Business Strategist 丨Tech Futurist丨Speaker丨Thought Leader
Thinking
My thinking is informed by unique experiences delivering strategy to companies across many industries, product management (prior to my digital career I introduced $50 million worth of products onto the global market for Avery Dennison), consultant, and advisor.
My voice about augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) has become a leading one through public, speaking, blogging, and writing. My thoughts on the next wave of computing are sought after by companies including Facebook; and quoted by the media (Bloomberg and Forbes).
I contributed a full chapter to The Handbook of Research on the Global Impacts and Roles of Immersive Media with such industry luminaries as Brett Leonard, Greg Panos, Ed Lantz, Joanna Popper and Brian Seth Hurst – brought together by the editor and VR OG herself, Jacquelyn Mori My chapter, titled, “Immersive Media and Branding: How being a brand will change and expand in the age of true immersion,” explores everything from artificial humans representing brands of the future to guidelines on how brands can start to prepare for this future.
What follows is 12 years of blogging, not just around immersive technology (although there’s a lot of that), but facial recognition, wearables, IOT, and the convergence between all of it.
Reposted from linkedin Heard a really sweet story today by Donna Z. Davis, Ph.D. at AWE (Augmented World Expo): she told the audience about an elderly woman with Parkinson’s, who regularly “meets” her tuxedo clad physically distant son (avatar) in VR to go dancing with him. *That’s* the power of VR for me. Not the whiz bang isn’t …
Just read this article: “Through the digital lens: How VR can inspire better managers“. Subheader is, “Virtual reality has the power to change the world. But first, it has to change how straight white men think.” It stuck a very personal chord. Doing my MBA at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, I was one of …
Coronovirus or not, I’m extremely honored to be presenting (on stage, or virtually! – not sure yet) at Augmented World Conference & Expo on May 29th, 2020 . It’s the leading AR/VR event series in the world. and the epicenter of Spatial Computing; an event that brings the entire AR/VR industry together. The title of …
Excited to announce that I’ve joined the ranks of published authors, and some illustrious colleagues – I’m Chapter 19, “Immersive Media and Branding: How Being a Brand Will Change and Expand in the Age of True Immersion” in the just-published-today Handbook of Research on the Global Impacts and Roles of Immersive Media. My chapter explores …
In a week! – I’m going to CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas for the first time; while I’m increasingly daunted by the sheer SIZE of the event (multiple locations, miles and miles of walking) I’m also increasingly excited about what I’m going to experience there. Tons of amazing talks on the future immersive …
I spend a fair amount of time in my book chapter talking about intelligent (AI) bots / artificial humans and how brands can use them to create more meaningful relationships with customers. Fascinating stuff. And as AI and natural language processing improves (eg, real conversation) continues to improve in parallel with improving graphics and streaming, …
TEDx RoseTree 2019 done! What a fabulous experience – I met so many amazing people, and thoroughly enjoyed being in the middle of the vortex of ideas and creativity. My talk “How VR will supercharge grassroots movements” will be posted by TED soon, and I’ll update it here when they do. In the meantime, I’d …
Fascinating stuff. And, whoa. The inevitable march towards brain-computer interface continues! “Researchers from Russian corporation Neurobotics and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have found a way to visualize a person’s brain activity as actual images mimicking what they observe in real time. “ We are rapidly moving from keyboard and mouse input – which, …
For those interested in attending in person here’s a link to the TEDx Rosetree (Philadelphia) event I’ll be presenting at on November 19th. Only 100 tickets! – $100 each (incredibly reasonable IMHO…given the prices I see of other conferences). The theme is “Grassroots” and how every idea starts as a small concept, and requires levels …
I had the privilege of being a pre-launch reviewer for “The Spatial Web: How Web 3.0 Will Connect Humans, Machines, and AI to Transform the World” by Gabriel René and Dan Mapes; can honestly say it’s a comprehensive, well written and engagingly written book about a wide ranging subject, and well worth a read. They …
So my first professional book chapter’s been officially submitted, “Immersive Media and Branding: How being a brand will change and expand in the age of true immersion” (could still be changed) for all those curious. It is about virtual and augmented reality, and what it will mean for brands. Among other things, I talk a …
