Krishan Sharma 💯

Multi-award winning technology journalist, corporate writer and moderator. Opinions are my own. Send story ideas and news tips to [email protected]

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Here's a quick preview of the next video coming next week https://t.co/tHtsNnaqL1

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New week, new video https://t.co/g1vZrdFkMp

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New phone alert - really diggin' the titanium orange colourway on the S24 Ultra. Glad Sammy went with a more restrained pastel orange rather than a 'slap you in the face' glossy orange. Looks really slick in person https://t.co/cXDPOzKYQw

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@AKOZ10G Nice. Leaptel is worth checking out too. They are offering $89/month for 1000/50 plans from the 1st of Dec I believe

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So hell has frozen over and my home has been finally freed from the copper shackles of FTTN to full fat fibre (FTTP) where my speeds went from 89Mbps with dropouts at least a couple of times a month to 1Gbps DL speeds & no dropouts at all #livingthedream

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That said, NBN Co really needs to do something abt their wholesale prices of upload speeds. Prefer symmetrical speeds of 500/500 or even 250/250 if it weren't prohibitively expensive but it's cheaper to have 1Gbps/50Mbps. Doesn't seem in step at all with current household demands

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While the Ayaneo 2S shares a lot of similarities with its predecessor, there’s a host of improvements that make this a worthy successor, leapfrogging the likes of the Steam Deck & Asus’ ROG Ally in some crucial areas.
My review on The Oz #Ayaneo #Handhelds
https://t.co/DmDCmH13Nd

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After moderating many roundtables and panels in Sydney and Melbourne, it was nice to be able to finally do one in my home town of Brisbane today! Fantastic turnout and the level of engagement we had from the attendees throughout the roundtable was very insightful #moderator #ciso

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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.

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@harrytuckerr I've had my Model 3 Tesla for a little over a year now and have had zero issues charging using third party charging stations. The only annoying thing is how every 3rd party charging station requires a damn app of their own to use which can be flaky at best if you're out remote

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Thanks to the success of the Steam Deck, the PC handheld gaming market is exploding with options and the most impressive of the bunch is the Ayaneo 2. Read my review over at The Australian #PC #Gaming #Handhelds
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PC monitor upgrade time: switching from my Aorus FV43U to the 42-inch LG C2 OLED. Simply can't beat the motion clarity and infinite contrast of an OLED :)

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The Find N2 Flip and Galaxy Flip 4 represent the best modern flip phones money can buy but how does Oppo’s first ditch effort stack up against Samsung's fourth generation clamshell? I tested both handsets for a few days to find out #MWC23 #foldables
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02/03/23 - Wider release of Oppo's Find N2 Flip might just be a sign that Chinese brands are ready to go global with their foldables to meet growing demand & take on the likes of Samsung who up until now have faced very little competition in global markets https://t.co/vQn5KJOdJt

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It was good to be back in Barcelona for #MWC2023 this week. With the smartphone market in consistent decline, the industry's emphasis on adjacent verticals was loud and clear, making for a different kind of show than in previous years

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@elonmusk The 2022 Model 3 has the same RDNA 2 graphics/AMD SoC - can we expect Steam to appear there as well?

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Final review of 2022 before taking a much needed holiday with wifey and kiddies and it's a biggie - the RTX 4080 GPU. Read my in-depth review over on GadgetGuy #Nvidia #PCMasterRace #Gaming #DLSS3 #4K144Hzorbust
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The NUCXi7 from Minisforum might just be the living room gaming PC to beat. Read my full review over on GadgetGuy #miniPC #NUC #Intel #Nvidia #gaming #Minisforum https://t.co/CEC4bblKfG

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If you ever wanted to experience the immersive thrills of FPV drones and are prepared to drop $1,629 for the privilege, the DJI Avata really is in a class of its own. Read my full review over on GadgetGuy #DJI #Drones #FPV #HMD https://t.co/tWSSrzi3BX

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The OnePlus 10T delivers superb performance and charging speeds but it comes at the expense of a mediocre camera and battery life. Read my full review over on GG https://t.co/wAmyX7mrWR #OnePlus #Android #smartphones