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The Outer Limits
Joined April 2008
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Isn’t iPhone mirroring the most truly useless feature ever? It never works - asks me to unlock the phone, then when unlocked it’s ‘in use’ and unavailable. Then I leave it to time out back to sleep and then it can’t connect. What a terrible idea made real.
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I’ve got to say @ShopifySupport is the worst customer experience I’ve had with any online store. It’s all just canned dead AI responses, even when escalated. 30 mins of meaningless runaround. God I miss humans.
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This vid is excellent—everyone in the VR industry should watch.
Thoughts:
1. It is ridiculous that comfort options aren’t handled at the OS level. I like snap turn, no vignette, smooth locomotion. Why can’t that be in my user preferences and pulled by every application I open?
#applevisionpro - @iBrews - RE: UI/UX - Very well said! - every developer needs to know and do this better! - (18) The Largest Unsolved Problem in VR. - YouTube
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Kharis O'Connell retweeted
I’m not interested in another personality riding alongside me, chatting. I’m interested in sensory extension and augmentation
Kharis O'Connell retweeted
Apple's new "Crush" ad (let's call it "2024") is a visual & metaphorical bookend to the 1984 ad.
1984: Monochome, conformist, industrial world exploded by colourful, vibrant human
2024: Colourful, vibrant humanity is crushed by monochrome, conformist industrial press
The Vision Pro’s Spatial Personas are great - but it’s really similar to the old Spatial app that I was running with colleagues in 2020 back on Magic Leap 1s. We were doing *this* exact kind of collaboration in AR years ago - so it’s a cathartic feeling #visionpro
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My god - the Vision Pro App Store is bad. I’m not talking about the apps - I mean the actual interaction/navigation is TERRIBLE. The back-stepping behavior is enough for me to never open it again.
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Kharis O'Connell retweeted
The saddest thing about Google Prematurely leaving XR is they actually had all the ingredients to make a killer app: a social VR app with a physical interaction engine by the makers of Job Sim, with a UGC tool by the makers of TiltBrush and pre-populated with Google Earth data – at Barcelona, Spain
Meta and Google both launched standalone VR platforms in 2018.
Google abandoned Daydream after less than 2 years, while Meta grew Oculus (now Quest) to tens of millions scale.
Now years later, after the market is already proven, Google wants Meta to kowtow to its attempt #2?
I’ve noticed that nearly *every* iPhone/ipad app I’ve ever bought works in the #AppleVisionPro Went and bought Dusk, then realized that the iPad X app works perfectly….
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It's definitely time for a new Koyaanisqatsi. It almost already exists, by accident. So many videos of human behavior with the Hans Zimmer/Interstellar music floating around.
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Kharis O'Connell retweeted
Something that anyone working on XR at Apple, Meta, Varjo, HTC, Microsoft, Magic Leap, and others know: XR/Spatial computing is a really, really hard system design and engineering problem. It makes mortals out of anyone who wants to wrestle with that particular bear.
Observation: a lot of the "Steve Jobs would never have released this!" comments on the Vision Pro really show how far Apple is now perceived as a 'safe, boring' tech company. Just the sheer AUDACITY for Apple to release the AVP has blown peoples mental model of the company. Yay!
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I’m starting to realize that the term ‘Spatial Computing’ is sadly shrinking into simply having standard floating 2d windows in front of you. This is not actually Spatial Computing.
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I’ve thought a lot about how new tech promises to ‘free’ us from prior ‘bad practices’ - only to realize it’s always the same result as before
fastcompany.com/91017998/cut…
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Kharis O'Connell retweeted
Is it idiocy to think there must be a few pop stars wealthy enough to buy Bandcamp and act as generous benefactors to the independent sector. Obviously fuck Bono, but can't someone get the ear of Macca? Peter Gabriel? Eno? It's not a permanent solution but it'd be a start.