What with our November 18 regional meeting with Eric Haseltine and Chris Gilbert (Reinforcements are in the archives), and the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow, we decided to split the difference and have a single newsletter for the two weeks, sent out today. We’ll be back on our regular schedule—for just one week, and then we’re off to San Francisco for [next]!

At a past TTI/V conference called “Rearranging the Atoms,” we heard three talks on fuel cells—two for vehicles and one for mobile devices (Amory Lovins, Stephen Buckley,Jerry Hallmark, Toronto, Apr 2002)—a decade and a half before the world’s first zero-emission, fuel cell-powered, passenger train comes on line next year in Germany.

While the popular press hypes Oculus and other consumer-level virtual reality products, Nolan Bushnell (Jersey City, Oct 2013; Washington, D.C., Nov 2001) is going after the enterprise market with Modal VR and its “industrial-grade immersion.”