I spoke with Tanmay Bakshi all about machine learning, how he got into developing software so early on, what he thinks about the Singularity and more in this interview outside the IBM Watson Summit in Sydney! Tanmay Bakshi is an IBM Champion, IBM Honorary Cloud Advisor, Algorithmist, machine learning and Watson developer, author, speaker and YouTuber! Thank you for your time Tanmay! A very big thank you to the team at the IBM Watson Summit in Sydney for helping organise this interview and supporting Dev Diner in its goal of helping developers get into emerging tech! Thank you to Heartbeat Intensity for putting together the fantastic music for this and for her work behind the camera!

This week, Oculus removed its hardware DRM checks bringing rejoicing to the VR streets, Adobe Premiere now has tools for editing 360 and stereoscopic video, Twitter is starting an AR/VR division, Bluetooth 5 was announced, AI can now anticipate and beat human experts in combat simulations and a Russian robot keeps trying to escape the lab. Robots and AI can beat us in combat simulations and escape labs now. Looking to buy yourself some VR games? While this is gonna sound like a promo, it's more of a public service announcement… Steam and Oculus have a stack of sales on over 120 VR games till 4th July! Adobe Premiere Pro's latest update now includes new tools for editing 360 degree video and stereoscopic VR video!

A look at a Penrose Studio VR short called "The Rose and I" and its cross-platform differences. Great read for VR developers interested in seeing what's coming. Here is a brilliant guide on how to stream mixed reality by the guys who know it best -- the Fantastic Contraption team! Now this is very neat! Mike Harris combined the Leap Motion draw and scale utilities from Orion into a neat demo.