Brandel Zachernuk

Spatial web technologies by day, digitally-embodied cognition enthusiast by night.

[Brandel Zachernuk @zachernuk]

I made something useful (and fun!) in #threejs #webXR - something that lets you see a mirror of your actions - live or with a delay, or save it to a GLTF file to share, or use in a 3D tool. Check it out at https://t.co/xPCOckQiqd (in Quest/etc) and read on for some observations!

[Brandel Zachernuk @zachernuk]

@tophtucker This is lovely, and reminds me of a recent paper: https://t.co/0ebbrLKN6i
I’ve been thinking about users defining preferences for different content types around them, e.g “timey” stuff on a walk by a calendar, “spacey” stuff by a globe on their desk. Body-centric works too!

[Brandel Zachernuk @zachernuk]

@ctbeiser @KyleRayWed It’s fair to say that intangible objects aren’t going away, but we can do better work to render ones and functionality in terms that the human mind can relate to. Otherwise we’ll be waiting a long time for evolution to catch up!

[Brandel Zachernuk @zachernuk]

@amicusadastra It can be digital and still an analog of something else - there is absolutely room to tweak the medium:
https://t.co/3LQwynXivm

[Brandel Zachernuk @zachernuk]

In a world of spatial computing, what is the future of information?

What is the Future of Text? Of poetry?

In my spare time I used #threejs to revisit some of my favorite kinetic typography - video below, and link in the thread to experience it yourself:

[Brandel Zachernuk @zachernuk]

Writing, with such freedom in place and scale, supplies a new dimension of meaning - maybe we can call it "reinforced concrete poetry."

All this is meant as a story-starter, though. What do you want to see as text in space?

What do you want to build?

Let's chat.

[Brandel Zachernuk @zachernuk]

In a world of spatial computing, what is the future of information?

What is the Future of Text? Of poetry?

In my spare time I used #threejs to revisit some of my favorite kinetic typography - video below, and link in the thread to experience it yourself:

[Brandel Zachernuk @zachernuk]

Growing the original's wide expanse of white all aroudn you allows for surreal, otherworldly focus on the text.

The speed and the scale of the words test the limit of conscious legibility, enhancing a sense that the poetry is absorbed as a *feeling* as much as read as a text.

[Brandel Zachernuk @zachernuk]

@_chenglou Just watching a video from Kay https://t.co/ZoHFvlGMAE right now, it's causing a rollercoaster of emotion

[Brandel Zachernuk @zachernuk]

@mrdoob @ordinalOS Alembic is a vfx industry interchange format, mostly for baking down simulations etc. It’s useful but mostly enormous, normally involving 1GB+ transfers that make it complicated to use in the web: https://t.co/gyYBgkpaqM

[Brandel Zachernuk @zachernuk]

@andy_matuschak @blisstweeting I *think* I can make my way to believing that it's because dusk is at the end of the day, which mean the earth has rotated, which means that the point you're 'tightest' at has shifted in the year.

[Brandel Zachernuk @zachernuk]

This is huge for 3D on the web as well!

If you or your organization wants to show products, configure 3D stuff or even do spatial web visualization, please join AOUSD and the Web Interest Group to hear about what people are doing, and give input on how to make USD work for you!

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[Brandel Zachernuk @zachernuk]

@JimmyRis I feel like Isopod proves the world and the appeal - highly recommended! https://t.co/hkANhdduWs

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3 and a half years of isopod rolling down big hills!
Isopod is finally coming out tomorrow!

[Brandel Zachernuk @zachernuk]

@anilkseth It's exciting to see robotics discovering principles like interoception and active inference! https://t.co/V1sbou1Gnz

[Brandel Zachernuk @zachernuk]

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[Brandel Zachernuk @zachernuk]

@yishan The promotional shots are also taken with a much wider lens and at eye-level with the midline of the burger. Again not to excuse Arby’s but people’s inability to read the difference about this is having people cut into their own (face) meats: https://t.co/KpKmtSfRKR