Eugene Chung

Solipsism & the Singularity. Spatial Troubadour. @WEF YGL. @GreemKim’s Photographer

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@iBrews Yes! Where you at?

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Apple Vision Pro x Beastgrip for stable capture

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Having made spatial computing / VR movies for a dozen years, I’ve learned never to underestimate the importance of audio in delivering the power of presence. This work by @abhayap and the @Apple on the Ambisonic mic to capture high fidelity spatial audio is impressive. Caught up with the team after to think through how it can integrate with Unreal / real-time workflows.

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Grant Petty, CEO of @Blackmagic_News , flew from Australia to Apple HQ to unveil the ambisonic mic, the world’s first 7th order ambisonic mic to capture audio over a single usb-c cable. I checked out the mic afterwards, and the demo is impressive. Curious how it performs in the field.

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@EinarJohnson_XR The crane is a bit extra I agree but the tripod version seems relatively accessible.

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Apple Vision Pro x Beastgrip

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Apple Vision Pro x Beastgrip

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Visiting @Apple today for a VisionOS & immersive cinema event. Interesting to see the renewed energy around creating for the medium.

The future may not repeat, but it sometimes rhymes. Curious what Cupertino has in store.

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@chrisyeh @warburgpincus @Pixar @HarvardHBS @allumettevr Great to host and appreciate the insightful feedback 💡

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Great to reconnect with @chrisyeh after first meeting at a Swedish Embassy event. We talked about writing books, old @warburgpincus connections, @Pixar, @HarvardHBS, and a few other crossovers.

It was fun to share some of our VR work (@allumettevr), past and present.

Agents are ushering in a new golden age for VR content (e.g. the recent Titanfall 2 VR mod by @CircuitLord, etc). And those experiences could give AI something valuable in return: data on how people move and interact with each other and with digital agents in shared spaces. Physical AI is one clear application.

Creating datasets that frontier labs need is an interesting blitzscaling opportunity.

What useful data still isn't getting captured at scale?

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@mirzaotovic @GreemKim Agreed, though I do think the remoteness and lack of Grabs help with continuing to keep it on the dl.

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As I turn another year older, I'm reflecting on one of my most meaningful experiences: a trip @greemkim and I took to Amed, Bali.

Our previous trips to the island were, frankly, a mixed bag. Amed felt different. Quiet, with a deeply spiritual vibe. Yoga studios overlooking Jemeluk Bay, modern vegan cafés alongside traditional warungs, and 50-meter-deep water a short swim from shore. Greem gets seasick easily, so the chance to practice freediving without a boat mattered.

But as we were boarding the plane, I realized the motherboard in my Sony FX3 had died. Thankfully, I still had an iPhone. Smaller, always with me. I could capture candid, spontaneous moments I might have missed with a larger rig. I'm still learning to appreciate what necessity can render possible.

Greem strugged enormously with equalization, balancing the pressure in her ears. We spent days in the ocean with little success. I was trying to figure out how to tell her to try really hard not to try. As in Savasana (corpse pose), so much of the practice becomes mental.

Then one day we swam out from Lipah Beach further than any of us have ever swam away from shore without a boat. We were alone far from land, but rather than being frightening, the ocean opened up to us like magic: just me and her, marveling at the beautiful green mountains above and the dazzling alien world below. We came across a turtle feeding on the sea floor. “Timmy,” we called him.

Without thinking about a record, Greem dived down to hang out with Timmy. She beat her previous personal best and even managed hands-free equalization. What had been so difficult during training happened while she was enthralled by a new undersea friend.

I reached a new personal best of 40 meters on one breath. It is only because I've learned to let go that I can go further. There's something very Taoist about that.

Greem recorded this version of "Kiss from a Rose" to go with these memories.

After a decade of startup grind and seven years of marriage, I feel lucky that Greem and I got to share these days, still in love and free to enjoy them together. Looking back reminds the spirit why life is worth living, and to treasure the precious moments that never come back. Days are long, but life is short. So, live in the present, and don't forget to live with love.

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@nisten @fraserpricee 😹
Stay grounded, friends

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@nisten @officialKrishD 🦾

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https://t.co/R5qGtoX6jh

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STEAM FRAME. Twelve years after Valve’s VR Room, this is closer to what I had in mind. https://t.co/ilhlPb2IRj

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@oddlymaking Similar to VR devices, the focal distance is set further away from the eyes than the distance of a typical book / smartphone

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Split ortho keyboard + display glasses (~100” virtual display) + NixOS phone = deep work from anywhere

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@timelinemerger Indeed it is

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@nisten @unclebobmartin when the OG who coined *clean code* uses AI, there's no excuse for you not to.

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https://t.co/ky8rSIqOs1

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@NimaZeighami still working on that patch, but it should be as good as stock OnePlus15 once up.

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@nisten old school 🦾