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Michael R brings back Ian Hughes to discuss the recent changes with Meta’s VR investments, cool content on Apple’s Vision Pro, the new Creator Studio bundle, and 25 years of Wikipedia.While Andy and Michael M are not available we look at how large companies cutting back on innovation can allow new startups and companies to flourish. With Meta refocusing more on wearables, perhaps we will see an...

Photo by Michael Martine, Blowing Rock, NC 2022Published 12 January 2026e538 with Michael, Michael and Andy – Stories and discussion on CES2026, EuroTech, PhoneTech, AI playing your games for you so you can watch and a whole lot more.Andy, Michael and Michael take a look at many of the announcements from CES, and share a few of their favorites. CES is the annual Consumer Electronics Show held in...

Photo by Scott Gruber on UnsplashPublished 4 January 2026e537 with Michael M and Andy – ringing in the new year with the amazing power of music to move and heal, LEGO and retro builds and a whole lot more.Andy, Michael and Michael would like to wish all of our listeners a very happy 2026!Michael M and Andy start off 2026 on a good note – or perhaps better said – a series of good notes. Michael...

Photo by Alexander Grigoryev on UnsplashPublished 22 December 2025e536 with Andy, Michael R, and guest host newly-retired Ian “Epredator” Hughes – a dive into gaming in 2025, retro computing and games, how to fix old paintings, and what’s coming to the public domain on January 1st.The show kicks off with a number of gaming topics, discussing what the hosts have been playing lately, including the...

Photo by David Klein on UnsplashPublished 15 December 2025e535 with Michael M and Andy – adversarial poetry to jailbreak LLMs, iFixit’s FixBot, power of digital twins, putting the breaks on Rewind, Nintendo Virtual Boy and a whole lot more.Michael M and Andy start things off with a most intriguing concept – adversarial poetry. By using ‘memetic language’, researchers formulated prompts with...

Photo by Tim Wildsmith on UnsplashPublished 24 November 2025e534 with Michael, Andy and Michael – AI and ML training data, camouflage, ppen source Zork, Deadpool VR, NPH movies and a whole lot more.Michael, Andy and Michael start things off with with an intriguing AI analysis of the heist from the Louvre. The Ars Technica article takes the examples of mathematical machine learning and human...

Photo by Fallon Michael on UnsplashPublished 17 November 2025e533 with Andy, Michael and Michael – rings to chart the heavens and control your home, repurposing smart TVs, retro La Machine and Vectrex hardware made newly available, new Valve Steam hardware and a whole lot more.Andy, Michael and Michael start things off with a 400 year old ring that unfolds into an astronomy tool. Check out this...

Photo by Chris Charles on UnsplashPublished 3 November 2025e532 with Michael and Michael – Halloween Spooktacular edition with AI whale communications & implications, robotic vacuums that phone home, ad supported TVs and a whole lot more.For the Halloween spooktacular edition of Games at Work, Michael and Michael start things off with an article about AI decoding whale’s communications, and...

Epredator created AI Generated imageMichael R and Ian “Epredator” Hughes get together for a chat about #gaming, #VR, and #technology. We talk about some of our favorite comfort games, how they are procedurally generated, and how the gaming business model has bifurcated between ongoing money grabs and lovingly created indie games.Show LinksGames:Battlemarked https://battlemarked.comOn Steam –...

Photo by Kindel Media from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-robot-toy-on-gray-concrete-floor-9026299/Published 29 September 2025e530 with Michael and Michael – an AI extravaganza with vibe coding, AI gaming chums, rating LLMs via Infocom games, robots for construction, self assembling space habitats and a whole lot more.Michael and Michael get things moving this episode with an AI...