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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Layers of tragedy in this story.
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How it’s going:
2025 Apple statement
“It’s going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these [personalized Siri] features and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year.”
daringfireball.net/2025/03/appl...
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I fear Apple has set itself up for a class action suit.
Some lawyer somewhere is going to jump on this.
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I hope at some point in the future the history of this significant misstep is told.
Even comparing Image Playground to Midjourney is painful.
Was the code just too immature that it shouldn't have been announced at WWDC 2024?
Does Apple not have the training data?
Does Apple not have the talent?
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After a couple of these incidents, I wonder if people under SpaceX's Starship launch path are going to be a bit nervous during upcoming launches.
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I feel this is well known. Sadly, most people don’t care.
‘They bend rules, break rules, and lie or mislead about what they have done with regularity and with no evidence of true remorse.’
www.toddheberlein.com/blog/2019/1/...
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I’ve been thinking a lot about immersive storytelling lately, and portals seem like an important tool in the storytelling toolbox.
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Blackmagic’s camera for Apple Immersive Video
www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/releas...
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Link:
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
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Shot on iPhone. I wonder if Apple will have a "Shot on iPhone" competition for spatial photos and videos?
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As we were reminded recently, eggs are ingredients in so many baked goods. Expect prices of other foods to start rising.
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With popular male role models like the Tate brothers, Musk, Trump, and pretty much the entire GOP now, I don’t see this turning around anytime soon.
Integrity and education are out. Machismo, bullying , and general a**hole-ness are in.
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From 2023:
“to fix their gender ratios lies in the selection process, at which point admissions officers often informally privilege male applicants, a tendency that critics say amounts to affirmative action for men“
www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/m...
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When green cylinder is pushed out to Z = 0.5, part of it is still clipped. Is there a limit for how far things can come out of the portal?
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Portal's PortalComponent crossingMode = .plane(.positiveZ) and PortalCrossingComponent added to green cylinder, allowing the green cylinder to be visible beyond the portal's frame.
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I activated the clipping plane on the portal window, so anything in front of the window is hidden (half the red cylinder and all of the green cylinder).
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The red cylinder is at the origin (Z = 0), so half of it sticks out in front of the portal window, and the green cylinder (Z = 0.3) is fully in front of the portal window. The effect is more obvious in the headset. However, content is still clipped by the visual bounds of the portal.
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"Sergey Brin says RTO is key to Google winning the AGI race and then firing all those employees."
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Given the US military voted overwhelmingly for Trump, the US military effectively voted to surrender to Russia.
Good job US military - The first mass surrender to an adversary.
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Have you experimented with a window portal?
I am trying to figure out where the origin of the scene is wrt the window. The scene origin's X & Y seems to be at the center of the window, and the Z about 1 meter back from the window.
But I cannot find if/where this is documented.
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Active military and military veterans overwhelmingly voted for Trump.
So in effect, the US military voted to surrender to Russia.
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I believe SceneKit had a feature where you could swap in a different model for a node depending on close the camera was.
Does RealityKit have something like that?
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I suspect Russia and China will find a fair number of disgruntled employees right now.
Their opening line should be, "Your government isn't loyal to you. Why should you be loyal to it?"
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Will video of the event be posted on the developer site/app?
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Pixar’s rm -rf * moment.
www.toddheberlein.com/blog/2014/4/...
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Always ask about statements or actions by this administration: “Does this help Putin?”
The answer is more often than not, “Yes.”
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And free markets?
Like where Trump forced map makers like Apple and Google to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and punished a news organization that did not use the Gulf of America name in reporting for a global market.
That kind of free market?
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I am not sure how Apple squares its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion with opening jobs in states that are hostile to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
E.g., I can imagine many women and LGBTQ people being wary about applying for a job at Apple that required them to move to Texas.
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I wonder if Apple will talk about Spatial Gallery at its “Create interactive stories for visionOS” developer event tomorrow?
There are a lot of ways to bring “spatial” into storytelling, and this new app seems like an opportunity to showcase some of those ways.
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Reminds me of the UK's treatment of Alan Turing.
Societies' dark pasts are never banished. They live just beneath the veneer of an enlightened society. But like demons crossing into our world, those dark patterns will reenter our world as soon as given a chance... as they have now.
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Apple: Privacy is a fundamental human right.
Governments around the world: Wrong.
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Besides the immediate loss in talent, going forward, I suspect many of the best and brightest will avoid working for the government.
A lot of trust has been broken.
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Alas, I did not make the cut this time. On the plus side, this seems to point to continuing high interest by the community in developing for visionOS.