TikTok parent Co. ByteDance may buy Pico, why that is big news for AR/VR Well, seems the deal went through! Right now, its still a rumor, but let say the ByteDance Pico deal goes through. What does that mean for the AR / VR space? Currently the consumer VR space is pretty much dominated by Facebook with the Oculus Quest. A very good device, lots of content, very affordable… Read More
The BEST use of deep immersive VR for a promotion, wireless gear VR room positional tracking. I just saw a video that blew my mind. Its not JUST that its a great idea, nor just looking like lots of fun, nor REALLY great combination of xbox tracking and gearVR to allow room scale VR, but the APPROPRIATENESS of the marketing event! Get ready for some serious gushing over the best VR marketing… Read More
Top 10 Apps for the Gear VR HMD (Note, I’m posting this now, but its not done. But what I do want is feedback. Good list? Bad list? you have a better top 10? Tell me.) I finally got my Note 4 and start loading apps on the Samsung Gear VR and here is my top ten favorites. Normally I do not include… Read More
VR: Dont call it a comeback … … I’ve been here for years.. Song? Anybody? That’s right! LL Cool J, ah a trip in the way back machine. However, we are not going to talk about ’91 rap, instead we are going to talk about what VR was in ’91 when ‘Mama said knock you out,’ was released, then again in ’98… Read More
Yahoo To Shut Down Qwiki, Yahoo Education And The Yahoo Directory Yahoo announced today it’s shuttering a handful of products, including Qwiki, a mobile app Yahoo acquired last July for $50 million, which helps users create movies from the photos and videos in their Camera Roll. Also getting the boot are Yahoo Education, a site designed to connect users to educational content and providers, as well… Read More
Trying out the 5-2 fasting diet. Not to lose weight, but improve health. Day 1 I have known that fasting has health benefits for a long time, but with exception to when I’m sick, I just never really bothered. Then I watched a BBC special where they walked through the science behind what fasting does to the body and the health effects. The data seems to indicate there are far… Read More
This is a test post about Bunnies! Wait what? A post about bunnies??? WTF is going on here?? Relax, this is just a test post. When you do WP dev, sometimes you need a place to store test stories, this is one of them. And its BUNNIES! Are you so jaded in life you cannot be cool with bunnies? Bunnies are great,… Read More
10 things that iOS could pick up from Android Seriously?!! Apple is already planning on making a new iPhone? If the iPhone5 what such a crash and burn (as alot of people think), shouldn’t they be taking a a little time to improve on some of the features that the iPhones are lacking? Android OS has quite a few things that put them ahead… Read More
R’ha – a one man show I came across this short movie called ‘R’ha’ made by German film student Kaleb Lechowski. The film is visually stunning and Lechowski said it took several months to complete by himself. The story reveals a plot of an alien race betrayed by its own machines in search of their independence.… Read More
How to get Cydia on your iphone 5 iOS6 jailbreak!!! Here are the steps As we all learned Cydia is still not available on the “Tethered” jailbreak that is available for iOS6 from RedsnOw.com . But that doesn’t mean that it is impossible to do. The process is actually quite simple, and even someone with little programming skills can do it. So lets get it done. All you need… Read More
Review on the LG Viper 4G LTE 🙂 enjoy any questtions as usual twitter @ichuckydee or FB @ www.Facebook.com/ichucky/dee… Read More
Zephyr updated to 1.3.5 adds new gestures One of the most popular jailbreak tweaks “Zephyr” was recently updated to 1.3.5. Now enabling a multitasking gestures. The new gesture is new feature, which adds a Notification Center-like grabber for each movement. This tweak allows these features to come to your idevice: 1.) Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to close apps… Read More
Spreading rumors through the Apple community, a clinical approach The news is moving through the blogs now, so I will assume you already know that the ‘new’ asymmetric screw was a fake. This happen quite a bit with Apple, especially around new iphone / ipad releases. But what was different about this rumor was the post analysis by the guys who started the rumor… Read More
Play that funky music waving boy Just came across the V Motion Project by Assembly which is a pretty cool use of the Kinect for creating music. Check out this music video with some dubstepping-hand-waving-DJing shot on the streets of Auckland,NZ. “This project combines the collective talents of musicians, dancers, programmers, designers and animators to create an amazing visual instrument. Creating… Read More
A few deals for tech this black friday I just got this in an email, so just posting for the heck of it. SENSOGLOVE: 10% off SensoGlove digital golf glove and FREE shipping at www.sensoglove.com from November 25th – December 2nd. Use promo code: Christmas2011. IBIKE: $100 off any iBike Dash Power (Black) bicycle trainer computer systems: iSport ($299, normally $399),… Read More
How the IPO bubble is helping with the Housing Bubble As we have all heard… over and over again, the housing market has been taking since the 2008 crash. The recovery has been hampered by strict lending practices, lack luster economy and backlogs of toxic loans keeping house off the market, but still waiting in the wings. Many people have been slowing getting back into… Read More
Paper Culture Plants One Million Trees by 2020 Paper Culture Plants One Million Trees by 2020, Reinvents Consumers’ Thoughts about Stationery Company’s modern, eco stationery never cuts new trees & plants a tree for every order MILLBRAE, Calif. – April 19, 2011 – Having already hooked design lovers on its modern, eco stationery, Paper Culture, in partnership with The Arbor Day Foundation, has… Read More
Augmenting the Facts .. the cake is a lie !Warning, this is a rant! With the growing interest in augmented reality, I continue to notice where presenters, bloggers, researchers, and other have misinformed their audience about the subject. To use the most generic of references, “Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or an indirect view of a physical, real-world environment… Read More
Junkyard Jumbotron – Cool Hack A friend in the office showed this to me upon returning from SxSW and I found it way too cool. Junkyard Jumbotron is a project from MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media designed by Rick Borovoy and Brian Knep. It is a web tool that combines a bunch of random displays into a single shared… Read More