Jan 19Inner Cosmos Raises $10 Million To Treat Depression With BCI ImplantInner Cosmos, a new neurotechnology company founded by serial entrepreneur Meron Gribetz, today presented its first neural implant to treat depression. The neurotechnology company created what it calls “a digital pill for the mind,” a tiny implant similar to a cochlear implant. …Xr2 min readXr2 min read
Jan 14All The XR At CES 2023By “All the XR” at CES we mean “all the XR we personally saw,” which was a lot, but even walking 23 miles in four days, it’s impossible to see everything. I didn’t even make it to Eureka Park, where many XR companies were located. The scale of this show…Xr9 min readXr9 min read
Dec 18, 2022Ten Tech Gift That Can’t MissI’m like a deer in the headlights. I never know what to get them. Then it starts to be late. Choices dwindle. So this year, I made a list and checked it thrice. (1) Quest 2 VR I’d put the Quest 2 VR (virtual reality) headset in my #1 position…Gifts3 min readGifts3 min read
Nov 28, 2022Is This A Perilous Moment for VR?Meta Reality Labs posted a $3.67 billion Q3 operating loss last month, citing slowing sales for the Quest 2. We shall see what happens this Christmas, but the market for consumer VR may be saturated. Sony’s original PlaystationVR quickly sold five million units after its launch in 2016. Then sales…VR4 min readVR4 min read
Nov 12, 2022Real Planes, Virtual Adversaries In Red 6 ARWhen 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…AR6 min readAR6 min read
Oct 22, 2022The War in Ukraine May End SoonThe 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. …Ukraine2 min readUkraine2 min read
Oct 21, 2022Tilia Secures Strategic Investment From J.P. Morgan, Spins Out Of Linden LabLinden Lab announced the spin off of its proprietary finance engine Tilia this morning. …4 min read4 min read
Jul 11, 2022Book Review: “The Metaverse and How It will Revolutionize Everything,” by Matthew BallI 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…Metaverse5 min readMetaverse5 min read
Jun 11, 2022DeFi, Web3, And The Meta MetaverseDecentralized 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…Defi7 min readDefi7 min read
May 3, 2022Sneak Peek at my my new book, “Dissecting the Metaverse”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…5 min read5 min read