I’ve been following MyVU for quite some time now and yesterday at CES they unveiled their latest goggles. And it’s a huge upgrade for about 300USD you get two independant VGA screens for each eye, and as they are independant they can do real 3d graphics! Can’t wait to have them supported by world of warcraft or second life ! Still the MyVU 3d support need some adaptation on the game software side and it sounds like they still have no partnerships heading that way.
First time I tried to do some advanced video editing… and I failed with iMovie 08 
. I wanted to mix some videos while keeping a same soundtrack from a primary video. Any idea how I can d that ?
Take a USB key, wire it to your Tv, you get TakeTV ! Check the video presentation, it’s just like black wizzardry !
The inPerson is a visio-conference device made by Creative. This dedicated devices comes with a WiFi + Ethernet connectivity and a 7″ screen. It’s a pretty odd device, at 820USD it’s just twice as expensive as an eeePC that also comes with a camera, and almost as expensive as a MacBook – thus although I believe it’s a cool device and I like cool devices that are dedicated to a job and do it well it’s way above a 250/300usd I would set as a price point for this. It’s using a proprietary protocol for the VoIP and there won’t be any PC/Mac software, so all the contacts must have the device (pretty tough huh ? )
Today at CES D-Link has unveiled their “D-Life” project. The idea behind is that it’s a real pain to configure wireless devices – the embedded web configuration page is a real pain to reach and then you must be an engineer to make it work. D-Life solves this issue by deporting all the configuration to one unique website for all D-Link products.
Listen to Joe as he presents the project. D-life should launch around March/April with a yet unknown set of supported devices (on stage the demo would use an IP phone, a webcam and a photoframe).
L’Expansion, one of the top French business magazine has a tremedous review of WaveStorm in its latest edition… check it out on their website (French).
Had couple of hours fun playing with my Spykee yesterday @ home – the cat (Dôkho) loves it ! She keeps following it everywhere at a safe distance 
. Check out the video
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And proof is that Meraki networks, that we’ve been following for quite some time now, has raised an amazing 20M USD from Sequoia Capital, DAG Ventures, Northgate Capital and other previous investors (that was a 5M Series A with angels and Google).
Meraki has designed a small router which looks alot like the Fonera from Fon but relies on Meshed networking to provide a low cost pervasive WiFi network coverage. They have been working in the San-Francisco area for some time now and with that fund raise they will expand it to cover the full city of San-Francisco offering an ad-based free Internet service.They already have about 40 000 daily connections which is not bad…
I’m really curious to see if they can make a real business out of local ad services. Anyway they already have a real business model as their main income comes mostly from revenue share with large telcos for managing their network.
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Almost forgot to wish you all the best for 2008 – 2007 has been really full for me (baby, getting married, lots of awesome projects / work…) hope I can take some time to breathe in 2008 . Anyway one thing is for sure, the environment of connected devices is getting more and more interesting, guess it will be a pleasure to follow up with it as it’s growing to a mature and mass market !
I’ll be in the US for 10 days starting next sunday to attend CES in Las Vegas firstly then to discover San Francisco (never been there before – can you believe it ? ) for a couple of meetings! If you happen to be there in either place and have some interest in connected devices, mobility and virtual worlds, let’s meet !
You can now follow my steps on Dopplr.
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