The LBVR shootout: The Void vs. Spaces VR (report from opening night at first Silicon Valley location)

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


@scobleizer.blog | 5 years ago

Spatial Computing: Bigger Than Magic Leap

I blame this all on Magic Leap’s founder, Rony Abovitz. He calls what his company is building spatial computing, and since the one with the most advanced technology gets to name what they are… | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 5 years ago

The American Dream 2.0: why America should reject Silicon Valley’s new wealth redistribution and bring a new G.I. Bill

This past year I’ve taken to looking at everything differently. I drove my three kids 9,000 miles around America, visiting many cities and states. I’ve been making more friends outside … | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 5 years ago

Why is Facebook doing VR if AR is the big prize? (mesh unf**kers and the future)

Ben Thompson’s excellent Stratechery newsletter took this topic on this morning. Why is Facebook doing VR, he asks, while pointing out that Apple is the apparent winner? I have been watching … | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 5 years ago

A year of Scoble change

In my 53 years I’ve seen a couple of house fires. One, at a neighbor’s house, woke me up in the middle of the night with banging on doors. Terror from waking up to a weird light in the … | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 5 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg just turned up the dopamine. Here’s how

Yesterday Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, announced that Facebook would be showing us more of our friends and family and less news and corporate stuff on our news feed. For the past few month… | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 6 years ago

Maryam’s mom dies

Maryam woke me up this morning crying. “I want my mommy,” she wimpered. Last night her mom died after suffering a stroke on Monday. There is nothing worse than not being able to do some… | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 6 years ago

My Magic Leap skepticism and optimism explained: no matter what this is an important product for our future

So Magic Leap has uncloaked. Rolling Stone has the best look at the technology so far. Those I look up to in the industry who have seen it, from friends to people like investor Benedict Evans, who … | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 6 years ago

Getting Ready for 2020: learning about SLAM and AR and the backend for XR with founder of Escher Reality (and a first use of Descript podcasting service)

Recently I sat down for a long conversation with the founder of Escher Reality, Ross Finman, which claims it has the most advanced augmented reality API. This was an audio-only recording, so it als… | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 6 years ago

Why I’m still so optimistic about VR/XR/AR: Wolves in the Walls shows why

“Wolves in the Walls”, which I got an early look at, changed my life and changed my expectations of what entertainment will look like over next decade.    If you go to Sundance make sur… | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 6 years ago

WEYV aims at Spotify’s weaknesses

WEYV is a new music app for Android and iOS that lets you build custom playlists. Lets you get rid of explicit music that Spotify doesn’t let you get rid of from playlists (I hit that problem… | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 6 years ago

I’ve been thinking about self-driving cars wrong: it’s a human problem

Yesterday I spent a couple of hours talking with Forrest Iandola, cofounder of Deep Scale.ai. He’s one of the most brilliant entrepreneurs I’ve met along my journey. We were in a small … | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 6 years ago

Fun playing with Drones while Elon announces a new freaking-fast roadster

Tonight I attended the Flying Robot Film Festival where we saw a ton of short movies all done, at least in part, with drones. More info on this film festival, which will be held in several cities, … | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 6 years ago

Startups to pay attention to

This list of 29 start-ups that prove Silicon Valley innovation isn’t dead  on CNBC caught my eye in Nuzzel, which is my favorite tool for keeping track of what people are talking about in the… | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 6 years ago

Autodesk goes augmented, er, automated

You might not know Autodesk well, but nearly everything in your world, from movies to cars to skyscrapers to even the shoes you wear have been designed in Autodesk’s software. Right now IR… | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 6 years ago

If this passes Silicon Valley’s wealth generation engine will die

I’ve met with government officials all over the world and one of their first questions often is “how can we build a Silicon Valley here?” My first answer is “figure out how … | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 6 years ago

Cleaning up social media accounts …

Lately I’ve been cleaning up my social media accounts. I’ve been chewing through a few tasks on Twitter lately and thought I’d share what I’m doing and see if you have any o… | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 6 years ago

AR and VR content management of the future: Byond

In my post titled “Welcome to the Outrage Economy,” I talked about how marketing is being done today. Byond shows me, here, how media and marketing will be done in the future as we move… | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 6 years ago

Welcome to the Outrage Economy

modern marketing, attention, economy, advertising, management, tools. | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 6 years ago

Dear Sean Parker: about your Facebook exploit of my mind

I just saw your remarks about how you, and the other social media inventors, exploited our minds. I’m your first addict. So, nice to meet you again. You sound like that drug dealer who is try… | Continue reading


@scobleizer.blog | 6 years ago