I'll use it on a phone that *always* needs to work, and I enjoy their stuff on a desktop that I tweak extensively anyway—and more of my workplaces have supported a Mac workstation than a Linux one.
But given the choice, I'm much more at home on a Linux machine (and use one remotely regardless).
Apple really knows *polish*, and consistency (and accessibility!). They still miss the mark sometimes, but their reliability is extremely high, and that's an accomplishment that requires a high degree of control and a low degree of flexibility.
You get the Apple brand experience, and *just* that.
And *innovative*—most of the "best practices" for VR have emerged from developers and community, NOT from device makers. Give us the platform and let us show you what we can do with it, instead of dictating how they *think* it should be used (which misses So Many use cases).
I'm still waiting to try the Frame, but on paper I like it better than Apple Vision Pro. It's more inherently comfortable, functional, and open, running an extensible Linux OS which will allow for heavy customization and modification: fertile ground without the walled garden. And better PCVR utilty.
His trooper designation was JB007. 😏
"Face proximal tablet" is a good description of how they think about it, too. Truly spatialized workflow seems to be beyond the grasp of the current device designers.
One reason I'm really looking forward to the Frame and its open architecture—that's the one I'm saving to buy.
Who knows what will be on the market by then? There's a huge emphasis on consumer AR, bringing digital artifacts and awareness to the user's present location instead of beaming their consciousness into the metaverse. Market direction for consumer XR is all over the map.
Some of my best VR experiences ever were working through plot mechanics with a novelist friend of mine, where we drew and built concepts in the space around us in a live remix of ideas (some concrete, physically oriented, mostly abstract).
It was a kind of spatial jazz that vastly expanded us both.
A smaller population is cognitively primed for solo spatial productivity, and appreciate the tools of expanded visuospatial working memory. Some need to experience creative use cases first, sculpting in space and affecting their environment.
But when it all comes together? It's incredible.
Any specific outcome (productivity, creative artifacts, meeting notes and conversational objects, etc.) should be byproducts of the people-connecting-effort.
After that, it requires repeated use with others to build a shared narrative over time, which shifts culture and expectations.
But for users to feel comfortable, oriented, and effective, they need to feel sufficiently embodied (proprioceptive cues) and emotionally present (acceptance and attachment).
People respond best to environments and activities which connect them (or deepen connections) with other people.
Aside from getting someone *in* headset (overcoming preconceptions), the biggest challenge is poor software which underutilizes the medium, making everything point-and-click instead of reach-and-touch. And I don't mean just adding tactile interfaces or skeuomorphic buttons where they don't belong…
That's a shame; I wonder why they did that?
There's nothing in the podcast that's not in The Big Article, anyway. But thanks for the heads up!
*TFOM
It's just going to take the industry a while to catch up to expectations, and for an XR-native population to age into the workforce as decision makers.
Quest 3 is a phenomenal consumer headset. Samsung's Galaxy with Google's Android XR is excellent on the higher end—Apple is gorgeous but not worth it (it's my daily driver, but they do NOT know what they're doing).
Folks at TOFM are good to watch, too: www.linkedin.com/posts/davidw...
A lot of that still applies, but it's also ancient history at this point, only 2½ years into the practice. I'm at year 7 now, and still going strong.
And it is *amazing* 🤩
And clunky, and frustrating, and deeply flawed. SO much work to be done.
I'm fortunate to have been at the forefront of a lot of research, discovery, and development of "how to make this work for regular people", and well beyond gaming (though I'm a heavy gamer myself).
Feel free to hit me up if you ever want to dive deep. Portfolio below (best on desktop).
ptom.net/xr
I can't tell you how excited I am for the Steam Frame to come out; I work in the VR industry, and our success is sadly coupled with Meta—and not only all the baggage that entails, but also their capricious and fickle direction always making things so fragile and uncertain.
"Whimsy done well" is an all time favorite category for me.
Easy instant follow!
Fair, but the best dog trainer I know really focuses on training the *people*, who then know how to manage their dog as a result. And he's *amazing*.
I highly recommend the writings of Dr. Lynne Kelly on the use of mnemonic history markers and practices in "The Memory Code".
Encoded memory was subject to change as needed, w/o changing the markers. Mnemonic monuments such as these were a powerful tool for transmitting culture across generations.
Carvings like this were frequently mnemonic devices, miniature memory palaces to aid the people in telling the stories of their culture. It is doubtful this is about "a" story, the whole acting much more like a compendium.
Sadly, decoding its stories without the original storytellers is impossible.
How much are the Wiis going for? (Feel free to DM, didn't want to hit you out of the blue)
Officially selling repaired consoles
Currently have:
- wii consoles w gamecube comaptibility
- gamecube consoles
- Nintendo switch 1 consoles
Feel free to reach out if interested, friends especially 💕
I had the B-Wing add-on disk for the X-Wing PC flight sim.
I don't think I ever completed the missions, but thoroughly enjoyed flying the craft in a variety of engagements. It sat nicely between the X-Wing's maneuverability and the Y-Wing's powerful weaponry.
Apologize. Admit the mistake. Empathize with the victims and their families. Start to find a path forward to care for those affected. Show a single ounce of contrition and humility, if not actual self-reflection and awareness.
And stop it. End the cruelty and aggression. Find another way.
/fin
Will they own up? Or will they continue to double down on alternate narratives and outright lies in order to avoid embarrassment, all the while digging themselves in deeper and amplifying the issue?
Call whomever represents any constituency of which you are a part, and demand accountability.
3/
Someone reviewing that layout almost certainly selected all the similar buildings "in the compound", which *mistakenly* included the school—intentionally targeted, but misidentified.
This is a tragic, heinous error in this wholly avoidable conflict.
The administration needs to own the error. 2/
Yes, the US destroyed the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school.
Looking at the satellite imagery of the layout, it shares similar features and distances with adjacent IRGC buildings and could easily have been mistaken as belonging to the same compound.
It is doubtful they knew it was a school… 1/
Answering the age old question of song:
"why do birds
suddenly appear..."
