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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn
44 posts
2024-08-25
@boztank You're still committed to real-time embodied presence as codec avatars in headsets? Is this something we're likely to see demonstrated in WhatsApp soonish?
2024-08-25 View on X
The Information

Sources: Meta cancels a premium MR headset codenamed La Jolla, in development since November, that was meant to debut in 2027 to compete with Apple's Vision Pro

Meta responds Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac : Meta just canceled its Vision Pro competitor, reportedly it was too pricey to ‘sell well’ Asma Hussain / iThinkDifferent : Meta cancels V...

2024-08-24
@boztank You're still committed to real-time embodied presence as codec avatars in headsets? Is this something we're likely to see demonstrated in WhatsApp soonish?
2024-08-24 View on X
The Information

Sources: Meta cancels a premium MR headset codenamed La Jolla, in development since November, that was meant to debut in 2027 to compete with Apple's Vision Pro

Meta Platforms has canceled plans for a premium mixed-reality headset intended to compete with Apple's Vision Pro, according to two Meta employees.

2024-08-16
Popped out of my live show in VR to plug an iPad into my Meta headset. The 1-2-3 punch of wired HDMI input, Remote Display and seamless multitasking. WOOOOOWWWWWW
2024-08-16 View on X
The Verge

Meta releases an app for the Quest 3, 2, and Pro to let the headsets display video from devices with an HDMI or DisplayPort output; a capture card is required

Andrew Liszewski / The Verge :

2024-04-04
This is very interesting between @ID_AA_Carmack & @boztank. How many resources were spent on this organizational structure before it changed? How many people left Meta because of it? Further, how did this org structure slow down Meta's efforts? [image]
2024-04-04 View on X
CNET

An interview with Andrew Bosworth on the 10th anniversary of Reality Labs, the past and future of VR, AR, and AI, Meta's next AR glasses prototype, and more

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth talks with CNET about the past and future of VR, AR and AI.  —  2014 doesn't seem that long ago to me.

2024-02-28
I'll keep repeating this quote from @zuck till enough people know it.  “It's 2017 and the biggest trend in transportation is that it's a lot easier to move bits around than atoms.” https://www.uploadvr.com/...
2024-02-28 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Apple is winding down Project Titan, its decade-long effort to make an electric car; Apple plans to move some impacted staff to generative AI projects

- Executives tell staff to end work on endeavor known as Titan  — Employees on some car teams will move to Apple's AI division

2023-06-22
The adrenaline in my veins seeing significant updates for VR tech back to back from Apple & Meta. https://twitter.com/...
2023-06-22 View on X
UploadVR

Meta rolls out its Quest v55 update, boosting the Quest 2's maximum GPU clock speed up to 19% and the Quest Pro's up to 11%, and the CPUs for both up to 26%

David Heaney / UploadVR :

2023-06-06
“I think I'll stick with the Oculus for now,” says my Uber driver upon telling him the cost of Apple Vision Pro. “Yeah, you can quote me on that.”
2023-06-06 View on X
The Verge

Tim Cook unveils Apple Vision Pro, a “spatial computing” headset controlled with the user's eyes, hands, and voice, coming to the US for $3,499+ in early 2024

Apple has announced an augmented reality headset called Apple Vision Pro that “seamlessly” blends the real and digital world.

2023-02-16
“Apple has been working to fix issues with sensors on the device to enable the hand and eye control mechanism.” @markgurman Is this different than the heat issues reported previously? This sounds more significant. If those sensors aren't up to snuff could this be pushed out more? https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-16 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Apple postponed the introduction of its MR headset from around April to June 2023, at its annual WWDC, after testing found hardware and software issues

Apple Inc. has postponed a planned introduction of its first mixed-reality headset from around April to June …

2022-11-21
Can someone explain it like I'm five? What assets does a company like this have other than a bunch of crypto? Like, isn't this gonna give a bunch of creditors a bunch of crypto to pump in weird ways to get their money back? https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Court documents: FTX owes $3.1B to its 50 biggest unsecured creditors, with claims ranging from $21M to $226M; ten claims are over $100M each

I recall hearing or reading that the top dog of Aurora … Brad Dress / The Hill : FTX owes more than $3 billion to biggest creditors: court filing The Information : FTX Owes Top 50 ...

2022-11-12
TIL the word “palimpsest” from this incredible @thedextriarchy review of Quest Pro: “a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.” https://www.theverge.com/...
2022-11-12 View on X
The Verge

Meta Quest Pro review: improved controllers but irredeemably bad software and feels like it was launched without plan or purpose, highlighting VR's drawbacks

which is a 4/10. https://www.theverge.com/... Adi Robertson / @thedextriarchy : The Quest Pro has some interesting ideas, but they're not deployed remotely well enough to be worth ...

