Four short links: 22 January 2015
Microsoft HoloLens Goggles (Wired) — a media release about the next thing from the person behind Kinect. I’m still trying to figure out (as are investors, I’m sure) where in the hype curve this...
View ArticleFour short links: 26 January 2015
How Might We Code in VR? — caught my eye because I’m looking for ideas on how to think about interaction design in the holoculus world. Git Workflows for Pros — non-developers don’t understand how...
View ArticleFour short links: 16 March 2015
Ex Machine: When Turing Meets the Bechdel Test — The Bechdel Test is useful for more than examining gender representation. It can be our Turing Test for creating believable alien or artificial life...
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The VR growth cycle: What’s different this time around
Consumer virtual reality (VR) is in the midst of a dizzying and exhilarating upswing. A new breed of systems, pioneered by Oculus and centered on head-worn displays with breakthrough quality, are...
View ArticleFour short links: 31 July 2015
Buzz: An Extensible Programming Language for Self-Organizing Heterogeneous Robot Swarms (arXiv) — Swarm-based primitives allow for the dynamic management of robot teams, and for sharing information...
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A developer’s introduction to 3D animation and Blender
Creating 3D animations is like writing software. Both processes require knowing certain industry terms. Some animation terms are: Modeling Texturing Rigging Setting up the scene with cameras, lights,...
View ArticleFour short links: 23 October 2015
50 Years of Data Science (PDF) — Because all of science itself will soon become data that can be mined, the imminent revolution in Data Science is not about mere “scaling up,” but instead the...
View ArticleFour short links: 18 December 2015
Maltrail — a malicious traffic detection system, utilizing publicly available (black)lists containing malicious and/or generally suspicious trails, along with static trails compiled from various AV...
View ArticleFour short links: 21 January 2016
Big Bang Data: Networks of London (YouTube) — guide to the easy-to-miss networks (fibre, CCTV, etc.) around Somerset House, where an amazing exhibition is about to launch. The network guide is the...
View ArticleFour short links: 22 January 2016
Murgen — open source open hardware ultrasound. Udacity Deep Learning MOOC — platform is Google’s TensorFlow. CorpDev Translation — “We’ll continue to follow your progress.” Translation: We’ll reach...
View ArticleFour short links: 22 February 2016
Facebook Creates Social VR Team (FT) — Facebook said that users had uploaded 20,000 videos in VR-friendly 360-degree format. At same time as HTC Vive VR Headset price is announced, LG 360 VR is...
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Rob Coneybeer on Nest and the next big thing in hardware
Subscribe to the O’Reilly Hardware Podcast for insight and analysis about the Internet of Things and the worlds of hardware, software, and manufacturing: TuneIn, Stitcher, iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS. In...
View ArticleFour short links: 14 March 2016
What Thomas Hardy Taught Me — In educational research, perhaps the greatest danger lies in thinking “that which I cannot measure is not real.” The disruption fetishists have amplified this danger, now...
View ArticleFour short links: 20 April 2016
Why Should I Trust You?: Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier (PDF) — LIME, a novel explanation technique that explains the predictions of any classifier in an interpretable and faithful...
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