They finally made it. A VR gaming system where you can actually walk, not get sick and can afford. The Omni. February 27, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment A LOOOONG time ago when I was at UC Berkeley studying computing in Architecture, my focus was on virtual environments. During my research I was downhearted to find a flaw in what we all thought was the soon approaching golden age of VR. VOR ( Vestibulo-ocular Reflex: explained at the bottom of the post) is… Read More
What the new Samsung Gear watches learned from the Pebble and still need to learn February 25, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment In Barcelona Samsung released 3 new Gear watches. Well, really two and an exercise band, but I’m going to call this a watch anyway. Of these three new smart watches, its the Gear Fit I’m most excited about. First though, lets talk about the two other Gears, the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. Many… Read More
Apple security hole patched. We hope February 25, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment This has been a rough few days for Apple. A ‘goto fail’ hole appeared in the OS that lets people defect a security server key which lets them do .. well not sure. From a quick read of the code, seems like if you can get a false handshake to work then depending on the… Read More
Hacking AEC is hard, that is why we need to do it February 24, 2014 | perivision | 4 Comments Would it surprise you to hear that the architects, engineers, and construction companies that build the world’s most amazing buildings can be luddites when it comes to using new tech? Whether it’s using tech to solve problems, manage systems, create new possibilities, the AEC industry is famously conservative and tech averse. We’re in the middle… Read More
Saying ‘I love you sweetheart’ does not always end well February 23, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment {Update: Sigh. So my wife read this and she said a Japanese wife living in the US got this from her husband and shared it on a Japanese site. Every now and again, subtleties of language cause a mix up. Still pretty funny though. } I have been dating and recently married to a Japanese… Read More
Smart watches have just started. Here is a sexy smart watch I would want. February 21, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment This design concept has been out there for awhile but thought I would point out that we are still just in the beginnings of smart and stylish wearable tech. This looks like a mix of a smart watch and fuel band using the Apple iOS. Now I think curable display are owned by Samsung, but… Read More
Why would samsung leave Android for Tizen? There could be a reason, but it may not be a good one .. yet February 20, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment Recently there has been rumors that Samsung will release the new gear and a new set of phones running on the little known Tizen OS. Which seen a bit odd given the experience they had with Bada. Remember Bada? Do not blame you if you do not. Bada was actually a good OS, and the… Read More
SimCity short cuts made into a poster and a few kinda cheat short cuts February 18, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment This actually came out almost a year ago but just noticed it now. Its a collection of all your most wanted shortcuts in a nicely designed poster. Credit to endorken for making this. And just for fun, so kinda cheats short cuts. These are in the manual BTW. Alt-W = +$100k Alt-M = Sickness… Read More
Possible fix for a Not Extended policy error. February 18, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment This just seems to be the week for things breaking on my site. For awhile now I have been getting an error when I go to this site from my service provider. Not Extended A mandatory extension policy in the request is not accepted by the server for this resource. A very odd error. A… Read More
Your Twitter app suddenly does not work with OAuth, could be your database February 15, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment A few days back one of my twitter aps, NewsSnacker.com stopped working for some reason. I have not touched the code in months. So what the heck was going on? More odd is that fact the twittFilter was working fine. They are based off the same OAuth2.0 code. After a few hours of hacking and… Read More
Rumors of a larger iphone 6 most likely true, and here is why. February 15, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment Funny enough, a few days back I wrote a post on how I thought my iphone 4 looked small compared to my Samsung. Too small in fact. Sure I can still use it, but the difference is very noticeable. Then later that even Mashable broke a story with leaks images of the iphone 6 that… Read More
Switched from iphone to Galaxy. Now my iphone looks small. And I’m not the only one February 13, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment Funny thing, I have been using the iphone since day 1. I have been jailbreaking for almost as long. However, once the iphone 5 and my first view of iOS7 surfaced, I started to question if I wanted to keep playing this cat and mouse game of jailbreaking, reinstalling everything, losing some functionally because the… Read More
What your company can learn from a Pirate February 4, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment Hollywood has not done a great job showing what Pirate are, and what a Pirate’s life is like. It was not all ‘yo ho ho and a bottle of rum’. In fact, Pirates were some of the most organized, democratic and creative people of their time. However, despite being so organized, they were still Pirates… Read More
Pebble 2.0 Firmware RC is out January 30, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment So combine this with the Pebble Apps store announcement, and we are getting pretty close to the next full expression of what a Pebble can be. Already I’m seeing caloric burning counter beta apps coming out for Pebble 2.0. Nice. Here is the press release email thing.. We have just released a release candidate for… Read More
How car gamification made me one of THOSE Prius drivers, and then learned to love the accelerator again. January 20, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment Between living in the US and UK, I have owned a number of different cars, only repeating myself once with a BMW. I liked each car for different reasons but the two BMW’s I got were first, REALLY great deals, and second, I like the balance of performance, gas mileage and general appearance of the… Read More
SimCity 5 2013 finally getting offline mode January 15, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment And so they have finally released SimCity in offline mode. Well, its not out yet, but SimCity Offline is being tested at the moment. Looks like they have it right. You can play offline by yourself, you can install mods and save your games without ever touching the cloud. Here is a snip from the… Read More
Google Doodle for 2014? December 30, 2013 | perivision | Leave a comment I saw this on Twitter from Japan. So could be legit. Not sure but what the heck. Image only. Here is my source. pic.twitter.com/Jle0YXFsjG… Read More
How to get the news on your pebble watch. My first little hack December 27, 2013 | perivision | Leave a comment I have this website called NewsSnacker.com. Simple enough. I get various twitter feeds from various news agencies and then remove the duplicates. So now I want to read the news on my Pebble watch. Since I cannot code in C, I had to improvise. In comes Tasker. I listed Tasker in my Top 10 Pebble… Read More
Pebble Smart watch on sale at Best Buy for $119 December 16, 2013 | perivision | Leave a comment I have no idea how long it will be on sale, or how many they have, but this is pretty good price for stepping into the smart watch world. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/pebble-smart-watch-for-select-apple-174-and-android-devices-black/9713809.p Doing pretty well on customer reviews as well given its still not fully baked. Customer Rating(4): 3.5 (143 customer reviews)… Read More
How to get Outlook to connect to GMail Google Apps with 2-step verification December 13, 2013 | perivision | Leave a comment This drove me nuts for awhile. I have Google Apps so my GMail account is not .gmail.com. No matter what I tried, I could not get Outlook to connect to my GMail account which has 2-step verification turned on. After doing quite a bit of research I finally figured it out. You need to set… Read More