Editor’s note: Noel is the last man standing from the AppsLab to work at Oracle. He created this project while being part of the Oracle Groundbreakers Team. The rest of the original AppsLab team members are now scattered throughout different companies in the tech sector. For years I’ve been wanting to create something fun with the almighty… Read More
Editor’s note: For posterity’s sake, I’m reposting some content that we created during our time at Oracle. These statements and views are those of the author and do not reflect those of Oracle’s current user experience organization. Developing concept products that embrace emerging technologies Working with emerging technologies brings unique challenges for developers. There are… Read More
Editor’s note: For posterity’s sake, I’m reposting some content that we created during our time at Oracle. These statements and views are those of the author and do not reflect those of Oracle’s current user experience organization. Designing for What’s Not Yet Here Designing for emerging technologies means seeing how these technologies can help solve… Read More
Editor’s note: For posterity’s sake, I’m reposting some content that we created during our time at Oracle. These statements and views are those of the author and do not reflect those of Oracle’s current user experience organization. What do you do when you don’t have users yet? Oracle’s approach to researching emerging technologies isn’t really… Read More
Editor’s note: For posterity’s sake, I’m reposting some content that we created during our time at Oracle. These statements and views are those of the author and do not reflect those of Oracle’s current user experience organization. Playing at work promotes discovery, opens door to innovation What if work could also be play? It turns… Read More
Editor’s note: For posterity’s sake, I’m reposting some content that we created during our time at Oracle. These statements and views are those of the author and do not reflect those of Oracle’s current user experience organization. Emphasis on emerging technology shapes user experience strategy The AppsLab, the OAUX emerging technologies team, has a passion… Read More
Epilogue
The AppsLab experiment ended this week as nearly all of us were let go. Noel and I decided to keep this blog running, both as a historical resume of sorts and as a way for all of us who worked in ‘Lab over the years to share our ongoing adventures and talk about technology. We… Read More
Since back in 2014 when we got the Not-For-Sale developer model of Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition which only works with Samsung Note 4, we started to set our eyes on the development of immersive digital media experience of virtual reality. Along the way, we have researched on enterprise VR use cases, device platform, and… Read More
Cross-posting this bit I wrote for the official Oracle Application User Experience blog, enjoy. Recently, at Oracle CloudWorld in New York, Oracle President Thomas Kurian talked about how emerging technologies can change the way you do your job for the better. Investigating this impact is the primary focus of the AppsLab, the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) Emerging… Read More
In December our team was allowed two weeks to pursue a “passion project”. It didn’t have be work-related, just something you truly wanted to work on. I chose to design tread patterns on the soles of shoes. I had never given a thought about shoe treads until, a week earlier, a woman on the NodeBox… Read More
Oracle hosted its first Girl Geek Dinner last Thursday, December 7, 2017. The dinner was 18 months in the making. With at least 400 women and men in attendance, it is the largest Girl Geek Dinner of the year. @Oracle hosted our 1st @BayAreaGGD with over 400 participants. As Thomas Kurian, Pres of Oracle said… Read More
From the first day I got the Amazon Echo in December 2014 I looked for more interesting ways to interact with it. Before the Alexa team released an official API, I came up with a rather creative way to control things . It was not perfect since I had to add things to the “todo” list… Read More
Jeremy on the Role of Emerging Technology
Here’s a video from our Group Vice President, Jeremy Ashely (@jrwashley) about Emerging Technology and how it should be helping people to use the system. This is a nice, concise description of what we do and why.
Now that Oracle Open World has come and gone, I have some time to go into the details of how this project was conceived and realized, and how it faired at OOW. Let’s start with that last one. I guess to no one’s surprise, the actual booth with (free!) beer was a crowdpleaser; we blew… Read More
IoT Workshop and Robots
AppsLab has been offering the IoT Workshop since Oracle OpenWorld 2016. And over past one year we have hosted the workshop in 20 cities around world as part of Oracle Code events, plus at Kscope 2017 conference. And if you still managed to miss all the events, Oracle OpenWorld 2017 might be your last chance… Read More
In this post I will simultaneously have Fun With Data and Fun With Maps. I will use public APIs to turn my Isle of Alameda into a “choropleth“, a map which displays areas that are colored or patterned in relation to data. To do this I will need to find boundaries within Alameda that I… Read More
IoT Cloud Brewed Beer @ OOW
For the past few months we have worked together with the Oracle Developer Community and Alpha Acid Brewing on a secret IoT project. Come see (and taste!) it at the Developer Lounge in Moscone West during Oracle Open World. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Mark. Update: Want to learn more? Check out this video… Read More
March 1, San Francisco, USA – August 30, Seoul, South Korea 183 days (exactly 6 months), 20 cities around the world thousands of speakers, OTN staff and local consultants hundreds of thousands of participants and coders That’s the Oracle Code 2017 tour, presenting current and upcoming technologies in packed sessions, providing Oracle cloud services lab… Read More
The best way to learn how to make your own maps is to map someplace familiar. The place I live, Alameda, is an island in the San Francisco Bay, but existing maps don’t do it justice. So as part of my Fun With Maps project I set out to disentangle Alameda from the urban sprawl… Read More
On a quiet Thursday morning, I went to our Gadget Lab at Oracle HQ and turned on the light. Inside the comfy egg shell chair sat an NAO robot, waiting for me. Welcome NAO, our latest team member! NAO is a little adorable humanoid robot created by SoftBank Robotics. It can talk, walk, and dance;… Read More