19 Future Now Show - Psyche Mission is On, Greg Panos & Richard Cray on Augmented World Expo 2023 and our collective take on the Apple Vision Pro!

Listen to Future Now 6.06.2023 XR

The virtual and augmented worlds got a double boost this week, with the Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara and the revealing of the Apple Vision Pro headset. Apple’s vision of the XR future is markedly different from the leader in that space, Meta, with a focus more on augmented than virtual reality and higher end resolution and graphics, amongst many other things.  To help evaluate the latest and greatest in these worlds, we have in studio, Greg Panos, a pioneer o augmented and virtual reality, Richard Cray, an accomplished vr/ar performance artist, Taylor Barcroft, our Future Now Apple correspondent, and Bobby Wilder our science correspondent.  We think you’ll really appreciate a lttle ditty about Apple’s new headset we created with a little help from Richard’s singing and Greg’s prompting of Perplexity.ai.  Enjoy!

L-R Richard Cray, Allan Lundell, Sun Lundell, Gregory Panos

Future Now 07 - The nearby Mae West Point, PI Day Humor, Steve Follmer on the new weight loss/end obesity drugs, Greg Panos on the latest creative AI tools, Richard Cray Sings for an AI experiment

Listen Now to Future Now Show 07 3.14.2022

While we were recording this week’s show, the wind and rain were howling outside, thousands locally were without power and bandwidth, and we were concerned about large trees falling on our house.  Fortunately, we were able to complete the show without incident, and what a show it is! 

We take a closer look at the mysterious Mae West point, explore the strangeness of Boulder Creek, Steve Follmer, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, shares his experiences with a class of weight loss drugs known as semaglutides, which are taking the world by storm. 

And on the creative front, Greg Panos describes several new AI-powered tools that give us visual and audio super powers, i.e. creating amazing images in a few seconds from a simple textual description, like “create a monkey in a space suit meditating on the shri yantra.” Though is cause to fear AI, there is even more cause to celebrate how AI can enhance our creative expression. Enjoy!

AI generated image from the text: “a monkey in a space suit meditating on the shri yantra”

Future News and Views - Congrats to Space-X, Starship Explosion, New Solar Activity, Monica on City Council Meeting, Greg Panos on AWE 2020 XR Expo,Beyond Zoom tools, HP VR, Dan Dan on Dr. Zacks on the Microbiome

Listen Now to Future News 6.2.20

A full show today, with news, both local and global.  A big congrats to Space-X and their successful ferrying of humans to the ISS, just wow! Too bad about the Starship explosion, though it was half expected. Thanks to Monica McGuire for her report on our Santa Cruz City Council meeting, including plans for our slow re-opening of businesses locally.  

And a special report from Greg Panos on Augmented World Expo 2020, covering such topics as new VR/AR hardware, social spaces like Alt Space, spatial io, and Alt Space. And good to hear from Shane, an Australian listener who loves our show and bringing our attention to Dr. Douglas Gentile, a renowned media psychologist at Iowa State University.

Dr. Dan Beilin checks in with an update on Covid, with some good conversations between him, us and Bobby Wilder, our science journalist co-host. We all got so engaged with our discussion about Dr. Zack’s work with the microbiome, we forgot it was the end of the show! Enjoy..

Report on Siggraph 2019 with Greg Panos

Listen now to the Futures with Greg Panos on Siggraph 2019

Greg Panos @ Siggraph 2019 Photo -Richard CrayCorrespondent Greg Panos reports on this year’s Siggraph 2019, the technical show of the year on computer graphics animation, performance art, virtual reality in filmmaking, volumetic 3D video, remote rendering, and other innovations in media creation.

He came up for air long enough to give us an exciting report on what’s happening at Siggraph this year! Enjoy.

Stunning New Martian Crater, Star Fleet Chevron on Mars, Super Snail Glue, Green Rocket Fuel, Harvesting Drinking Water from Air, Greg Panos on Manipulated Media and 'Deep Fake' Technology.

Listen Now to The Futures with Greg Panos

Lots of great space news this week, such as a new stunningly beautiful Martian crater from a recent impact, and the Star Fleet symbol, also found on the red planet. Our guest this week is our very own Gregory Panos, a VR/AR/XR cyber pioneer from the beginnning.. This week he reports on the latest in technologies that allow easy manipulation of media, such as audio and video impersonations. Looking at Deep Fakes is very timely as last week, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence did their first public hearing on such issues that may pose national security challenges.  Enjoy!

Evidence of fictional aliens messing with Mars?