Colin Campbell

@amarproductux @GoogleDeepMind Galaxy XR + Android XR is basically this. In time it will just be in glasses.

@GoogleDeepMind @GoogleDeepMind, why don't you guys remove the mouse altogether by combining camera+eyeball tracking, then do the same thing?

We’re reimagining a 50-year-old interface - the mouse pointer - with AI. 🖱️ These experimental demos show how people can intuitively direct Gemini on their screens using motion, speech, and natural shorthand to get things done 🧵

@chloe_h_nguyen @Tristan_J_Hall @socraticainfo This seems like a Holotile-Infinideck hybrid, also with the gliding-backward-after-you've-stopped-walking problem. How to counter in later prototypes? Great work, please make it for consumers!

I (w/@Tristan_J_Hall) built a <$900 treadmill that lets you walk in any direction in VR. The closest alternatives with similar functionality cost $40,000. Ours works and it's kind of awesome?? About 1.5 weeks ago, we demoed it @socraticainfo's Symposium! Here's the full story of how it came to be…

@FandangoSl781 @TheCinesthetic It wasn't her dad. "We thought this might make things easier for you." The Pensacola environment from her childhood drawing. It was a simulation the aliens do on newbies to find common linguistic ground.

@TheCinesthetic Worst movie ending of all time. I didn't sit through that whole thing expecting to see some aliens, only to get her dad showing and saying something dumb. The ending ruined the entire movie.

Jodie Foster traveling to the Vega star system, 26 light years from Earth, in Contact. Cosmic wonder treated with seriousness, restraint, and awe. God, this movie is so good.

@Rapture_Ready @cianmarbo @StephenClark1 Earth is so bright relative to space around it, I don't think this type of camera exposure can show both. Bit of a niche hot tip: Go into @SpaceEngineSim and switch between Auto exposure and HDR while switching views between the stars and a planet/moon. You'll instantly get it.

@cianmarbo @StephenClark1 NOT A SINGLE STAR OR CELESTIAL OBJECT IN SITE? IN DEEP DARK SPACE WE SHOULD SEE ALL KINDS OF STUFF. BUT NOTHING OTHER THAN EARTH? PLEASE HELP ME UNDERSTAND.

On their first apogee, nearly 44,000 miles from Earth, the Artemis II crew is getting a look at home unseen in 53 years. Here's Christina Koch describing her view of sunset in India a few minutes ago.

@Lunayian Buried at bottom, but best news of post imo: "And to help you stay connected wherever you are, we’re expanding our live translation feature — which translates speech in real time — across 20 languages this summer, including Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, and Arabic."

Blog Link: meta.com/blog/ray-ban-m…

Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer Optics and Scriber Optics announced. $499

@lsthart @NASAWebb It's a near and mid-infrared telescope, so our eyes can't what this sees. But it is really there.

@NASAWebb Is this artist enhanced?

Webb captured this new image of galaxy Messier 58, in both the near and mid-infrared, as part of a treasury of 55 massive, star-forming galaxies. The data on the properties of these galaxies will add insight to our picture of how galaxies grow and evolve over cosmic time.

@SadlyItsBradley @ZGFTECH This is partly what I already do. A Bobo halo strap without gasket is comfy but unstable in fast play. Tighten Q3 ipd a bit on nose and it's good balance of breezy on cheeks, cozy on head, & stable. A 110g hmd intended for nose may be good, but fair to question balance issues.

@ZGFTECH Agreed.. The obsession with making it look like glasses is too early Should own the small form factor goggle aesthetic first..

To be honest, this design is actually uncomfortable and puts too much pressure on the nose. I hope the temples can be removable.

@destinysdoor @MetaHorizonDevs They're chasing #s. Monthly active users on apps like Fortnite and Roblox are hundreds of millions, so they want to compete there. They wished to merge VR and free-to-play social gaming, but the data show they're just different audiences. Better to let VR grow slowly, separately.

@MetaHorizonDevs I’m so confused by this Worlds turn. Why did you decide to make Worlds a mobile mini-game farm vs your original vision for immersive VR spaces for connection? I remember those early ads that showcased adult hang out spaces, painting, etc. Why can’t mobile focus on the kids stuff?

Samantha Ryan, our VP of Content for Reality Labs, shares what’s next for VR 👉 bit.ly/4aOAZ4u Tl;dr ➡️ We're putting developers at the center of VR’s next chapter. Worlds is going mobile-first. Two platforms, two paths. Both here for the long haul. Details ☝️

@playswave_com Can you use PSVR controllers like in No Man's Sky, where you stabilize the controller on your thigh and then grab it to set the stick's zero position? It's hard to fly with precision in other VR flight games if you're forced to hold the controller in the air out in front of you.

Stunning in VR but brutal to learn: Aces of Thunder (PSVR2) is a trimmed-down War Thunder. Gorgeous cockpits, epic sound, fiddly PSVR2 controls (DualSense helps; HOTAS ideal). Tons of WWI/WW2 planes, 10-mission campaign. #PSVR2 (1/2)

@rowdy_ruff_boy @TheCinesthetic So has every PTA film. Taste does not equal popularity.

@TheCinesthetic Tanked in the box office but no one gonna talk about how it's failure will affect the creation of other movies or the industry cus it's a pampered Oscarbait

Still processing that Warner Bros. gave Paul Thomas Anderson a $130 million budget to adapt Vineland, shot on VistaVision with planned 70mm prints. Truly wild in the best way. He delivered a masterpiece, of course.

@FeedTechILUncen @bcherny I went back to 2.1.19 until they fixed. Browser extension works fine then. Did the latest update with Opus 4.6 fix it?

