Aaron Hilton

@GabRoXR @jimmy6DOF Something similar is going on with Meta Quest when you pair a Bluetooth mouse and move the mouse cursor around the scene. It totally threw ME at first, didn't realize how deeply Meta has integrated a usable mouse cursor interface in a 3D space!

This is the latest Google research on XR Interaction: World Mouse. Instead of using hand rays or gestures to point at things in the physical space, you move a cursor with a mouse and the system figures out where that cursor should sit in the 3D world. It works in two main ways: - On an object, the cursor follows the surface, so you can move precisely across walls, screens, furniture, or virtual objects. - Between objects, the system creates a smooth bridge through space, so the cursor can travel from one surface to another. That means you can go from a 2D panel to a 3D object, place content on a real wall, manipulate virtual objects, or interact with physical devices through digital proxies. This is the type of news, tools and product updates I share weekly in my newsletter. If you are into 3D XR and AI make sure to check it out (link on top of my profile). Based on “World Mouse: Exploring Interactions with a Cross-Reality Cursor” by Esen K. Tütüncü, Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Khushman Patel, and Eric J. Gonzalez

@janusch_patas @lichtfeldstudio Awesome work!! LFS is really turning into a powerhouse. 💪🤠👍

Follow the new @lichtfeldstudio account to stay in the loop, and tag it for a repost.

@_bcbread @SawyerMerritt Valid question. Everyone here missing the fact that regen has limits when battery gets "full". Which can easily happen on a majority down-grade run. I'd assume Teslas have this figured out with rad unit, that also doubles for cooling while charging the batteries.

@SawyerMerritt With no gears, how do these handle steep grades in adverse driving conditions??

WSJ: Tesla Finally Has Its First Semi-Truck and It’s Already a Hit With Truckers. "Truckers who drove it in pilot tests say they loved features including a centered driving position, faster charging and longer range for about $100,000 less than other battery-electric trucks. Angel Rodriguez, a 56-year-old truck driver for Hight Logistics in Long Beach, Calif., recently swapped out a 13-gear diesel truck for a Tesla Semi, which is automatic, for a one-month pilot test. “It’s just easier on your body. It’s less stressful because you’re not really having to engage the clutch and the stick shift.” Big F Transport employs five mechanics to service more than 40 diesel-powered rigs and a fleet of trailer chassis in Wilmington, Calif. “If we go all EV we will only need one [mechanic] to service chassis,” said Geovanny Melendez, the carrier’s VP of operations, who went to see the Semi earlier this month at a ride-and-drive event near the Port of Long Beach. Jennie Abarca, co-founder and CEO of King Fio Trucking in Long Beach, Calif., once worked as a truck dispatcher and her husband is a truck driver, so she knows all too well the toll a diesel engine takes on people’s lungs and hearing. She eventually wants to swap out King Fio’s 27 diesel trucks to create an all-electric fleet. King Fio already has 11 battery-electric trucks from Volvo and Nikola. But the company limits those trucks to shorter trips to and from local ports because they only have a range of about 225 miles. The Semi, by contrast, can travel 500 miles on a single charge, according to Tesla. For King Fio that means two or three round-trips a day from Long Beach to warehouses in the nearby Inland Empire or a single round-trip to Las Vegas. She has 20 Semis on order. “The Teslas change everything,” Abarca said. “It opens up a whole different type of delivery that I can make.”

Looking Glass makes hands-down the most awesome 3D display tech possible. You can just look at their displays and it appears in stunning 3D. No glasses, works with crowds, just works. This is tech that will last the ages. So cool. 😍

@karpathy 🤔 Why don't people buy a Parallels license, create a macOS instance on their existing mac, and run OpenClaw on that? It's not like it needs an insane amount of GPU / CPU, right? Mostly just the bot doing streaming tokens in and out the network interface.

