Irena Cronin and I are seeing huge shifts coming as autonomous vehicles get to the point where they are driving around San Francisco without humans. We recently started comparing notes and we are seeing the same trends. So, today we are announcing that I am rejoining Infinite Re … | Continue reading
Visiting Giant AI is like getting a tour of a secret lab that shouldn’t exist run by an eccentric genius. The kind of which we remember from “Back to the Future.” Adrian Kaehler is that genius. He built the computer vision system for the first autonomous vehicle that later becam … | Continue reading
Unfortunately it has taken a lot longer to get augmented reality glasses to consumers than I expected. A lot longer. I thought we would be wearing them all day by now. Heck, when I got Google Glass years ago I thought I never would take those off. Boy, was I wrong. Lots of people … | Continue reading
It didn’t shock me that MojoVision (a Silicon Valley startup making augmented reality contact lenses) brought a big percentage of their team and had a table right in the middle of Sight Tech’s event honoring Mike Shebanek for his work on Apple’s VoiceOver functionality that enabl … | Continue reading
As Apple puts the finishing touches on its new augmented reality headset, expected at WWDC in June, I’ve been tracking innovation in music. Spatial Audio/Dolby Atmos. Why? Dolby Atmos will be… | Continue reading
About 11 years ago I was standing outside in the snow in Munich, Germany with the CTO of a small company, Metaio. He was showing me monsters on the sides of buildings. Apple later bought his compan… | Continue reading
Photo by Robert Scoble. Empire of the Sun performs at Coachella. So far the experience of concerts are out of reach of most people. Dolby Atmos promises to close the gap between “real life… | Continue reading
In Silicon Valley we like to think about “first principles.” What does this really mean? Go back and really study how things work without bringing your biases to the table and then come… | Continue reading
This is a reprint of my email newsletter. Subscribe here. Human storytelling is about to become MUCH richer. I’ve been spending the summer understanding the technology changes coming to consumers s… | Continue reading
The big meal is about to come. We’ve been waiting for years for Apple to reveal its mixed reality products, including visors and glasses. We’ve been seeing the potential coming in other products li… | Continue reading
I have been talking with hundreds of people across the industry and have discovered that the changes coming to Apple are deeper than just a VR/AR headset. Way deeper. The changes already being work… | Continue reading
Do you ever think about what the cameras on a Tesla are doing? Cathie Wood does. She runs ARK Invest and has made billions by investing in disrupting companies, particularly those who use artificia… | Continue reading
Do you ever think about what the cameras on a Tesla are doing? Cathie Wood does. She runs ARK Invest and has made billions by investing in disrupting companies, particularly those who use artificia… | Continue reading
Reading “The Scarlet Letter: A Romance,” back in high school in the early 1980s I never imagined I’d have to wear a letter of shame on my chest while moving around Silicon Valley … | Continue reading
This summer a 40-year-old friend and brilliant software engineer, Brandon Wirtz, died due to colon cancer and my dad died of pancreatic cancer too. At first neither of their doctors diagnosed prope… | Continue reading
Business of the future will need to be more predictive.That’s what VMware’s Justin Murray, a long-time VMware employee told me here as he explained the latest in AI and Machine Learning that he’s s… | Continue reading
I used to joke with friends that Silicon Valley was done disrupting taxi companies and that we were going after God next. On my summer mostly away from social media I’m taking a fresh look at… | Continue reading
“The Infinite Retina,” is my fourth book that predicts decade-long trends. This one, written with Irena Cronin, represents a decade of work and is getting the best Amazon reviews of all of them. Qu… | Continue reading
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Our kids are about to close out their school year so it is a good time to think about our future plans. That isn’t the only chapter that’s closing in our lives. Here’s a few other… | Continue reading
(Photo Credit: Empire of the Sun at Coachella shot by Robert Scoble) The rocker Neil Young taught me about analog. He showed me that humans have evolved to experience the real world and the analog … | Continue reading
What if? Is your mind asking that a lot lately? Mine is. What if the virus is a message from Nature? Asking us to live more sustainably? In a way that will give our children a world that is livable… | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR and AR at Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect conference. Mark Zuckerberg has been talking a lot about augmented reality and investing a lot, too. Ye… | Continue reading
