A Radically Ambitious Business Concept — As a part of the Black Technology Mentorship Program (BTMP), Christopher Lafayette challenged me to ‘put pen to paper’ with the following prompt: If someone (Bill Gates, Elon Musk, etc) wanted to give me funding for absolutely anything I wanted to do today, for a project that I would work…

The Next Generation of XR, Part 4 — Welcome back to the 5th installment of The Next Generation of XR! It’s been a crazy start to the new year, but I am even more excited to build something better because of it. This article will provide some initial ideas for practical steps we can take to design an…

The Next Generation of XR, Part 3 — Welcome back to the next generation of XR series! So far, we’ve talked about the ideal VR hardware, the importance of XR rather than just VR, and pro-consumer business models… Now it’s time for the really fun stuff… Content! What will the next generation of this technology actually look like…

The Next Generation of XR, Part 2 — In this article, we are finally getting into the money stuff with XR! You can find my prior two, more exciting articles below. 😉 The Next Generation of VR What we should be building in the next decadeelijah-claude.medium.com The Next Generation of XR (Cont.) Blurring the lines between base reality and virtual realityelijah-claude.medium.com TLDR; Main barriers to XR mass adoption:

Blurring the lines between base reality and virtual reality — Before I get into the ‘boring’ business model stuff, I want to make a sort of ‘amendment’ to my last article. Like a good UX designer, I am always hungry for feedback and to destroy my assumptions. …

What we should be building in the next decade — This article will be the first of a three part series talking about what the next generation of virtual reality can look like. It focuses on the hardware features we might build in the next 3–5 years for more immersive mainstream VR experiences. TLDR; We need a standalone device with a…

A story of two parallel paths for human-computer interfaces coming together. — How Mozilla Plans to Build VR Into the Foundation of the Web — Road to VR Someone in the comments of the above article mentioned how the game industry leaped into 3D as soon as it was possible for no other reason than… 3D! Because they could! …

It’s been a minute since I’ve written on here. But I’ve just been so very restless for expression and outlet lately. I don’t have the opportunity to do my podcast more frequently than once or twice a week… But I have tons of ideas and thoughts and more that I want to share with the world more frequently. These ruminations are positively bursting out of my mind and can’t bare to be bound by my private journals any longer.

And why it’s no excuse — I’ve been slippin. Can’t front. So many things to do in so little time. I’ve been: Working at a Virtual Reality arcade, documenting our operations and developing our commercial connections in preparation for expansion Working at an HRTech startup, building out tools to help companies easily hire matched employees based…