For example, the team envisages a system that monitors the brakes of all of the cars.
The team envisages a "light beamer," a kilometer-sized array of possibly hundreds or thousands of powerful lasers producing a combined beam of 100 gigawatts.
As well as potential uses for desalination, the team envisages wider industrial applications for "on-demand filtration capable of filtering out ions according to their sizes".
While Unlimited Corridor is primarily a research project to explore how the boundary between reality and the brain's perception of it can be manipulated, the team envisage their technique having potential outside the lab, for entertainment, education and simulation use-cases — noting that entertainment companies have expressed interest, including one that has started experimenting.
Future features the team envisages adding — if they end up turning this hack into a fully fledged app — could be a button to send data to law enforcement (if you've spotted someone driving dangerously, say), and one to send data to your insurance company, says Ralston.
Beyond helping people create a more lasting impression with their selfies, the team envisages applications for the algorithm to enhance ad/marketing content, improve teaching resources and even power health-related applications aimed at improving a person's capacity to remember or even as a way to diagnose errors in memory and perhaps identify particular medical conditions.
The writing team envisaged Danes in the role from the beginning — for the first six drafts of their pilot they called their character Claire.
After at least nine months, the craft would reach Earth orbit and dock with the International Space Station before the astronauts could take a Soyuz capsule home, the team envisages.
But the team envisage that a blood test could be used in combination with other information about breast cancer risk, such as family history and the presence of other known breast cancer genes, to help identify those women at greatest risk of developing the disease in the future.
The BigID platform will be offered as an on premise solution for what the team envisages will be the majority of its customers (larger enterprises) although Sirota says it does also plan to offer the tool as a cloud service for smaller businesses that don't want to manage the platform themselves.
