toddheberlein.bsky.social
Hobby: AR/VR dev, Guilty pleasure: UFOs/UAP, Job: Cybersecurity R&D.
I’m into anything science-related and have a soft spot for technology-focused businesses.
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Off to Murano?
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The exact same thing happened to me - three questions that never got reviewed.
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I wonder if this year’s WWDC will be a spreader event.
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I wonder if this is because of a shift from 3D on desktop computers with a power plug, large GPU card, and cooling systems to 3D on computers in our pockets and strapped to our faces?
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January blog post on numerous drone swarms over some of America’s most sensitive and supposedly secure locations. So far, the US appears helpless.
www.toddheberlein.com/blog/2025/1/...
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I think there are two strong use cases for Mixed Reality emerging:
Storytelling - from large movie screens to Apple Immersive Video to something in-between like Apple's Bono and dinosaur experiences.
Floating screens - from computer virtual displays to stand-alone apps like Safari.
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4 years in pre-production? Is this normal?
“EA executives were frustrated that the game had not yet left the pre-production phase after nearly four years in development.”
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After using the Apple Vision Pro weekly for over a year, I feel its strongest use case is for storytelling.
AVP is an amazing device for storytelling, including
* Apple Immersive Videos
* Traditional 3D movies
* Regular 2D videos on a giant screen
* Combining 2D and mixed reality as in Bono
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Is there a down side?
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Coding or life?
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The Peripheral was on Amazon Prime.
Apple has done a pretty good job with their TV series (e.g., Severance).
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By the way, Neuromancer is coming to Apple TV+
www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...
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A colleague, Dan Farmer, under an Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) contract extended the SU-Kaung tool to analyze an entire network to find paths an attacker could use. He called it NetKuang.
Sci-Fi books often inspire real-world development efforts.
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Neuromancer was de facto reading material in our (UC Davis) cybersecurity lab in the early 1990s
Robert Baldwin (MIT) created a tool called SU-Kuang (inspired by the book I'm sure) that would analyze a UNIX system and find a path to give a normal user root access.
It was amazing.
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Not sure if AI is it. Not sure if spatial is it.
But I think there will be a lot of pessimism in the developer community until something comes along that creates lots of new opportunities for lots of developers.
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While Apple has made a lot of missteps wrt to its developer community, I think a larger problem is that there has not been a major new platform paradigm in 17 years.
Desktop, web, and mobile are all mature platforms. It is hard for developers to get excited about the possibility of something new.
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Sounds like the opening to "Point Nemo"
www.audible.com/pd/Point-Nem...
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I worked with Peter when he was a graduate student at UC Davis. Neat to see his name pop up in my feed.
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Note: On occasion, the audio wigs out a bit when playing the dual audio sources. Maybe the Mac has a bug, or maybe my headphones have a bug. With my Air Pods Pro, I've put them in the case for just a second, and that fixes the problem (for a while).
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Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, is serving prison time for doing this on a slide deck.
“11x at that time had been showing off customer logos on its website of companies that were not active customers”
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GPS location and link in Apple Maps:
38.810833,-103.945833
maps.apple.com/frame?center...
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Top image is the one shown by Elizondo as evidence. The lower image is from Apple Maps. Besides the circular crops (1) and (2), you can see matching road (3), and river/stream gullies (4) & (5).
Here is Elizondo presenting the photo evidence.
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I’m disappointed Apple didn’t post a video of the event, but I suspect we will get a lot of similar content in about 6 weeks for WWDC.
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Remember Google's motto "Don't be evil"?
That was a long time ago.
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I suspect at some point in the future, it will come out that there has been a deliberate effort at the highest levels of the US government to purposely weaken the US.
The questions are “Why?” and “Is there a foreign hand at work?”
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I think I can make it this week. 😀
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It is Trump. It is Trump, his Republicans, and the oligarchs who are killing us.
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Same.
For my own mental health, I’ve tried to exclude politics and focus on cybersecurity and AR/VR, but politics deeply touches everything these days (especially cybersecurity).
And just knowing history and caring about humans makes it hard not to scream.
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I wrote about Carole's and two other related TED Talks in the 2019 blog post below. It is painful to see where we are 6 years later.
"Below are three TED Talks that illuminate today’s large-scale psychological warfare."
www.toddheberlein.com/blog/2019/8/...