phil b

Chief Growth Officer, CMO, E-commerce Leader, Virtual & Mixed Reality Evangelist. Sound Money Citizen, Vibe Coding for Non-coders (and Marketers) Enthusiast.

[Physics & Astronomy Zone @zone_astronomy]

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

NASA Artemis passing close to the Moon

[Kurt Hemecker @khem]

We said don’t get debased. Get BASED! DGLD gold is officially LIVE. Swiss gold now on Base. 🪙💙, thank you @AerodromeFi .
https://t.co/9houXPD4iv

[Kurt Hemecker @khem]

Gold or Bitcoin? @cz_binance and @PeterSchiff couldn’t agree, even though at times they seemed close. This drop from @GoldavenueEN feels like the diplomatic solution, including silver too! https://t.co/DKdNqG5pHL

[Night Sky Now @NightSkyNow]

A stunning new model suggests our Solar System isn’t round at all… but shaped like a cosmic croissant drifting through the galaxy 🥐

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Scientists believe the Milky Way is flying through space at 600 kilometers per second while also wobbling slightly, as if it’s flipping its wings through the cosmos.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

I tested Gemini 3.0 Pro Thinking and ChatGPT-5.1 Thinking with same critical prompts.

The results will blow your mind.

Gemini 3.0 Vs. ChatGPT-5.1

(Video demos are included)

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

But 𝕏 and Starlink didn’t skip a beat

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

I'm so disappointed in the Meta Raybans with display.

Been waiting for a great "AI Glasses" to come along for more than a decade since I wore Google Glass every day for a year.

The Meta Raybans with a display is a huge miss.

1. They don't work for my eyes. Let's leave that aside. Even if I had perfect vision I still would be very depressed today (see my last two posts for more about this issue).

2. Are they integrated with my phone? No. They don't show anything that my phone does. No Gmail notifications. No Slack. No Discord. No nothing.

3. Do they let me turn on the microphones and do real work with AIs? "Vibe coding," for instance. No. You can't even capture the text from the captions app.

4. Do they introduce a new way of entertaining yourself? Only one game. No mixed reality. But gets worse from there. No YouTube. No Netflix. No other streaming apps.

5. Is there a way to look at the Web? No. So can't read reviews of restaurants, or look at anything else humans would want to look at.

6. The armband is far less comfortable than I was expecting. While it is magic in bringing a new way to control the device I'd hate wearing it, just like I hate wearing my Apple Vision Pro, which gives me headaches after an hour. The armband made my hand hurt after a few minutes. I can't imagine wearing it all day long.

7. Even if the AI does something interesting, the screen simply isn't high enough resolution or have enough field of view to make it really satisfying to work with. I'd love to talk to my glasses and have it fire up something like @genspark_ai, do a bunch of things like make me a slide deck, or write a report, or analyze restaurants near me, and display those. It can't do it in a way that really makes you go "now that is useful."

8. No integration with popular headphones. The speakers on the glasses are OK for a lot of things, but I'm a music crazed person and, sorry, the new Apple Airpods Pro 3 sound way way way better than the speakers in the glasses. But no way to control the headphones from the glasses and armband.

9. These are HUDs (heads up displays). They can NOT do augmented reality or virtual reality or mixed reality like the big scuba masks, like Apple Vision Pro, can do. The press didn't explain that. It isn't even close to as magical or capable as the bigger headsets.

10. They look cheap. Even compared with its other "audio only" glasses, which are available in much nicer looking forms. The glossy black surface, and thick frames, aren't even close to as nice as the @EvenRealities that I have.

So who are the Meta Raybans for?

1. An influencer that needs to get invited to Meta's next events. I'll never be invited again to Meta's launch events, so I don't care, but if I were still playing that game I would have bought a pair to keep my standing with the Meta PR team.

2. An Instagram content developer. Taking a photo or video and uploading them from the glasses is better while skiing or running or something like that than using a phone.

3. A gadget freak. If I had unlimited budget and wanted to show them to my friends to have a conversation I'd buy them just to keep my standing as the biggest gadget freak in the world (@vicgundotra is the guy in my head who has that crown -- when he worked as an executive at Google he funded Android, but hired me at Microsoft because I worked at a company making a tablet PC that he was drooling over).

If you are an AI freak, like me, you will find them disappointing.

For AI freaks an always listening device like the one from @LimitlessAI is a better choice.

This leaves a huge hole open for OpenAI and others, including Apple, to fill. Tim Cook should be breathing a huge sigh of relief this week. And the lack of a line at the store, should tell you that Silicon Valley/San Francisco already is avoiding. (I chose to pick mine up at the only Meta store that exists, which is near its headquarters, for that reason. Where Apple's stores are PACKED there was literally no one at the store).

Given the billions spent to develop these over more than a decade, huge disappointment.

[phil b @phryl]

https://t.co/oEZAM29tC4

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

This is the big breakthrough for controlling 3D environments that Apple Vision Pro is missing.

It will let you have eight hands in a video game. Among many other things.

[Ben Lang @benz145]

An XR headset based on replacing specific devices (TV, tablet, game console, camera, etc) would probably be a much better starting point than trying to build a brand new thing (ie: 'the metaverse') that people may not even want, right out of the gate. And to be honest, replacing the TV is what a lot of the early AR headsets (like XREAL) are doing, and they're doing it pretty well. It looks like they're finding clear demand from normal people who like the idea of a private, high res TV for content they already enjoy on a TV (shows, movies, games, YouTube).

[Spatial Insider @spatialinsider]

Apple’s upcoming Vision Air will be 40% lighter and 50% cheaper than Vision Pro, with shipments expected to reach about 1M units in 2027, per Ming-Chi Kuo.

[phil b @phryl]

What if the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning? Our research suggests it may have taken place inside a black hole https://t.co/YWdEX9rFkB via @ConversationUK

[Nathie 🔜 AWE @NathieVR]

Stepping into the Matrix with Apple Vision Pro is a great demonstration of how quickly the headset can scan your surroundings.

[Brendan Jowett @jowettbrendan]

This is insane.

Google dropped the most powerful UI designer in the world.

You just describe the app, and it generates the code.

It’s called Stitch.

Here’s how it works:

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Toronto burger shop called Good Fortune Burger renamed its menu items to sound like office supplies, helping remote workers potentially expense meals through work accounts.

The "basic steel stapler" and "braided HDMI cord” are popular.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Fun fact.

10 starships generate as much power as the entire US grid, or nearly 1.3 Terawatts.

In fact, the total power output of SpaceX's Starship at launch, including the Super Heavy booster and Starship itself, is estimated to be around 131 Gigawatts.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Researchers placed 1,000 AI agents in a Minecraft server, and they developed their own civilization with government, culture, and economy.

Run by California-based startup Altera, the project had AI agents collaborating to create virtual societies.