Kharis O'Connell

Design, Speculation and Strategy @altopharmacy prev @amazon @google OG Meta etc etc// Advisor //Author// Musician // Infrastructureless Offgridism lover

[Kharis O'Connell @rmtwrkr]

Isn’t iPhone mirroring the most truly useless feature ever? It never works - asks me to unlock the phone, then when unlocked it’s ‘in use’ and unavailable. Then I leave it to time out back to sleep and then it can’t connect. What a terrible idea made real.

[Eric Migicovsky @ericmigi]

Isn't the ultra an $800 watch with a 2 day battery life?

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

We are living in the dumbest timeline humanly possible.

[Kharis O'Connell @rmtwrkr]

I’ve got to say @ShopifySupport is the worst customer experience I’ve had with any online store. It’s all just canned dead AI responses, even when escalated. 30 mins of meaningless runaround. God I miss humans.

[Kharis O'Connell @rmtwrkr]

@djmarkfarina This would be great Techno EP cover art

[Kharis O'Connell @rmtwrkr]

@alexqgb Isnt it all just truly terrible?

[Alex Coulombe 🔜 UnrealFestChicago @iBrews]

This vid is excellent—everyone in the VR industry should watch.

Thoughts:
1. It is ridiculous that comfort options aren’t handled at the OS level. I like snap turn, no vignette, smooth locomotion. Why can’t that be in my user preferences and pulled by every application I open?

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

Silicon Valley (the series) is so back

[Scott Stein 👓🎲🪄 @jetscott]

I’m not interested in another personality riding alongside me, chatting. I’m interested in sensory extension and augmentation

[James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @mr_james_c]

Apple's new "Crush" ad (let's call it "2024") is a visual & metaphorical bookend to the 1984 ad.

1984: Monochome, conformist, industrial world exploded by colourful, vibrant human

2024: Colourful, vibrant humanity is crushed by monochrome, conformist industrial press

[Kharis O'Connell @rmtwrkr]

The Vision Pro’s Spatial Personas are great - but it’s really similar to the old Spatial app that I was running with colleagues in 2020 back on Magic Leap 1s. We were doing *this* exact kind of collaboration in AR years ago - so it’s a cathartic feeling #visionpro

[Kharis O'Connell @rmtwrkr]

@_rygo6 Spot on analysis Ryan - as usual!

[Kharis O'Connell @rmtwrkr]

My god - the Vision Pro App Store is bad. I’m not talking about the apps - I mean the actual interaction/navigation is TERRIBLE. The back-stepping behavior is enough for me to never open it again.

[tipatat @tipatat]

The saddest thing about Google Prematurely leaving XR is they actually had all the ingredients to make a killer app: a social VR app with a physical interaction engine by the makers of Job Sim, with a UGC tool by the makers of TiltBrush and pre-populated with Google Earth data

[Kharis O'Connell @rmtwrkr]

I’ve noticed that nearly *every* iPhone/ipad app I’ve ever bought works in the #AppleVisionPro Went and bought Dusk, then realized that the iPad X app works perfectly….

[Kharis O'Connell @rmtwrkr]

It's definitely time for a new Koyaanisqatsi. It almost already exists, by accident. So many videos of human behavior with the Hans Zimmer/Interstellar music floating around.

[Rony Abovitz @rabovitz]

Something that anyone working on XR at Apple, Meta, Varjo, HTC, Microsoft, Magic Leap, and others know: XR/Spatial computing is a really, really hard system design and engineering problem. It makes mortals out of anyone who wants to wrestle with that particular bear.

[Kharis O'Connell @rmtwrkr]

Observation: a lot of the "Steve Jobs would never have released this!" comments on the Vision Pro really show how far Apple is now perceived as a 'safe, boring' tech company. Just the sheer AUDACITY for Apple to release the AVP has blown peoples mental model of the company. Yay!

[Kharis O'Connell @rmtwrkr]

I’m starting to realize that the term ‘Spatial Computing’ is sadly shrinking into simply having standard floating 2d windows in front of you. This is not actually Spatial Computing.

[Kharis O'Connell @rmtwrkr]

I’ve thought a lot about how new tech promises to ‘free’ us from prior ‘bad practices’ - only to realize it’s always the same result as before

https://t.co/opMVa8jMP4