It’s time for my annual look at Gartner’s hype cycle, where I pick out the technology trends that interested me and how they’ve played out in Silicon Valley and outside it. I love looking at this analysis first and foremost because it adds perspective to the often subjective opinion of leading edge tech that we … Continue reading The Gartner hype cycle: a personal take
Augmented Reality
Gartner’s emerging technology hype cycle – 2017 edition
For the past few years I’ve taken a look at Gartner's Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle as a way of following what products and technologies make it out of the Silicon Valley bubble and into the real world. It’s an interesting yet in some way humbling exercise to see what products that we think are the … Continue reading Gartner’s emerging technology hype cycle – 2017 edition
AR for the rest of us
Augmented reality (AR) touted at Facebook’s F8 with a place of honor on Facebook’s 10 year roadmap as one of three technology areas Facebook is going to focus on. Mark Zuckerberg stated in his short keynote that Facebook is “making the camera the first augmented reality platform” which, with their strengths in machine learning and … Continue reading AR for the rest of us
What it all boils down to 