I Miss Our Trade Shows – So I’m Doing Something About It

Bob and friends at Commanders Palace at Amusement Expo

If you’re like me, you’ve been to a few virtual events this year. I guess that most were just ok—lots of webinars, too many PowerPoints, and hardly any real meetings. But nothing that got me excited to really ShowUp. I miss our trade shows I was in New Orleans at the Amusement Expo in March…

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Jae Maloney from Air France KLM – Full Interview (39:48)

Jae Maloney KLM Enterprise VR

Enterprise VR adoption is skyrocketing as more and more use cases are being discovered. COVID-19 is accelerating the adoption at exponential rates. Even airlines that have a vested interest in travel are considering how VR can reduce the impact of air travel on the planet. From scrum meetings in Glue, to training mechanics on maintenance…

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Bob’s Virtual Tour of Sydney Harbour (4:48)

Virtual Tours were a breakout search term on Google since the coronavirus lockdown. Virtual tours have been around since the original ViewMaster debuted at the 1939 World’s Fair. Bob takes his audience on a virtual tour of Sydney Harbour, reliving a recent trip there from November 2019. This highlight clip is from The Being Virtual…

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Creating Your Own Reality – A Study in Being Homeless

You know those innocuous questions you get when you meet someone for the first time, like “What do you do for a living?” When I meet someone who doesn’t know what I do, I tell them I work with emerging companies to help them increase sales of their virtual reality products. I also work with…

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Full Circle

In 2015 I quit my job and took off on a by now well-documented road trip in my old VW Campervan. There were many memorable moments during that journey of self-discovery.  The first was driving northbound out of San Clemente on I-5 and trying to decide what to listen to on the stereo. Wolfmother cried…

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Tipping isn’t a city in China

An old joke lobbed at restaurant customers in America that fail to leave a gratuity is “Tipping isn’t a city in China, you know!”  America has by far the most pervasive tipping culture in the world.  And as long as service workers are paid a non-living wage this will continue. Some restaurants in bigger cities…

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Off to Bali

I’ve been remiss in writing lately, but that’s been mainly intentional. So much has changed for me this year that I needed to find my voice again. Last year was about finding myself and letting that guide my direction. My path has taken me around the country and to Australia, Amsterdam, and England. Now I’m…

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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish

(Add steve jobs commencement you tube) In what is considered one of the greatest commencement speeches ever given, even if Aaron Sorkin did have a hand in penning it, Steve Jobs tells three stories to the graduating 2005 graduating class of Stanford University. All three of these stories have deep meaning for me.  Steve talks…

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Declare YOUR Independence

As I sit here in midtown Manhattan waiting for the fireworks to begin, I’ve been reflecting on the meaning of this holiday. As many of our holidays have, this one seems to have lost its relevance to me.  From a historical perspective, we are celebrating our freedom from the tyranny and oppression from what is…

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Independence Day

Hello friends, it’s been a while.  I’m writing this from New York City, midtown Manhattan to be specific. I know my story left off in Tofino, at a music festival last summer.  As you know, I fell behind in my travelogue.  One of the effects that had was I was unsure of how to post…

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