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The problem is, I don’t expect the virtual world experience to beat reality for the next 20 years at least. People may call a display “retina,” but it’s not as good as my actual vision. And that’s just one sense. What about the feeling of a cool breeze on a sunny day?

I will retreat back to my cave now, thank you very much.

about 2 hours ago on Future proofing: Xbox One to support 3D and 4K content

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CPU performance is not relevant here; CPU power consumption is. If you only have x amount of heat you can quietly dissipate in a living room, you allocate as much as you can to the GPU.

about 2 hours ago on Future proofing: Xbox One to support 3D and 4K content 1 reply 1 recommend

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Actual question: how can Sony compete with a company (MSFT) that already has the OS built? Is Sony’s PS4 OS built on *nix?

about 2 hours ago on Future proofing: Xbox One to support 3D and 4K content 1 reply

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Can you imagine a 2.5D video chat (2.5D b/c you can’t see behind the person, thus not true 3D)?

As you move your head laterally, you can see different angles of the other person’s face in real time. Whoa. We need time of flight cameras in our laptops.

about 19 hours ago on The all-seeing Kinect: tracking my face, arms, body, and heart on the Xbox One

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Thanks. Time of flight cameras are really cool and usually very expensive.

Creative, however, has released one that works for mapping distances less than 1-1.5 meters away, and it’s only $150 for a dev kit:
http://click.intel.com/intelsdk/Creative_Interactive_Gesture_Camera_Developer_Kit-P2061.aspx

about 19 hours ago on The all-seeing Kinect: tracking my face, arms, body, and heart on the Xbox One

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Off topic, but it’s possible to read heart rate using a regular light camera, but in current implementations, the object can’t be moving. This (awesome) technique is called Eulerian video magnification:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/

about 19 hours ago on The all-seeing Kinect: tracking my face, arms, body, and heart on the Xbox One 1 recommend

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Hang in there, HTC! I’ll buy your Snapdragon 800 phone the day it comes out.

2 days ago on HTC in disarray: staff departures, 'disastrous' First, and production problems cloud company's future 1 reply

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HTC’s build quality is a big deal in my book. I still use my Nexus One despite dropping it a couple of times a week (without a case). It’s over three years old. A coworker dropped his GS3 once and shattered the screen (with a case).

2 days ago on HTC in disarray: staff departures, 'disastrous' First, and production problems cloud company's future 1 reply 1 recommend

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Pro users don’t have bandwidth caps.

3 days ago on Yahoo unveils the new Flickr with one terabyte of free space

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This is crazy. Tumblr should be buying Yahoo.

7 days ago on Yahoo reportedly eyeing Tumblr for possible $1 billion acquisition 1 reply 1 recommend

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Sounds like Intel made the right choice. Intel couldn’t make it up on volume, and volume was 100 times projections. The loss would have been 100x more than projected producing the wrong architecture from Intel’s standpoint.

7 days ago on Intel could have been inside the original iPhone, says outgoing CEO 3 replies

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Looking forward to seeing friends’ geo-tagged photos in an augmented reality frame as I walk through the world. Maybe one day my grandkids will see my photos strewn about the world and marvel at how poor resolution they were.

7 days ago on Google Glass becomes more useful with new Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr apps 1 reply