Episode 355 — Metaverse Kicks

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Metaverse coworking environments such as #lemverse @sococo @gather_town @getTeamflow @branch_gg , AR sneaker shopping and lessons to be learned from medieval sleeping practices All three co-hosts are back in force for this week’s episode, starting off with more metaverse topics than you can shake an AR stick at.  The team starts off this week’s episode with a discussion on recent patents filed by Meta to attract younger users to the platform.  This is followed by Michael, Michael and Andy getting distracted by playing with the Lemverse cowering environment, and remembering prior other examples of virtual coworking environments discussed in Games … Continue reading

Episode 271 — Conference Royale

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Digital twinning real world virtual conferences with game & MMORPG spaces, MIT’s gesture control drone pilots, smart contact lenses for medicine and AR, and a healthy dose of games. Continue reading

Episode 197 – Looking for AR

Michael and Michael are looking for AR, in all the right places!  The Games at Work team starts  things off right, with a discussion on the final games of the NCAA basketball tournament, and how your best braketology picks can now hover above your screen in augmented reality (example above).  Earlier today, during the Woody Durham Celebration of Life, Michael M spoke with a friend about how technology has enabled the game experience to get better and better over the years, first with radio, then television, then the graphics ribbon to show the score & stats, then to Intel’s current … Continue reading

Episode 185 – Transparency

Jimmy Kimmel’s Tonight Show, Tonight Showbotics, featuring Hanson Robotics’ Sophia They’re playing basketball! 🏀 Both for the start of the college basketball season, and at the state fair.  Michael R found an interesting article about how one can win those games of skill and chance at the state fair, leveraging a combination of science and professional sports talent. In addition to making transparent the ways that a Mets pitcher can win the games at your local carnival, the team takes a look at the transparent skull of Sophia, the artificial intelligence android by Hanson Robotics, how NPR is crowdsourcing journalism … Continue reading