Keith Ahern ᯅ

Bits @ ShineVR. Old bits:Minds Applied (AR for Auto) RealAR(AR/AI Techstars 2019), Oomph (App builder), Adomatic (AI design), Netscape (browser#1)

[Keith Ahern ᯅ @keithahern]

@realBobbyHealy @cursor_ai @AnthropicAI @billynewport Now, how optimised are your chunky to planar functions? That Agnus chip did a lot of heavy lifting!

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@rich_coupe @x86matthew @ShinyQuagsire I seem to remember, possibly incorrectly, that for the TriMedia VLIW chips at least binaries were tied to chip Mhz, ie executables need to be recompiled for different chip speeds. This didn’t help it gain traction. But I don’t know if that was toolchain immaturity or by design.

[Keith Ahern ᯅ @keithahern]

@rich_coupe @x86matthew @ShinyQuagsire That’s interesting. VLIW was the hot new chip architecture around then, over at Philips they had the TriMedia chips but as you said they never delivered on their promise.

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[Keith Ahern ᯅ @keithahern]

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@ShinyQuagsire Congrats!

[vStream Health @vStream]

We are delighted to have won Gold at the @digitalmedia_ie for Best use of VR and AR at this year’s awards.

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@Heaney555 @mkoivuka I think the RAM delta of 2GB between Quest 2 and Quest 3 and the large established Quest 2 user base gave Meta a 12-24 month window to “use” the 2GB for this before Quest 3 only heavy games may have squeezed this out. Ie perfect timing of hardware and software.

[Keith Ahern ᯅ @keithahern]

@joshwhiton I noticed this a few days ago when I bought a pair of earbuds in a reputable Irish supermarket. I gasped too as they identified themselves as ‘Beats’ headphones in the accessory dialog that popped up, however the Bluetooth device is called ‘baets’, yep, ‘baets’!

[Keith Ahern ᯅ @keithahern]

…to move the app management popup into the palm area so that these common functions are tactile.

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Meta Quests new wrist based app and system menu buttons are a definite improvement on air tapping. I think they could have gone a little further using something like Cathy Fangs self haptic work at the Future Interfaces group at MIT Media Lab …

https://t.co/7N4CWLVDQS

[Keith Ahern ᯅ @keithahern]

Bobby Fingers. That is all.

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@realBobbyHealy That’s a great guerrilla recruiting technique Bobby!

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@rectus_sa @SadlyItsBradley Install Netscape Live3D and load some VRML!

[Keith Ahern ᯅ @keithahern]

@BradPorter_ @generalcatalyst @htaneja @teresacarlson Awesome news Brad, can’t wait to see the product.

[Matt Miesnieks @mattmiesnieks]

Anyone building in AR/VR and who thinks @speedrun may be good for them (it almost certainly will be), ping me & I can provide a referral. Just don’t build anything generic, push the limits on deep-tech or use-cases!

[Keith Ahern ᯅ @keithahern]

@mattmiesnieks Best of luck Matt. No doubt taking a break from path finding will free up the mind for new opportunities. Predicting the technology to commercial viability runway is harder in MR than smart phones, and that was hard!

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Interesting output from a the ModelScope text to video model....