Time to put AR and VR in the Human-Machine Toolbox Look at AR and VR as bigger parts of the Human-Machine Toolbox rather than standalone technologies. Developers should focus on outcomes, not tools. I just talk about human-machine-interface now I had a nice lunch with Booz Allen Hamilton’s Nirav Desai this week. We were catching up on all things technology. Then I … [Read more...] about Time to put AR and VR in the Human-Machine Toolbox
Archives for January 2018
x.ai scheduling bot heads to the enterprise
x.ai scheduling bot heads to the enterprise If you want to experience AI in a meaningful way, you need to look at x.ai’s meeting scheduling service. I have written about them before just as they were emerging from incubation (see Testing Amy: What it’s like to have appointments scheduled by an AI assistant at GeekWire). In late 2017, x.ai promoted its two agent … [Read more...] about x.ai scheduling bot heads to the enterprise
Amazon Alexa Frailty: Syntax Fragmentation in the Skill Ecosystem
Amazon Alexa Frailty: Syntax Fragmentation in the Skill Ecosystem Amazon Alexa has a frailty problem and it's me. I can’t remember all of the special syntax required to make its skills work. Unlike an app, where I click and am brought into an environment that offers visual clues and instructions, I’m stuck with Alexa either not understanding me or lecturing me. Neither of … [Read more...] about Amazon Alexa Frailty: Syntax Fragmentation in the Skill Ecosystem
Windows 10s for Education: Microsoft Not Giving Schools to Google
Featured images: Dell Latitude 3189 designed for education Windows 10s for Education: Microsoft Not Giving Schools to Google With the release of Microsoft Windows 10s laptops Microsoft makes a bid to compete, if not reclaim, the mindshare in education. Long-tested theory suggests that the machines people learn on in school become the machines they want to not only use but to … [Read more...] about Windows 10s for Education: Microsoft Not Giving Schools to Google
2018 CES VR: Still Waiting for the Cool
2018 CES VR: Still Waiting for the Cool Once you are inside VR you forget how ridiculous you look to people in the real world. 2018 CES VR didn’t make this any better, in some ways, it made it worse. Contact CI’s haptic glove prototype looked like something right from a Star Trek Borg assembly kit. The dangling wires and conduits did little to assuage the fear of … [Read more...] about 2018 CES VR: Still Waiting for the Cool