Apr 8, 2017
Creator of I Love My Kindle and The Measured Circle
Interview starts at 6:14 and ends at 43:10
“It would also be able to know what your preferences are--that’s one of the biggest things about what we’ll see eventually with Virtual Reality. So for myself as a vegetarian, I could walk down that virtual aisle and have things that were for vegetarians maybe have a green outline on them, so that I could tell what was what.”
News
“Amazon exec steps in as CEO Jeff Bezos’s new ‘shadow’” by Rachel Lerman at The Seattle Times - March 14, 2017
Jeffrey Helbling on LinkedIn
“Amazon will start collecting sales tax nationwide starting April 1st” by Nick Statt at The Verge - March 24, 2017
“Amazon to hire 5,000 remote customer-service reps, part of drive to add 30,000 part-timers” by Angel Gonzales at The Seattle Times - April 6, 2017
Info on Nights & Weekends part-time Customer Service Associate jobs at Amazon
Amazon info page for AmazonCash
“Amazon allows customers to add cash to their accounts at brick-and-mortar retailers” by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - April 3, 2017
Tech Tip
“Pogue’s Basics: Make Amazon Echo tell you when it’s transmitting” by David Pogue
Interview with Bufo Calvin
Bufo’s I Love My Kindle blog
Bufo’s The Measured Circle blog
“Videos in VR: Hulu vs. Netflix” By Bufo Calvin at The Measured Circle
Samsung Gear VR headset
Chimera Reader VR app
Oculus Rift VR headset
HTC Vive headset
The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality & Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
“Virtually Mike & Nora on Hulu” (YouTube)
Play Cardboard apps on Gear VR (Google Play store)
SideloadVR for GearVR (Google Play)
Content
Readly app at Amazon
Readly AT&T terms
“Readly Launches Exclusive Program with AT&T Thanks” at Crossroads Today - March 28, 2017
Outro
“Will Virtual Reality Replace Skype” - April 6, 2017. This is my Medium essay about the interview with Bufo Calvin in vTime.
Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.
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