e518 — The Old Ones Are The Best

Photo by Boris Langvand on Unsplash Published 23 June 2025 e518 with Andy, Michael, and Michael – stories about Atari adjacent AI, a new Emotiv experience, Midjourney video magic, Bondi blue, visionOS persona improvements, the Nex Playground and a whole lot more. Andy, Michael and Michael begin with a couple of Atari AI stories.  First up, there’s a Hackaday article dealing with randomly generating Atari games, replete with a link in the notes below to the Github repo to check out.  Next is a Futurism article detailing how ChatGPT loses to the computing might encompassed by an Atari 2600 console.  Continuing on the ChatGPT theme, the co-hosts check out a post on the recent ChatGPT worldwide outage, and what happened as a result. Then, the team turns to a discussion on the recent Emotiv kickstarter, the MW20 Neuro Earphones, and are reminded about the Emotiv Insight.  Rounding out the AI section, Michael, Andy and Michael enjoy Ian Hughes’ Midjourney experiment to create a short video of Roisin Kincade from his book Reconfigure. After considering a cute iMac G3 inspired Apple Watch charging stand, the team charges into a conversation about the recent updates to visionOS 26, paying special focus to the Persona function.  Michael Rowe has a nice before-and-after view of his Persona posted in his blog, and Michael M finds the AI generated Dutch master painting of Michael from back in e240.  Check out the links below to see for yourself! A new to the cohosts gaming console called Nex Playground (not Next – that was a different company!) has a modular form factor, and makes use of a camera for the gameplay.  The Creative Bloq article references Homecourt as the origin for the Nex Playground — “the eye in the sky does not lie!” is a common refrain from sports analytics enthusiasts.  It is intriguing how sophisticated the AI motion detection has come in this consumer space. What games can you imagine playing where your body is the controller?  Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know! These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot.  All rights reserved.  That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Selected Links AI Hackaday article: Randomly Generating Atari Games Finite Atari Machine GitHub repo Futurism article: ChatGPT “Absolutely Wrecked” at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 Robert Caruso’s LinkedIn Post: 🧠🤖 Atari 2600 Pulls Off the Upset!! Wikipedia article: TRS-80 Color Computer ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/11/chatgpt-goes-down-and-fake-jobs-grind-to-a-halt-worldwide/ – text https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=889fSJTRZlg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA – video — David Gerard (@davidgerard@circumstances.run) 2025-06-11T15:59:42.031Z Pivot to AI post: ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide Kickstarter post: Emotiv MW20 Neuro Earphones: Hi‑Fi Audio + Brain Insights Emotiv Games at Work e37: Sticky Games (for Emotiv reference – perhaps the first?) IMDb: Minority Report Loving midjourney new video generation. Ran the opening still from http://reconfigurebook.co.uk through it and Roisin really came to life. I last did this in 2023 with Runway. As I wrote https://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/2023/07/25/reconfigure-the-movie-nearly/ — Epredator (@epredator@mastodon.online) 2025-06-18T23:02:57.523Z Feeding Edge post: Reconfigure – The Movie, nearly Midjourney post: Introducing Our V1 Video Model Apple The Verge article: Charge your Apple Watch on this tiny iMac G3 replica Wikipedia article: iMac G3 iColorpaltte Bondi blue Six Colors article: visionOS 26 keeps pushing Apple’s newest platform toward the future Random Thoughts post: WWDC 2025 – Liquid Glass (for the AI Dutch master version of Michael Rowe in the initial visionOS) Games at Work e240: Game of Life (for Michael R’s generated portrait) Games Creative Bloq article: Nex Playground review: an Apple-like active games console for the family Nex Playground Homecourt.ai Games at Work e327: Virtually Athletic Nintendo Wii Sports CNET article: I Downloaded Crazy Taxi on My iPhone for Free Before Sega Discontinues It Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own. Michael Martine