Episode 139 – It’s All About The Rings Baby!

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This week Michael and Michael look at another example of NFC Rings, this time by Visa for the athletes of the 2016 Olympics. We also investigate a new way to combine AR and VR with Occipital’s new purchase. And talk about a few of our new games we are playing. Check it out!

Show Links
Visa’s Olympic NFC Rings
Occipital buys Replica Labs
Magic Leap
The World’s most secretive startup

Games we are playing:
Star Trek – Timelines
Shark Evolution

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Episode 138 – Commitment Rings

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The Michael’s look at the Internet of Things thru NFC based Commitment Rings, trying to decide if it would really provide the value that the site claims. Would you be able to keep your partner from watching your favorite show, before you? Can we tie it to blockchain (short answer – NO!). Can you use this for secure transaction? What about restaurant use cases? Then we switch to BTLE as a potential solution… ultimately we think thru interesting use cases… would love to hear your ideas. Michael M. then transitions to his recent experience using Square as a vendor… have you accepted cash via square yet?
Michael R. then takes us thru his experiences at MoogFest…Check out his wrap up over here. After 30 years, Michael also learns to say Moog (Think Vogue) not Moog (Moo GH). We look at cool tools like the Artiphon and the Brother From Another Mother – BFAM. And some really great music by Silver Apples (Check out the embedded video above.

Finally we wrap up with a few games.. and Michael R. get’s hooked on Michael M’s recommendation of Exploding Kittens!

Show Links:
Commitment Rings
NFC Ring KickStarter
CityBBQ
Square
MoogFest – Durham
MoogFest – Wrap-Up
Brother From Another Mother
Artiphon
Max-MSP
Sliver Apples
Slither – IO
Exploding Kittens

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Episode 137 – Augmented Reality in the Boardroom & Beyond

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Episode 137 – Augmented Reality in the Boardroom & Beyond was recorded on Friday, the 20th of May 2016.

Microsoft’s Hololens NFL of the future —

Phaedra and Michael M take time out to talk about mental wellness gaming applications, a “first person shooter” from the perspective of a civillian struggling to survive, and corporate collaboration applications making great use of data visualizations for problem solving now, and for the opportunities for machine learning and augmented reality for the future.

Michael was very impressed with the Microsoft Surface he saw at the SAP SapphireNow coference in Orlando last week, and made the connection for how the Microsoft Hololens product could make the collaboration even greater with augmented reality — not just for business applications, but also for medical scenaros, where a specialist could ‘beam into’ the operating theater, and highlight what needed to be done for the surgeons in the room.

We hope you enjoy the show!

Selected Links

War of Mine by 11 bit studios — http://www.11bitstudios.com/games/16/this-war-of-mine

SapphireNow — http://events.sap.com/sapphirenow/en/home

Knowledge Workspace (play at 1:26:00 mark) — http://tinyurl.com/zx5blzq

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Digital Boardroom — (play at 38:51 mark) — http://tinyurl.com/h6zgbj6

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Virtual Reality & the Digital Boardroom — http://blog-sap.com/analytics/2016/05/16/check-out-the-sap-digital-boardroom-and-virtual-reality-experience-at-sapphirenow/

Washington Post “Why virtual reality won’t transform sports viewing” — https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/05/16/why-virtual-reality-wont-transform-sports-viewing/

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Episode 136 – So Lo

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So LoWelcome listeners! This weeks show is short and sweet. Due to uncontrollable events, we have a short solo show with our Co-Host and Co-Founder – Michael R. Somehow the entire month of April slipped by without our team being able to get together, and after a couple last minute, unforeseen events occurred, we decided to put together a short show about some of the cool links we’ve gotten in our Twitter feed over at GamesAtWork_Biz. So enjoy the abbreviated show, and drop us your feedback. We’d love to hear from you.

Show Links
Now available on the Google Play Store
BBC and Netflix team up for Watership Down animated Miniseries
Our Episode about the game – The Warren
Windows 95 on the Apple Watch
Minecraft on Gear VR
Mac OS 7.5 on Apple Watch
China unveils robot soldier for controlling human riots

Games I am playing
Star Trek – Timelines

Coming Soon
MoogFest 2016

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