I met X.AI’s Amy several months ago when a colleague invited me to a meeting. My first thought was jealousy over his ability to afford an assistant. I later found out that his assistant, Amy, was the manifestation of an AI scheduling service. And then my jealousy went from his income to his place in the beta queue, which I signed up for immediately.
Serious Insights Principal Analyst Daniel W. Rasmus Comments on Oculus Featured at InvestorPlace
It has been almost two years since Facebook (FB) dropped $2 billion on Oculus VR, a virtual reality company operating independently of its parent since the acquisition. At the time, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told consumers and investors that immersive gaming — an area where Oculus already had “big plans” — would be the first focus before other applications in entertainment, education, healthcare and more were explored.
New on GeekWire: How to compute fireworks: tech behind Space Needle’s New Year’s show
While pyrotechnics may be imagined and installed by human beings, the design and execution of the Space Needles New Years fireworks extravaganza in Seattle spends most of its life inside a computer.
Special Report on VR and AR Says They are Ready for Business
The future is coming and it is either virtual, augmented or both. In this new special report on VR and AR written by Serious Insights Principal Analyst Daniel W. Rasmus, we explore what virtual reality and augmented reality mean to business, what business needs to do to get ready, what developers must do to deliver value, and how the …
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Rasmus on GeekWire: How personalized learning can reshape education
How personalized learning can reshape education Buy the textbook. Attend lectures. Take tests. Get graded on a curve. This is the way most people remember their college or university learning experience. Learners, however, are a diverse group, with a wide range of personal histories, different approaches to learning, and varying degrees of technological savvy. Engaging today’s …
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Serious Insights: The Best Products from CES 2015
The Best Products from CES 2015 selected by Serious Insights Principal Analyst Daniel W. Rasmus.
Four Quick, Easy, Surefire Ways of Improving Customer Experience
MightyCall‘s Edmund Tee captured some of my comments from a recent advisory session and posted them as a blog. He did a great job of representing the issues we were discussing. His accuracy also reflects on the value of recording meetings so you don’t have to rely just on handwritten notes.
‘It’s Time for Apple to Redesign Keynote’
Apple software still has an old school feel with its clear connection to object oriented programming with properties for everything and the seeming tension between menus and ribbons on the desktop implementations. But Apple misses some of the most important programming features, particularly with Keynote.
IBM+Apple Agreement More About Development than Supply Chain up at iPhoneLife
With the advent of bring-your-own-device (BYOD), enterprises have adopted Apple products, sometimes reluctantly, in quantities never seen before. Much of this adoption has come primarily in the form of iPhones and iPads. The exposure of many enterprise applications to the web have also made the integration with Apple’s Macintosh less of a support issue for […]The post IBM+Apple Agreement More About Development than Supply Chain up at iPhoneLife appeared first on Daniel W. Rasmus.
’5 ways to emulate Flappy Bird’s success – And avoid its failure
When Vietnamese developer Dong Nguyen launched Flappy Bird, and then abruptly pulled it from online marketplaces, he created quite a stir among game aficionados. The addictive little game created a high-priced aftermarket that many brands never achieve. Even after garnering $50,000 a day, Flappy Bird still proved valuable postmortem. Addiction played a great deal into the success […]The post ’5 WAYS TO EMULATE FLAPPY BIRD’S SUCCESS—AND AVOID ITS FAILURE’ Now Up at Fast Company appeared first on Daniel W. Rasmus.
