This should help move the devices along and this folder will be to track it along...This is a pretty MAJOR disturbance in the force........Facebook swipes the head of Google's ATAP lab to lead a new hardware divisionFacebook is planning to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into building new hardware, the company said today, and it's hired a star to lead it: Regina Dugan,who leads the Advanced Technologies and Projects Group at Google. Dugan will lead the new group, to be called Building 8. She was previously the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, where she focused on creating breakthrough technologies. Since 2012 she has worked at Google, developing technologies including tech-infused fabrics, modular smartphones, and Project Tango.Facebook provided few details about Building 8's focus, other than to say it will develop "new hardware products to advance our mission of connecting the world." Dugan will develop hardware powered by Facebook software, complementing the work of Facebook's artificial intelligence and virtual reality divisions, the company said. "We'll be investing hundreds of people and hundreds of millions of dollars into this effort over time, and I'm excited to see the progress they make," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement.Dugan said it is "a bittersweet day."I am on the one hand, tremendously excited. Building 8 is an opportunity to do what I love most... tech infused with a sense of our humanity. Audacious science delivered at scale in products that feel almost magic. A little badass. And beautiful. There is much to build at Facebook... and the mission is human... compelling."I am sad to leave the pirates of ATAP," she wrote in a blog post. "Each of our efforts to create new, seemingly impossible products, has been faced with intense challenges along the way. Technical challenges. Organizational challenges. Challenges that might have broken lesser teams. This is the type of work we signed up for when we built ATAP. It is terrifying because it means we have to face our fear of failure, stare it down, more days than most. So be it.The loss of Dugan represents a blow to Google, where she was a well regarded for her ability to marry blue-sky thinking with practical product development. "We thank Regina Dugan for all her leadership and contributions as part of the Advanced Technology and Projects group, and wish her the very best," Google said in a statement. Dugan will start her new job "soon," Facebook said.QUIK can you get Facebooks bldg 8 everything they need to use Eos from the start?Thanks in advance...
r Trek tech Facebook dives into Star Trek techRegina Dugan, the former DARPA director who most recently headed up a future-tech effort at Google, will lead Facebook's new "Building 8" hardware research group.Regina Dugan at the Google I/O conference in 2015.James Martin/CNETFacebook wants to get into hardware in a big way.The social network on Wednesday unveiled plans for a new group called Building 8, which will research and develop hardware products that advance Facebook's plan to connect more people to the Internet. The group will be backed by a sizable investment of "hundreds of people and hundreds of millions of dollars" over the next few years, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post.The team will be led by Regina Dugan, the former head of DARPA, or Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a US government agency charged with developing emerging technologies for the military. She most recently worked at rival Google, where she led the search giant's Advanced Technology and Projects, or ATAP, a secretive lab that developed a modular phone called Project Araand a tablet dubbed Project Tango."Today is a bittersweet day for me," Dugan wrote on her Facebook page. "I am on the one hand, tremendously excited. Building 8 is an opportunity to do what I love most...On the other hand, I am sad to leave the pirates of ATAP." Facebook isn't a significant player in hardware, but sees products you can hold or touch as a way to achieve its mission of becoming more than a social network. Zuckerberg on Tuesday highlighted three major areas the company wants to expand into: augmented and virtual reality,artificial intelligence andconnecting more people to the Internet.
wanted to go waaay back and read this one again....Mark ZuckerbergMarch 25, 2014 · Palo Alto, CA, United States ·I'm excited to announce that we've agreed to acquire Oculus VR, the leader in virtual reality technology.Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. For the past few years, this has mostly meant building mobile apps that help you share with the people you care about. We have a lot more to do on mobile, but at this point we feel we're in a position where we can start focusing on what platforms will come next to enable even more useful, entertaining and personal experiences.This is where Oculus comes in. They build virtual reality technology, like the Oculus Rift headset. When you put it on, you enter a completely immersive computer-generated environment, like a game or a movie scene or a place far away. The incredible thing about the technology is that you feel like you're actually present in another place with other people. People who try it say it's different from anything they've ever experienced in their lives.Oculus's mission is to enable you to experience the impossible. Their technology opens up the possibility of completely new kinds of experiences.Immersive gaming will be the first, and Oculus already has big plans here that won't be changing and we hope to accelerate. The Rift is highly anticipated by the gaming community, and there's a lot of interest from developers in building for this platform. We're going to focus on helping Oculus build out their product and develop partnerships to support more games. Oculus will continue operating independently within Facebook to achieve this.But this is just the start. After games, we're going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences. Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face -- just by putting on goggles in your home.This is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures.These are just some of the potential uses. By working with developers and partners across the industry, together we can build many more. One day, we believe this kind of immersive, augmented reality will become a part of daily life for billions of people.Virtual reality was once the dream of science fiction. But the internet was also once a dream, and so were computers and smartphones. The future is coming and we have a chance to build it together. I can't wait to start working with the whole team at Oculus to bring this future to the world, and to unlock new worlds for all of us.
Anyway QUIK keep them well supported with useful bits and pieces for their R & D benches. Thanks in advance.Commentary, Amazon Echo has done what Nest has not, the creator of the way forward Project Tango leaving GOOG, Robotic divisions for sale.Nice to see, again there will be urgency in many efforts that was not there before...MZ used the immersive word several times, we can track along to see if a companion device turns out to be a VR goggle?For the casual reader, this does not have anything to do with QUIK, but it might down the line a bit?
OK a digression, Facebook may have referred to this when choosing a name?MIT's 'Building 20' Is Proof That Only A Certain Kind Of Brainstorming Works There's been a lot of talk lately about how effective brainstorming really is.In his article, Groupthink, the New Yorker's Jonah Lehrer says there are two types of brainstorming — a free-for-all exchange of ideas in a structured environment, and a random, unplanned debate. Only the second type really works.He says M.I.T.'s famous Building 20 — which is now replaced with the Stata Center, designed by Frank Gehry— became one of the most innovative spaces in the country because it fostered the best kind of brainstorming. The building was created to provide extra room for scientists during WWII, reports Lehrer, and "violated the Cambridge fire code, but it was granted an exemption because of its temporary status. ... The walls were thin, the roof leaked, and the building was broiling in the summer and freezing in the winter. Nevertheless Building 20 quickly became a center of groundbreaking research, the Los Alamos of the East Coast."It wasn't demolished after the war because there were too many students and too little space on campus. So the building became a hodgepodge of offices, with professors and students from all different departments squeezed in small spaces and long corridors. It had an untraditional layout, and it's where big thinkers, like Amar Bose, who founded theBose Corporation, and linguist Noam Chomsky, accomplished big things:"Walls were torn down without permission; equipment was stored in the courtyards and bolted to the roof. ... The space also forced solitary scientists to mix and mingle ... The building's horizontal layout also spurred interaction.'"Steve Jobs created a similar environment with Pixar's headquarters:"In 1999, he had the building arranged around a central atrium, so that Pixar's diverse staff of artists, writers, and computer scientists would run into each other more often. ... Jobs 'made it impossible for you not to run into the rest of the company.'"Brainstorming works, Lehrer says, when it's less structured and allows for debate — and architecture and office layout can play a huge role in that.
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