In This Episode: AI everywhere. Sideways Moon Landing. Computer Screens that wrap, see through, and more.
This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
- 1:10 LN: AI everywhere
- AI and Blockchain
- 7:20 Expert System
- 7:30 GR: Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up
- 20:00 LN: Odysseus lands … sideways? Moon landing drama
- 23:30 Lunar night
- 25:00 GR: Are transparent screens the future?
- 36.30 LN: Also: Wraparound phone concept
- 42:00 GR: 70mm film. The Hateful Eight
- Apple Vision Pro to the rescue!
Ain’t it Cool
- 52:00 GR: Masters Of the Air (Apple TV+)
- 54:00 LN: Luther (BritBox/Amazon)
An issue with overlaying items on a transparent screen that is recording what is beyond it, is paralax. If you move your head while doing this, the view through the screen, everything is out of position. I suppose that a user facing camera could track head movement but would be simpler to use the already available camera to show the view on a regular screen.
What is the field of view coverage of the headset. If it is close to that of a normal person’s vision, it could be your private theater for any format as an immersive system. View any movie (2d or 3d) from any seat in the theater. Want a front row seat where you have to turn your head to see the sides, got it. Want the back row so it is all in view, got it. Any format, including Omnimax. Would love to see It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad, world in Cinerama, especially the chase scene.
Cooper Theater Minneapolis – The screen was the largest ever installed: 35 feet high with a 105-foot-wide curve. – Later divided into a large very wide screen and a small screen. Got to see Laurence of Arabia in full width there.
It is supposedly around 100-120 degrees horizontally. The Apple TV+ app does offer an immersive environment where you feel like you are in a theater and you can choose front, middle, back or even balcony.