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Born of many fathers, VR and AR grow in popularity In doing research for my book on Augmented Reality, I realized many people were explaining AR and VR, what it is, how it works, who ...
The AIB is here to tell ya, I’m not dead yet
PC sales are down, it’s the end of an era, woe oh woe, what’ll we do? Relax. The hysterical headlines of shares pushers on Seeking Alpha, Motley Fool, and various “news” sites are enough to ...
My personal companion doesn’t know who the hell I am
And I no longer care When I pick up my phone, in a hurry, to try and get Shazam to wake up in time to listen to the song I am hearing, I wonder if ...
The 10 million Frequent Pixels Club
Just like the airlines and hotels I’ve been thinking about establishing a Frequent Pixels Club. You know, how you can accumulate miles from an airline based on how frequently you fly, or points from a ...
THE QUARTER IN REVIEW – Say, what’s that thing on your head?
The first quarter was dominated by VR and, to a lesser extent, AR and its confused cousin MR (mixed reality). As I write this, the Microsoft Build event has just happened and Hololens has marched ...
I’m sick of hearing about VR sickness
Minorities aren’t going to determine this market I remember when we were trying to get people interested in stereo 3D (S3D) and all we heard about was, “I’m not wearing those goofy glasses.” Right, except ...
Are we entering a new era?
Maybe My cynical been-there done-that, you-can’t-impress-me attitude may be breaking down. Leonard Cohen sings, “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” He’s right. The ability to enter into immersive experiences ...
Real or virtual—is it legal?
Another side of photorealism and VR—can AI save the day? As focused as I have been over the decades on the realism and suspension of disbelief in computer graphics, and as naïve as it sounds, ...
The world tilted, Sir Hossein Yassaie steps down
Creator of the GPU IP industry, Sir Hossein Yassaie passes the baton Sir Dr. Hossein Yassaie has stepped down as Chief Executive of Imagination Technologies, and Andrew Heath, one of the non-executive directors, has been ...
The moment of truth gets closer –
Too early to call it DOA, but definitely among the walking wounded The good news and bad about being a first mover is everyone looks to you as a bellwether—the leading sheep of a flock. ...
On being isolated – Is a VR face sucker that bad?
I have, and may continue to, ridicule the idea of people voluntarily spending long periods of time in a VR HMD. Military, surgeons, and welders do it because they have to, but otherwise it’s a ...
CES—Convoluted Excruciating Suffering
Where people actually pay to be tortured Last year more than 176,000 visitors came to Las Vegas (population 600,000) to stand in line waiting for taxis, food, and a chance to peek at gadgets of ...