Charlton Williams

One-person dev shop (Raven Labs). Right now: RavenGate. Whatever's next after that.

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

XR glasses stopped being a novelty this year. Wearable-display Kickstarters are raising real money and shipping on real timelines now, not vaporware timelines.

The form factor finally caught up to the pitch.

#XR #Wearables

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

Into any of these?

XR glasses,
handheld gaming rigs,
GPU upgrades,
smart home gear,
consumer hardware,

drop what you're using below, I'll check out every reply.

#XR #Gaming #Hardware

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

If you're knee-deep in:

agentic coding tools,
system design,
new model releases,
local-first apps,
dev workflows,

let's connect.

What are you building right now?

#DevTools #AI #BuildInPublic

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

Model releases have gotten so frequent that benchmark charts stopped being useful to me.

By the time I've read one, the comparison is a version out of date.

What I check now: does it hold up on my own repo for a week.

#AI #DevTools

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

GTA 6 is locked for November 19 and pre-orders are live at $79.99.

That number is the story. Every publisher watching this now has permission to price at 80.

Rockstar can carry it. The studios copying the price next year mostly can't.

#Gaming #GTA6

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

Samsung's Intelligent Eyewear: Android XR, Gemini built in, frames by Warby Parker and Gentle Monster.

Still no price, still just "fall."

They're selling these in eyewear shops, not phone shops. Tells you who they think the buyer is.

#XR #SmartGlasses

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

Claude Opus 5 landed at $5/M in, $25/M out. Same price as Opus 4.8, half of Fable 5.

Anthropic says it beats Fable 5 on 8 of 13 benchmarks.

The part I care about: a low/medium/high effort toggle, so you pay for depth only when you need it.

#AI #DevTools

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

The memory shortage is quietly repricing all of consumer tech.

The PS5 has taken three price hikes and now starts at $650. New handhelds keep launching more expensive than the last.

RAM and storage got political, and your cart is paying for it.

#Hardware #Gaming

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

July's biggest games are both remakes: Halo Campaign Evolved and Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced.

Publishers have figured out that a beloved back catalog is safer than a new IP nobody's asked for yet.

Nostalgia is the least risky green light in gaming.

#Gaming #Halo

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

Samsung's next Unpacked is July 22 in London, and the headliner is its first pair of Android XR smart glasses.

The 2026 model is reportedly audio-only, with a display version held for 2027.

Audio-first is a smart way to get people used to wearing the thing.

#XR #Smartglasses

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

I can't wait to see how the GTA 6 will look on the XReal Aura on their releases this fall

#GTA6 #XBOX #Gaming #XR #xreal

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

Giving a coding agent full access to your laptop is this decade's curl-pipe-into-bash.

Everyone does it anyway. Sandboxed-by-default will end up standard, same as containers did for deploys.

#AI #DevTools

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

GTA 6 on Switch 2 is still just a rumor, but the shape of it is fun: reports say Nintendo is courting Rockstar for the port, not the reverse.

A big enough install base makes spec sheets negotiable.

#Gaming #GTA6

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

OpenAI just shipped GPT-5.6 as three models: Sol, Terra, and Luna.

Flagship, cheaper, fastest. It's also now the preferred model across Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Picking a frontier model now feels like choosing a trim level on a car.

#AI #OpenAI

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

ChatGPT Work is a quiet shift in what AI hands you.

For two years the output was text you copy-paste into the real tool. Now it comes back as the finished spreadsheet, deck, or report itself.

That last step is the whole game.

#AI #Productivity #OpenAI

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

Every new handheld this year is chasing desktop-class specs and desktop-class prices.

Meanwhile the Switch 2 keeps selling on a library nobody else can match.

Raw power keeps losing to games people actually want to play.

#Gaming #Handhelds

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

GTA 6 is still locked for November 19, and Take-Two keeps saying no more delays.

Fans have converged on August 7 for the Trailer 3 reveal, mostly from Rockstar's own quiet site edits.

Almost a month of speculation incoming.

#Gaming #GTA6

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

Xreal just opened US sales of its a01+ AR glasses at $299.

62 grams, 1,600 nits, dual 120Hz micro-OLED panels. Basically a 147-inch screen you fold into a case.

The cheap end of AR display glasses finally looks usable.

#XR #AR

[Charlton Williams @Charls71]

If you tinker with:

AR glasses,
handheld PCs,
custom mechanical keebs,
retro emulation,
sim racing rigs,

let's connect.

What's on your desk right now?

#XR #Gaming #TechTwitter