Paul Tomlinson

Happy technologist, physicist, and family man, with a penchant for VR and neuropsychology.

[Paul Tomlinson @ptom27]

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I find myself revisiting my youth from the other side; I'm now eating everything *else* that was shown as "part of this complete breakfast".

I will officially call this experience "notstalgia", which you may also recognize as "I have become my [parent(s)]."

#notstalgia

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"Examining cognition as a means of solving fundamentally computational problems posed by our environment can utterly change the way we think about human rationality." –Algorithms to Live By

We can also change cognition by changing environments. And in VR, we can do so endlessly.

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@thelibbiegrant @milesward It's amazing: https://t.co/xQwf1NCcoA

#walkabout #labyrinth

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@thelibbiegrant @milesward It's mixed magic; there's so much promise in this technology, but most current implementations and tools don't live up to it yet, or require lots of effort relative to the payoff.

And yet, Dan and I played mini golf in Jareth's throne room yesterday from a thousand miles apart.

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@SaberMage It's electrifying.

...go through a lot of bows, though.

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New gig: Creative Scientist at #MURAL, exploring the parameters of collaborative spatial cognition and using that insight to design products and workflows: increase the speed, creativity, depth, meaning, and engagement of connecting with each other.

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@thelibbiegrant Easiest way to dive in right now is to grab a Quest 2, copies of MultiBrush, RecRoom, Horizon Worlds, and go to work. Walkabout Mini Golf is also a master class in thematic (if whimsical) environments, and there are lots of atmospheric “experiences” out there.

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@thelibbiegrant The kinds of tools for this are only just starting to take shape, still limited in access and scope. Manual creation’s getting faster and easier, though.

I can’t wait until we have something like #MidjourneyAI for 3D/VR scenes.

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@nikiblueeyes43 Getting old means the forgetting becomes automatic. :)

My oldest just celebrated her 2nd anniversary, and we’re all up in the woods of Maine these days, enjoying the buggy beautiful summer.

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@LostInArtMagic @Mighty_Coconut @erik_flowers @r3trosteve It's not without its shortcomings; it took me a while to get my setup dialed in for comfort. But I'm 3+ years into it as a full-time solution (whenever I don't really need to be on-camera for a meeting), and I'm never going back.

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@benz145 "Best practices" are something that emerge over time based on the audience's experience and feedback (mostly economically). Publishing guidelines is one thing, but getting more devs and more people involved is the best route - make it faster/easier to produce and distribute.

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@reloptix - any thoughts on what it will take to get some Rx lenses mounted to this?: https://t.co/hIKBpDc64x

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VR is so much more than simulating people and places—it's a creative playground for explosive cognitive expansion, an extension of mind and memory experienced by and built in collaboration with others. Deep, meaningful connections, enhancing everything about the human experience.

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We created a user interface for someone's mind through virtual reality, and used that shared dream to find—and fix—a traumatic experience from their past.

#vr #psychology

https://t.co/KA5UuPPDJt

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I recently had the chance to interview @rohildev about Nimo, an Android computer built into a chunky pair of glasses with an integrated virtual display — 6 of them, in fact…

#xr #wearable #android #SmartGlasses

https://t.co/3FpFDmeWsO

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@stephenanderson It would be the meta layer beyond BPM tooling, kind of like the ITIL but for organizational health and maturity; an operationalized knowledge base of best *actions*.

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@stephenanderson I think this could go much, much further - Operations & Growth Management, like an "internal CRM" covering employee relationship engagement, OKR/KPI analysis, training & proverbial axe sharpening, etc.

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@hmltn I started using it with NCSA Mosaic pre-search-engine; when WebCrawler first showed up I used it for finding hardware drivers for Windows 95 and The Anarchist’s Cookbook.

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@mekkaokereke @AntonHand I have lived this firsthand.