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Podcast: The Future of Everything
Episode: Kayvon Fatahalian: How the pandemic changed the virtual world
Description: For experts in digital graphics and visual perception, like computer scientist Kayvon Fatahalian, the recent pandemic has been a call to arms. Fatahalian says he and others in the field felt an urgent responsibility to harness their background in computer graphics and interactive techniques to improve life for people across the globe. He says new, virtual tools have proved better than past, real ones in improving certain aspects of our everyday lives.Β His job as a computer scientist is to make those experiences more successful, more of the time. His role as a teacher is a...