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Episode 214 – Green Robots

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Mini robot in grass

It isn’t easy being green, unless you are a robot with a green thumb.   The cohosts prepare to welcome their new, green robotic overlords in this episode, starting off with Iron Ox and a story about how they have created an autonomous farm.   Continuing on the robotic theme, the pair marvel at HRP-5P, a humanoid robot that is adept at installing drywall and imagine how such a robot could be exceptionally useful for installing drywall in the ceiling.  It is also interesting that the robot is very human in appearance, with arms & legs for locomotion.   Pivoting … Continue reading →

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Episode 212 – Virtually Browsing

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Immersive mixed reality with examples from Mozilla’s Firefox Reality browser, Angry Birds with the Magic Leap One, #FlorenceNC hurricane flooding visualization and the filming of the new WatchOS 5 organic watch faces. Continue reading →

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Episode 209 – Driving Doom

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Michael and Michael start off this episode with a discussion on the classic first person shooter Doom, and how in a recent episode of the Boundary Break YouTube series, we are treated to a behind the scenes view of how the Doom 2016 developers wrote the code for the game.  It is fascinating to see where some of the off-camera elements are left out (such as the face, torso, etc of the shooter) and where sometimes the details are very richly embellished, even if no one will ever see them in the game. Moving (heh) along, the co-hosts imagine a … Continue reading →

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Episode 205 – Fashionable AR

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Michael and Michael start off this episode with a ready to weAR t-shirt from Curiscope, that displays the wearer’s heart rate in addition to a representation of heart & other organs in the torso.  This leads to a conversation on what more could be done in a hospital setting, to allow for a visualization for the medical professionals seeing & absorbing data about their patients in a new way.  Continuing the fashion theme, the team turns to the reward structure that Tommy Hilfiger is building into the Xplore line, with embedded IoT chipset & companion app to reward influencers for … Continue reading →

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