Stephen Black

your amygdala just wants to scurry under a rock

The CMU device is a phased array of 64 tiny transducers. The flat, half-moon-shaped array is attached to the bottom of VR goggles so it rests just above the mouth.

The haptic effects consist of point impulses, swipes and persistent vibrations targeted on the mouth and synchronized with visual images. A variety of effects were evaluated using 16... See more

Before the Covid-19 pandemic there were a lot of non-Japanese people in Roppongi. My wife is British and worked at Roppongi Hills for about 10 years, but she and other non-Japanese people have completely different maps of Roppongi in their heads to the ones we do. In this place we all know as Roppongi they have their own cultural sphere; they have... See more

Leslie Shannon (Head of Ecosystem, Nokia)Harish Srigiriraju (Principal Program Manager, Verizon)Lisa Babenko (Lead Engineer, Accenture)Lyron Bentovim (CEO, The Glimpse Group)Guy Gadney (CEO, Charisma Entertainment)Karl Guttag (CEO, KGOnTech LLC (kguttag.com))Jesus Luque (CTO, Peris Digital S.L.)Luis Martins (CMO, KIT-AR)Aaron Pulkka (Director,... See more

The Hokusai Museum is a diverse tribute to the renowned Japanese artist Hokusai Katsushika who visited several times near the end of his life in the charming town of Obuse, about 20 kilometers northeast of Nagano.

Then as you walk around the city, it will tell you things about certain places. Eventually, if I walk by a place where my friend was, it tells me that Alex was here two days ago. If I walk by a place and someone's inside, it tells me that Max is inside that place. A lot of it is still under development. Eventually, people leave a comment at a... See more

As Duchamp said, “To live is to believe.” I will never stop believing in the omnipotent, ameliorative potency of art, despite the charades and shenanigans.