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…

Photo by H Fall on Unsplash Published 20 May 2024 Michael and Michael teleport into the virtual studio to talk tech. In this episode, the team talks about the latest AI stories, Andy’s Apple Vision Pro experience, and recent announcements from Google I/O. Michael and Michael start off with the concept of synthetic humans, as a way to more rapidly a…

Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash Published 6 May 2024 Andy, Michael and Michael squeeze into the virtual studio to talk tech. In this episode, the team share some tech happy birthday wishes, takes a side trip down the Rabbit R1 hole, discuss screens and buttons in automobiles, check into real world implementations of video games and gaming versions…

Picture by Michael Martine at Bullock’s Bar-B-Cue, Durham NC, April 2024 Published 29 April 2024 Michael and Michael get together to talk tech while Andy is away. In this episode, the team focuses on a variety of AI topics including AI hardware in the form of the Rabbit R1, the new Logitech AI Mouse, smart gloves to teach piano playing. Michael M s…

Michael Rowe via DiffusionBee – Prompt – “Robots defining a Modding KickStarter, Realistic, Dynamic Lighting, by H.R. Giger” This week, while Michael M is in the woods, Andy and Michael R. go thru the week’s links focusing back on our roots talking about various gaming stories, including: Life by You’s open approach to modding, dragon based table t…

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.

Immersive technologies from Microsoft, Disney, Samsung and of course, Apple. Nightshade for AI model & cooked.wiki disruption and the last flight of Ingenuity.

AI, humanoid robots that make coffee and fold laundry, Apple’s Vision Pro, Michael R’s Wasted Time Pro and a moment of zen in an emoji garden

AI, Automotive and HCI innovations at CES 2024, VR headset announcements and the creation of the Readyverse.

Copilot keyboard key, VR trackball for your feet, bricks (Tetris, cars, LEGO) and a whole lot more for the first recorded episode of 2024!