The Tesla Powerwall will NOT change the world … at least not yet. May 4, 2015 | perivision | Leave a comment So Friday Elon Musk finally gave us the full details on the home battery he has been hinting at for the last few months. As expected, it’s basically a smart battery that you can mount on a wall that will smooth out your home or buildings power demand from the grid as well as extend the… Read More
Microsoft Builds the future of Augmented Reality with HoloLens April 29, 2015 | Damon | Leave a comment At its Build Developer Conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft provided some new details on its HoloLens virtual reality device it announced back in January. HoloLens is a head-mounted, holographic computer with a depth camera that provides a mixed-reality experience for a range of applications. I briefly covered the HoloLens in a previous post and was… Read More
The Gear VR and Lamborghini joint VR video is finally available on Milk. And its great! April 24, 2015 | perivision | Leave a comment First seen at the Lamborghini booth at the Geneva Motor Show 2015 in March, Samsung and Lamborghini created a well received 360 video of the Lamborghini driving around. Well I finally got to see it today and its more than just a camera in the car. This video was very well planned out and shots… Read More
Now thieves are use Amps to steal your car. Now you need a Faraday cage for your key fob April 19, 2015 | perivision | Leave a comment Sigh. More proof mean people suck. So here is the story. Thieves are using signal power amplifiers to extend your cars reach to your key fob. The way it works normally is when you are a few feet from your car, the car’s remote sensing system detects its your key fob and unlocks itself. Well… Read More
Finally did a hands on with Apple watch. Its good… umm. good. April 18, 2015 | perivision | 3 Comments Sound less then excited in my title? That is because I was. I have the original Pebble, the Pebble Steel and the original LG. The Apple watch is nicer then all of these, but only just a bit nicer. The screen is a bit nicer, but not much. I liked the round edges of the… Read More
Apple Watch sells out in the first day. Does that close the Apple Watch market from other watch makers? April 11, 2015 | perivision | Leave a comment Short answer mostly no. Long answer, there are still watch to be sold to Apple owners, you just have to sell it the right way. Now even though Apple sold out of their first batch of pre-orders, they did not release any numbers to indicate how many that is. Some analysts have predicted the company… Read More
The coolest thing about self driving cars will be trucks April 2, 2015 | perivision | Leave a comment There has been lots of talk about self driving cars and how they will change the world, and they will, but before that happens, a just as big change will come to trucking. Imagine a long line of trucks all super close together getting 2x the gas or electric mileages because of drafting. Drivers would… Read More
Here comes the tax season scams April 2, 2015 | perivision | Leave a comment My wife come in and asked me to listen to a voice mail. It was a recording of someone with an english accent saying that he was from the IRS and they have been trying to reach out to her for a 1040 audit. ( WTH is a 1040 audit anyway?) They never used her… Read More
Self driving cars will make electric cars more practicable, and mechanics less populous March 25, 2015 | perivision | Leave a comment When it comes to the auto industry the future is coming on at full speed. Although I think its optimistic to think we will have self driving cars in 5 years, because of both technology and legal reasons, but in 10 I think we will see a large percentage of cars that can drive themselves… Read More
Pebble watch working with Microsoft phones? Kinda? Download at the end. March 15, 2015 | perivision | Leave a comment I’m sure you have seen the news. Microsoft has a private beta out there for 48, now 24 hours, and then … well we do not know what will happen then. However, the simple beta is mostly about getting bluetooth notification with Pebble to work. Although this sounds pretty simple and not indicative of an… Read More
Cheat codes for Cities: Skyline March 13, 2015 | perivision | Leave a comment ok, I need to cross check these cheat codes I got off the web, but I’m going to place them here and then check up on them keep or remove each cheat code as I verify them. BTW, there are not cheats as much as they are steam mods. In the main menu section click… Read More
Top 10 Apps for the Gear VR HMD March 5, 2015 | perivision | Leave a comment (Note, I’m posting this now, but its not done. But what I do want is feedback. Good list? Bad list? you have a better top 10? Tell me.) I finally got my Note 4 and start loading apps on the Samsung Gear VR and here is my top ten favorites. Normally I do not include… Read More
REAL 2015 – Where the Sensor meets the Maker March 3, 2015 | Damon | Leave a comment This past week was the REAL conference, an event organized mainly by Autodesk to explore the convergence of the professional 3D sensing, making & visualization industries. From the website: “REAL is both an exclusive executive summit, REAL TALK, & a world’s fair of cutting-edge 3D demos, REAL LIVE. REAL is new and different: an immersive, hands-on,… Read More
VR: Dont call it a comeback … March 1, 2015 | perivision | Leave a comment … I’ve been here for years.. Song? Anybody? That’s right! LL Cool J, ah a trip in the way back machine. However, we are not going to talk about ’91 rap, instead we are going to talk about what VR was in ’91 when ‘Mama said knock you out,’ was released, then again in ’98… Read More
The Cloud Office war is finally reaching full pitch as Microsoft finally moves its heavy Armor onto the field February 24, 2015 | perivision | Leave a comment This has been building up for sometime. As with the Great Mobile War and Browser War, the Great Office Cloud War has 3 players, Google, Apple and now Microsoft. In the beginning, there was Google Docs. Google docs were pretty simple but had one great advantage. You could start a doc on one machine, go… Read More
Windows 10 is coming, and why there may never be a Windows 11, instead Windows 365 February 22, 2015 | perivision | Leave a comment I upgraded from Windows 7 to 8 then 8.1 I have not had any more major issues with it short of the UX/UI that is basically common knowledge at this point. I’ve downloaded Windows 10 and although I have not experimented with it too much, its a better experience then 8, so I feel I’m… Read More
What has Pebble up its sleeve? New hardware? We know new software… but what else? February 19, 2015 | perivision | Leave a comment So what does Pebble have up its sleeve.. and targeted for ours.. Based on the announcement it seems pretty clear some new platform upgrades. But that about it. Well, I have my wishlist handy. I have an app for the Pebble called NewsSnacker. Its not complicated but does what I want. Lately I have been… Read More
NBA Video for the Gear VR dropped a few days ago, not the ALL-Star but still.. February 17, 2015 | perivision | Leave a comment Not too impressed, but I cannot wait to see an actual game like in the Gear VR. The quality could be a bit better, but still pretty good. The NBA All Star video should be out in a few weeks so we are on standby. REALLY looking forward to it though. There are two videos,… Read More
Head Mounted Displays and Augmented Reality Headgear February 8, 2015 | Damon | Leave a comment The idea of immersing ourselves deeper into an augmented and or virtual reality has captivated many of us thanks to sci-fi books like Snow Crash and Rainbows End. It has also created an explosion in growth the past few years of Head Mounted Displays (HMD) and augmented reality glasses projects. AR glasses and HMDs… Read More
A Reddit Grill Cheese Melt Down – NSFW December 9, 2014 | perivision | Leave a comment So sweet. I had to login to Reddit just to upvote the rant and comment. Instead of reprinting the text, I screenshot it for justice. The basics of this is someone ranting, and rightly so, that a grilled cheese is ONLY bread and cheese. You add anything else and its a melt. Now one may… Read More