I happened to meet someone this past weekend who works for the former Echo Nest (now part of Spotify) here in the Boston area. Talking to him over the evening reminded me of a tech meet-up I had attended in August of last year where one of his co-workers presented some amazing tools and I thought I’d share the overview I wrote at that time for my office…
Category: Opinion
My mounting disappointment with the new iPhone 6s
I’ve been an iPhone user since the original came out in 2007 – I’ve been on the 5s for the past two years now but upgrading it to iOS 9 has made the phone feel sluggish so I decided to finally bite the bullet and upgrade to the newly-released iPhone 6s.
I hate this phone. I genuinely HATE this phone.
Google Glass to go augmented reality?
From Engadget: Google wants Glass-like headsets with holographic displays
Not even remotely surprising – Google Glass always seemed as if it’s already 3/4 of the way there to becoming a full-on AR device. What will be interesting is if they’re able to build the capability into a similar form factor – current AR headsets are too bulky to be used in public and being able to introduce an AR-enabled version of Google Glass would give Google a huge leg up in the area. I’m sure it’s not this simple, as the hardware required to be able to project images over live, moving objects in the real world is an entirely other matter of projecting to a fixed point (as the original Google Glass did), but we’re bound to get there!
Of course, this doesn’t mean that people will find it any more socially acceptable to wear one in public, but we used to think texting in public was tacky, too…