XR, Ambient Computing, Spatial Computing, AR… — I loved it looking at how every announcement throughout the I/O was connected to Google’s mission of organizing the world’s information and make universally accessible and useful. We could see how google is pushing its services and products to the ambient world. Monolingual translation — A new model to help…

Speaker: Suresh Sambandam, Convenor of Dream Tamilnadu. — Marketing is everything and everything is marketing — Regis McKenna The basic understanding of marketing starts with knowing that Marketing ≠ Sales. (1) Marketing Marketing is all about getting people interested in your company’s products and services whereas sales are specifically about selling those products and services. Marketing is the process…

Weekend itinerary around Coimbatore #02 — It’s been a year since I went for a long drive on my hawk (bike). When I saw a long weekend it was a perfect time to put things into action. I wanted to redo a route I did in 2016 with my previous bike. But to make it exciting…

*Meta ≠ , the company in this article. — I want to start this discussion with a fundamental question, "What is reality?". Each of us perceives this world through our lenses/mindset. We create our realities based on those perceptions. The brain collects information(stimulus) from different senses, finds the pattern, and builds reality based on internal models. Reality is whatever…

There is no single definition of metaverse yet. — Metaverse is still in the process of conceptualization, and different industries are defining it in alignment with their strategy. This article is an attempt to capture different definitions from various leaders and visionaries in this space. Metaverse could develop in many different ways depending on the ecosystem and innovation, but…

Plane Detection helps AR devices to understand the environment. It can detect horizontal or vertical surfaces of the environment like tables or walls. Image Tracking detects two-dimensional planar images that are pre-defined. Image tracking helps you to place content on the image and track its location and orientation. Curved…

🤔🧘👌🖖👍 — It is always good when you continue a streak, this is my third year end notes to self which I started in 2019. The year 2021 itself was more on self-reflection, slowing down and being more intentional. I found the importance having someone to guide you on reflecting, finding your…

November 2021 — When we approach the metaverse from the technology lens, it combines social media, online gaming, augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and cryptocurrencies. Now let’s approach metaverse more on an abstract level; if we consider the earth or even the universe as a metaverse where people can talk, learn and…

Designing multimodal applications to support platforms of the future. — Note: This is more thought on how we would design mobile applications of the future, not an answer. Mobile applications are not just limited to mobiles with upcoming AR glasses tethered to smartphones or the announcement of Windows 11 supporting the android application. Your apps might find being used in…