Ideas and News from the Week of February 11, 2024

Welcome to the elastic ideas newscast. Each week we share the most interesting stories centering on AI, Metaverse, Spatial Computing, XR, Innovation and Cultural Dynamics. Feel free to suggest your favorites with a note to me

Week of February 11, 2024

Episode 2

Newscast

From AppleInsider

AVP will measure your eyes, will position the images exactly where they need to be for you to have a great experience. It will also strobe.And that can be a problem. But there are ways to manage that

From Open AI

Text to Video, longer than 3 seconds, using the combined powers of ChatGPT, Dalle and other skills under the hood, is set to change how we view everything.

From Tim Urban

As a lifelong lover of VR, Tim Urban has a valuable perspective on the latest headset.

From Google

Google? is no longer caching the web. They are redesigning their login page, and now the vaunted Robot.TXT (The rise and fall of robots.txt ) is in danger. It’s like a mid-life crisis. We’d all be better off if they’d just buy a convertible

Netcast

From The Verge

Banjo Kazooie may or may not be included.

From Neilsen Norman Group

Bridging the phygital divide can be tricky. QR codes help. More and more folks are comfortable using them. Which means that standardization of usibility patterns needs to be set.

From PYMNTS

We are living in an almost-screenless world. Virtual try-on becomes more important and expected

From AR Insider

And as you enter this screenless world, here’s a primer

From MacRumors

What’s interesting is that the AVP needs to be fitted to the user. It’s a more personal device. But it will make flying more enjoyable for the users, and for the folks who watch them play in the air while they’re wearing them.

From Marketing Dive

When you understand how things are used, you can figure out how to make them better. New measurement guidelines will help in gaining clarity in how folks use spatial experiences

Noisecast

Belle Chen is a brilliant pianist who's music will help you with the sharp points of your day

The brilliance of the UK Jazz scene comes out fully in this incredible album

You know what still stands up from 1989? This. This still stands up. As if you had a doubt.

Lou Reed, yes that Lou Reed, was one of the coolest people on earth. Not only did he create incredible rock songs and inspire thousands of bands, he also was a practitioner of Tai Chi. He wrote this album as a soundtrack for his meditations.

Smartcast

From The Guardian

AI is going to change all kinds of creative arts. Fashion is one of them.

From Vogue Business

NYFasion Week brought technology and visualization to the world.

From The Business of Fashion

A detailed overview for how GenAi can work within Fashion

From UX Psychology

It’s not just for apparel. Design in general can bring more data points to creativity. As a collaborative tool, AI can help move the world

From NYTIMES

GenAI can also be used to /imagine how your home could be

From Business Insider

Access to technology, ideas and the future should be for everyone.

From Ars Technica

Asimov’s Rules for Robots did not touch on Intelectual Property

From The Fashion Law

As a collaborative tool, and one that can’t own it’s own designs, the Artist needs to have greater IP controls

Randomcast

From Google

They bring you the world, and now you can use that world to create animations for all your friends, families and feeds

From Vercel

Throw some turtles to beat the stress

From Engadget

Please don’t use this to steal a car

From Wired

Some hopeful uses for AI, Robots and technology of the future.