CableLabs | The Near Future
- TF
- Jun 4, 2024
- 1 min read
While many companies grapple with envisioning the future, CableLabs has consistently delivered a series of short films that illustrate how connected and immersive technologies will transform work, home and school.
The series, "The Near Future," started about seven years ago, is produced by the non-profit R&D consortium membership corporation, CableLabs, founded by John Malone, initially led by Richard Green, and conceived by Dick Leghorn.
FUTURE OF HOME
A Better Place —a sincere and practical view on how technology will be essential to the trend of aging-at-home, highlighting developments such as smart drugs, advanced MRI's, nano surgery, remote diagnostics, intelligent virtual agent hospital interfaces, sensory body reads, networked health care and smart cities.
Bring it On —re-imagines the home environment as a center for work, learning and play transformed by autonomous cars, immersive media, holographic tables, local VR, remote VR, distance VR, video walls, and edge computing.
Step Inside—brings to life the personal dreams of a young couple, showcasing a tech-enabled future that's embedded with light-field displays, holographic telepresence, advanced AI avatars, AR smart glasses, and quantum computing.
FUTURE OF SCHOOL
Ready for Anything—envisions how tomorrow's schools will be empowered by technologies such as personal AI assistants, AR/VR and light field holodecks.
FUTURE OF WORK
Diverse Thinkers Wanted —a real-time employee adaptability test modeled on a scavenger hunt, featuring on-call mixed reality, public light field, robotaxis, layered video conferencing, holo-rooms, alternative interfacing, affordable light field units and ear-piece AI.