Otoy and Facebook recently announced a partnership in which a Facebook Surround 360 camera will be usable within an Otoy Orbx workflow.
This is an interesting revelation if viewed within the context of the Facebook Spaces Beta trailer.
The 360 video/image and volumetric spheres mentioned in this workflow will no doubt feed into Facebook’s long term evolution into an AR/VR/MR system.
As an aside, I’m calling it HyperReality if anyone asks what I do for a living.
“Be cautious. Know that when it comes to the VR industry, you guys probably know a lot more than any of the investors that you’re talking to. Manage accordingly.”
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!
Jon Negroni has put together a dizzying theory on how all Pixar movies fit into one universe. Jon has created a narrative around the idea that major events and characters within every Pixar film are connected by an overarching story about technology. His narrative attempts to explain the anthropomorphized animals in Pixar films and why easter eggs about unrelated films appear throughout the Pixar filmography.
No matter what happens,
tell the world,
tell my family,
that I never stopped fighting to make it home.
Here’s the new trailer for The Martian.
Lincoln is in.
We have made the high resolution of “Returning from the Edge of Space” available. It can be downloaded here…
