Deck:
A virtual smart city of the future.
Author Bio:
Steve Mitnick is Editor-in-Chief of Public Utilities Fortnightly and author of the book “Lines Down: How We Pay, Use, Value Grid Electricity Amid the Storm.”
This year's convention of the Edison Electric Institute, June 11-14, 2017, featured a virtual reality demonstration that anyone could try. Including EPRI's senior vice president Anda Ray and PUF's own Steve Mitnick, shown in these pictures. Anda and Steve traveled through a smart city of the future. With Anda in some of the pics is the VR developer Kristian Bouw of Notion Theory. See more pictures here.
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