Innovation Forum

video of the 11st Innovation Forum celebrated May 14 where Lluis Pastor, Director of the Studies of Communication Sciences and Information of the UOC, introduced the concept of Funiversity. (video in Catalan)

January, 22 took place the 10th Innovation Forum on the topic Augmented Reality (AR), where a team of experts presented the possibilities and advantages of this new technology as well as a few cases and real experiences developed through it. (Video in Catalan)

This concept allows to you to experience immersion and effortless navigation in an Augmented Reality environment. New types of interactions involving near-to-eye displays, gaze direction tracking, 3D audio, 3D video, gesture and touch. Through these new types of social linkages people will be connected in innovative ways between the physical and digital worlds.

Well, or at least where I would like. So e-book should be the future? I believe that it will be much sooner than we think. Could it be that this is what Apple has in mind? Soon we will know definitely…

On September, 17 2009 took place on 9th Innovation Forum that led to thematic Immersive spaces focused on virtual world Second Life, where we could explore the different possibilities and opportunities offered by this virtual environment for learning and creating virtual communities. (video in spanish).

To define it quickly is not easy, perhaps by the new concept that involves, and the best in the first instance it seems a good solution to use the definition of Google in this regard: “Wave is a set of protocols, platforms and open source products, which possibilite meeting services that enable people to create and share content, including to showcase some of its applications to other owners not using standard Web programming.

In reality it is not clear what’s that, or even for what might serve, but this video about 15 of its main characteristics is a good approach to it and we’ll say that he has come to revolutionize the Internet throughout 2010, hoping to have and received the same success that had Gmail some time ago. Everyone in the draw your own conclusions.