Tag: Review

6 weeks down!!!

Look at that, 6 weeks has rolled around since I started this blog.

A quick recap on my top posts. These all have an important element for me, whether it was the content or the story, a growth felt in my writing style, or a growth in my thinking.

This might not work….
A confession 

Painting, piano & sailing

Let’s have a conversation around digital minimalism 

Grieving with Hope

I feel more at ease in a room full of pole dancers, than a church

Tiredness 

Awesome Jar

Hope to catch a glimpse of how loved you are brother
Thanks for being on the journey. I plan to keep the journey going.

How has blogging every day changed my thinking process?

A daily blog has forced me to stop at the end of the day and reflect on all that has happened, to take count of what new things I’ve learnt, or noticed & then forced me to try and turn those thoughts into words on a page. This is something that I hadn’t practiced for years (& some would argue if I really wanted to practice them, I should attend a university).

It’s also interesting to see how a thought changes as I process it through the writing. Sometimes the place I start from, is a very different place to where I end up after having to think and process the idea in detail. 

EBay Myer Department Store VR – is the future here?

Today we might get to see a glimpse of the future with eBay and Myer Australia teaming up to bring a department store VR experience.  This will be interesting because I think it will be a lot of people’s first time experiencing VR,  so the success or failure of it, may dictate how easy / hard it is for other companies to encourage people to try entering the VR space.
They have set up a mini sites around it at http://vr.ebay.com.au where they are even giving away a Google Cardboard like VR headset to those who hand over their details.

I started playing with VR about 4 weeks ago when James gave me a Google Cardboard. I was instantly hooked on the concept and amazed at how much fun pairing a $5 cardboard box with a fancy phone can be (here I’ve using a HTC one m8).

After playing with the app I think they provide a good introduction to VR, but the whole shopping experience doesn’t feel like it’s there yet. Simple things like product options don’t seem to be there yet. But hey it’s just version 1. Version 1 of a PDA (the thing before a smart phone) looked a lot different to the current premium phones of today. Baby steps.