Episode 218 – Virtually Married

Marrying your best friend, when it is an AI bot, introduces more than one strange thing to your life. So does chatting with the dearly departed. VR/AR/MR stories, ionic drive & more. Continue reading

Episode 216 – Red Reef Redemption

Photo by Milos Prelevic on Unsplash

VR/AR adoption, New AR glasses from North, projected AR from Lightform, counterfeit detection from Meridiun, coral reef rejuvenation from LarvalBot. Continue reading

Episode 214 – Green Robots

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

Episode 209 – Driving Doom

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