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Author: Matthew Lombard

  • An AR Halloween pre-show invades movie theaters

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    [Halloween presence! This story from MarTech Today describes a new use of augmented reality in movie theaters, and in particular a new “Halloween Experience” available until the holiday next week. See the original version of the story to watch the 0:45 minute video trailer. Other coverage notes that you can play at home if you download the Noovie Arcade app. For a related example of AR scariness, see a story from earlier this year in ScreenRant (or go directly to Abhishek Singh’s Twitter page). –Matthew] An AR Halloween pre-show invades movie theaters National Cinemedia started employing augmented reality in thousands…

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  • Call: Urban Play – The 15th Annual Tampere University Game Research Lab Seminar

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    Urban Play – The 15th Annual Tampere University Game Research Lab Seminar 15th-16th of April 2019 Tampere, Finland https://urbanplayseminar.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract deadline: January 18, 2019 Notification of acceptance: February 4, 2019 Full Paper deadline: March 25, 2019 Seminar dates: April 15-16, 2019 URBAN PLAY Urban spaces offer a rich environment for a diversity of play practices, from location-based games to parkour and from hopscotch to chess in parks. Historically, cities have offered rich affordances for games and play, but in recent years the spread of ubiquitous and pervasive technology has transformed and diversified public play. The extension of ‘smart’…

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  • I met Magic Leap’s AI assistant Mica and saw the future of augmented reality

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    [This first-person report on a new, life-size, interactive, intelligent assistant who appears in augmented reality and apparently evokes intense social presence experiences, is from Next Reality. The original story includes several images; a 1:43 minute video is available from Upload VR via YouTube; and a consideration of some of the practical and ethical implications of the new technology can be found in coverage from Daily Journal Online. –Matthew] I Met Magic Leap’s AI Assistant Mica & Saw the Future of Augmented Reality By Adario Strange October 12, 2018 Unlike VR, when you’re talking about augmented reality, describing what an experience…

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  • Call: WiderScreen issue on Sexuality & Play in Media

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    Call for Papers WiderScreen Journal Special Issue (2/2019): Sexuality & Play in Media Editors: Ashley Brown, Laura Saarenmaa, Veli-Matti Karhulahti Abstracts deadline: November 15, 2018 WiderScreen is a Finnish open-access scientific journal that centers on multimedial, digital, and audiovisual media culture. It is recognized as a quality peer-reviewed academic publication channel by the Finnish Publication Forum (Jufo). It is our pleasure to announce a call for papers to a special issue Sexuality & Play in Media, to be published in September 2019. We look forward to submissions concerning all intersections of sexuality and play(fullness) across media, both analog and digital…

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  • How VR, AR and presence are changing and will change live music

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    [This quote in the story below from NME (where it includes several more pictures and videos) illustrates the power of presence in the context of music: “When we first tested this technology, we had people in research groups who might be big fans of Niall Horan, for example. We put these fans in a headset and one of them just fainted because she thought she was right next to him. That level of engagement where people really feel like they are present is amazing and that’s what really drives us.” –Matthew] [Image: Source: Music Ally] Virtual reality gigs are coming…

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  • Call: International Association for Computing and Philosophy conference (IACAP 2019)

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    Call for Abstracts The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) 2019 Conference June 5-7, 2019 Mexico City, Mexico http://www.iacap.org/iacap-2019 Deadline from Paper Abstracts: February 15, 2019 Deadline for Symposia Proposals: February 1, 2019 The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) [http://www.iacap.org/] is delighted to announce that submissions are now being accepted for its 2019 annual meeting [http://www.iacap.org/iacap-2019] June 5-7, to be held at and sponsored by the Institutes of Mathematics and Philosophy, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). The meeting is being organized by, Sergio Rajsbaum: Institute of Mathematics, UNAM. (http://www.matem.unam.mx/~rajsbaum/) Luis Estrada González: Institute of Philosophy, UNAM.…

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  • The first “social network” of brains lets three people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads

