e472 — Pixels, Prices and Pico

Fourth of July fireworks in Kenan Stadium, Chapel Hill, NC 2012

e472 with Andy and Michael R, focusing on Generative Reality, gamification of automotive safety, AI algorithmic price segmentation, drones vs fireworks, the future of Futurama and more! Continue reading

e446 — Laser Light Show

green lasers shining across the lake and through the trees at the Chicago Botanic Gardens #LightScapeChicago

Stories about human-computer interactions with lasers, lights & LLMs. Creating universes from LLM prompts, disintermediating Craigslist fediverse-style and musings on MarketPub creating a fediverse of marketplaces. and… Vintage Vinyl Continue reading

Episode 359 – Speak Friend & Enter

doorway with open door leading to another door

Manifest your reality into the #metaverse via voice with @Meta ’s Builder Bot, stroll down the fashion district in @decentraland ‘s #MVFW, buy @colbertlateshow ’s #NFT, earn in-game money that can be exported in @playhyperspace  Words are powerful, and with Meta’s new “Builder Bot”, you can speak what you want to manifest into your personal virtual world.  This strikes Andy as a starting point that could eventually lead to something like the Star Trek Holodeck.  The co-hosts then also discuss how the artificial intelligence behind the Builder Bot can become more tuned to the user, so that it gets to … Continue reading

Episode 176 – I Got Slimed!

Who you gonna call?  Three friends, we hope, to rush over to Madam Tussaud’s Ghostbusters Experience to check out the Void’s “Hyper-Reality” take on your becoming a Ghostbuster, and immersing yourselves in a full body simulation, where you can walk around wherever you wish within the bounds of the simulation.  This is different from the classic VR experiences where you are tethered to a small location by the wire on your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.  From the YouTube video, this mixed reality experience overlays the special effects of the Ghostbusters world over real world objects, wearing a proton accelerator … Continue reading