Bought a new Mac mini to properly tinker with claws over the weekend. The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused :) I'm definitely a bit sus'd to run OpenClaw specifically - giving my private data/keys to 400K lines of vibe coded monster that is being actively attacked at scale is not very appealing at all. Already seeing reports of exposed instances, RCE vulnerabilities, supply chain poisoning, malicious or compromised skills in the registry, it feels like a complete wild west and a security nightmare. But I do love the concept and I think that just like LLM agents were a new layer on top of LLMs, Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents, taking the orchestration, scheduling, context, tool calls and a kind of persistence to a next level. Looking around, and given that the high level idea is clear, there are a lot of smaller Claws starting to pop out. For example, on a quick skim NanoClaw looks really interesting in that the core engine is ~4000 lines of code (fits into both my head and that of AI agents, so it feels manageable, auditable, flexible, etc.) and runs everything in containers by default. I also love their approach to configurability - it's not done via config files it's done via skills! For example, /add-telegram instructs your AI agent how to modify the actual code to integrate Telegram. I haven't come across this yet and it slightly blew my mind earlier today as a new, AI-enabled approach to preventing config mess and if-then-else monsters. Basically - the implied new meta is to write the most maximally forkable repo and then have skills that fork it into any desired more exotic configuration. Very cool. Anyway there are many others - e.g. nanobot, zeroclaw, ironclaw, picoclaw (lol @ prefixes). There are also cloud-hosted alternatives but tbh I don't love these because it feels much harder to tinker with. In particular, local setup allows easy connection to home automation gadgets on the local network. And I don't know, there is something aesthetically pleasing about there being a physical device 'possessed' by a little ghost of a personal digital house elf. Not 100% sure what my setup ends up looking like just yet but Claws are an awesome, exciting new layer of the AI stack.

Met so many amazing people at the two @TokyoAI_JP events this past week. It's filled with amazing energy and brilliant people. Thank you Ilya for organizing such amazing events. See more at tokyoai.jp

Tokyo Node Sometimes you just need to party. 🕺

This is wild. One thing I hated about coding was the pain of dealing with obscure documentation, refactoring, and figuring out why the tools aren't doing what you want them to do. For the most part now I'm working out arch changes, and stay in the flow longer. I love it.

Finding myself going back to RSS/Atom feeds a lot more recently. There's a lot more higher quality longform and a lot less slop intended to provoke. Any product that happens to look a bit different today but that has fundamentally the same incentive structures will eventually converge to the same black hole at the center of gravity well. We should bring back RSS - it's open, pervasive, hackable. Download a client, e.g. NetNewsWire (or vibe code one) Cold start: example of getting off the ground, here is a list of 92 RSS feeds of blogs that were most popular on HN in 2025: gist.github.com/emschwartz/e6d… Works great and you will lose a lot fewer brain cells. I don't know, something has to change.

Our short film Dear Upstairs Neighbors is previewing at @sundancefest. 🎬 It’s a story about noisy neighbors, but behind the scenes, it’s about solving a huge challenge in generative AI: control. Developed by Pixar alumni, an Academy Award winner, researchers, and engineers, here’s how it came together. 🎨

📢 We introduce PPISP, a physically plausible camera module for Gaussian Splatting that reduces floaters under varying appearance and predicts camera corrections for novel views such that they closely match what a real camera would output. #CV #3DGS

@Willbeckphoto @RadianceFields @playcanvas Did you do this?? Because that's some serious dedication.

@otri @RadianceFields @playcanvas No AI! Just loads of hi res images from very slightly different angles to get the heatsink.

Are people still doubting gaussian splatting fidelity? Interactive from William Beck on @playcanvas: superspl.at/view?id=5c0f89…

We're helping AI to see the 3D world in motion as humans do. 🌐 Enter D4RT: a unified model that turns video into 4D representations faster than previous methods - enabling it to understand space and time. This is how it works 🧵

@awjuliani This is awesome, thanks for the amazing tool!

I'm trying to figure out where to live next, and one big consideration is the climate. So naturally I made a tool that represents monthly average temperatures for cities as 3D rings so they can be compared more easily. Check it out: awjuliani.github.io/weather-explor…

@SebAaltonen @BillyM2k Mind you that’s definitely not 100€

@SebAaltonen @BillyM2k No eh? expandmacmini.com

the mac mini is insane for like $500 you can get a computer that is great for development, plays world of warcraft just fine, super stable and easy to use... one of the best deals in tech just get a 2TB external hard drive for another $100 and it punches way above its weight

@EricForgy @PoangVsRoomba @minchoi @LKGGlass Cool, though the Philips WOWzone wall had very specific sweet spots, which inverted as you walked across lenticular lines. This new tech is actually true lightfields of many viewpoints along a horizontal plane. The clever bit is selecting the view planes optically in a grid.

@PoangVsRoomba @otri @minchoi @LKGGlass Btw, I thought the Phillips WOW was cool back in 2007 and I still think its cool today. I was suprised it didn't take off more than it did back then. I expected and still expect this to become the norm for visual displays.

It was only Day 1 of CES 2026. And the announcements are already mind blowing. 10 wild reveals: 1. Samsung's mysterious slim 3D display

🎉 Huge year of amazing Monocle 3D scans and stories. I'm really proud of what our team pulled off this past year. The system is looking stronger than ever, with more awesome tech coming in 2026.