2022-10-15
For those who've been wondering about the legs shown in the Connect keynote (@hrafntho). Meta: “To enable this preview of what's to come, the segment featured animations created from motion capture.”
2022-10-15 View on X
Kotaku

Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture”

Parmy Olson of Bloomberg was not impressed with Meta's announcements at Connect 2022: James Troughton / TheGamer : Meta's Virtual Leg Update Was Actually Motion Capture Jonathan Va...

Zuckerberg: “We have legs!” Devs: “Those aren't real.” Meta: “Yeah, I know.” Deep Dive Dev Videos: “Quest Pro has true multitasking and its controllers have significant new haptic and tracking features.” Devs: “Omg, why wasn't this in the keynote?” Meta: “...”
2022-10-15 View on X
Kotaku

Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture”

Parmy Olson of Bloomberg was not impressed with Meta's announcements at Connect 2022: James Troughton / TheGamer : Meta's Virtual Leg Update Was Actually Motion Capture Jonathan Va...

2022-10-14
Zuckerberg: “We have legs!” Devs: “Those aren't real.” Meta: “Yeah, I know.” Deep Dive Dev Videos: “Quest Pro has true multitasking and its controllers have significant new haptic and tracking features.” Devs: “Omg, why wasn't this in the keynote?” Meta: “...”
2022-10-14 View on X
Kotaku

Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture”

A subsequent statement from Meta says ‘the segment featured animations created from motion capture’

For those who've been wondering about the legs shown in the Connect keynote (@hrafntho). Meta: “To enable this preview of what's to come, the segment featured animations created from motion capture.”
2022-10-14 View on X
Kotaku

Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture”

A subsequent statement from Meta says ‘the segment featured animations created from motion capture’

2022-08-21
Huh. Is that deeper in the uncanny valley? https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-21 View on X
Kotaku

Zuckerberg responds to the mockery of the Horizon Worlds selfie, saying it was taken quickly to celebrate a launch and promises major updates to avatar graphics

Earlier this week was supposed to be a celebratory time for the folks at Meta, as its reality-devouring project Horizon Worlds was now available in more countries.

2022-08-20
Huh. Is that deeper in the uncanny valley? https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-20 View on X
Kotaku

Zuckerberg responds to the mockery of the Horizon Worlds selfie, saying it was taken quickly to celebrate a launch and promises major updates to avatar graphics

Earlier this week was supposed to be a celebratory time for the folks at Meta, as its reality-devouring project Horizon Worlds was now available in more countries.

2022-08-19
@rachelmetz I'll be curious if Meta ends up supporting a 1:1 calling feature and drops away the environment whether they can get much better avatars on current hardware. With Project Cambria's sensors it could be pretty impressive. @boztank?
2022-08-19 View on X
Forbes

After Mark Zuckerberg shared a screenshot from Horizon Worlds for an announcement, people criticize the graphics and Meta's $10B investment in the metaverse

Paul Tassi / Forbes :

@rachelmetz @boztank Yeah. Current social VR spaces have to optimize to support complex environments with enough processing leftover for a reasonable # of avatars. What happens when all the processing is thrown at a single avatar that's driven by real expressions?
2022-08-19 View on X
Forbes

After Mark Zuckerberg shared a screenshot from Horizon Worlds for an announcement, people criticize the graphics and Meta's $10B investment in the metaverse

Paul Tassi / Forbes :

2022-07-08
I'm still trying to understand how and why Facebook accounts went from optional on Quest in 2019 to required in 2020 and now they're optional again in 2022. Fascinating to me such dramatic shifts in end policy could happen on such a short time scale. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-08 View on X
The Verge

Meta plans to stop requiring Facebook IDs to log into Quest devices starting in August 2022 and will roll out “Meta accounts” for new and existing Quest users

and that's a win-win for Zuck Lucas Matney / TechCrunch : Meta is dumping Facebook logins as its metaverse ID system Nick Statt / Protocol : Why Meta is killing Facebook logins for...

2022-06-10
@boztank Are you committed to continuing the camera glasses line? Will there be a hardware gen 2 of Stories?
2022-06-10 View on X
The Information

Source: Meta will not publicly release the first version of its AR glasses, scheduled for 2024, to focus on its second version, unlikely to arrive for years

Meta Platforms has scaled back its plans to release a series of augmented reality glasses over the next several years as part …