Could 2016 be the make or break year for consumer VR?
The promise of so many things this year The subject of VR is getting more air time than the U.S. political candidates, which in itself isn’t a bad thing. Google is going to build a ...
Seeing is, . . . everything
The human brain processes entire images in 13 milliseconds We are visual animals. Ninety percent of the information we gather about the world and ourselves is done by our visual system, and naturally, we use ...
The year shapes up
If the first quarter is when the tech industry states its highest ambitions and fondest dreams, the second quarter is when many promises come to fruition … or not. New products promised at the end ...
FLOPS vs FRAPS: cars and GPUs
What makes the difference where the rubber meets the road? FLOPS—Floating-point Operations Per Second is a measurement of a processor’s arithmetic processing speed and has been used since the early 1960s to evaluate and compare ...
Trendspotting
Born of many fathers, VR and AR grow in popularity In doing research for my book on Augmented Reality, I realized many people were explaining AR and VR, what it is, how it works, who ...
The AIB is here to tell ya, I’m not dead yet
PC sales are down, it’s the end of an era, woe oh woe, what’ll we do? Relax. The hysterical headlines of shares pushers on Seeking Alpha, Motley Fool, and various “news” sites are enough to ...
My personal companion doesn’t know who the hell I am
And I no longer care When I pick up my phone, in a hurry, to try and get Shazam to wake up in time to listen to the song I am hearing, I wonder if ...
The 10 million Frequent Pixels Club
Just like the airlines and hotels I’ve been thinking about establishing a Frequent Pixels Club. You know, how you can accumulate miles from an airline based on how frequently you fly, or points from a ...
THE QUARTER IN REVIEW – Say, what’s that thing on your head?
The first quarter was dominated by VR and, to a lesser extent, AR and its confused cousin MR (mixed reality). As I write this, the Microsoft Build event has just happened and Hololens has marched ...
I’m sick of hearing about VR sickness
Minorities aren’t going to determine this market I remember when we were trying to get people interested in stereo 3D (S3D) and all we heard about was, “I’m not wearing those goofy glasses.” Right, except ...
Are we entering a new era?
Maybe My cynical been-there done-that, you-can’t-impress-me attitude may be breaking down. Leonard Cohen sings, “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” He’s right. The ability to enter into immersive experiences ...
Real or virtual—is it legal?
Another side of photorealism and VR—can AI save the day? As focused as I have been over the decades on the realism and suspension of disbelief in computer graphics, and as naïve as it sounds, ...