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Carl Sagan Partied With Chuck Berry At NASA JPL

Carl Sagan Partied With Chuck Berry At NASA JPL

Imagine it is the evening of August 25, 1989. You are partying with some scientists in California. Dancing on your right is Carl Sagan while on your left Chuck Berry is playing Johnny B. Goode.

Any sufficiently advanced virtual reality is indistinguishable from actual reality.

- In the near future, virtual and augmented reality will become reality for most people on the planet. -
Running the Steam Deck interface on an Aya Neo

Running the Steam Deck interface on an Aya Neo

I was interested in seeing how well the new SteamDeck interface would run on my Aya Neo 2021 Pro. A post over on Reddit pointed me in the right direction. In this video I am running a beta channel build of the Steam application that enables the handheld interface that will be introduced with the SteamDeck. This is running on a AMD 4800u processor on Windows 11. Enjoy!

Shareable Parts of Reality

Shareable Parts of Reality

Will the next big content format contain bits of reality? USDZ could be a hint of things to come. Imagine programmable self-contained bits of volumetric information that can be shared with others. The process will be simple:
1. Scan a real clock
2. Program the digital version of the clock
3. Share the clock and it’s code as a single file so that others can instantiate it in their reality.

Jacob and the Giraffe

Radical director Taika Waititi recently tweeted about Jacob and the Giraffee, an animated short by Cool 3D World. This is weird, unexpected, and delightful. Enjoy!

How to Generate Waifu Art Using Machine Learning

“All of the animation is made in real-time using a StyleGan neural network trained on the Danbooru2018 dataset, a large scale anime image database with 3.33m+ images annotated with 99.7m+ tags.”

“The Woman Behind the Clothes” Asks if VR is Unwittingly Sexist

“The Woman Behind the Clothes” Asks if VR is Unwittingly Sexist

In Freeform’s new series, The Bold Type we follow Jane, Kat, and Sutton who are three best friends navigating office politics and life at a fictional women’s magazine, Scarlet. The Bold Type is inspired by the adventures of real life Cosmopolitan magazine editor-in-chief, Joanna Coles.

Reviewing Wonder Woman – Instant Appreciation, Delayed Appraisal

Reviewing Wonder Woman – Instant Appreciation, Delayed Appraisal

It happened, I finally saw Wonder Woman!

In order to see this movie, just so it would not be completely sold out, I had to go midday on a Saturday during perfect beach weather in L.A. 6 weeks after it premiered.

How Reality Got a New Workflow: Facebook Partners with Otoy to Create VR Tools

How Reality Got a New Workflow: Facebook Partners with Otoy to Create VR Tools

Otoy and Facebook recently announced a partnership in which a Facebook Surround 360 camera will be usable within an Otoy Orbx workflow.

Just in time for Halloween.

Friday the 13th: The Game – Virtual Cabin is an experience provided to early backers of the Friday the 13th: The Game which will see a beta release this fall and single player campaign during the summer of 2017.

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