Spatial Computing

Metaverse

A persistent, shared virtual world where users interact through avatars using VR, AR, and other immersive technologies.

Augmented Reality

Technology overlaying digital information onto the real world through devices like smartphones or smart glasses.

Virtual Reality

A simulated experience using headsets to create an immersive, computer-generated three-dimensional environment.

Mixed Reality

Technology blending physical and digital worlds where real and virtual objects co-exist and interact in real time.

Extended Reality

An umbrella term encompassing augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, and all immersive technologies.

Brain-Computer Interface

A direct communication pathway between the brain's electrical activity and an external computing device.

Ambient Intelligence

Electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people, adapting to their needs.

Using synthetic DNA molecules to encode and store digital data with extreme density and longevity.

3D printing with materials that can change shape or properties over time in response to stimuli.

Additive manufacturing technology that creates three-dimensional objects by depositing material layer by layer.

The collective behaviour of decentralised, self-organised systems where simple agents following local rules produce emergent intelligent behaviour at the group level.

A cryptographic method enabling multiple parties to jointly compute a function without revealing their individual inputs.

A large AI model trained on broad data that can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks.

AI-generated synthetic media where a person's likeness is convincingly replaced or manipulated in images or videos.

Technologies for capturing carbon dioxide emissions from sources or the atmosphere and storing or utilising them.