PinnedMember-onlyA Simplified Approach to Immersive Audio to Enhance the Sense of “BeingThere” during COVID Lockdowns.In a nutshell The three stereo recordings below are of Mozart’s piano quartet K478 (1st movement). All video is identical. The first two have sound images that are dynamically adapted to the video image. The first one has a moderate adaptation and the second has more significant changes to the audio field so…Audio6 min readAudio6 min read
Oct 15, 2020Member-onlyÉloge funèbre à ma femme de 30 ansÉloge funèbre à ma femme de 30 ans Il y a plus de 35 ans, on s’écrivait nos premières lettres d’amour. Ensuite, les emails et les textos sont passés par là et on a totalisé des milliers de messages d’amour. Ceci est la dernière lettre d’amour que je t’écris. Tu…Eloge Funebre4 min readEloge Funebre4 min read
May 27, 2020Member-onlyHow can I be an environmentalist and still love and promote technology after COVID?This blog has been brewing for several years. As I’m locked down in rural Essex (UK), the global pandemic brings a sense of urgency to my dilemma. The whole world had never just stopped before, in our lifetimes. …Covid 1919 min readCovid 1919 min read
Published in Riddle&Code Blog·Mar 13, 2020The Automotive Sector and Blockchain - Part IIAt the end of 2019, together with leading consulting firm MHP, a Porsche company, we published a white paper on the state of the art of blockchain in the automotive sector. Sebastian Becker and I were the main contributors from RIDDLE&CODE. Here’s a reminder of the use cases that are…Car Wallet4 min readCar Wallet4 min read
Feb 5, 2020Member-onlyMy Expensive New Gaming Router Provides Great Wi-Fi, But Doesn’t Prioritise Traffic as Promised :o(Are gaming and its user experience a new opportunity for operators? — There’s a new hype sweeping the ISP world. It started with the ever-growing importance of connectivity at home. As our lives become more and more digital, so does the importance of our Internet access. …Gaming8 min readGaming8 min read
Published in Riddle&Code Blog·Sep 10, 2019Member-onlyLearnings from content security to help IoTWith IBC, Europe’s largest broadcast trade show, coming up this week, I’d like to take a moment to explore some of the links between content, telecoms, IoT and security. I’ll look into whether Blockchain might fit into the picture by bringing trust. The IoT industry is poised for mass adoption…Blockchain8 min readBlockchain8 min read
Published in Riddle&Code Blog·Jun 19, 2019Member-only#Blockchain, #5G and #IoTCan the combination of three of today’s most hyped technologies deliver greater efficiency to industry, open new marketplaces and change society? The interconnectedness between individuals and companies has been growing for decades at an ever-increasing rate. Our lives and work are ever more connected. Now machines are also communicating with…Blockchain7 min readBlockchain7 min read
Jun 2, 2019Member-onlyLive 8K transmission at French OpenPaint still wet on demos, so need some imagination, but wow-effect is there, for 8K, tiling and VR! France TV has used the French Open tennis championship to experiment with new TV technology for many years. It was already here, over fifteen years ago, that the first French glass-to-glass live…Virtual Reality5 min readVirtual Reality5 min read
Feb 2, 2019Eight reasons why #8K does matterIs #8K yet more hype to push TV set sales to unsuspecting viewers or an unstoppable new trend that is already coming? I’ve been itching to get off the fence for over a year now. However, ever since I read Daniel Kahneman’s Think Slow Think Fast(thanks for the recommendation @Arnaudb92)…8 K4 min read8 K4 min read
Sep 24, 2018Thanks Dad, for all the musicMy eulogy, read at my father’s funeral, September 2018 — There are so many things to talk about in a father-son relationship, and I had three weeks to write this. This file was version 18. In the end, I’m only going to talk about music because, in the process of writing, I learnt how important it was for us. This…Music5 min readMusic5 min read
