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e495 — Personal Planetarium

Photo by Michael Martine, Morehead Planetarium Sundial, Chapel Hill Sept 2019 Published 30 December 2024 e494 with Michael and Michael on personal planetariums, digital doppelgängers, agentic AI acceleration, and a whole lot more! Michael and Michael start this episode off with a full dome sized bang, Sandwich Vision’s Theater app.  In addition to replicating famous theater spaces via Apple…

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e494 — License to Brick

e493 with Michael, Michael and Andy on #digital #storage for a century, #AI #datasets, videos & new #Oreo flavors, #hacking digital #LicensePlates and #robots, and a whole lot more!

North Carolina custom automobile license plate “BRICKED” Published 23 December 2024 e493 with Michael, Michael and Andy on digital storage for a century, AI datasets, videos & new Oreo flavors, hacking digital license plates and robots, and a whole lot more! Andy, Michael and Michael start this episode off with a detailed article from the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab detailing the…

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e493 — A VR Merry Holiday

e493 with Andy, Michael & Michael — all things #VR, from #AndroidXR & Project #Moohan to #GorillaTag to the #NFL #Funday crossovers with the #Simpsons and a whole lot more!

Photo by Alexander Grey on Unsplash Published 16 December 2024 e493 with Andy, Michael & Michael — all things VR, from #AndroidXR & Project #Moohan to #GorillaTag to the #NFL #Funday crossovers with the #Simpsons and a whole lot more! Andy, Michael and Michael are back together again, and have a whole episode full of VR, AR, MR and XR stories to discuss!  The team starts things off with the…

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e492 — Flexi Festivus

e492 with Michael & Michael — #holiday desktop #decorations, #AR, #ImmersiveVideo in sports, user experience and interaction and a whole lot more!

Photo by Greg Rosenke on Unsplash Published 9 December 2024 e492 with Michael & Michael — holiday desktop decorations, AR, immersive video in sports, user experience and interaction and a whole lot more! Michael and Michael start off the show with a couple of holiday links to get everyone in a festive mood.  The Festivitas app provides an opportunity to decorate the Mac desktop and menu bar…

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e491 — Geospatial Bricks

e491 with Michael, Andy & Michael — #AI training data from authors & #Foursquare #OpenSourcePlaces, #SamStones, #VR experiences from #Lapz, #MSFlightSimulator, #GOG like #Elite & #StarWarsTheOldRepublic and a whole lot more!

Photo by Thor Alvis on Unsplash Published 25 November 2024 e491 with Michael, Andy & Michael — #AI training data from authors & #Foursquare #OpenSourcePlaces, #SamStones, #VR experiences from #Lapz, #MSFlightSimulator, #GOG like #Elite & #StarWarsTheOldRepublic and a whole lot more! Michael, Andy and Michael start off the show with a discussion on Google Lens’ new image recognition and search…

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e490 — Codename - "Amelia"

e490 - Michael and Michael discuss #AI, #future of #coding, #metaversities, #AR, #VR, #RR (that’s #RealReality), #EchoFrames and more! 

Photo by Gerald Hartl on Unsplash Published 18 November 2024 e490 with Michael & Michael — #AI, #AR, #VR, #RR (that’s #RealReality) and a whole lot more! Michael and Michael start off the show with a discussion on how O2 is employing AI to waste phone scammers time.  Check out the video in the show notes below for how dAIsy, the AI grandma works.  After a quick discussion on Oasis, an AI…

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e489 — Networking Rocks!

Hard rockin’ #GenAI rendition of #CURL, creative #architecture, animation, #avatars and #StarWars inspired #album art and a whole lot more!

Photo by Brad on Unsplash Published 11 November 2024 e489 with Andy, Michael & Michael — creative music, Star Wars inspired album art, stop motion LEGO video, augmented reality “tracing” and a whole lot more!  Rock on! Andy, Michael and Michael start off the show with a CURL Jam YouTube video.  The creators used Suno to put the command line tool to music, with metaltastic results. Then, the…

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e488 — Fight. For Your Right. To Pla-aaay!

e488 with Andy & Michael M — video game emulation, AI chat with gardens & articles, watch-based translation, an Oregon Trail movie and a whole lot more!

Photo by Sven Mieke on Unsplash Published 4 November 2024 e488 with Andy & Michael M — video game emulation, AI chat with gardens & articles, watch-based translation, an Oregon Trail movie and a whole lot more! Michael M and Andy start off the show with a couple of stories dealing with the recent ruling by the US Copyright Office to deny an exemption to the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright…

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e487 - Data Privacy and you, NOT!

