Photo by Cristina Hernández on Unsplash Published 11 August 2024 Co-hosts Andy, Michael and Michael start things off with a couple of callbacks to last week’s episode, including Ian Hughes’ reply on exoframes, the Logitech Forever Mouse and the reports of the rate of returns on the Humane AI pin. Switching then to a story local to Michael, Michael …

Photo by Pablo Gentile on Unsplash Published 5 August 2024 The co-hosts are back to full strength with Andy, Michael and Michael getting together to talk through the week’s stories. The cohosts start things off with several examples of telepresence. The Open-TeleVision project provides for teleoperation of a remote robot using VR headsets like the …

Photo by Thomas Bormans on Unsplash Published 29 July 2024 Michael R and Andy get together to talk through this week’s stories while Michael M is away. The cohosts start things off with a discussion on scientific discoveries stemming from tiny backpacks placed on giant (relatively) hummingbirds. Continuing the flying theme, next up is an article de…

Photo by Atypeek Dgn: https://www.pexels.com/photo/billiard-ball-on-bright-orange-surface-5986316/ Published 22 July 2024 Michael R and Andy get together to talk through this week’s stories while Michael M is away. The cohosts start things off with a discussion on The Sphere, the Las Vegas landmark which uses 1.23 million LED ‘pucks’ to put on an i…

Photo by Michael Martine, Fourth of July fireworks in Kenan Stadium, Chapel Hill, NC 2012 Published 15 July 2024 Michael R and Andy get together to talk through this week’s stories while Michael M is away. The co-hosts discuss Generative Reality, Renault’s gamification of automotive safety, AI algorithmic price segmentation, drones vs fireworks, th…

Photo by Iggy Love on Unsplash Published 8 July 2024 Michael M and Michael R get together to talk through this week’s stories while Andy is away. In this episode, Michael and Michael dive deep into a variety of AI themes, including regulation, getting OpenAI to reveal instruction sets, mocap before turning to ghost jobs, new exoskeletons and Meta’s…

Photo by Michael Rowe Published 1 July 2024 Andy and Michael M get together to talk through the backlog of articles and stories from the past weeks. While Michael R is away this time, in this episode Andy and Michael M pull on an AI thread exposed through a set of old and new games, discuss FinalSpark’s Neuroplatform for biocomputing and marvel at …

Michael’s WWDC Content Schedule Michael and Andy are off this week, so Michael R. takes time to give a detailed look at what he learned at this year’s WWDC (WorldWide Developer’s Conference) from Apple. He focuses on how he approaches reviewing all the content, what was interesting for him, and how you can get the most out of WWDC when attending re…

Flappy Bird Arcade Game photo by Andy Piper June 2024 Published 10 June 2024 Andy and Michael R get together to talk through this week’s articles. In this episode, the team discusses virtual reality work, entertainment and games along with space science. Andy starts things off with his recent experiences at the Electromagnetic Field festival. With …

Photo by Ingo Schulz on Unsplash Published 27 May 2024 Michael R and Andy get together to talk through this week’s articles. In this episode, the team talks about the Daylight DC-1 computer, Welsh and Korean metaverse examples, AI and much more. The co-hosts start things off with the Daylight DC-1 computer – a tablet that tempted both Andy and Mich…

AI and GenAI helping to create user research, vacation itineraries, music, and even dating compatibility. First eyes-on impressions of the Apple Vision Pro, a LEGO Barad-Dûr and drones that recharge on power lines.

Roblox virtual shopping, going down the Rabbit R1 hole, hardware & software integration, Super Nintendo World real world amusement park, BASIC & SL21B birthday wishes

AI Rabbit & mice, smart gloves to teach you to play the piano, empowerment maximization, current state of Apple Vision Pro and an Excel-based Fallout game.

We go thru the week's links: Life by You's open approach to modding, dragon based table top games, and a gaming studio supports other from indie developers.

AI assistants that never forget, Humane’s AI Pin, training LLMs, Dyson’s example of using AR to gamify vacuuming, and persona updates for the Apple Vision Pro

Security, Open Source and more security, with GenAI challenges with art, name, image & likeness and an updated set of AR swim goggles.

AI generated music, wearable etiquette and AR user experience with a dollop of security & privacy, concluding with retro software & hardware.

AI generated music with Suno.ai, an early look at the US DOJ complaint against Apple, pendulums as a source of randomness and a plethora of security and privacy articles.

AI thought experiment on replacing all music with Taylor Swift covers, AI software engineers, engaging talks at Monkigras & NASA’s game “The Lost Universe”

Anthropic's AI needle in a haystack test, MicrosoftClippy, Microsoft Bob, Dune and Matrix inspired user experiences and much more

The most recent spatial computing experiences, new innovations in AI from Google’s Genie, content badges signaling human created material, and a lively discussion on skill disintermediation.

An episode focused on Science Fiction leading to Innovative Science Fact! Star Trek and Douglas Adams inspired technology, AI, games, XR and spatial computing. Glad to be of service!

An AI & robot powered episode, replete with Goody2, Chess-GPT, Sora, MagicLab, Snorble, Grok, Doly and more!

First week of productive use of the Vision Pro, Disney metaverse and physical placemaking with Epic / epic partnerships, streaming AI poetry and much more!

Michael R. shares his experiences before and after picking up his new Apple Vision Pro.