Episode 331 — The Metaverse is so new

2007 Meeting in Secondlife

Robots, iOS security, LoTR Gollum game & building your own Metaverse. Continue reading

Episode 215 – Great Jumpin Robots

From parking tickets to parkour, robots are excelling at anything they put their artificial intelligence to. Continue reading

Episode 203 – Robotic Monks

After a quick vacation week Michael R. brings a meditative view back to the show with a Robotic Monk designed to welcome young visitors to temples in China. He then takes us deep on synthetics and their new religious beliefs as shown on the TV Show Humans. We then look at new robots from MIT that can walk, run, and climb stairs that are littered with debris – all with out any visual inputs. And we wrap the show with a bit of a discussion around the addictive behavior of games. Show Links Robotic Monk – https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/02/a-buddhist-temple-in-beijing-built-a-robotic-monk-to-spread-the-word/ Fisher Price Little … Continue reading

Episode 172 – Shining a light on AR

Michael and Michael are back — and take a long careful look at the newest capabilities that Apple is bringing to light in augmented reality with the new iOS 11 operating system.  Michael R has already downloaded the development framework, and has started bringing into mixed reality the digital test objects, to great effect.  The pictures included in this post are from Michael R’s experiments with the framework thus far, and it is quite amazing to see the fidelity of the objects, as well as the recognition by the software of the planes, shadows & angles of placement.  There much … Continue reading