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San Francisco, CAJoined December 2008
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last week's was as expected - the best yearly #XR hackathon with global participants - congrats to all the teams and we know not all had a chance to be the first to use the #VIVEXRElite but there's always more opportunities! #VR
mit-reality-hack-2023.devpost.com/submissions/se
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A bit late (thanks internet) but let’s recap the chaos and electrifying energy of day 1! #MITRH23 #MITRealityHack #HackToTheFuture
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Couldn’t figure out why my hand tracking was wonky then realized this was on my desk
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Vive XR Elite!
Can finally talk about it. It's the most exciting thing I've worked on to date.
📺 4k resolution
🌊 Smooth 90 Hz
🪶 Super lightweight
🌈 High Res Mixed Reality
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Working on a VR IDE for 7 years. It's available now on Steam and integrates with GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab:
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Unlike most people on Twitter, I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake people are making is they are asking “how can I use this to automate a smart person’s job”, when they should be asking “what would I do if I had unlimited dumb people”
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If you last checked in on AI image makers a month ago & thought “that is a fun toy, but is far from useful…” Well, in just the last week or so two of the major AI systems updated.
You can now generate a solid image in one try. For example, “otter on a plane using wifi” 1st try:
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Doing everything you can to stay alive is punk as hell & no one will ever convince me otherwise.
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There's one more change in 2020.3.40 that I forgot to call out! "Editor: Reduced the time taken to open inspectors by avoiding a pointless copy of a big thing behind the scenes." It improves editor 'snappiness' when selecting GameObjects/prefabs. Before/after:
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Tired of writing "wip" commits?
Don't remember your code changes anyway?
Let AI write the commit message for you: wtfcommit
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doctors don't want you to know this one weird trick for getting lumen and nanite to work with steamvr
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UI design is hard
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For editor internals have a look at Unity's CSReference and which assemblies have InternalsVisibleTo (e.g. TestRunner). Then reference them in an asmref and put your code inside to open an API for example. See this package for a small example: twitter.com/marcel_wiessle
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We’re hard at work on a new way to make generative art, and are excited to share our first prototype!
Create any scene you can imagine with a simple collage and a prompt.
Try it out! collage.artbreeder.com
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“Why does the performance of your build matter?”
Besides making life more efficient for devs and increasing how fast you can deploy a change or fix, a faster build can prevent more bugs! The more you can reasonably run in a PR build for example, the more you can catch there.
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👇 AR Sessions this week #WWDC22
Create parametric 3D room scans with RoomPlan
developer.apple.com/videos/play/ww
Qualities of great AR experiences
developer.apple.com/videos/play/ww
Discover ARKit 6
developer.apple.com/videos/play/ww
Bring your world into AR
developer.apple.com/videos/play/ww
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Someone needs to create a Plain Language > Corporate Speak translation guide. Something like-
Plain Language: That's a bad idea
Corporate: I'm having trouble understanding the value-add of this proposal
What are your plain-language-to-corporate translations?
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Excited to announce our next event, Introduction to Unity Netcode for GameObjects by Esteban Maldonado from Unity. Join us, April 27 @ 7pm! meetup.com/B-U-G-Boston-U
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Our newest system DALL·E 2 can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language. See it here: openai.com/dall-e-2/
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Zero alloc stringbuilder, solves more issues than you'd expect
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Been working with a few people on the build system, so far PR build times are down from ~45 minutes to ~20 minutes across the past week and we’re going to improve that a lot further. Dev inner loop time is important - it enables everything else you do to happen faster and better.
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"How well do you know X?"
"Enough not to touch it."
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So here's why I bought a receipt printer:
Every time one of my GitHub repos gets a new issue, I now get a physical ticket printed out on my desk 🪄
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Psst ... You don't really need thousands of distracting virtual screens, just a smart one to get sh!t done. #Passthrough #Productivity #Egosystem #MadeWithUnity
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Get rid of l33t code interviews, have people debug some code instead. Debugging skills are highly underrated.
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The software engineering industry is so obsessed with measuring developer productivity... yet we're barely paying attention to measuring the impact of slack time / "not under pressure to ship" time on innovation, business impact, and retention.
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*keanu face* WOAH
You can do flow diagrams in markdown on GitHub now via Mermaid? That's so useful!
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Remote presenting is just like in person presenting. When I tell jokes I can only hear myself laughing.
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How the US is handling COVID
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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sorta astonishing that two years ago we just went to work/school really sick and tried not to cough on other people too much
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Friday googling like:
- How does binder diagnostics in the TS compiler read the tree
Saturday googling like:
- What to do when you eat too much Taco Bell
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This is the real battle for the metaverse: not the commercial rivalries between companies like Unity, Roblox, and Epic, who will all contribute to and benefit from open metaverse efforts, but the battle against the digital monopolies which seek to dominate, tax, and exclude. twitter.com/andybiar/statu
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