Next week: normal service
Next week: normal service
Next week: more of the same
It's all change in Government technology circles. The various changes that have happened at the top of the Government Digital Service and elsewhere in recent days signify something, although I'm not entirely sure what. Derek du Preez makes a good stab of it here. All this change got me thinking. For a while now I've been … Continue reading Change leadership
This week I have learned: I do really, really want to write a book, and now might have someone interested in helping. At this time of year every email sent = at least one email out of office returned 3D modelling is chuffing hard Observing people doing proper manual work makes me feel mildly inadequate … Continue reading Weeknote 299: una paloma blanca
After last week's tinkering with making an interactive digital world out of reality, this week I've had a bit of time looking at how to create 3D models that can be viewed using a Virtual Reality headset. To start off, I've got three potential target VR environments. The cheapest is the Google Cardboard viewer, a … Continue reading Further adventures in VR Land
This week I have learned: it always helps one's own understanding to go through the exercise of explaining things to others. so Augmented Reality has now gone mainstream then. my Stamp experiment has reached its 3rd anniversary I'm really looking forward to a summer break Next week: a publisher, a cartographer and an IT contract … Continue reading Weeknote 298: School’s out
360 degree photography is a thing these days. Increasingly you'll see photos on places like Facebook that enable you to pan and zoom around to explore. You can then combine these spherical photos to create clickable "walkthroughs". It's even then possible to view these walkthroughs in a 3D Virtual Reality headset like Google Cardboard or … Continue reading Creating immersive walkthroughs
This week I have learned: Innovation isn't about sparks of inspiration... ...it's more about getting the right people in the right mood in the same room at the same time. We appear to be living in an era when politics becomes impossible to be judged by satire. Next week: the countdown to summer.
It's a question I'm being asked a fair bit at the moment and for the legal-minded folk I'm working with a great deal at the moment, this is how I respond... Machine Learning is really interesting. It's being applied to all sorts of problems where traditional models of programming have fallen short. It's mostly based … Continue reading Where can I use machine learning?
This week I have learned: an experience is worth a thousand words the next wave of virtual reality is really very impressive never underestimate the creative potential of anyone Edinburgh is a beautiful city (I knew that - I was just reminded) juggling work and parenthood is a constant zero-sum game... Next week: to the … Continue reading Weeknote 296: experiential
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