Having seen what augmented reality was capable of, the NTS team could imagine how it might be integrated with more traditional media such as theatre scripts.
"When we just started probably one out of a thousand people knew what augmented reality was," CTO Omar Tayeb told TechCrunch.
Suddenly everyone understands what "augmented reality" means and how an artificial digital world can be mapped onto the real physical world.
In other words, the symposium is an attempt to understand what augmented reality, the mixing of the real world with computer data, really is and what consequences the concept will have on the society.
We'll likely see a trend toward cheaper, standalone headsets à la the Oculus Go, but most companies are currently a lot more interested in what augmented reality holds in the short-term.
As someone who has logged hundreds of hours in a headset, reported on the space and been an advocate of what augmented and virtual realities could do for us, I'm pretty excited.
"You don't have to understand what augmented reality is, you don't have to understand the technical specifics behind 3D printing," he says, "because when it's in a story form and people are using it, you totally get it, you totally understand the potential of the technology".
Though Google's early efforts in VR and AR may not have reached the average Android user, as the company scales its vision for what augmented and virtual reality mean to its overall business, it's been devoting major attention as of late to the developers that have taken to building early experiences.
That finding, however, didn't explain what the augmented cellular cleaning meant for the well-being of the mice, so the researchers developed a new strain of mouse that showed normal autophagy levels in most instances, but could not increase its cellular self-eating in response to stress.
