e436 — Squishy Purple Doom

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Published 16 October 2023 Michael and Michael start off this show with the amazing news that friend of the podcast, Ian Hughes is on his 16th headset as he shared the unboxing of his shiny new Meta Quest 3.  Andy joins in the conversation, fresh from his flight from London, so all three co-hosts are in North Carolina for the recording of this episode!  Staying on the user experience theme, and connecting with a long-running interest of the co-hosts, Michael and Michael talk about a guitar used to control Doom.  Next up is a story about Brilliant Lab’s ChatGPT-powered monocle.  … Continue reading

Episode 233 — Back in the Saddle

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Back with a smorgasbord of stories on VR, AR, AI, IoT and robots! Continue reading

Episode 173 – Babel Fish

Computer to computer communications protocols used to start with a high pitched whine & crackle over a telephone line, using a modem – a modulator / demodulator – to establish a handshake.  Computer to computer interactions are nothing new — but AI to AI interfaces are becoming more and more common.  We discussed some of the ramifications in earlier episodes of the podcast — links below for those — and now we turn to how artificial intelligences create optimized methods of communication between themselves.  Like the Twitch example of two Google Home bots talking with one another, the first few … Continue reading