an international extravaganza of innovative social & physical distancing via VR, AR, video conferencing, virtual pub experiences delivering real beer, games, apps and of course, LEGO. Continue reading
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With the opening of the latest installation of the Star Wars saga this weekend, Michael and Michael start off this episode, recorded a week earlier, with the new AR capabilities of the Star Wars app. Michael M, being the enterprising person that he is, boldly managed to try this out by loading up the image on a website to allow the AR experience to work. The newest Starbucks opened in Shanghai and in addition to being the largest in the world, coming in at 30,000 sq ft, is also AR-enabled. Visitors to this Starbucks can walk around with their AR-enabled … Continue reading
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On an unseasonably warm Friday, Michael & Michael get together to discuss a sports to business application of virtual reality, that of training retail store employees to prepare for the oncoming rush of bargain hunters on Black Friday instead of the rush of oncoming defensive backs. A favorite topic of ours — augmented reality use methods — resurfaces in this episode, this time prompted by the recent Apple acquisition of a Canadian AR company called VRVANA, which leads to a conversation about miniaturization of this technology, ultimately embedding into bionic contact lenses, or even a potential direct optic nerve connection. … Continue reading
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BB-9E augmented reality In honor of Force Friday part deux, Michael and Michael geek out on all the awesomeness that is Star Wars merchandise now available for sale. You could use have a Lenovo-enabled lightsaber battle. You could build your own R2-D2 with a littleBits kit. You could own your very own Corellian freighter of your very own, putting together over 7,500 pieces in the new, and most awesome Millennium Falcon model from Lego. Switching gears, the team discusses the interaction among & between conversational artificial intelligences, and how they could do a platform of platform strategy play to talk … Continue reading
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