Episode 235 — Bots on Batuu

stormtrooper & c3po

VR, AR, music and droids of all sorts: iRobot, Laundroid, and of course the Star Wars variety, as seen at the newly opened Disney’s Galaxy’s Edge land. Continue reading

Episode 221 – Doomed, I Tell You

Serious games for corporate education & engagement, data visualization for cancer & Doom, wearable for getting help with opioid overdoses and wrap up of 2018. Continue reading

Episode 198 – Goooooooo eTeam!

Rah, rah, sis, boom, bah! Wizard, Elf, Forward and Halfback We’re the best of the pack. Drink that mana, slice that mob, buff your stats & and win that raid! No better team have you yet played. Our eTeam is better than your eTeam — We’re the best in the galaxy! Goooooooo eTeam! After a flyby (+/- 5 parsecs) of the Star Wars AR Holochess game for your iPhone and the Dent Reality example of using ARKit to enable grocery shoppers the ability to do way finding in the store, identify what would compliment the ingredients already in your cart, … Continue reading

Episode 194 – Human Roombas

Michael and Michael get back together to talk about the latest smart home news, starting with the Amazon acquisition of Ring.  The pair speculate on what this level of integration in the Amazon ecosystem could bring — everything from delivery verification, to drone delivery enablement to package recipient identification. Mobile apps captured their attention with location-based & experience-driven marketing as well as with augmented reality.  Augmented reality also features in this week’s episode in the form of a motorcycle helmet prototype  and the upcoming Ghostbusters mobile game. What do you think will be the next big thing in IoT?   … Continue reading