Michael D. Thomas

@mike_d_thomas

systems architect, developer, author, youth chess coach & promoter. Let's do XR Intelligent Realities w metaverse & IoT real time streams.

Raleigh, NC
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Joined April 2009
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    Mar 17

    My 15 minute talk: " of Workers' Realities" How , , and combine to make intelligent realities, which can be nurturing & empathetic realities. When we make workers' realities better, we make work better.

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    22 hours ago

    I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we’re still in a pandemic. It’s ok if you’re not yet comfortable in crowds. It’s ok if you say no to things. It’s ok if you feel anxious. It’s ok if you need to rest. Your feelings are valid. And don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.

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    Nov 16

    Apparently Meta has sold 10m Oculus Quest 2 headsets. For context: 13.4m PS5s have been sold 8m Xbox Series X/S have been sold The best selling console in history, the PS2, had 10 million units shipped in its first 2 fiscal years. VR is going places.

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  4. Nov 14

    Currently, business settings have a lot of worthwhile intelligently created 2D -- charts, instructional videos, etc. Metaverse business settings will have these as well. Also, they'll have 4D representations of the biz that the biz isn't yet able to imagine.

    The proposition that *everything* will be spatialized fails to grasp the reason why we've spent the last few (very prolific) centuries abstracting things to 2D: reality & experience are messy. Our ability to successfully manipulate them lies in cutting *down* dimensions.
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    Nov 13

    BeOS had all sorts of useful APIs. We need to go back

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    Nov 14

    In the Future, you may preview the dishes from the menu in an entirely new way by Cc:

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    Nov 14

    The proposition that *everything* will be spatialized fails to grasp the reason why we've spent the last few (very prolific) centuries abstracting things to 2D: reality & experience are messy. Our ability to successfully manipulate them lies in cutting *down* dimensions.

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    Nov 13

    “Cardio that doesn’t suck”: Saw this ad while driving into the hospital this evening. One of the first times I’ve seen health-related make it’s way onto the LA city streets. Awareness continues to grow about the manifold ways VR can help to support health.

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    Nov 12

    Looking for a logo designer who could help make something awesome for Vernacular, my immersive language learning experience in virtual reality. Let me know if you're interested or know someone who might be!

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  10. Nov 12

    We don't call what we made starting in the '90's the "Information Superhighway", even though a lot of that visioning is here today. What we did do: build it piece-by-piece as pieces were possible & needed. Same for the 'immersive XR internet' aka 'metaverse' aka ...

    I agree a lot with on this: don't worry about building THE Xverse (what they call Metaverse). Focus on your worlds, your thing. It is a massive, collective project, and there is room for all (no limit, no boundaries, no end).
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    Nov 12

    A line these companies are treading is that whole lot of people - myself included - never have any intention of working full-time in an office ever again. I'd quit and go elsewhere instead. Officeworkers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but shitty office coffee!

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    Nov 10

    The futurist's dilemma: Any believable prediction will be wrong because the future will not be reasonable. It will be weird. (See now.) But any correct prediction will be unbelievable today, because that world doesn't seem reasonable. Either way, a futurist can't win.

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    Nov 10

    vs explained in one slide.😎☁️ (From deck I presented at Securities Tech Strategy Conference today)

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  14. Nov 10

    ...And when you find it, keep doing it.

    Paving the Path for Tomorrow, Today
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  15. Nov 10

    The exciting paths forward for XR data viz don't have much to do with the 3D data viz canon. It's 4D , 3D+time And workhorse 2D data viz does just fine in XR, but charts have to fit the form. Forget the small font hash mark text, for example.

    Before 1785 arguably no one on earth had ever used a bar graph. Now every 2nd grader is learning about them (& has seen them already countless times, particularly on screens). We can think thoughts unthinkable to our ancestors. What will XR representations allow us to think?
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    Nov 10

    Passionate about Climate Change? Join and for a virtual COP26 event in Friday Nov 12, 10am UK. Can VR reduce CO2 & generate empathy for nature? And we will also be taking you to space! Registration:

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  17. Nov 10

    - Graphs have a place in the metaverse - is not a farce

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    My wife got 1M+ views of this video in 24 hours yesterday and outreach from ppl you would never believe. The irony is that on the same day I heard from a well known “design expert” at that graphs have no place in the metaverse and is a farce. 🤔
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    Nov 9

    Our next tournaments will be Thursday, Nov. 11 at 9am and Saturday, Nov. 13 at 9am! The list of all our upcoming tournaments is at:

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  19. Nov 6

    This. Right along with: when people show you who they really are, believe them the first time.

    When people treat you like they don't care, believe them.
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    Nov 6

    I am once again asking for companies to stop retaliating against employees for standing up against injustices.

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    Nov 5

    If the person who named Walkie Talkies named everything: Stamps = Lickie Stickie Defibrillators = Hearty Starty Bumble bees = Fuzzy Buzzy Pregnancy test = Maybe Baby Bra =Breastie Nestie Fork= Stabby Grabby Socks = Feetie Heatie Nightmare = Screamy Dreamy = ???

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