VD Journal By Brian Sherpa

Brian Sherpa 12/16/18 How Sony's 'Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse' uses AR to put a new spin on a beloved superhero    This article was about the new Spiderman movie, which Sony teamed up with 8th Wall, a cross-platform augmented-reality (AR) start-up, and Trigger, a mixed-reality agency to create the new superhero to life."AR allows characters to come to life. You can experience and engage in ways that you never could with traditional media," said Erik Murphy-Chutorian, 8th Wall's founder and CEO, told CNBC in a recent interview. He explained how the emerging technology has helped to boost interest among mobile users. In addition to the use of AR marketing, "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" is the first film to feature several different incarnations of the Spider-Man character, each of whom represents a different race, gender and species."Storytelling with AR is a very different experience. The viewer is more of a participant, so that c...

Brian Sherpa 12/9/18 Huawei arrest: The start of the cold war    This article is about the arrest of a top Huawei executive raises the stakes in the intensifying battle between the United States and China for tech supremacy. Huawei is one of the world's biggest makers of smartphones and networking equipment. It is at the heart of China's ambitions to reduce its reliance on foreign technology and become an innovation powerhouse in its own right. The country is pumping hundreds of billions into its "Made in China 2025" plan, which aims to make China a global leader in industries such as robotics, electric cars and computer chips. The introduction of 5G wireless technology, which hinges on Huawei, is a top priority. The United States however is trying to push back China's growing tech power in order to maintain American dominance. President Donald Trump has tried to tackle these issues directly. His administration says that the hundreds of billions of dollars in t...

Brian Sherpa 12/11/18 Today for this game event we were taught to program a game with sketch and I learned the basic fundamentals of game designing. The instructors were college students and helped guide me with my scratch project. I met a-lot of video game designers too which was a good experience to ask them a few questions about how to create a game. Most of them said they used html, javascript and other programing/coding softwares. It was a really fun experience to also work with my peers from school. The food they provided was amazing and it felt like a professional environment even though there were some kids there that were younger than me. During the creation of our game using scratch, I often needed help and there was an instructor who helped me, she was very generous and even taught me a few things about web design despite being a video game designer. We couldn't take pictures of some of the workspace since it was technically inside an office, there were other people...

Brian Sherpa 12/2/18 NEW MIT-DEVELOPED SYSTEM CAN MAKE WEBPAGES LOAD 34 PER CENT FASTER IN ANY BROWSER Computer scientists at the world-famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a system that can reliably make websites load 34 per cent faster.  As internet speeds have increased, websites have got more complex, leaving some pages sluggish and unresponsive. This is a problem for companies like Amazon, who say that for every one-second delay in loading time, their profits are cut by one per cent.      But a team of researchers, working at the university's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, may have found the solution. When you visit a new page, your browser reaches across the internet to fetch 'objects' like pictures, videos, and HTML files. The browser then evaluates the objects and puts them on the page. However, some objects are dependent on others, and browsers can't see all of these dependencies until they come acr...