When I first spoke to Daniel Robinson three years ago, in the fall of 2019, he and his co-founder Glenn Snyder had just gotten their first development grant from AFWERX, the US Air Force technology incubator, to create an AR system capable of creating virtual adversaries enabling fighter pilots in…

The 250,000 troops conscripted by Putin are not there to fight, they are there to occupy, and Putin has good reason to think they will, and soon, before winter. Putin’s Army is already empting Kherson of civilians, after which they will evacuate their forces. …

Linden Lab announced the spin off of its proprietary finance engine Tilia this morning. …

I read my preview copy of Matthew Ball’s new book about The Metaverse with great relish. It is an instant classic in the burgeoning field of Metaverse Studies. Ball has set himself a monumental task. In order to explain the Metaverse, he has to explain the history of the personal…

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a blockchain based method of making financial transactions. Unlike a bank, which pays the consumer interest for deposits, which it uses to make loans at a slightly higher rate, a DeFi transaction is mediated by a protocol, not a middleman who gets additional fees for services…

I wrote Charlie Fink’s Metaverse in 2017. It was “An AR-enabled Guide to VR and AR,” so in this context I was using the Metaverse as a metaphor for the connection of everything in immersive tech, which the book seeks to explain. People liked the title, and the book did…

Facebook announced the creation of a ten million dollar maker fund for its still-in-closed-beta Horizon social VR app today. In addition, the company said Horizon will be rebranded as Horizon Worlds. This follows the launch of Horizon Workrooms last month, suggesting there may be more brand extensions to come. …

I just saw my first true hologram. I was visiting Light Field Lab, a Silicon Valley company which today unveiled its unique holographic system, SolidLight.™ No glasses are needed to see realistic holograms blended perfectly into the physical world. There was no glass or other hidden projection surface. The hologram…

This morning Facebook launched Horizon Workrooms, a free cross-platform XR (VR, PC) collaboration app that enables distributed teams or groups to share a private virtual room for meetings, training, and education. Workrooms can accommodate up to sixteen avatars, representing sixteen people in Oculus Quest 2 VR headsets, and as many…