My brother recently gave an academic talk on augmented reality use in museums, using AR as the medium. Museums are always the first application of AR people think of, and it often doesn’t work in practice as well as you’d expect. I think Geoff has a lot of insight into where it does and doesn’t […]
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Maker Camp is doing a virtual field trip to one of our launches today! Join the live hangout at 11am PDT to see what I do, or at least what I support (they’ll hopefully show a bit of Mission Control after the launch — that software is the part I’m responsible for). Originally shared by
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Gravity-defying levitating superconductor on a magnetic Möbius strip Read More »
One of our balloons on display on Google’s main campus today. [Migrated from Google+]
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After almost two years, I’m proud to finally be able to reveal what I’ve been working on at Google :). For 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach. Today we are unveiling our latest moonshot from Google [x] – Project Loon: balloon-powered internet access.
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My brother, Geoffrey Alan Rhodes, with a very cool (and very meta) presentation on augmented reality… [Migrated from Google+]
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Filk album put out by a former coworker of mine — take a listen. [Migrated from Google+]
Coffee Computers and Song Read More »
Looking to try this tomorrow morning… [Migrated from Google+]
The perfectly fried egg Read More »
It doesn’t really surprise me to hear that Magic The Gathering is Turing Complete, but it’s got me wondering what other games can be turned into Turing machines? Aside from Conway’s Life, I don’t know that I’ve heard of any… [Migrated from Google+]
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A friend of mine is cofounder of a relatively new game design company made up of former (read: laid off) Wizards of the Coast designers, and they’ve just launched a kick starter to expand their new tabletop RPG, 13th Age. If you’re into RPGs you should definitely check it out — it’s an incredibly talented
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