Bleeding edge: the best of emerging tech

TECHLIFE’S PRACTICAL MONTHLY ROUNDUP OF EMERGING TECH EXPERIENCES, INCLUDING ALL THE LATEST VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY APPS, ALONGSIDE AI-DRIVEN BOTS AND OTHER USEFUL TOOLS.

THERE’S A LOT to unpack in this month’s Emerging Tech. Pilots are using VR headsets to land real aircrafts while they’re in the driver’s seat and a new VR adventure game has mapped the game landscape to the scale of a football pitch (so as you walk across the field you also traverse a lifesize medieval town). So VR is as bonkers as ever. Magic Leap is finally giving us some insights to where those billions of dollars in angel investment went as it showed off its humanoid digital assistant called Mika – who you might genuinely mistake for a real person while using the One headset. In the background AI has begun its takeover of the art world netting close to half a million dollars for the first auctioned painting by an algorithm and it’s even managed to face-swap Harrison Ford into the role of adolescent Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story.