January 12, 2023

You’re convinced Mark Zuckerberg will fail, right? A little more than a year ago Zuckerberg renamed Facebook to “Meta.” He is investing billions of dollars in virtual reality and augmented reality devices with very little short-term profit potential. Meta’s VR products have been widely panned – the Quest Pro VR headset is criticized for being…

November 12, 2022

The Meta Quest Pro is a virtual reality headset introduced in October. It has the best combination of features currently available for VR. It costs $1,499. That’s really all you need to know, because everything else flows from that startling price tag. Obviously you’re not going to buy one. The details are pretty theoretical for you. But…

November 4, 2022

I’m writing this at a contemporary teak desk in front of floor to ceiling windows overlooking a lake surrounded by forested mountains. My laptop screen is displayed on a monitor a few feet away with a  60” screen, crisp and bright. The keyboard of the Macbook Air is on the desk in front of me…

October 17, 2022

We’ve been talking about new devices for AR and VR as if they’re just engineering challenges. All the companies have to do is invent some cool batteries and lenses and poof, there’s a revolution. There’s another problem and it’s just as difficult as the high tech stuff. Let’s call it the input problem. How do you…