SAN FRANCISCO – I love watching people experience virtual reality for the first time. The cumbersome headsets exaggerate their movements as they scan left to right, and then nod up and down.  And every time they look in another direction and spot something new, you can almost feel their amazement through the goggles.

Lately, I feel as though I’ve put on a VR headset and never took it off. Because every time I turn, it seems, I spy something truly inspirational.

There’s a lot going on out there in this High-Tech Spring of Springs. Read all about it in my latest column in USA TODAY’s Tech section.

At its annual Build event in San Francisco last week, Microsoft gave developers a glimpse of a next-generation user interface, and filled in the story with a look at new capabilities to support it: augmented reality capabilities and futuristic apps.

Read all about it in my blog post HERE.