby? Here’s how you can control the physical world of devices with Ruby and Artoo.
Here’s my guide on how to track a GPS module with a Tessel 2 over at SitePoint’s IoT Week.
I also put together a guide on how to set up a home VPN using your Raspberry Pi. Very handy for developers working on their home IoT creations remotely.
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