Pardon The Disruption Rumjog Enterprises

A few members of the Rumjog team had recently purchased an HTC Vive and an Oculus Quest VR headset, which allowed them to get a sense of where the market currently is with regards to consumer VR.

In this episode, the team provides their insights into both headsets, and discuss some implications of VR technology as it becomes more advanced and mainstream.

- Oculus Quest Intro (1:25)
- Oculus Quest vs HTC Vive (2:32)
- Netflix & Chill in VR (4:55) (22:04)
- Live Events in VR (7:15)
- NFL in VR (8:32)
- VR for the elderly (12:49)
- VR to train employees (14:38)
- VR & Privacy in your home (18:28)
- The Real-world meets VR (21:19)
- Capturing Data (23:23)

Links used in this episode:
skarredghost.com/2019/05/27/oculu…vive-focus-plus/
uploadvr.com/oculus-insight-details-quest/
www.viar360.com/virtual-reality-market-size-2018/
shop.magicleap.com/#/
www.vive.com/us/cosmos/
www.talespin.company/
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The world of education, like so many sectors in our society, is changing. Specifically, technology is starting to play a more important role in what we learn, and how we learn it. As distribution and platforms scale internationally, the technology-driven education market (or 'EdTech') is projected to grow at 17.0% per annum, to $252bn by 2020, led by companies such as Coursera, Udacity, and Udemy.

Despite this large growth and a rapidly changing labor market, education is still starved of capital compared with other sectors and is still largely under-digitized. Added to that, today in the U.S. there are 44.7 million Americans with a total of $1.56 trillion in student loan debt.

All of this begs the question, is a degree today a valid return on investment and what role can technology play to better equip graduates for the existing roles in the market place?

Links used in this episode:
10 charts that explain the Global Education Technology Market: www.holoniq.com/edtech/10-charts-…echnology-market/

A Look at the Shocking Student Loan Debt Statistics for 2019: studentloanhero.com/student-loan-debt-statistics/

EdTech Spend To Reach $252bn By 2020:
www.financedigest.com/global-report-…n-by-2020.html

China has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world learns: www.technologyreview.com/s/614057/chi…ape-how-the/
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At its peak, investors pumped $253 million into two dozen deals involving virtual and augmented reality start-ups in L.A. and Orange counties in 2016, hoping that pricey headsets projecting virtual worlds would become as popular as smartphones.

Despite a recent dip in investment, some exciting applications of these new technologies have surfaced, including training staff on soft skills like how to practice firing somebody (www.technologyreview.com/f/614102/you…ual-reality/). British Airways is also testing VR as a perk for first-class passengers as a new form of in-flight entertainment (www.cnet.com/news/british-airwa…s-virtual-reality/).

But what is the current state of the VR / AR market, which devices and applications are leading the market, and what are some strong use cases pushing commercial adoption?

Links used in podcast:
www.bhaptics.com
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The past 15-20 years have generated a massive shift from on-premise software to cloud computing, but the AI revolution has created a movement to perform AI computing differently.

Instead of a link to the cloud, data generated by innovative devices is increasingly being processed locally on the devices themselves. Not only does this “AI at the edge” system process data faster and more cost-efficiently, it never leaves the confines of the area in which the device is situated.

Ok, but buzz words aside...what does this all actually mean and why should you care?

What is Edge Computing? What are the benefits, and more importantly what are some potential real-life applications of this new type of computing? In this episode of Pardon The Disruption, Tom speaks with Rob High (CTO IBM Edge Computing & IBM Fellow) to answer these questions and many more.
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The May IPO and the subsequent surge in the price of Beyond Meat stock, increasing 550% since the initial offering, caused some surprise amongst skeptics of artificial meat products. But should it have?

The company sells plant-based burgers and sausages, and their likeness to animal meats has meant that the company along with others like Impossible Foods are rapidly taking large chunks out of the meat market. In fact, AT Kearny (global management consulting firm) released a report recently claiming that by 2040, 60% of all meat produced and/or consumed globally will be cultured or plant-based.

https://www.atkearney.com/retail/article/?/a/how-will-cultured-meat-and-meat-alternatives-disrupt-the-agricultural-and-food-industry

In this episode, the team takes a look at the meat substitute market, the disruption companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are creating to the agriculture business, and highlight some of the benefits of plant-based meats.

- Introduction (2:04)
- Highlighting the disruption of plant-based meats (4:13)
- The inefficiency of meat production (5:24)
- The cost of Beyond Meat (8:53)
- The supply-chain disruption (10:17)
- What will it take for widespread adoption of meat alternatives? (33:33)

https://www.beyondmeat.com
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In Episode 29 of Pardon The Disruption, the team discussed the world of Deepfakes. But what is the underlying technology behind Deepfakes? Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), is extremely interesting and could have profound implications for distorting reality when it comes to generating fake videos or images.

Created by the researcher Ian Goodfellow at the age of 28, Generative Adversarial Networks are two artificial neural networks which compete against each other. In the case of deep fake images, one network (the generator) tries to generate an image which the other network discriminates (the discriminator). In essence, the generator is trying to fool the discriminator into believing the data, or image, is fake - and it continues to generate images until this objective is met.

- What are Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)? (2:14)
- The role of the Generator and Discriminator in GANs (5:00)
- Why Is This Important? (8:50)
- Where will GANs be used in the future? (9:25)
- Deep fake images are just the start (10:20)
- Generating Complete Data (14:00)
- Variational Auto-Encoders (What JPG did for image compression) (14:44)
- Faking Social Media profiles (20:10)
- Machine-Brain Interfaces (21:41)

Links used in the show:
A Beginner's Guide to GANs: https://skymind.ai/wiki/generative-adversarial-network-gan
Play with GANs (The GAN Lab): https://poloclub.github.io/ganlab/

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