Bill Bourbeau

Created an off-axis projection demo using mediapipe for face tracking, threejs and a 3D scanned shoe. Try it out yourself…

@XRarchitect okay, this is wild. well done! @daveseidman check it out

Vibe coded an interactive 3D educational simulation of the Big Bang and cosmic expansion. All rendered in real-time with Three.js. Open to opportunities in tech/education. Experience it here: big-bang-sim-idii.vercel.app Code: github.com/sai-educ/Big-B… #science #edtech #JobSearch

@mattworkman As someone who spent a good 15 years pushing vertices around (before moving to game engine) I have to agree with you. The road to bespoke assets is a long one and modelling will remain a niche craft for a very long time, but the toolset will slowly melt away.

I think the golden age of 3D is over (not games, linear) and we can look at how many commercial 3D modeling programs exist. Basically Autodesk Maya/Max and Blender. The barrier to entry was too high and output for effort too low. Gen AI is the solution to both issues.

@punk4156 Haha $1m VFX budget. I think you’re actually referring to the cost of the campaign (all-in for agency and production co) not including the ad buy. How many client rounds? 11th hour script changes? The VFX shop would be lucky to get a 15-20% cut of that budget.

@WalkaboutMG Atlantis and Sweetopia are recurring favorites. The new Wallace & Gromit is the… cheese! Absolutely brilliant!!

Any suggestions?

And i thought it couldn’t get any better!

@clownworld I think Motley Lou figured this out? #hottubtimemachine

@ianmiles i’d start with hitting it in the same place every time.

Big muscles are useless without proper technique. What’s he doing wrong?

@XRandrew yay. now i can exist in a hamster wheel of doom.

Vision Pro is no longer a productivity headset

@iBrews totally get this. the rock-solid tracking combined with “spatial memory” is the special sauce.

my biggest surprise w/ #applevisionpro is how uninterested I am in fully immersive apps. an app that completely takes over my view is far less interesting in here than customizing an environment w/ a large number of simultaneous windows and volumes. I don't want ports from #VR.

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

@SkarredGhost Yes, exactly. This was highly rehearsed with multiple takes, with the DP getting several from multiple angles (even with a mult-cam setup).

Rewatching the video tour of the #AppleVisionPro and realizing that Will, the guy "trying the headset for the first time" lied to us all. There's no way that the Apple girl is able to do him such a smooth demo if he's a first-time user. I've a long history of demos in XR and something more realistic with a new user is (A is the Apple employee, W is Will) A: click on "My photos" W: how A: pinch your fingers W: [proceeds to move the whole hands in ways scientists didn't even think it's possible] A: "no, pinch just thumb and index" W: [proceeds to move randomly the thumb and index as if he forgot how to use the hands] A: (thinking "Fuuuuuuuu*k") No, like this, see my hands, do like that W: aaaaahhh, ok [does the gesture in an ok-ish way] W: doesn't work A: What do you mean it doesn't work? W: I click and nothing happens, you see? A: No, I can not see. Describe to me what you are seeing B: There are things, and they do not do things when I click (the least accurate description in the history of descriptions) A: Give me the headset, let me try it for myself A: [proceed to do the hand click the right way] A: it works for me [15 minutes of tests later cut out from this post for brevity] W: Ok it works! Oh wow, it was so intuitive to use! A: [Resigns from Apple, and from life in general] This is not shown in the video... so Will, you lied to use, you already knew how to use the device! youtube.com/watch?v=Vb0dG-… #Apple #AppleVisionPro #SpatialComputing #VirtualReality

@hmltn Deferred to Feb 3rd (family stuff). Excited to see their spin on UX. And maybe do some 3d lookdev on a giant screen?

@benz145 Quite curious what the optimal WiFi setup should look like. (I don’t have the latest and greatest). Assuming the headset requires a high bandwidth connection for virtual 4k displays.

What would you like to know from Apple about Vision Pro that hasn’t been answered already?

@WebDesignMuseum my god, this is depressing. 😕

Happy 23rd Birthday Adobe ImageReady 3.0! In September 2000, Adobe released Adobe ImageReady 3.0. The program came bundled with Adobe Photoshop 6.0. webdesignmuseum.org/old-software/g… #WebDesignHistory

a sign you still are jet-lagged: cumin does not equal cinnamon. “Daddy,our oatmeal tastes like tacos!”

How about this new logo? #TwitterX #TwitterBird #TwitterLogo #ElonX #ElonMusk

@XRandrew @XRandrew then i hope i can be considered a friend 🤓

What Zoom calls look like with clients vs What Zoom calls look like with friends (gotta click each to spot the difference)