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    [The possibility that groups of humans around the world will be able to communicate and collaborate in real-time via wordless brain-to-brain interfaces raises the prospect of a new form of “social presence.” This story is from MIT Technology Review. –Matthew] The first “social network” of brains lets three people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads BrainNet allows collaborative problem-solving using direct brain-to-brain communication. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv September 29, 2018 The ability to send thoughts directly to another person’s brain is the stuff of science fiction. At least, it used to be. In recent years, physicists and neuroscientists…

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  • Call: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Robots & AI in Society at IVA 2018

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    Call for Abstracts Interdisciplinary Workshop on ROBOTS & AI IN SOCIETY Socio-psychological, cultural-economic, and ethico-political aspects of living with artificial autonomous agents Western Sydney University (Parramatta 1PSQ) 8-9 November 2018 The workshop is co-located with the 18th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents https://iva2018.westernsydney.edu.au/ EXTENDED submission deadline: 29 October 2018 HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES: THE RESPONSIBILITY TO BE FUTURE-READY Autonomous agents and artificial intelligences promise to soon play a central role in our lives: not only will they assist us as social companions and co-workers, but they will also stimulate deep cultural and political transformations in our civilization. Artificial…

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  • Magic Leap’s conference teases the thrilling potential of what its hardware can’t yet provide

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    [There are lots of stories out there about Magic Leap right now but this one from The Verge is a particularly vivid and useful first-person report and summary of the present and promising future of augmented and mixed reality. See the original for more pictures. –Matthew] Magic Leap’s conference teases the thrilling potential of what its hardware can’t yet provide A glimpse at what could one day be possible By Bryan Bishop October 16, 2018 Florida-based startup Magic Leap became infamous for hyping itself as a revolutionary company whose vision for augmented and mixed reality would transform the worlds of…

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  • Job: Post-doc: Multimodal data analysis of behavioral and physiological signals from HHI, HMI interactions – Aix Marseille University

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    Two-year Post-doctoral Position Multimodal data analysis of behavioral and physiological signals from human-human and human-machine interactions Laboratoire d’Informatique et des Systèmes (LIS) et Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL) Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS France Deadline for application: 30 October Keywords: conversational speech, multimodal data analysis, neurophysiological data, machine learning The A*MIDEX project PhysSocial aims at a better understanding of the specificities of social interactions by comparing relationships between behavior and neurophysiology in human‐human and human‐robot discussion. The goal of the post-doc is to analyze the multimodal signals (speech, eyes direction, physiological, and neurophysiologic signals) from conversational activity using signal processing and…

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  • Presence Pictures: Robots at Work and Play

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    [The Atlantic has published a set of 35 vivid photographs that demonstrate the diverse roles robots are occupying in 2018, and in many cases the medium-as-social-actor presence responses we have to them. Three of the photos are below and see the original feature for the full-size versions of all 35. –Matthew] Robots at Work and Play Alan Taylor October 17, 2018 Advancements in robotics are continually taking place in the fields of space exploration, health care, public safety, entertainment, defense, and more. These machines—some fully autonomous, some requiring human input—extend our grasp, enhance our capabilities, and travel as our surrogates…

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  • Call: Towards Conscious AI Systems – AAAI Spring Symposium

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    CALL FOR PAPERS TOWARDS CONSCIOUS AI SYSTEMS AAAI Spring Symposium Stanford, CA March 25 – 27, 2019 http://diid.unipa.it/roboticslab/consciousai/ DEADLINE: November 2, 2018 SUBMISSION: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss19 (look for this symposium) The study of consciousness remains a challenge that spans multiple disciplines. Consciousness has a demonstrated, although poorly understood, role in shaping human behavior. The processes underpinning consciousness may be crudely replicated to build better AI systems. Such a ‘top-down’ perspective on AI readily reveals the gaps in current data-driven approaches and highlights the need for ‘better AI’. At the same time, the process of designing AI systems creates an opportunity to better explain…

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