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Irena Cronin and I are seeing huge shifts coming as autonomous vehicles get to the point where they are driving around San Francisco without humans. We recently started comparing notes and we are seeing the same trends. So, today we are announcing that I am rejoining Infinite Retina as Chief Strategy Officer. We are bringing … Continue reading ANNOUNCEMENT and Why the Tesla Humanoid Robot Matters…
Visiting Giant AI is like getting a tour of a secret lab that shouldn’t exist run by an eccentric genius. The kind of which we remember from “Back to the Future.” Adrian Kaehler is that genius. He built the computer vision system for the first autonomous vehicle that later became Waymo. He played a key … Continue reading The First Tour of Giant AI’s Robot Lab →
Unfortunately it has taken a lot longer to get augmented reality glasses to consumers than I expected. A lot longer. I thought we would be wearing them all day by now. Heck, when I got Google Glass years ago I thought I never would take those off. Boy, was I wrong. Many in Silicon Valley … Continue reading When will augmented reality glasses be ready for consumers? →
It didn’t shock me that MojoVision (a Silicon Valley startup making augmented reality contact lenses) brought a big percentage of their team and had a table right in the middle of Sight Tech’s event honoring Mike Shebanek for his work on Apple’s VoiceOver functionality that enables blind people and those who have vision impairments use … Continue reading As blind honor Apple accessibility pioneer…
UPDATE August 27, 2022. I’ve been focusing only on Apple lately. Amazon’s user experience really sucks for people trying to curate massive playlists and it’s just too difficult to keep all my lists synched. My Apple lists are here: https://music.apple.com/profile/AllDolbyAtmos As Apple puts the finishing touches on its new augmented reality headset, expected later this … Continue reading Future…
About 11 years ago I was standing outside in the snow in Munich, Germany with the CTO of a small company, Metaio. He was showing me monsters on the sides of buildings. Apple later bought his company. It got me interested in augmented reality and its uses to make people’s lives more fun and more … Continue reading New startup mixes reality with computer vision and sets the stage for an entire…
First of all, what is my goal? It is simply to find ways to make my systems (which include many headphones, cars, and Sonos system) sound better and to help you enjoy your system. There is a bigger goal I have, which is to get the Spatial Computing industry to care a lot more about … Continue reading Dolby Atmos’ role in better digital experiences →
In Silicon Valley we like to think about “first principles.” What does this really mean? Go back and really study how things work without bringing your biases to the table and then come up with new products and services that help you do that task better. Steve Jobs went further. When he started the iPhone … Continue reading The Augmented Home →
This is a reprint of my email newsletter. Subscribe here. Human storytelling is about to become MUCH richer. I’ve been spending the summer understanding the technology changes coming to consumers soon. Lots of people at lots of companies, from car companies, to audio companies, have told me what is coming. Which made me realize that … Continue reading Dolby Atmos and Apple’s rewritten audio stack…
The big meal is about to come. We’ve been waiting for years for Apple to reveal its mixed reality products, including visors and glasses. We’ve been seeing the potential coming in other products like the Oculus Quest, the Magic Leap 1, or Microsoft’s Hololens. For years we’ve dreamed about an augmented world. Steve Jobs called … Continue reading The Apple Table is Set →
I have been talking with hundreds of people across the industry and have discovered that the changes coming to Apple are deeper than just a VR/AR headset. Way deeper. The changes already being worked into products represent tens of billions of dollars of investment (I hear Tim Cook has spent around $40 billion getting ready … Continue reading The New 3D Apple Arriving at WWDC →
This is a long post. Short version: Tesla is way ahead on data collection and is pulling further ahead every day. Do you ever think about what the cameras on a Tesla are doing? Cathie Wood does. She runs ARK Invest and has made billions by investing in disrupting companies, particularly those who use artificial … Continue reading Tesla’s data advantage. Can Apple, or others, keep up? →
Reading “The Scarlet Letter: A Romance,” back in high school in the early 1980s I never imagined I’d have to wear a letter of shame on my chest while moving around Silicon Valley (don’t understand? Just Google my name and you’ll see my “Letter A.”) That book tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives … Continue reading Now that my career is over… →
This summer a 40-year-old friend and brilliant software engineer, Brandon Wirtz, died due to colon cancer and my dad died of pancreatic cancer too. At first neither of their doctors diagnosed properly (Brandon was frequently getting sick and my dad kept having more and more problems). Ever since Brandon discovered his cancer, I’ve started taking … Continue reading This full-body MRI scan could…
Business of the future will need to be more predictive. That’s what VMware’s Justin Murray, a long-time VMware employee told me here as he explained the latest in AI and Machine Learning that he’s seeing evolve. The folks who run VMware’s huge conference, VMworld (happens September 29-October 1), got interested in me after reading my … Continue reading Getting ready for VMworld with AI deep dive…