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Something like this? https://offrecord.ca/#lobby

For people who want to play with metal shaders on Apple Vision Pro I recommend this live coding app: https://shader.vision

My October project is an immersive survival horror game that you can auto-generate for your home/space. https://pulsargeist.com

It actually won a prize at a hackathon recently and it was enough signal for me to make it a fully fleshed game :-)

I’m also making progress on an immersive gpu shader editor app that got release on AVP recently: https://shader.vision

I’ll give it another shot because there’s definitely some really good stuff including hot reload! Last I tried it, there was definitely some missing love (pun intended) in setting it up to compile from source for custom Quest stuff I was working on… when the compilation instructions start with “here be dragons” you know it’s gonna be fun (https://lovr.org/docs/Compiling).

Going back to my prior example, selecting an AR Effect/Lens on TikTok/Insta/Snap and is kind of akin to a mini app store if you think about it: https://sh1ftdigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/IMG_8904...

It’s a gray area. If you look at apps like Snapchat, instagram and TikTok, they all have this concept of filters/lens/effect which are effectively <8mb bundles running JavaScript / lua scripts for visual effects and whatnot (see lens studio, meta spark and effect house). The key seemed to be to not use any JIT compilers and make sure it does not change the code of the app itself but mainly just act as a static runtime / engine for the effect.

One app effectively violating that policy is WeChat with their mini programs, but they get away with it due to the fact that iOS without WeChat would be doa in China.

Fun fact: back when the original Apple Watch was being developed, Apple internally produced something similar for people secretly working on it to pretend it wasn’t a new product category. It was more or less a silicon sleeve that would show a fake keyboard. I may or may not still have one 0:-)

Good for him honestly, but I’m not approaching a company with Daniel Gross in leadership…, working with him back at Apple after their company was acquired for Siri improvements was just terrible.

Exactly. This is not just for Japan. Here in Europe I’ve been denied to open an account in local banks due to my dual citizenship (American).

My guess is that they saw how nicely Apple made basic app development (read 2.5D planes with list views and spatial UX) and they are gonna try their best to shape their “app framework” in a similar fashion.

Some contrast to this comment: this is steamVR data which is not only specific to steam (which as pointed out in the article, is not representative of the entire market) but also mostly biased towards gaming. Now I will concede that VR has mostly been “successful” with that demographic (gaming), in fact, oculus (now quest) is mostly making money solely on that sort of content… some people at Meta while I was there would even argue that this product should limit its ambition to be the “Nintendo switch of VR”. Apple on the contrary has been setting expectations much more clearly that gaming is not in the forefront (but not excluded). Whether it will be successful is another story, but we should still welcome new challengers in an industry / product category. What happened to the excitement in tech everyone :-)

From talking to people working on this project, there's always been some sort of interesting paradox in terms of dealing with the potential of bad PR due to accidents and fatalities linked to self driving versus one of Apple’s most valuable asset: its brand. Perhaps they will be some calculated outcome in whatever product comes out of that org, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they end up pivoting to high quality cars with assisted driving (at best).

And sadly the reader mode on iOS is also having some trouble :/

I got an invite to their discord but then it got denied from discord itself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Pretty cool! Your project also made me genuinely miss the yearly tradition of YouTube rewind. Too bad it got cancelled indefinitely.

100% this, the lack of a clear 3rd party integration path does raise alarm bells in terms of breaking into mainstream as a customer product. Curious to see where they are going with their “we don’t do apps” LLM ecosystem.

Was there anything shared on how they achieved these results? One big hurdle for prompt to 3D is usually the super long generation time while they (seem) to do it in seconds.

Totally agree, I wish they would at least offer some minimal amount of credits for legit (non-winning/non-spam) answers. But I guess it’s also good PR for them to say they did this initiative ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Not sure if this is just me but this website keeps refreshing non stop on mobile, making it almost impossible to read :/

Full TED talk will be available tomorrow, here’s a video of said demo: https://old.reddit.com/r/humane/comments/12tq36e/humanes_fir...

I would like to give a shout-out to another awesome open source 2D Zelda engine called Solarus: https://solarus-games.org/ The community is very active and supportive, they also made many indie games with this engine.

I wrote the happy new year fireworks in iMessage. I like to think about people around the world smiling when they send them to each other, but secretly I’m also very aware that my code was far from optimal and is probably burning the last few % of battery left in an already critical time of the year :D

Thanks for writing this. I’m actually in the same boat and was recently looking for content on that matter! Quick feedback: I Found a few typos here and there (I.e “manger”)

Even if Kevin was to stay as TikTok CEO, he would have to leave his role as the COO of ByteDance. It’s totally understandable that he would want to leave given the reduced scope (no more head of a global company etc.). What seems suspicious however is why he would leave prior to an acquisition. As a CEO, that won’t reflect too good on his reputation... so there’s gotta be a tradeoff somewhere. Wait & see!

Full executive order: https://mobile.twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/12915453814...

Apple is making its own hardware (GPUs) and wants full control on the drivers and feature set for their graphics API. As someone else mentioned, Vulkan and co are great but also limit to some extent what you can achieve / implement on a given hardware for the sake of cross platform.

Don’t get me wrong this is pretty cool, but one thing that makes me a bit annoyed is the way the author frame the video. With the current version of ARkit and most AR libraries these days, there’s no occlusion of the virtual geometry, meaning that you can actually see the blue line and arrows overlay the real world at all time (So some far away virtual arrow will be on top of a real wall right in front of you). That’s a bit less sexy and it’s clearly hidden here. It’s also possible that some directions look confusing with the lack of occlusion and too numerous virtual objects on the screen.

I’m looking forward to when AR libraries use their point cloud technology to also do object reconstruction and virtual occluders using real world objects!

Good for him. I personally got to work with Daniel in the past (Apple) and I must say that it was not a great experience. I know it's never easy for acqui-hires to get into the company culture and try to make the transition happen smoothly... but in his case it was more of an attitude and personality clash. He did get promoted though so I'm sure despite his attitude, he had the good habit to get stuff done!

It's always easy to say that things are inspired from a different company or product, but always keep in mind that these features don't always come ready before a year or two of work. First person to announce it working and integrated gets the merit, but a lot of time, the same things are being worked on in parallel in different places :)