@SamCole

Co-Founder & CEO @weareFitXR Not building fitness apps for the 4% with habits. Building it for everyone else

San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2022
A peer-reviewed study on VR exercise found the least fit, least confident participants completed the most sessions The people the fitness industry has failed the hardest are the ones showing up most in VR
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Sam Cole | FitXR retweeted
I’ve been saying this all along. This is what actually happened. Ignore all the noise about Apple canceling Vision. Apple didn’t give up on headsets. Meta VR Glasses and Pico Space Pro will likely push Apple to make its decision faster.
I have to say this again. Here is what actually happened. Apple did pause the Vision Air project last year, but not because it gave up on headsets. Internally, Apple concluded that Vision Air was still not light or thin enough. So the company chose a more aggressive path instead. That new project is roughly similar in direction to Meta’s Phoenix, a much lighter and thinner headset. It is being developed by a separate, newer team inside Apple. Apple will probably run another internal review toward the end of this year, comparing Vision Air with this newer, more aggressive direction, before making a final decision on which product to move forward with.
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Sam Cole | FitXR retweeted
Meta VR Glasses is a whole new hardware category. The move from headset to glasses is reminding me of iPod -> iPhone. I have a feeling the VR glasses form-factor are going to be the driver behind mass adoption.
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Anyone see a Meta Hologram sitting down? I’m so curious as to what the courtside experience with friends will be like
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Replying to @Scobleizer
I know this isn't a popular opinion, but I learned a lot when I started the Google Glass project. A key insight was how important human eye contact is. Removing the ability to see someone's eyes when talking with them negatively changed the entire dynamic. So, while I am impressed with Meta's new glasses, they continue the huge error (imho) of blocking eye-to-eye contact. I don't think any glasses that are dark / block you from seeing another person's eyes will have mainstream, broadly appealing success.
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Good to hear there is an optional strap coming for more dynamic motion on the Meta VR glasses Burpees here we come
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“Nerd helmet” 😂😂😂
Meta has new audio-only Ray-Ban glasses, VR glasses that no longer look like a nerd helmet and a new voice-and-video mode for its Muse AI agent. I sat down with @finkd to talk about it all. And yes, we got into trust, privacy and that tiny matter of whether AI might kill us...
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Sam Cole | FitXR retweeted
NEW: Meta debuts $1,299 VR Glasses at 100 grams by offloading the battery and compute to an external pack. In a demo, it's pretty close to the Apple Vision Pro at less than half the price and 1/6th the weight. They are incredible. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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You can tell Zuck loves VR
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And then properly 38 minutes later
I had a timer running to see how long it took for us to see VR at Meta Connect… Turns out it was the first thing
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I had a timer running to see how long it took for us to see VR at Meta Connect… Turns out it was the first thing
Codec Avatars!
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Codec avatars & VR first on the line up at Meta Connect
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If a headset looks like glasses, is it still a headset?
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Sam Cole | FitXR retweeted
I got this pin in the mail yesteday. A gift from the folks at FitXR to acknowledge my nearly 2 years of continuous completion of their well-crafted excersise programs and wondrous environments. A true Space Odyssey.
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Help… I watched too many AI memes of this song that it got stuck in my head So I added it to my Spotify Then it played in the car with the kids So I had to show them the memes And now I have to recreate it with them in it So now, I need the help with the workflow
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When people think metaverse, they often think janky cartoon avatars and bulky headsets Then think… flop They probably won’t consider watching sport in a visor with digital versions of their buddies as the same thing So… I guess in their minds it always will be a flop
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Via The Information - barring any changes, Meta will likely unveil Phoenix at Connect next week alongside a demo of "a full-body, photorealistic hologram call experience" leveraging Codec Avatars.
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Simple... Because the vast majority of the population don't want to wear a headset
freaking upset about this stupid form factor. Why can’t these companies go after a sleek GOGGLES form factor instead of stupid glasses? Dear God, why is that so freaking difficult to understand? I hope everyone who buys these gets their nose and forehead cooked.
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If a headset looks like glasses, is it still a headset?
The first visuals of Meta's Project Phoenix headset have been found in Horizon OS firmware, revealing a slim design with a tether for the compute puck. Details here: uploadvr.com/meta-project-ph…
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Love this. I also want my photos / memories to live in a physical book as well as on my phone Thinking about building something that produces a similar output but also pulls from both mine and my wife’s iPhoto @daniela0spector who did you print it with?
My gift tradition for my husband’s birthday: images we texted each other over the past year. A silly version of a photo album. This one is mostly photo proof that our newborn is sleeping and screenshots of our uber eats confirmation.
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Sam Cole | FitXR retweeted
Consumers want to CONSUME, not create.
We are rapidly approaching "unlimited, custom AI-generated episodes of any TV show"
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