e457 — It Looks Like You’re Recording a Podcast…!

11 pink paperclips arranged in a circle

Anthropic’s AI needle in a haystack test, MicrosoftClippy, Microsoft Bob, Dune and Matrix inspired user experiences and much more Continue reading

e447 — 23 and Games

Dungeons & Dragons adventure characters generated via DiffusionBee

Published 1 January 2024 Andy and Michael R are back while Michael M is away – and have a fantastic show on the DNA of 2023 in games. This episode starts with a stroll down the beginnings of Dungeons and Dragons, with Michael R sharing a couple of links from the Internet Archive.  He found a veritable treasure trove of documents, rulebooks and more.  A couple of which are in the show notes below.  Michael R noted that AD&D was not only about dungeons and dragons, with the same rules and mechanics applied to other sci-fi genres.  An additional example … Continue reading

e377 — Stray Cat Strut

It’s all about feline fun with #Stray; wearables, but maybe not for extreme weather (?); retail crossovers from physical to virtual and back again; and, upcoming movies and TV shows we’re excited about. Your weekly tech and geek news right here! Continue reading

Episode 355 — Metaverse Kicks

neon sneaker

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