e416 — AR Space Invaders | Games At Work dot Biz

Street art on a building: Space Invaders 8bit character on a Mac Classic — Photo by Mike Von on Unsplash

Published 15 May 2023

While Andy is at the #WimbledonArtFair, Michael and Michael get things started for this episode with some of their favorite announcements from Google’s I/O conference. There was much too much for the co-hosts to cover in detail, however, a few topics caught their attention. Michael M liked Project Tailwind, a very personalized AI instance and the sign language game PopSign. Michael R’s attention was caught by the Pixel Fold, an unfoldable phone that expands to the size of a small tablet. Both of them liked the idea of the AR partnership with Taito to create a Space Invaders game. This idea then launched some imagining on several other classic arcade games that could be ported to AR.

A recent TED talk by Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri brought up a terrific conversation of computing fading to the background while also providing ample fodder for privacy and security concerns.

Wrapping up the episode for this week, the team focused on a couple of AI stories – one about Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak wanting clear identifying characteristics for AI generated content. The other deals with the complexities of AI comprehending humans ordering their lunch at a drive through window.

Are you a foldable phone fan? How do you think AI chatbots will deal with people making up their mind at a drive thru? What game would you like to play in AR? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz (our home for now) and let us know!

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Andy at the #WimbledonArtFair

We have officially exhibited our makes and crafts in an art show (and even made a few small sales) – fantastic time explaining #3Dprinting, Python, etc; and also seeing some friends who popped in to explore. Meeting other artists and starting to talk about collaborative opportunities/ commissions was also amazing. #wimbledonartfair @forgeandcraft

— Andy Piper (@andypiper) 2023-05-14T18:24:02.114Z