Samsung Gear VR vs VR Box & Ricoh THETA s 360

Samsung Gear VR vs VR Box and the Ricoh THETA s

Michael Apple iPhone, Augmented Reality, CES 2016, Fun Stuff, Samsung, TechTalk, Virtual Reality

By now my hopes and dreams of consumer ready devices able to create, share and consume VR and augmented reality are dwindling quickly. I open the Samsung Gear VR and like the other headset it is simply packed and pretty self explanatory.

Tech Crunch Interview with Matt Corddry

Michael Facebook, Social Media, TechTalk

Tech Crunch Interview with Matt Corddry I don’t often share this kind of motivational stuff but there are times when people just make sense and have the same kind of views as you do. Matt Corddry who is the director of Facebook hardware engineering, sums up my thoughts in a short Tech Crunch “Inside Jobs” interview. Here are a few of his quotes if you don’t have time …

My Week with Bing

Michael Microsoft, TechTalk

During a recent trip to the United States I realised how many people use Bing as their primary search engine. This got me thinking, our team always set the default engine on all devices we give out and deliver to use Google. This is just the status quo, we have been doing this for years and never questioned it.

Intel and Dreamworks CES 2014

Michael Amazon Cloud, CES 2014, Cloud, TechTalk

One of the most impressive talks came from Kate Swanborg of Dreamworks Animation. Kate has been with Dreamworks through releases like Shrek, Madagascar, The Croods, A Sharks Tale and the last release Turbo. During her speech we got an insight into the processing power and time needed to produce these movies and how they come to life. She also spoke …