February 13, 2022

Last fall all the cool companies started talking about their augmented reality plans and throwing around the term “metaverse” as if it meant something. (Insider tip: it doesn’t.) Journalists have been crowding around Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft on the playground to report on their secret plans. Google felt left out, so recently it started to…

January 15, 2022

Augmented reality is going to be a Really Big Deal, but not for many years.  Every major tech company will spend billions of dollars in 2022 on augmented reality. This is a transition year. None of the big tech companies will have a product to buy in 2022 that will help you understand why they’re…

October 30, 2021

Facebook changed its name to “Meta.” Been reading the tech news? You’ve probably seen all kinds of speculation about the reasons for the name change. Most journalists figure that Facebook is just looking for a distraction from its problems. And it has problems! Facebook is under pressure from regulators and lawmakers for all sorts of…

October 10, 2021

I’m curious – when I talk about “augmented reality,” do you know what that is? I feel like it might not be part of the general consciousness yet. I don’t have any new development to point to, nobody introduced new products last week or anything like that. But it’s time for you to pay attention,…