Wednesday, April 19, 2017

future: SmartPhones => SmartGlasses

Mark Zuckerberg Sees Augmented Reality Ecosystem in Facebook - The New York Times

“Think about how many of the things around us don’t actually need to be physical,” Mr. Zuckerberg said in an interview last week. “Instead of a $500 TV sitting in front of us, what’s to keep us from one day having it be a $1 app?”

Zuckerberg sees augmented reality's future in camera | F8 2017 Keynote - YouTube

AR glasses to be hotter than phones in 5 years, Facebook exec predicts - Business Insider

Facebook Oculus Research: "20 or 30 years from now, I predict that instead of carrying stylish smartphones everywhere, we’ll wear stylish glasses. Those glasses will offer VR, AR and everything in between and we’ll use them all day," 

Or don't wait, just spend $3K on Microsoft HoloLens

HoloLens Case Western

AI: ML with Jupyter for "New NBA"

Mark Cuban is learning ML to improve NBA
and interesting twitter discussion

link from: Data Newsletter - O'Reilly Media

Microsoft += Intentional Software

Hungarian Notation (C++ naming convention) comes back to Microsoft :)

Hungarian notation - Wikipedia

Microsoft buys Intentional Software; Simonyi to rejoin Microsoft | ZDNet

"Simonyi, while at Microsoft, oversaw the creation of a number of Microsoft productivity applications, including Excel and Word. Simonyi -- founder, chairman, and chief technology officer of Intentional"