Singularity Watch
5 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSingularity Watch is an immersive journey into emerging technologies.
Our effort is to shed light on the challenges of the Technological Singularity and what the stakeholders (Individuals, Organizations, Policy Makers, and Educational Institutes) do to make pragmatic decisions and proactively combat the risks to humanity.
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Episodes
S01E05 - Medical XR, Accessibility, and Security with Rachel Michelson
November 21, 2020 14:49 - 32 minutes - 75.3 MBThe immersive technologies are transforming the way we play, meet, and interact with the space around us. Not only that: they are reshaping the way we think about surgery, therapy, and rehabilitation. That’s true! Even if all this is less visible than the latest cool game you just installed, XR is making its way into healthcare, impacting key areas of patient care in dozens of innovative applications, from medical and skill-based training to the assisted delivery of high-precision robotic su...
S01E04 - Discovering New Worlds with Dennis Bonilla
November 06, 2020 15:37 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBHave you ever dreamed of becoming an astronaut, explore space, discover new worlds? Yeeees, of course! Who hasn’t? Well, behind all that, there is men and women who research, study, create and train the space explorers of tomorrow. Welcome to episode 4 of the Singularity Watch Podcast. Today we will fly in the deep and virtual space with Dennis Bonilla, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Baltu Technologies, where he is creating human-centered tools to augment and improve the future...
S01E03 - An Immersive Storyteller: Jesse Damiani
October 24, 2020 14:35 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBOur guest today is Jesse Damiani, journalist, writer, VR Storyteller, Forbes Contributor on emerging technologies. When we talk about "new" or "emerging" technologies, it can be rather hard to tell the difference between what is in fact "pure hype" and what's here to stay. What are the biggest "victims" of the hype cycle? Jesse is one of the few journalists who can talk about the emerging worlds avoiding the "gadgets" approach, and focusing instead on building trust and awareness. But he al...
S01E02 - Play safe, move fast, and don't break things | Tamas Henning
October 09, 2020 14:34 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBWhen we want to play a new game, the first thing we want is to jump as fast as possible in that new amazing experience, right? And so, we click on "Accept" and move forward. But this comes with risks. Today, with Tamas Henning, who spent the last years working on the mission of creating a safer gaming environment for children, we will understand what are the opportunities and challenges in this domain. The potential of XR when it comes to children is huge, and the cross-section of BCI and X...
S01E01 - Brain and machine with Sophia Batchelor, neuroscientist
September 16, 2020 14:33 - 50 minutes - 46 MBAnd the journey begins! Join us in the first episode of our exploration in the Technological Singularity and the emerging realities. Our show takes place in BigscreenVR, connecting people from all over the world in bi-weekly immersive sessions. -- Stay tuned on Singularity Watch https://twitter.com/SingularityRH1 https://www.facebook.com/ReadyHackerOne Host: Oli D’Adda https://twitter.com/OliXRehab Co-Host: Kavya Pearlman https://twitter.com/KavyaPearlman Powered by: XR Safety Initiative...