My guess: there will be a rise of “VP of VR” (or AR, etc.) in the next 2–3 years. These titles, however, might only have a 10-year shelf life for better or for worse. I was thinking about mobile. VP of Mobile title was created around 2001–2007 (pre-iPhone) at many…

I am honored to be the host of the 2nd Exploring Future Reality event today by NYC Media Lab at our Viacom Times Square headquarters. The panel I will join is “What is Reality” — together with VR/AR experts like Prof. Ken Perlin (NYU) and Prof. Steve Feiner (Columbia). It…

The MIT Media Lab is arguably one of the coolest academic research labs in the world. It’s sort of well documented but here are a couple quick “proofs” (among dozens, but for another time…) Proof #1: they have a full Wired magazine dedicated to it (UK 11/2012 issue). Proof #2…

Just found an old doc I kept (for myself) back in 2005 (while I was still in grad school, and before the iPhone came out), funny how apps/tools/stacks change so constantly yet the high level “functions / needs” haven’t changed much (I guess we always need some editor to write stuff, for example). Some fun comparisons below — and these are just “laptop” centric tools since the phone was pretty much only for calls/text back then…