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Kyle Orland

@kyleorl
30 posts
2023-06-06
The only things that have potentialy to “work” at this point in AR/VR are the ultra-high-end (incredibly expensive but convincing experience) and the ultra-low-end (cheap, “good enough") Apple definitely picked one of those lanes...
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.

2022-12-06
Bookmark for anyone who tries to say “ChatGPT shows that AI is *really* intelligent this time” https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-06 View on X
Stratechery

A look at the effects of ChatGPT, which has caused an explosion of interest in OpenAI's capabilities and led to questions about AI's impending impact on society

It happened to be Wednesday night when my daughter, in the midst of preparing for “The Trial of Napoleon” for her European history class …

Don't threaten me with a good etc. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-06 View on X
MarketWatch

Meta threatens to consider removing news from its apps if Congress passes Senator Klobuchar's “ill-considered” Journalism Competition and Preservation Act

Bill would allow news organizations to band together to negotiate for a larger share of online advertising revenue

2022-11-11
Say what you will about Twitter Blue's paid checkmarks, but it gave me an excuse to put Mario flipping the bird on the front page of Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/...
2022-11-11 View on X
The Verge

Twitter reactivates its gray “Official” badge for select high-profile accounts, after a wave of impersonators bought blue checks

Okay, so Twitter broke its own verification system by making the blue check — previously a signal that the account had provided information …

Say what you will about Twitter Blue's paid checkmarks, but it gave me an excuse to put Mario flipping the bird on the front page of Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/...
2022-11-11 View on X
TechCrunch

Fake Twitter accounts of athletes and other celebrities, some now suspended, are spreading fake announcements and chaos as paid Blue checkmarks become available

Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch :

The thing that really gets me about this: All Twitter Blue users have a credit card, right? It would be *trivial* for Twitter to force them to use the name on their Credit Card in exchange for being “verified.” Would immediately solve this problem for good https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-11 View on X
TechCrunch

Fake Twitter accounts of athletes and other celebrities, some now suspended, are spreading fake announcements and chaos as paid Blue checkmarks become available

Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch :

The thing that really gets me about this: All Twitter Blue users have a credit card, right? It would be *trivial* for Twitter to force them to use the name on their Credit Card in exchange for being “verified.” Would immediately solve this problem for good https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-11 View on X
The Verge

Twitter reactivates its gray “Official” badge for select high-profile accounts, after a wave of impersonators bought blue checks

Okay, so Twitter broke its own verification system by making the blue check — previously a signal that the account had provided information …

2022-11-02
Serious question about $8/month Twitter verification: Is it going to be open for everyone, or is it just for people who are currently/would be otherwise verified to “keep” their checkmark? Two very different things, there
2022-11-02 View on X
@elonmusk

Elon Musk says the blue checkmark system is “bullshit” and Twitter Blue will be $8/month with half the ads, priority in replies, mentions, and search, and more

Twitter's current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn't have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.

2022-10-25
Being in full control of the only way to load apps onto a major computing platform sounds like a pretty good deal https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-25 View on X
MacRumors

Apple's new App Store guidelines say that social networking apps that sell “boosts” for posts must use in-app purchases for the transactions

With the release of iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1, Apple is updating the App Store review guidelines that are provided to developers who create apps for iPhones and iPads.

2022-10-15
That said, I sometimes feel like Carmack is Meta's court jester. They let him play around, and he's the only one who can insult the king without penalty, but no one in the Court takes him too seriously
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
That said, I sometimes feel like Carmack is Meta's court jester. They let him play around, and he's the only one who can insult the king without penalty, but no one in the Court takes him too seriously
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’

That said, I sometimes feel like Carmack is Meta's court jester. They let him play around, and he's the only one who can insult the king without penalty, but no one in the Court takes him too seriously
2022-10-14 View on X
Ars Technica

Meta adviser and ex-Oculus CTO John Carmack expresses heavy skepticism at pushing for avatar fidelity, focusing on the Quest Pro to drive VR adoption, and more

Say what you will about Meta, but very few companies would be willing to let one of their own high-level employees be so regularly critical of them in an unscripted way on such a big stage. I'm sure Carmack insists on being uncensored, but still... https://arstechnica.com/...
2022-10-14 View on X
Ars Technica

Meta adviser and ex-Oculus CTO John Carmack expresses heavy skepticism at pushing for avatar fidelity, focusing on the Quest Pro to drive VR adoption, and more

Say what you will about Meta, but very few companies would be willing to let one of their own high-level employees be so regularly critical of them in an unscripted way on such a big stage. I'm sure Carmack insists on being uncensored, but still... https://arstechnica.com/...
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’

2022-10-12
The level of “I will never put a Meta/Facebook product on my face” reaction underneath any new Meta VR announcement is no longer surprising, but it is still notable. https://arstechnica.com/...
2022-10-12 View on X
The Verge

Meta unveils the $1,499 Quest Pro headset, offering eye and face tracking and color passthrough video for mixed reality, shipping on October 25 in 22 countries

Meta has finally announced the Meta Quest Pro: a $1,499 virtual reality headset it's been teasing for the past year.

The level of “I will never put a Meta/Facebook product on my face” reaction underneath any new Meta VR announcement is no longer surprising, but it is still notable. https://arstechnica.com/...
2022-10-12 View on X
The Verge

Hands-on with Meta Quest Pro: feels like a sophisticated development kit with a thoughtful design, improved controllers, one to two hours of battery, and more

Adi Robertson / The Verge :

2022-01-13
I looked into what legal recourse there might be for Wordle clones and the answer is, simply, not much... https://arstechnica.com/...
2022-01-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple confirms it removed several Wordle clones from the App Store, after some app developers capitalized on the online guessing game's popularity

Apple Inc. removed several Wordle games from its App Store after users confused them with another word-play title popularized by Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities.

2021-11-09
Everyone is talking about the metaverse, but no one can seem to agree what the terms even means. I did my best to unpack the definition and the discourse in 2,700 or so words: https://arstechnica.com/...
2021-11-09 View on X
Ars Technica

Unpacking some key aspects of what constitutes a metaverse, such as making and owning virtual property, 3D telepresence in a persistent world, and more

Will we all live in the metaverse soon?  Or is the idea just Second Life redux?  —  These days it seems like everybody …

2021-07-28
Google buying YouTube for $1.65B 15 years ago has to be one of the greatest deals in business history. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-28 View on X
Alphabet - Investor Relations

Alphabet reports Q2 revenue of $61.88B, up 62% YoY, operating income of $19.36B, up 31% YoY, Google Cloud operating loss down to $591M; stock up 3%+

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 27, 2021 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2021.

Google buying YouTube for $1.65B 15 years ago has to be one of the greatest deals in business history. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-28 View on X
Variety

YouTube reports $7B in Q2 ad revenue, up 84% YoY from $3.81B, and says its Shorts feature now has 15B global daily views, up from 6.5B in March