Oculus AR?
I was checking the Oculus VR site today to see when my dev kit will ship (April, apparently) and I noticed this …
Custom Software Will Produce Every Possible Digital Photograph
Custom Software Will Produce Every Possible Digital Photograph TLDR; an artist is iterating through every combination of pixels to produce every possible …
Google’s Michael Jones on How Maps Became Personal
Here’s a great interview with my former CEO/CTO, the brilliant Michael T. Jones, in the Atlantic magazine. Link goes to the extended …
Startup Funds People Rather Than Businesses
In 2002, I wrote a sci-fi short story titled Blockbuster that depicted a world in which individual people go IPO. In such …
Wrong Turn
I tend not to wade into the whole “Apple Screwed Up Maps” thing. For one thing, I don’t have a dog in …
Death to Poly
Polygons/triangles/quads are great for efficient low-level 2D/3D rendering — they’re butt simple graphics primitives that don’t require overly complex shaders or hierarchical …
Indoor GPS/Mapping Advances
Meridian seems to be doing some interesting work with easy-to-make indoor geospatial experiences for museums, tours, shopping, and so on. Their site …
Animation Tips for UX Designers
This is an excerpted chapter from Rachel Hinman’s new book. We applied some of these same ideas in Google Earth’s UX, way …
512 Paths to the White House – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com
This is one of the coolest interactive visualizations I’ve seen in a while. I feel like I actually understand the race much …
Pre Glass
If one wants to understand where Google Glass is going, one should understand where it came from. It’s a culmination of decades …