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Augmented Reality • By Marc Pesce • Polity Press • 168 pages • ISBN 9781509540945 • £14.99 / $17  Virtual reality (VR) has a long history, with many false starts and retrenchments, from the Nintendo Power Glove to Second Life to Magic Leap. Augmented reality (AR) actually goes even further back, to Ivan Sutherland's 1968 head-mounted display, nicknamed the Sword of Damocles because of the way it hung from ceiling rigging, although it was Pokémon Go that made AR a mainstream reality -- at least for a time.  That collision of technology with the physical world can be e...

It was "the greatest speech he ever gave in his life", and it marked a turning point in his pursuit of his dream, but it had the note of a eulogy. This is the story of how — and why — the legendary designer Chris Crawford left the games industry in an opening-day lecture at the 1993 Game Developers Conference, an event that he had founded just six years prior. (If you don't see the player above, it means your browser is blocking my podcast host Megaphone. If that's the case you can listen by downloading the mp3, turning off your adblocker, whitelisting all megaphone.com subdomains, or lo...

Instructor:  Teaching Fellow: Gal Koplewitz, galkop@gmail.com. Office hours: Thursdays 3-4, Maxwell Dworkin second floor lounge. This course examines papers every computer scientist should have read, from the 1930s to the present. It is meant to be a synthesizing experience for advanced students in computer science: a way for them to see the field as a whole, not through a survey, but by reliving the experience of its creation. The idea is to create a unified view of the field of computer science, for students who already know something about it, by replaying its entire evolution at an ac...

Grapes had already started being picked in some of the country’s wine regions by late-March this year, when New Zealand began moving towards a strict lockdown. For the work to continue, the industry had to make the case to government that wine was an essential business. Supplied Rippon Vineyard and Winery’s Nick Mills says many people were scared of what might lie ahead when coronavirus pandemic hit New Zealand just as the grapes harvest was on. A relieved wine community learned on March 23 – two days before lockdown – it had been given the green light. A wave of gratitude spread t...