Photo by Joshua Rawson-Harris on Unsplash This week Andy, Michael, and Michael have a location based show, with discussion on FourSquare, data Privacy, and fast moving robots. Now that Four Square has announced they are shutting down their FourSquare Places site, the team discusses their prior use and how it has tapered off over the years. The guys then pivot from the identification of…

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e486 — Miss AI Manners

Games at Work e486 with Andy, Michael and Michael — proper AI engagement etiquette, OpenAI’s GPT Store, invisible unicode prompt injection, disappearing Chief Metaverse Officers, ingesting everything for digital twin world creation and a whole lot more!

Photo by PNW Production: https://www.pexels.com/photo/thank-you-message-on-the-ipad-screen-8250827/ Published 21 October 2024 e486 with Andy, Michael and Michael — proper AI engagement etiquette, OpenAI’s GPT Store, invisible unicode prompt injection, disappearing Chief Metaverse Officers, ingesting everything for digital twin world creation and a whole lot more! Back once more to full co-host…

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e485 — Barbarians at the Rhubarb Bar

e485: Barbarians at the Rhubarb Bar with Michael and Michael — flow, focus & distraction, waking up with Nintendo’s Alarmo, Wartke & Fischer’s song about Barbara, her rhubarb bar and the barbarians, the disappearing .io domain suffix and a whole lot more!

Photo by Svitlana on Unsplash Published 14 October 2024 e485 with Michael and Michael — flow, focus & distraction, waking up with Nintendo’s Alarmo, Wartke & Fischer’s song about Barbara, her rhubarb bar and the barbarians, the disappearing .io domain suffix and a whole lot more! Co-hosts Michael and Michael start off the show with the retirement of Apple executive Dan Riccio, who headed up…

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e484 — n Card Monty

Games at Work podcast e484: n Card Monty with Andy, Michael and Michael — social and interpersonal evolution from technology advancements, data ownership, North Carolina and global supply chain impacts from hurricane Helene and a whole lot more!

Photo by Laine Cooper on Unsplash Published 7 October 2024 Co-hosts Andy, Michael and Michael start off the show with a follow on discussion from last week’s episode on the future of work and AR glasses.  This theme is not new at all to the Games at Work crew – many examples of the future of augmented reality coming through glasses can be found in the back catalogue – and some from more than a…

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e483 — Future Frames

e483 with Andy, Michael and Michael — framing the evolution of computing and work with a social and human lens. Featuring Meta’s Orion and Quest 3S, user experiences with kiosks, iPhone repairability and a whole lot more!

Photo by Eyekeeper Eyekeeper on Unsplash Published 30 September 2024 Co-hosts Andy, Michael and Michael are reunited and start things off with thorough discussion on the “Clark Kent-esque” Meta Orion augmented reality glasses.  The Verge article on this subject brings several perspectives into focus from the cohosts.  One observation drew attention to the “neural wristband” used to capture…

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e482 — New Hardware Day

Games at Work podcast e482 with Michael and Michael — visionOS updates, AirPods Pro as hearing aids with social implications, satellites, Doom in a keycap, a kinetic coffee table and a whole lot more!

Photo by Dan Cristian Pădureț on Unsplash Published 23 September 2024 Co-hosts Michael and Michael start things off with several Apple software updates, beginning with visionOS 2.  The referenced article in the show notes below gives you the visual experience enhancements that the Apple software developers have incorporated into the update.  Michael R shares his experiences with visionOS 2, and…

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e481 — Services You Don’t Need

Games at Work podcast e481: Services You Don't Need - Active listening for targeted advertising, mixed reality color matching, Dungeons & Dragons therapeutics and a whole lot more!

Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash Published 16 September 2024 Co-hosts Michael and Michael start things off with an article by Gizmodo reporting on a recent patent reportedly structured to listen to in-car conversations in order to serve up highly targeted advertising.  This common refrain over the years has taken on new focus given the recent reporting about the active listening for…

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e480 — Time to Face the Music

e480 with Michael and Michael — AI powered streaming fake songs, new GenAI text to video, a mycelia motivated robot, Nike+LEGO and a whole lot more!

Photo by Blaz Photo on Unsplash Published 9 September 2024 Co-hosts Michael and Michael start things off by reflecting on last week’s episode with a couple of articles related to last week’s episode on music streaming royalties.    Next up, is a listener link on MiniMax, a new text to video GenAI capability, which sparks (✨) a conversation on individualized customized entertainment.  After…

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e479 — Listen Up, Outlaws!

e479 with Andy and Michael, covering creepy advertising tactics, AI, and new (and old!) video games. Let us know what you think!

Photo by Ruth Durbin on Unsplash Published 2nd September 2024 Andy and Michael R. spend the show discussing advertising, AI, and games. First up, there’s a shocking story from the excellent 404 Media that covers “the pitch deck” that Cox Media Group (CMG) uses to sell their clients on hyper targeted advertising using audio from our personal smart devices. Michael goes on to encourage us all to…