Oh Hello 5G; I Didn’t Expect You So Soon
Well, I guess the future is already here. I saw a headline that announced 5G is even launching in Florida here too. For a couple years I’ve been reading about how 5G is going to transform connectivity and mobility as we know it, but I always felt it was somehow in the distant future. If you’ve […]
Research Summary: Constellation’s AstroChart For Tech Trends
Avoiding The Hype In Trend Cycles Constellation’s AstroChartTM for Technology provides market leaders and fast followers a visual guide to technology trends and their adoption. The vertical access rates adoption from mainstream to early adopters to bleeding edge. The horizontal access estimates the impact on an organization’s business model. from incremental to disruptive to […]
Augmented reality is starting to be about sharing
If you’ve not seen the YouTube demo of Hololens and Mindcraft it’s definitely worth a look: The augmented and virtual reality are definitely getting some new capabilities. I can think of some interesting applications… where multiple people can see the same augmented environment. Another solution that looks interesting is Holus. This tabletop holodeck may have some […]
Virtual Nonsense All the Way Down the Drain. A Twisted (?) View of US vs China
I don’t often recycle older posts in full – but sometimes I get all worked up, want to “blog it out of my system” only to discover I’ve already said it all. That’s how I feel about the explosion of virtual goods. So there it is, vintage July 2009, still valid, except this time I’d […]
Augmented Reality. Will it ever become a part of the marketing technology mix?
There was a lot of buzz about new visualization techniques back in 2009. About a year ago, Mashable posted on an Apple patent called Apple ID: [it] recognizes an object based on visuals (through the iPhone’s camera), a RFID reader or through GPS, and then fetches the data from related databases. I like to imagine […]
Forget Slick: Reputation, Transparency, and Guts
It’s been a little while since I wrote about a Seth Godin post. ‘Bout time. Godin is a must-read for me, and all of his posts are pithy, relevant, and urgent to understand. Today’s subject is a brief post entitled simply, “Slick.” We all crave slick. In media, it is a signalling device for success […]
AbleAdvisory: You Are NOT a Gadget: A Manifesto
Check out Jaron Lanier’s new book: You are not a Gadget: A Manifesto… another one of my heroes, is one of the fathers of Virtual Reality. He actually coined the term. His new book discusses the impact of Web 2.0…
