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IMAX VR’s Big Miss—and What It Teaches Us Now

Remember IMAX VR? Hey, Bob Cooney here. I wanna talk to you about something you may or may not know about. It’s called IMAX VR. Back in 2016, when VR arcades were just starting to pop up in America, movie theaters began experimenting with virtual reality. They started building these VR “theaters” and arcades right […]

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September 8th, 2025

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When AI Reroutes Your Brain: How Machines Are Already Shaping Human Reality

August 24th, 2025

Working with VR technology taught me how fragile our sense of reality really is. It hit me hard when I…

From Hustle to Hype: Why Influence Now Outranks Hard Work

August 10th, 2025

Over the last 6 weeks, I have been writing about The Battle for Our Minds: how technology is affecting our…

When Machines Think For Us: The Unseen Power of Artificial Intelligence

July 28th, 2025

From Algorithms to AI: A New Era in Thought Control In parts one and two of “The Battle for Our…

The Battle For Our Minds – Part 2

July 14th, 2025

How Algorithms Are Quietly Shaping Society—And What It Means for You “We don’t know who struck first, us or them”…

The Battle For Our Minds

June 17th, 2025

For the last two decades, I’ve watched the tech industry winning the battle for our consciousness. The emergence of artificial…

I Can See Augmented Reality From Here

June 16th, 2025

I’ve been a skeptic of augmented reality for a long time. A few years ago, I suggested that with the…

Why I’m Launching LEXRA—and Why I Need Your Help

May 26th, 2025

TL;DR: I’ve been building immersive experiences since before “immersive” was a thing— launching Laser Storm, Virtuality, and Global VR in…

Will Movie Theaters Go the Way of the Drive-In?

April 21st, 2025

Theaters aren’t dead yet, but if they don’t start looking at the trends, they will go the way of the…

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