Episode 83 – 50 Years of BASIC

Can you game a chat client? The team at We Chat thinks that you can. We discuss that and how Google gamed their Google IO registration process with a wonderful little Easter Egg for 300 lucky developers.

BASIC is 50 and the Michaels celebrate by talking about games and gaming technology. What was your first program? We begin with something like:
10 print “Hello!”
20 goto 10

Or this:
10 print “* * * * * * * * * * *”
20 print ” * * * * * * * * * * *”
30 goto 10

Show Links:
We Chat
Not fiddy-cent – but Tencent
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Easter Egg in Google IO Game
BASIC is 50!!

Episode 82 – Better Than Fridge Magnets

The Michaels welcome Ian Hughes (AKA – ePredator) to the show this week to discuss developing simulation games for hospital emergency staff. Michael M. connects up from his hotel room in Hong Kong (we apologies for his audio quality in advance), we also have Ian Hughes from sunny Basingstoke. Ian has been working on building a hospital simulator on Unity3D using Photon, and discusses with us the technological challenges of dealing with various language implementations. We also discuss the challenges of getting started with coding, given that today people need to do fully understand all aspects of the solution, and not just programming in one language or model.

Ian describes how to make a realistic simulation, he need to write a telephone system, a collaborative documents system, and screaming patients.

We end the show with a discussion of augmented reality, virtual mirrors, and Choi Kwang Do marshal arts.

Show Links:
The History of Basingstoke
Imperial Hospital Emergency simulator
Unity 3D
Photon for Unity
Basingstoke Choi Kwang Do
Choi Kwang Do – Marshal Arts

Ian’s latest work:
@epredator
Life at the Feeding Edge
The Secret Agent is on whose side?
Flush Magazine articles

Episode 81 – One Step Beyond

This week the Michael’s talk about a few cool things that they’ve been up to over the last two weeks. Michael M. talks about how augmented reality can be used in the modern manufacturing facility. While Michael R. Talks about augmented reality is being experienced with his new set of Google Glass. And then we take it ONE STEP BEYOND into 3D Printing! Drop us comments on your thoughts on any of our social sites, including this blog!

Show Links:
Hannover Messe
SmartFactoryOWL
Cement Pond
Training Robots
Don’t be a GlassHole
Five Days with Glass
Glass-Glasses Adapter
Filament Mount
Printing 10 houses in a day
3d House Printer

Episode 80 – ExtraLife!

Phaedra and Michael R. Talk about Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus VR, and what it may mean for gaming. We also speculate on what Facebook may do with this new technology, as well as what other players may be in the game worth watching. Michael discusses his experience with the Glyph at MacWorld this year. And while Michael get’s a number wrong, how much has been invested in Oculus already, we correct it in the links below.We then look at Prediction markets and if the wisdom of crowds is actually smarter than the CIA?

We end the show with a few quick interviews with the team at Extra-Life.org. Check them out!

Show Links:
Occulus Rift Acquired by Facebook
Occulus VR Investment to date
Avegant
Glyph
Sony VR Headset
Smarter than a CIA Agent?
Prediction Markets
Wisdom of Crowds
Chore-inator for kids
BabiIs
Age of Context – by Robert Scobble and Shae Israel
Extra-Life – Gaming to help Kids
Michael’s Day by Day Account of MacWorld
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3