Are We Living In A Simulation Or Creating It Now?

February 13, 2024 / robert englert

This NASA illustration helped inspire some of our earliest thinking on layered spherical information and is taken from a 2011 Science Update sheet on the Voyager Spacecraft depicting past and future exploration methods. It has also been described as *“a child in a 3D world unaware of other dimensions”*

(sphere) has been intrigued by the concept of the multiverse, where infinite overlapping worlds exist simultaneously and in parallel. Our first (sphere) patent describes how the opacity of one layer of visual information including our actual reality (where a camera system acts as the substitute for our eyes) could be adjusted to reveal another alternate reality or the blending of the two or the layering of augmented information on top of real reality. Precision optics, machine learning and computer vision converge to allow you to capture and explore other virtual worlds instantly through AR/VR/MR no matter where you are. If we are not already living in a simulation, we may be in the early stages of building it now.

The Mixed Reality Future We Predicted is Here

January 17, 2024 / robert englert

Produced in June 2013, this short experience concept predicted what future AR/VR/MR interfaces might look like by the year 2020. Relevant augmented information would be displayed by an AI anticipating user needs through geo-location, biometrics and the mobile web. Of course the Stones will never go out of style.

(sphere) invented the world's first and only, single-lens 360° full-spherical image capture solution. We solved one of the hardest problems in optics (4 pi steradians) specifically for the AR/VR/MR market, allowing immersive content to be captured and shared to anyone, anywhere, in real-time using existing workflows. Patented (sphere) technology allows for more accurate, faster and efficient ML processing to streamline embedded AI decision-making at the edge.

(sphere) Films James Webb Space Telescope JWST for NASA

December 21, 2021 / robert englert

(sphere) was allowed inside the world’s largest clean room to film JWST at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center before it is launched into space, never to return to earth.

(sphere) was given exclusive and unprecedented access to the James Webb Space Telescope in order to create a high resolution immersive VR experience. NASA describes the James Webb Space Telescope as a time machine that will look back to the earliest formation of stars and galaxies in the universe.