ben drechsel

Designer of many things, master of none.
A UX Design Engineer, passionate about the potential of spatial computing to change people in new & positive ways.

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Fusion 360 and 3D printers are a great way to "invest" hours hours of your life designing esoteric things only you will ever use

[Cyan Worlds @cyanworlds]

"This island was ostensibly intended to be the province of the people – but it, too, has been irrevocably marred by Gehn's oppressive intrusions."

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@BKD_MAGA_Nebr @krassenstein The Capitol police weren’t wearing combat fatigues 🤦‍♂️ They have proper uniforms, or (later) the black riot gear.

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@AnditrustinHim @krassenstein There were no Army (or other armed service members) on official duty inside the Capitol. Not even the National guard, until much later.

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@may935317 Good or bad, code always has a smell. No one wants to work with stinky code, except the person who wrote it & is immune. That’s not nothing.

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The question on every modern parent’s mind https://t.co/3TcwBU8EeC

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@shoomlah Huge congrats!!!

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@toh_week @ATRightMovies Watched this at age 11, and I’m the oldest brother with two little sisters. Forever would still be too soon.

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@dubenko_ @benz145 Seriously - not giving the unit a “throne” to ensure it’s charged, protected, updated, visible and accessible is a huge missed opportunity by Meta.

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@thedanclifton @tabloida_nai @benz145 Yes, yes, and yes. I’m a recovering UI designer and current UX engineer, who loves seeing fresh solutions to interaction challenges… but man, I have really come to dread putting my quest on, if it’s been more than a month or two. Always updates, bugs, and reinvention of wheels.

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@EdKrassen @71Elvis77 Neal Stephenson has, read the first act of “Fall, or Dodge In Hell” . Incredible foresight, IMO

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@perfectKeming Little do they know, that bland button was the designer’s intentional red herring to keep stakeholders attention away from fixing things that weren’t broken 😉

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@benz145 GREAT summary of this brilliantly subtle bit of audio experience engineering 👍

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@Josh_Hawn @zbowling In every relevant way, their trackpad 2 is superior. Hard to believe they came from the same company and era, honestly.

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@benz145 The worst is the stubby rigid wrist-stump that doesn’t flex when you hand rotates - I find it super unsettling at first, and then just an irritating constant immersion-breaker.

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@Gwanatu Our brains know how to interpret a smooth blur as a single object in motion, no problems. The strobing LED leaves a trail of sharply-defined “ghosts”, which (my brain at least) has to re-focus on to resolve into a single source — just a quick double-take, but totally unnecessary.

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@Gwanatu The OEM automotive applications make me really frustrated though, because of the safety issues they cause for other drivers. When your eye is “scanning”, those dimmed taillights or white LED running lights leave sharp “ghost” images instead of a soft motion blur…

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@Gwanatu It’s not hopeless… new style fluorescent tubes with higher quality electronic ballasts are okay, and LEDs with high CRI (I’m starting to see CRI be used in marketing, yay!) and proper drivers (not a low-hz PWM generator or one-legged AC “rectifier”) makes a massive difference

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@shlykur @noazark The temporal color separation drives me nuts at first, but if I’m watching a film without a ton of high-contrast super-fast action I stop noticing after a bit. For video gaming or use as a PC monitor, the rainbow blur is always visible, for me.

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@noazark @shlykur Dang… I haven’t seen a laser projector in action yet, is the scanning that obvious?

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@MatthewDR @benlambert08 @rachellee221 Guys keep it down, I live here and we’re trying to keep it a secret 🤐