The final day of Moogfest is always interesting. Seeing which artists will do talks on Sunday morning, and what media will be presented in the afternoon. This year, there did not have a movie, but they did have LightBeam playing a really laid back ambient set with visualizations from plant biometric visualizations. The highlight for […]
One of the highlights for 2019 was going to be getting to see and hear Thomas Dolby; unfortunately he was ill and his doctors would not let him travel on Saturday to be at Moogfest. While this was a big disappointment for me, it was still a pretty fun day with some amazing music. I […]
A few video highlights from Day’s 1 and 2
Today I got the chance to do a few workshops that I had signed up for. The first session was done by NC State and took everyone thru doing some WebVR development using AFrame and a site called Glitch. Glitch allows you to setup a WebVR environment quickly and easily. Fun class, reminded me of […]
Today is day 1 of Moogfest 2019. Got here in time to pick up my pass at 10am (when it opened) and they were still setting up the place. To say setting up the place, is a bit of an understatement. The didn’t even have the tent fully constructed. The VIP lounge wasn’t built yet, […]
So today Tesla held their first Autonomy for analysts. They described their own customer neural network chip for self driving. Began in 2016, Dec. 2017 first chip from manufacturing , July 2018 – chip full production, Dec. 2018 – started to retrofit employee cars, March 2019 – model S and X added to new cars, […]
In the last post I talked about how conversations are a powerful way of interacting with a computer. A conversation must have context and memory in order to enable this power. Simple commands and individual queries are good, but not sufficient to enable the UX of the future. Now let’s look at augmented reality (AR). […]
When we think of personal assistants today, we think of call centers and home automation – “Hey Alexa – turn on the lights”, “I see that your phone number is 202-555-1212 – please press or say ‘1’ if you are calling from the number on your account”. This is not a conversation, this is a […]
I’ve been talking about the idea of how our computer experiences will be changing for years over at my podcast – Game At Work dot Biz. Much of the time I’ve talked about this in fits ands starts, and as such I don’t think I’ve done a good enough job of explaining my thoughts in […]
This week, I was glad to see my old friend and former fellow 8Bar teammate Ian Hughes, for drinks while he was in town. I found out he was attending the Quarterly meeting of the Industrial Internet Consortium in Raleigh, NC. Ian is now an analysts at 451 Research and focuses on AR/VR and the […]