@bcherny For the past 2 weeks Claude Chrome fails to work with Claude Code. I see lot of ppl complain but no clear indication by Anthropic that they are aware or working to solve it. Will you please look into the matter? Feel free to respond here or DM for more info. Below is a screenshot with V2.1.32 and Opus 4.6

I've been using Opus 4.6 for a bit -- it is our best model yet. It is more agentic, more intelligent, runs for longer, and is more careful and exhaustive. For Claude Code users, you can also now more precisely tune how much the model thinks. Run /model and arrow left/right to tune effort (less = faster, more = longer thinking & better results). Happy coding!

@bozoid @benz145 Consider this angle: In <decade all those 13 year olds will be in workforce *with* VR legs, ready for mature titles, with hmds of even better standalone capabilities. Lame for us enthusiasts now, but retention data show most adults don't do what it takes to get VR legs.

@benz145 my dude, if you want to hype up such minigames as good news, I suggest you try tiktok or the local day care center

Quest is said to be “struggling” because Meta is shifting priorities, yet this just happened. Less than 6 months post-launch, a game is setting record numbers on the platform: • 245k reviews (Quest record) • 4.9★ rating (Quest record for so many reviews) • 1.2M unique players • 100k+ DAU • 40k peak CCU • #1 weekly top seller (over GT, AC, Beat Saber) • $14 ARPU in first 3 months Why isn't the industry talking about this more? roadtovr.com/ug-vr-most-pop…

@GoogleAI It's difficult concentrating on the translated speech when you can also hear the original language in the background. If wearing earbuds, any way to turn original down if not entirely cancel it out and hone in on translated speech?

Listen up 🔊 We’ve made some updates to our Gemini Audio models and capabilities: — Gemini’s live speech-to-speech translation capability is rolling out in a beta experience to the Google Translate app, bringing you real-time audio translation that captures the nuance of human speech — Gemini 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro Text-to-Speech preview models bring improved adherence to style prompts, precision pacing with context-aware speed adjustments, and character voice consistency for multi-speaker scenarios — Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio is now updated, with improvements to handle complex workflows, navigate user instructions, and hold natural conversations

@SadlyItsBradley @UltimateOwnageX What happened to the Oryon work to (somewhat) catch up to Apple silicon? Will some hybrid be used for hmds?

@UltimateOwnageX I will say the XR2 Gen 3 is on a newer TSMC node than 8 Gen 3 And the funny thing is now BOTH Meta AND Google are basically rushing Qualcomm from both directions trying to stuff features into it for their own causes

Funny enough, the (CANCELLED) Quest 4 that was once roadmapped to release next year Actually wasn’t going to have very different LCDs than the ones in Steam Frame. Only SLIGHTLY higher res in one direction But it would have included eye tracking, color passthrough and XR2 Gen 3

@QuestWithMatt Paid audience (not kids in free games) must 10x to support releases. I use Q3 often, & haven't played AC, RE4, or others b/c I'm busy with S&S, Asgard, Behemoth stories. & that's when I'm not in quick match of boxing, Pavlov, Battle Talent, etc. Library is actually deep.

I don't know how reliable this is. I don't know if we can accept or not share this kind of data, or if it's mandatory. But if it's 100% reliable, it's scary. #VR #Quest3

@ASychov Hypervision partnership update?

Google / Samsung Moohan - next week Apple Vision Pro 2 - week after Steam Frame / Deckard - November Somnium VR1 news - November Anything more I am missing? Hot Q4 of 2025

@SadlyItsBradley @GregoryMcFadden @RealBichler Which is your main eye? Mine its left and feel like monocular in right would be like trying to keep both eyes open on a rifle staring down iron sights with less dom eye: Not going to work well. Wish they would give l or r mono option, but it'd increase complexity/cost.

@GregoryMcFadden @RealBichler Total agreement

I’m now convinced that smart glasses with only a monocular display cannot be mass market anytime soon I think with current technology: people are way better off without a display rather than the tradeoffs of adding a single one and I don’t expect Apple or Google to solve it

@andrewtek @Hero_Kvatch The fresnels + accompanying bulk suck, but honestly the brightness of psvr2 makes up for it. The microoled screen of AVP and pancakes lens of Q3 are superb, but lack of brightness dulls experience. I keep going back to psvr2 for AAA game experiences.

@Hero_Kvatch Any chance of a PSVR2+ with pancake lenses? I would consider buying a PS5 and PSVR2 if it only had pancake lenses.

The combination of this and GT5 makes PS VR2 a mighty powerful sim headset in its own right.

@Heaney555 @30SecondYou @UploadVR Isn't right-eye-only placement a fatal flaw? L/R options increase mfg costs, and full AR isn't ready, but for left-eye-dom users, it'd be like using iron sights w/ secondary eye, no? Eyes should stay open; closing one to see content would be dumb device. Hope they've solved this.

@30SecondYou @UploadVR Correct, it means you get a small display in your right eye, and nothing in your left eye. What that feels like in practice is quite hard to explain, and also depends on exactly where in your view the HUD is positioned.

Meta now plans to sell its upcoming HUD glasses with sEMG wristband for $800, instead of over $1000, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports: uploadvr.com/meta-celeste-h…

@emollick Not a single mention of hallucinations, not even to positively comment that there were none? How is that not worth comment in the paper?

👀Using an autonomous agent based on o3-mini and GPT-4.1, a team from Harvard, MIT & other institutions reproduced and updated an entire issue of Cochrane Reviews in two days… saving 12 person-years of work! The AI reviews captured more papers & were more accurate than humans.