Review for “The Spatial Web: How Web 3.0 Will Connect Humans, Machines, and AI to Transform the World”

Artificial intelligence, Convergence, Just for fun

I had the privilege of being a pre-launch reviewer for “The Spatial Web: How Web 3.0 Will Connect Humans, Machines, and AI to Transform the World” by Gabriel René and Dan Mapes; can honestly say it’s a comprehensive, well written and engagingly written book about a wide ranging subject, and well worth a read. They are good at taking something complex and making it easy to understand.  Link here. Definitely worth a read! #SpatialWeb #SpatialComputing #GabrielRene #DanMapes #AI #artificialintellegence #Decahedralist

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Hearing without listening

Just for fun, Personalization, Privacy

I’m not a fan of the ubiquitous listening devices. Not that having a virtual assistant always on the standby to serve my every (ok, some) need wouldn’t be handy; it would be fun to be talk to my house. Seriously, I work from home. It gets lonely. But I digress. It’s because of the growing interconnectedness of it all, combined with lax privacy laws and inadequate digital security. They *say* they’re only listening for your action word, but the Ts&Cs prove otherwise; as do recent legal events when it’s been shown that not only

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Five day VRaycation

Entertainment, Focus: AR/VR, Gaming, Just for fun, Virtual reality

I spent five full days over New Year’s playing with an HTC Vive. Which is interesting in NYC apartment, since half the furniture had to be moved to make room for the motion tracking units mounted on two spindly tripods! As an artist as well as a tech enthusiast, it was an interesting experience. So much to try out. I have a book’s worth of impressions and opinions coming out of the experience, but quickly – my favorite: hands down, Blortasia by Kevin Mack, a neuroscientist and artist. It’s a psychedelic drift through an ever changing,

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This looks like fun

Focus: AR/VR, Gaming, Just for fun, Virtual reality

Looks like a great Game! It’s called Mindshow – it’s a VR game that’s multiplayer and recordable, so you can share the experience. Those are both things that are currently not really the case in VR – most are only you in the world, and not shareable. So this is a leap forward. Definitely more fun as a game if you can play against someone in the same world! Now it’s just waiting for 1) a way to “feel” interaction (pressure suits anyone?) and 2) move without 3) throwing up. Don’t worry, there are lots of companies

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Vanishing tattoos

Just for fun

Temporary tattoo ink that gives you real tattoos for a year. How does that sound? I don’t have any tattoos! Not a huge fan, largely because of the permanence issue; how can you design something that’ll be part of you forever? – too much angst for this artist. But this might change my mind: tattoos that fade after a year. The R&D is around ink that has particles small enough for your body to slowly absorb the…now THAT would be fun to play with. Coming to market in 2017.  

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