I wanted to like this game, I really did. I played it at PAX during an Xbox showcase that Microsoft had for ID@Xbox developers, and the team behind it were cordial. As a huge fan of FMV games, I was looking forward to this myself. I found myself engrossed by the story and idea of…
Microsoft’s Reactor at the University City Science Center is open for business, as we celebrated our grand opening yesterday evening. Technical.ly Philly did a great story on it, which you can find here. I’m still building out the Reactor website, which will soon have individual landing pages for each of our locations, in San Francisco, NYC,…
I’ve been traveling up and down the east coast giving talks at Angelbeat, a roadshow of talks on security/compliance, cloud/virtualization/sdn, storage/backup/infrastructure, network/mobility/voip and big data/hadoop. My talk was on Microsoft’s efforts with the open source community and security for Windows 10 and Azure. Take a gander. Microsoft on open source and security from David Voyles ———————–…
YouTube has pretty sweet stats overlay for any video through their player. I wanted to do the same for Azure Media Services, since it has a plugin framework. You can find the code on GitHub here. Try a live demo at Codepen.io See all of my Azure Media Services tutorials here. Azure Media Services Plugin…
Holographic Emulation is a new feature that vastly reduces iteration time when developing holographic applications in Unity. Developers creating applications for Microsoft HoloLens will immediately benefit by being able to prototype, debug, and iterate on design directly from the Unity Editor without getting bogged down by long build and deploy times. Holographic Emulation works in two…
I use uber every week. It’s a more cost effective way for me to get to the airport than driving my car and paying to park for several days at a time. What I enjoy most about the Uber ride are the drivers and the conversations we have. My ride to the the Philadelphia airport…
I’m not quite sold on VR yet. The more I speak with people in the gaming industry, the more I realize that I’m not the only one. I attended New York Comic Con this weekend, and had a chance to try out two VR demos, including one for Amazon’s “The Man in the High Castle”,…
Andrew Peterson is a software engineer who has spent much of his timing building the N3S, a NES emulator which works on Microsoft’s Hololens. Best of all, the current games on display are not only holographic images presented in world space, but , but are also 3D objects in the form of voxels. Although the…
Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions by Guy Kawasaki My rating: 4 of 5 stars If you are familiar with Guy Kawasaki’s work, you’ll immediately understand why this book comes from his heart. Kawasaki was the original evangelist, starting at Apple in the 80s, and from there the world would see the…
#AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur’s Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness by Gary Vaynerchuk My rating: 4 of 5 stars I was initially skeptical, but really learned to enjoy this book. The title says it all: Gary answers questions from fans, which may have come from Twitter, YouTube, or other forms of social media. Each chapter…