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[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

It's time my dudes #pokemon

[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

@Lion__nin (Team e produzioni di dimensioni totalmente diverse)

[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

@Lion__nin L’ho fatto notare io, non pensate che Lion sia così attento

[Sterling Crispin 🕊️ @sterlingcrispin]

I spent 10% of my life contributing to the development of the #VisionPro while I worked at Apple as a Neurotechnology Prototyping Researcher in the Technology Development Group. It’s the longest I’ve ever worked on a single effort. I’m proud and relieved that it’s finally announced. I’ve been working on AR and VR for ten years, and in many ways, this is a culmination of the whole industry into a single product. I’m thankful I helped make it real, and I’m open to consulting and taking calls if you’re looking to enter the space or refine your strategy.

The work I did supported the foundational development of Vision Pro, the mindfulness experiences, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ products, and also more ambitious moonshot research with neurotechnology. Like, predicting you’ll click on something before you do, basically mind reading. I was there for 3.5 years and left at the end of 2021, so I’m excited to experience how the last two years brought everything together. I’m really curious what made the cut and what will be released later on.

Specifically, I’m proud of contributing to the initial vision, strategy and direction of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ program for Vision Pro. The work I did on a small team helped green light that product category, and I think it could have significant global impact one day.

The large majority of work I did at Apple is under NDA, and was spread across a wide range of topics and approaches. But a few things have become public through patents which I can cite and paraphrase below.

Generally as a whole, a lot of the work I did involved detecting the mental state of users based on data from their body and brain when they were in immersive experiences.

So, a user is in a mixed reality or virtual reality experience, and AI models are trying to predict if you are feeling curious, mind wandering, scared, paying attention, remembering a past experience, or some other cognitive state. And these may be inferred through measurements like eye tracking, electrical activity in the brain, heart beats and rhythms, muscle activity, blood density in the brain, blood pressure, skin conductance etc.

There were a lot of tricks involved to make specific predictions possible, which the handful of patents I’m named on go into detail about. One of the coolest results involved predicting a user was going to click on something before they actually did. That was a ton of work and something I’m proud of. Your pupil reacts before you click in part because you expect something will happen after you click. So you can create biofeedback with a user's brain by monitoring their eye behavior, and redesigning the UI in real time to create more of this anticipatory pupil response. It’s a crude brain computer interface via the eyes, but very cool. And I’d take that over invasive brain surgery any day.

Other tricks to infer cognitive state involved quickly flashing visuals or sounds to a user in ways they may not perceive, and then measuring their reaction to it.

Another patent goes into details about using machine learning and signals from the body and brain to predict how focused, or relaxed you are, or how well you are learning. And then updating virtual environments to enhance those states. So, imagine an adaptive immersive environment that helps you learn, or work, or relax by changing what you’re seeing and hearing in the background.

All of these details are publicly available in patents, and were carefully written to not leak anything. There was a ton of other stuff I was involved with, and hopefully more of it will see the light of day eventually.

A lot of people have waited a long time for this product. But it’s still one step forward on the road to VR. And it’s going to take until the end of this decade for the industry to fully catch up to the grand vision for this tech.

Again, I’m open to consulting work and taking calls if your business is looking to enter the space or refine your strategy. Mostly, I’m proud and relieved this has finally been announced. It’s been over five years since I started working on this, and I spent a significant portion of my life on it, as did an army of other designers and engineers. I hope the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and Vision Pro blows your mind.

[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

#MK8D #NintendoSwitch

[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

@VoltoMatte hogwarts legacy almeno è divertente rispetto a splatoon 3

[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

Am I a transphobe yet? #HogwartsLegacy

[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

E sia chiaro che non intendo solo il tweet in questione, intendo tutta la questione attorno ad Hogwarts Legacy. Ho preso questo tweet solo perché mi è sembrato il culmine massimo

[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

Sinceramente in tanti anni di gaming mai vista una polemica più sterile di questa

[@nikatine.com @NikatinePrime]

A statement on Hogwarts Legacy:

[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

@NintendoStoreIT Grazie Nintendo, mi dispiace informarvi che gli amiibo non mi sono arrivati manco a sto giro però. Tra un paio di giorni ci risentiamo via mail

[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

@sunnysrequiem @Np_Lion16 @DatPretto Poi magari però mi dici anche che No Man’s Sky era da bocciare al lancio e lo è anche ora perché ci hanno messo troppo a fixarlo. Mi dà fastidio il ragionamento alla base, tutto qui, anche @Np_Lion16 per esempio non stava facendo altro se non evidenziare questa mancanza del 2

[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

@sunnysrequiem @Np_Lion16 @DatPretto Che come ho già detto nel primo tweet trovo ridicolo difendere una semplice mancanza organizzativa in fase di development del gioco dicendo che gli update siano un plus, ma va bene continuiamo a incitare l’industria a pubblicare giochi non completi finendoli post lancio

[Drast @marcodrast]

davvero credi che siamo close friends?😅

[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

@SOgekuri @VoltoMatte ...e poco professionale a fronte dell'offerta di PlatinumGames, soprattutto andando a chiedere un compenso a 6 cifre (che secondo me non sta né in cielo né in terra)

[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

Adesso continuate a difenderla dicendo che l’offerta è comunque troppo bassa

[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

@SOgekuri @VoltoMatte Che il mondo del doppiaggio rientri nelle professioni sottopagate è un problema reale e appurato, ma se dobbiamo parlare di questo allora cambiamo discorso, perché ciò che mi preme sottolineare è quanto la Taylor si sia comportata in maniera poco corretta...

[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

@VoltoMatte @GenesisAnto04 (E per quanto riguarda l'ultimo punto ne parla anche come se fossero numeri incredibili quando basta una ricerca Google rapidissima per appurare il fatto che questa serie storicamente non ha mai venduto così tanto)

[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

@VoltoMatte @GenesisAnto04 Suscitare pena e tirando fuori cose veramente fuori luogo come passi tratti dalla Bibbia (ho visto l'ultimo dei suoi video di fretta, se così non fosse correggetemi), e soprattutto focalizzando così tanta attenzione su quanto il franchise di Bayonetta abbia generato 2/2

[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

@GenesisAnto04 Il problema per quanto mi riguarda è proprio questo, ne parlo qua (in maniera più accesa e provocatoria) https://t.co/R2RZs2woJD

[giuli ciru @by_Giuli]

Ciò che sta accadendo in questi giorni con Hellena Taylor dimostra come l'internet (e in particolare Twitter) sia popolato solo da persone che si fidano immediatamente della prima parte a parlare, senza neanche prendersi la briga di stare ad aspettare che l'altra risponda 1/6