Does one client make your career? I haven’t been able to sleep in the 48 hours since Vanessa Camones brought one of her clients to my home. I can’t tell you who they are. But they showe… | Continue reading
Ahh, a 20-something-year-old guy was over the house tonight. We almost got in a fight over VR. Tried to tell me something other than the Oculus Quest is better after seeing the Quests on the floor … | Continue reading
I attended SXSW 25 times. Crazy, huh? Those days are probably over for me, it’s time for someone else to have some fun eating BBQ and walking down Sixth in Austin while hanging out with the c… | Continue reading
We all know lots of jobs will go away in the next decade or two. When I visited Tesla’s factory this year I noticed about 20% more robots than when I visited last year. Take that trend out a … | Continue reading
I told you Autopilot is safer than the other humans on the road. Tesla today released a safety report with more road data that shows Autopilot is out performing its human drivers. I can tell when T… | Continue reading
I just spent an hour talking with a computer vision engineer at Magic Leap about how computers will “see” and “process” our world. Blew my mind. The 2020s are going to see m… | Continue reading
I just wrote a post on LinkedIn about an exercise I’m doing to rethink the future of augmented and virtual reality. Why don’t you do it too? | Continue reading
I just wrote a post on LinkedIn about an exercise I’m doing to rethink the future of augmented and virtual reality. Why don’t you do it too? | Continue reading
Why is computing history so important? Because it can teach us lessons about not just where we were, but where we are going. Here my family, along with Carlos Calva, get a tour through the DigiBarn… | Continue reading
As more companies build apps like Minecraft Earth, an augmented reality app coming soon to phones, they will need to manage servers and content. Think about it, if you have a 3D avatar that needs d… | Continue reading
Today if you get a Magic Leap or an Oculus Quest you can view millions of different 3D objects and scenes by using Sketchfab’s service. That doesn’t sound that important, but for creato… | Continue reading
The Apple Privacy Wall/Strategy Analysis of How Apple will Come at Oculus Next Year. At Infinite Retina we soon will be sharing research on the Spatial Computing industry, this post gives… | Continue reading
I wrote this as a way to think through some of the issues coming in the Spatial Computing world in preparation for a book coming in 2020 that Irena Cronin and I are writing, but we decided not to r… | Continue reading
It used to be that motion capture was so expensive that only big movie studios could afford to do it. No more, we learned in New York. Irena Cronin, CEO of Infinite Retina, and I are talking with p… | Continue reading
Oculus Quest is that good. Last night I was playing the Star Wars game and found myself just looking around and admiring how my virtual gloves look. I can’t really explain this and how deeply… | Continue reading
Suzanne Borders, CEO/founder of BadVR, says she’s an absurdist, that she looks at the world differently than most other people and that’s the philosophy that drives even the name of her… | Continue reading
How is the entertainment industry going to change in the 2020s? To get a taste, and as part of our research tour to see how the world is about to change, Infinite Retina’s CEO, Irena Cronin, … | Continue reading
My 11-year-old son, Milan, is autistic. Now, he isn’t the kind of autistic that starts companies. Nope, he’s going to have a tough time adopting to the “normie” world (what … | Continue reading
It is my goal to everyday have an interesting conversation. Today’s interesting conversation is with Infinite Retina’s cofounder/CEO Irena Cronin and me, while being interviewed by Jeff… | Continue reading
Silicon Valley. My Tesla, sitting in my garage at the moment, costs about $5 an hour (actually it’s closer to $2 but I was being generous and keeping the math easier to get). If you bought on… | Continue reading
You know Pokemon-Go, right? It has hundreds of millions of users. It’s the number one most-used example of mobile AR that’s out there. It was built by Niantic Labs, a company that … | Continue reading
Irena Cronin called me last year. That call lead to the development of a new Spatial Computing Agency, Infinite Retina, which opens its doors today. Thought I’d give you a little detail behin… | Continue reading
I’m a bit bothered by the overselling of mixed reality, or spatial computing, at least short term (long term my kids’ lives will be dramatically improved by them, we all can see that, b… | Continue reading
I didn’t use to understand why some people would never be able to come to evening events. And even if I had understood, I didn’t have the empathy for what they were going through, usual… | Continue reading
Opening night at Spaces VR in San Jose, California Silicon Valley got its first VBVR on Friday night with the opening of Spaces, which is located inside the Cinemark Theater in Oakridge Mall, and i… | Continue reading