Robert Dow

What is it that’s so exciting about VR?

The military has been using VR to train soldiers, pilots, ship captains, and tank drivers for over a decade. Surgeons have practiced using VR HMDs even longer. It’s not new, nor novel. But for some reason, when Facebook bet $2 billion U.S. dollars on Oculus, all of a sudden VR was the most exciting thing in the universe. Dozens of … Read more

This market is going to be HUGE, I tell ya

Have I ever been wrong about these things? The forecast is strong, the future bright—what could possibly go wrong? Look at the numbers. How can this miss, everyone wants one.  Now that the latest gold rush fever has hit the industry with IoT, wearables, and VR, let’s take pause and look back a few years and the some of the … Read more

JPR announces Virtualize 2015, the Remote Graphics and Virtualization Conference.

Virtualize 2015: It’s coming are your ready The Virtualize 2015 Conference will take place October 29th at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Work anywhere, any time, on any machine – that’s the promise of remote graphics and Virtualization Why would you use it? How can you implement it? What about latency? The Virtualize Conference will answer your questions and … Read more

The fallacy of TAM

Give ’em what they want, and sleep better The SAM, TAM, and PAM are not characters in a new situation comedy, although some of the uses of these terms can be pretty amusing.  The PAM (Potential Available Market) is largely dependent on the marketer’s “view of the world.” The TAM (Total Available Market) is used to define the entire accessible … Read more