Tim Bayne

Love CDN tourism, economic development, sports & events and how to analyze their impacts and influence.

[Rideau Canal Skateway @NCC_Skateway]

👀👀👀

Happening now!

Our teams are flooding a section of the Rideau Canal Skateway, between Hawthorne St and Bank St.

They use pumps to draw water from below the ice to flood the surface and help build the ice thickness needed to safely open.

Please keep off the ice!

[Ottawa Tourism @Ottawa_Tourism]

The Ottawa Visitor Centre is officially open! 🎉

In partnership with @CdnHeritage with funding support from @FedDevOntario, this cutting-edge space offers essential information on events, attractions, accommodations, & more!

Learn more: https://t.co/KU4rYFJ7Y7

#MyOttawa

[TheBetterPath @TheBetterPath_]

This video has changed my life:

[Guy Thériault @Guy_Theriault]

Explore #MyOttawa @Ottawa_Tourism with @Forbes https://t.co/JKbEolUnt6

[TTRA Canada @TTRACanada]

📢 Official Call for Papers! 📢
👉Where do you find a place steeped in #Indigenous, #Acadian & literary cultural #heritage?
📍The location of our #TTRA #Canada #Conference in Charlottetown, PEI
🙏Join us for Bridging #Tourism Research Frontiers & so much more!
👇See our CFP👇

[TTRA Canada @TTRACanada]

📌 TTRA Canada Chapter Conference, October 16-18, 2024, #Charlottetown, PEI, Canada 📷A vision that represents our #conference theme BRIDGING RESEARCH FRONTIERS
https://t.co/VVwqsq0tRn

[TTRA Canada @TTRACanada]

🎯SAVE THE DATE🎯
Collaborating with Mi’kmaq artists to tell a story about our annual #Conference , October 16-18, 2024, Charlottetown, PEI? And this happens👇Our theme BRIDGING RESEARCH FRONTIERS underscores the vital role of diverse #partnerships in #tourism! #ttra #hospitality

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

It is quite easy to be convinced of a point of view when you don’t discern.

The true scientific method is to become not a “debunker” but to become an empiricist waiting for all of your observations.

These next years hold your “hot takes” and question everything with curiosity.

[IIHF @IIHFHockey]

The #WorldJuniors are heading back to Canada's Capital City! #Ottawa will host the tournament in 2025!

More: https://t.co/VmF735ZdBb

@HockeyCanada

[Hockey Canada @HockeyCanada]

2025 #WorldJuniors 🤝 Ottawa

#MondialJunior 2025 🤝 Ottawa

FRANÇAIS: https://t.co/GXxNT54sxZ

@HEOhockey | @IIHFHockey

[Jantine Van Kregten @OttawaJantine]

This is soooo exciting! Can’t wait! #MyOttawa ❤️

[Michael Crockatt @mcroc]

Yes! We will be incredibly proud to welcome the world to Ottawa for this massive event!

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

We are traveling through space and time and we will never be in the same place twice.

Our Solar System travels at ~515,000 mph. Even at this rapid speed, the Solar System would take about 230 million years to travel all the way around the Milky Way and that is moving too.

[Sterling Crispin 🕊️ @sterlingcrispin]

I spent 10% of my life contributing to the development of the #VisionPro while I worked at Apple as a Neurotechnology Prototyping Researcher in the Technology Development Group. It’s the longest I’ve ever worked on a single effort. I’m proud and relieved that it’s finally announced. I’ve been working on AR and VR for ten years, and in many ways, this is a culmination of the whole industry into a single product. I’m thankful I helped make it real, and I’m open to consulting and taking calls if you’re looking to enter the space or refine your strategy.

The work I did supported the foundational development of Vision Pro, the mindfulness experiences, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ products, and also more ambitious moonshot research with neurotechnology. Like, predicting you’ll click on something before you do, basically mind reading. I was there for 3.5 years and left at the end of 2021, so I’m excited to experience how the last two years brought everything together. I’m really curious what made the cut and what will be released later on.

Specifically, I’m proud of contributing to the initial vision, strategy and direction of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ program for Vision Pro. The work I did on a small team helped green light that product category, and I think it could have significant global impact one day.

The large majority of work I did at Apple is under NDA, and was spread across a wide range of topics and approaches. But a few things have become public through patents which I can cite and paraphrase below.

Generally as a whole, a lot of the work I did involved detecting the mental state of users based on data from their body and brain when they were in immersive experiences.

So, a user is in a mixed reality or virtual reality experience, and AI models are trying to predict if you are feeling curious, mind wandering, scared, paying attention, remembering a past experience, or some other cognitive state. And these may be inferred through measurements like eye tracking, electrical activity in the brain, heart beats and rhythms, muscle activity, blood density in the brain, blood pressure, skin conductance etc.

There were a lot of tricks involved to make specific predictions possible, which the handful of patents I’m named on go into detail about. One of the coolest results involved predicting a user was going to click on something before they actually did. That was a ton of work and something I’m proud of. Your pupil reacts before you click in part because you expect something will happen after you click. So you can create biofeedback with a user's brain by monitoring their eye behavior, and redesigning the UI in real time to create more of this anticipatory pupil response. It’s a crude brain computer interface via the eyes, but very cool. And I’d take that over invasive brain surgery any day.

Other tricks to infer cognitive state involved quickly flashing visuals or sounds to a user in ways they may not perceive, and then measuring their reaction to it.

Another patent goes into details about using machine learning and signals from the body and brain to predict how focused, or relaxed you are, or how well you are learning. And then updating virtual environments to enhance those states. So, imagine an adaptive immersive environment that helps you learn, or work, or relax by changing what you’re seeing and hearing in the background.

All of these details are publicly available in patents, and were carefully written to not leak anything. There was a ton of other stuff I was involved with, and hopefully more of it will see the light of day eventually.

A lot of people have waited a long time for this product. But it’s still one step forward on the road to VR. And it’s going to take until the end of this decade for the industry to fully catch up to the grand vision for this tech.

Again, I’m open to consulting work and taking calls if your business is looking to enter the space or refine your strategy. Mostly, I’m proud and relieved this has finally been announced. It’s been over five years since I started working on this, and I spent a significant portion of my life on it, as did an army of other designers and engineers. I hope the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and Vision Pro blows your mind.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

This is the exclusive Apple VisionPro introduction video.

You may see things no one is talking about.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Neuroscientist David Eagleman (@davideagleman) on why you feel like life is rushing by... and what to do about it 👇

[Towards Data Science @TDataScience]

"Any decision we make based on hypothesis testing may be incorrect. We can reject when we should have accepted, and vice versa. This arises when we use a single sample to inform probabilities about the population as a whole."

Adrienne Kline expands. https://t.co/USmVf69IHb

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

Gordie Howe: Mr. Hockey
Birthday: March 31

[Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend @OttawaRaceWknd]

With an official Sportstats time of 51:09.1. Rejeanne is now the WORLD record holder women’s 95+ 5k. Congratulations! #RunOttawa2023

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Didn’t get this until having a kid