Don’t forget Owlchemy Labs, the makers of Job Simulator, #12 most played - acq by Google and over $100m lifetime sales across multiple platforms

And the Within, makers of vr fitness app Supernatural - acq by Meta for $400m

I can’t help but feel that a lot of the growth in the VR industry comes down to gen alpha getting older and Quest 2 getting cheaper.

Older generations just didn’t grow up with VR and don’t have the legs for it.

Find somebody as slavishly adoring as Peter Baker is to the family dynasty calling the shots at NYT

WATCH: Among those arrested today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University.

I’ve asked for a comment from Emory on this arrest, no word yet.

This video provided to us by an #Emory PHD student. You can hear him in this video. Atlanta News First

Yihong Chen, an AI researcher, recently led a study that taught a machine learning model to periodically forget its initial training. Chen and her team say the success of their approach suggests that forgetfulness may help AI generalize between languages. trib.al/a9jIEKO

Can Sun: Perfect Lover (2023)

The TikTok bill is unconstitutional. The First Amendment means the government can’t restrict Americans’ access to ideas, information, or media from abroad without a very good reason for it—and no such reason exists here. (1/x)

Look, you can't expect Alito to be a scholar *and* a gentleman

not effectively, literally.

equality has a long way to go

I just gave a guest lecture on the Human Factors of XR or how to use a human factors approach to design XR systems. The slides are here: #augmentedreality slideshare.net/slideshow/huma… via SlideShare

It’s almost midnight and turnout of students at Columbia University has filled the entire plaza.

Students being divided into groups to deter NYPD movement into encampment.

Columbia’s own website has a page about how the last time they called for a mass arrest of student protesters, they were in the wrong and fucked up their reputation for decades

I am in Guinea-Bissau and they are talking about Columbia on the news

Adobe drops VideoGigaGAN

Upsample video by 8x using this new video upscaling method with insane results and details.

7 stunning examples below 👇

Spoke to an LP yesterday who loves Apple—

They believe in the spatial direction but think Apple dropped the ball on the execution, making them generally skeptical.

imo this is lost consumer trust Apple needs to make up by not labeling the AVP as a devkit

A short-term L for VR