Episode 210 – HodgePodgePaloosa

Michael and Michael reprise the mobile hotel concept from last week to start off this week’s episode, with Volvo’s 360c concept car which takes into account the distances and speed necessary to make such a concept viable.  Consistent with the excellent Swedish design Volvo is known for, the physical seats in the vehicle, as well as the user experience to show the distance to destination on the glass reminded the co-hosts of a head up display.   After reacting briefly to the VR360 article noting that VR headset shipments have gone down year to year, and the Business Insider article … Continue reading

Episode 201 – WWDC, AR and AI

This week co-host Michael R. welcomes back long time friend of the show – Andy Piper. Michael shares his excitement and experiences from Apple’s WWDC conference – including all the other conferences that pop up around WWDC. We then dive in work that Porsche is doing leveraging AR. We also talk briefly about Amazon and the AR (audio reality App) that allows you to experience Skyrim on your Alexa. We look at machine learning via an innovative website called Lobe. And then wrap up the show with a look at how AI is leveraging video games to “learn”. Co-host Michael … Continue reading

Episode 177 – What could possibly go wrong?

This episode has it all — from virtual reality, to augmented reality to mixed reality to real reality. Starting off with UPS’s VR driver training for their truck fleet, journeying to the Apollo astronaut training efforts with the Zeiss Model VI Planetarium Projector and the excitement of Apple’s recent World Wide Developer’s Conference, Michael and Michael discuss the exciting developments caused Tim Cook to say that he’s so excited about it, “I just want to yell out and scream.” Michael and Michael reminisce about the early days of the US Army’s use of there.com to provide a “real” virtual reality … Continue reading