Ever since I read an interesting but mostly inaccurate article on Plato and Object-Oriented Programming over ten years ago on Code Project, I’ve wanted to do a series of blog posts on the relationship between philosophy (once my vocation) and coding (my current passion). Partly this was out of laziness, since there aren’t many people

In a 2010 piece for The New Yorker called Painkiller Deathstreak , the novelist Nicholson Baker reported on his efforts to enter the world of console video games with forays into triple-A titles such as Call of Duty: World at War, Halo 3: ODST, God of War III, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, and Red Dead

In the first part of this series, I provided a detailed walkthrough of setting up a project using new Unity XR SDK pipeline for HoloLens 2 development and how to integrate it with the HoloLens 2 toolchain. In this post, I will continue building on that project by showing you how to set up an

The HoloLens 2 toolchain is under continuous development. In addition, the development of the Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK), the developer kit for HoloLens, must be synced with the continuous development of the Unity Game Engine. For these reasons, it is necessary for developers to be careful about using the correct versions of each tool in

If you look up the Xbox One Kinect (informally known as the Kinect 2) on the GameStop website, you’ll read in the product description that “[t]he best Xbox One experience is with Kinect.” Over the course of the Xbox One’s life, there were approximately 38 games that supported Kinect body tracking. None of them were

“So, in the next century there will be no more books. It takes too long to read, when success comes from gaining time. What will be called a book will be a printed object whose “message” (its information content) and name and title will first have been broadcast by the media, a film, a newspaper

How do you deal with people who refuse to wear masks? According to fedscoop, tracking down rioters from the January 6th Capitol invasion will be easy due to three reason: rioters typically didn’t wear masks rioters photographed, videoed, and streamed their insurrection surveillance software is extremely good at analyzing photographs and videos for facial matches

I’m not a lawyer, much less a Constitutional scholar, so I really have little weight to throw toward resolving the question of who should preside over the second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. This is the second time of late that I’ve opined on matters for which I am fairly unqualified to opine. I’m

While prominent voices like those of David Frum of The Atlantic , Jim Geraghty of National Review and Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal have all called for a swift second impeachment of President Trump for instigating the mob that sacked the U. S. Capitol building in their attempt to stop the Constitutionally mandated

It is 60 days after the day I thought the U.S. presidential election would have been settled … and yet. Intellectually, I recognize the outrageousness of the situation, based on the Constitution, based on my high school civics lessons, and based on my memories of the 2000 presidential election between Bush and Gore when everyone