This week co-host Michael R. welcomes back long time friend of the show – Andy Piper.
Michael shares his excitement and experiences from Apple’s WWDC conference – including all the other conferences that pop up around WWDC. We then dive in work that Porsche is doing leveraging AR. We also talk briefly about Amazon and the AR (audio reality App) that allows you to experience Skyrim on your Alexa. We look at machine learning via an innovative website called Lobe. And then wrap up the show with a look at how AI is leveraging video games to “learn”.
Co-host Michael M. is unfortunately unavailable but we will have him back next time – at GamesAtWork dot Biz. So sit back, and enjoy this week’s show!
Michael and Michael take a second podcast to 200 episodes with this show, and celebrate in a very appropriate way — and with no spoilers for Han Solo movie, nor spiders, and almost avoid talking about things that people put in/on their eyes.
Starting out with a follow on from last week’s show, Michael and Michael explore the GDPR compliant National Public Radio website, which is devoid of pictures, and very nearly looks like you would expect a radio station to be online.
Then, it’s on to drones — one that can follow a car driving around, and another that follows you around in order to prevent the raindrops from falling on your head.If that is not quite enough tracking enablement technology for one show, the pair also discusses the new $699 digital license plates being piloted in California, which can be personalized to show custom e-ink messages when the vehicle is not in motion.
The link that Michael M was afraid was going to show some kind of eye surgery turned out not to be quite so invasive — researchers at Newcastle University have created a technology with 3D printing used to create custom corneas, which are sorely in need by many people awaiting a transplant.
No show would be complete without a good VR/AR story, and this 200th episode does not disappoint.Michael and Michael share some thoughts about the Facebook capability called Venues, and what is done to give the participant in Venues a sense of space and being with a crowd, all via a virtual reality experience.The Microsoft Surface Hub group collaboration space is a big step forward in the evolution of the corporate collaboration solution from Microsoft and SAP that Michael M shared from way back in episode 137.Michael R pointed out that this new Surface Hub can allow for a person to be in the whiteboard — and speak naturally and face to face with people in a room thousands of miles away.
We hope that you are enjoying listening to these episodes as much as we enjoy producing them! Here’s to the next hundred!
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Events have conspired against the co-hosts getting together recently, yet, Michael and Michael have doubled-down on their schedules to ensure the recording and publication of this episode for the US holiday weekend.Michael R starts us off, sharing his experiences at the recently concluded Moogfest in Durham, which was an edu-staycation for him to experience new ideas in music, art and technology close to home.
Maps abound in this week’s episode of Games at Work!Starting with Google’s augmented reality experience with Google Maps, featuring a cute fox animation, that causes the co-hosts to wonder what the fox might say.Animated Dungeons & Dragons maps from Dynamic Dungeons transform a tabletop into a moving environment to lose yourself in — prompting both Michael and Michael to snap a couple pictures of their lead figures.
And what technology-focused podcast would be complete without marking this past Friday as the implementation date for the European GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) law — with everyone’s inbox being flooded with “we’ve updated our terms of service” notifications to comply with the new rules.
It is great to be back in the podcasting saddle, and there is much to share and discuss!What intrigues you in the world of mixed reality, robotics, social computing and games?Drop us a line here or on Twitter, Facebook, or any of our other channels, as we get ready for episode 200, coming up very soon!
Ylvis – The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) [Official music video HD] —
@jdolcourt tweet on ARCore & ARKit compatibility —
Google demos how its AR software (ARCore) can play nice with Apple’s ARKit in a virtual world. Here, a Pixel 2 and iPhone 8 Plus play the same AR game #io18@CNETpic.twitter.com/CZogUImTxL
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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, and enable faster than light checkouts as the pregame, Michael and Michael kick off this episode of Games at Work, with the crowd roaring for their favorite high school eSports league.Speculation on eSports having an NCAA equivalent, as according to the post on the NFHS website, over 200 colleges in the US and Canada are not just looking for students with eSports skills, but also offering scholarships.
The film Minority Report has cropped up time and again in our podcast as an example of what the future could bring.In this episode, we have a story that references the film directly and talks about how rat brains have been used to improve on the machine learning of AI systems (vs neural nets) and that microexpressions and “behavioral anomalies” can be used to identify when a peaceful crowded marketplace may shift to something much more dangerous, and signal to security and safety personnel to move resources closer by.
Turning to our new robotic friends, Michael and Michael reflect on an article about people anthropomorphize their devices, in this particular case, a Rooba the owner called Rosie.Would you refuse an exchange for your robot friend, or insist that a repair person/drone/robot come out and fix your robot?
Last, harkening back to the SecondLife days, Mashable shares a story on the fun of Fortnight dance parties.Did I see that avatar do the electric boogaloo?
