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Harnessing the Power of the Immersive Experience

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talk by Leigh Christie–Director, Isobar NowLab Americas

Advances in technology require experimentation.

Isobar NowLab are dedicated to hacking, experimenting, fabricating, making and breaking to push innovation in a distributed network of labs. 2017 has shown enormous progress on emerging touchpoints, artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML), Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT) and VR. Marketers should look for ways to leverage these technologies to expand digital offerings.

Most of our technological goals are based on science fiction. The Media Technology Holy Grails include:

  1. Star Trek Holodeck
  2. Universal Translator
  3. True 3D Holograms
  4. Telepathy
  5. Minority Report
  6. Hive Mind
  7. Reality Recorder
  8. VR retina displays
  9. “Her” aka Chatbots
  10. Artificial Intelligence

Some of those are already here, albeit in their infancy.

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  • Star Trek Holodeck – Virtual Reality
  • True 3D Holograms – Avatars
  • Minority Report – Kinect, Leap Motion, Primesense

Setting Up a WordPress Development Environment with DesktopServer and GIT for WP Engine

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One of the challenges in using WordPress with an external hosting environment and multiple developers is the creation of a local development environment with version control that will work seamlessly. Fortunately, using a combination of DesktopServer from ServerPress, an industrial-strength WordPress host like WP Engine and Git, you can have multiple development environments up and running relatively quickly. In this tutorial, I will explain how to create and set up a local WordPress development environment on a Mac, using DesktopServer by ServerPress, using a WP Engine backup point and then set up Git for version control. If you don’t use WP Engine, this tutorial probably won’t be very helpful.

I highly recommend WP Engine for reliable, secure WordPress hosting. They provide excellent customer service, daily backups and an easy restore process, a staging environment, git for version control, and much more! I like them so much that I would recommend them to anyone (even if I wasn’t part of their affiliate program, which I joined after using their service).

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