Enrico

A thread of XR projects, to be updated over time :)

@ParkerOrtolani Community Notes too hahah Both are good additions to be fair, but still... lol

ha meta copied the grok analysis feature for Instagram

This. I think the end state for AI is like how in Star Wars a droid is "just some lil guy on your team" An R2D2 so to speak, but digital for now until robotics improves later down the line

you don't need to become an expert in this or that form of extremism to see where the trend lines are going

This is one of those moments where I feel most disconnected from my normie friends I'm like "do you realize what this means?" And they say "no" and I realize I will need to explain decades of nerd lore and in the end they don't care

"Not all water is potable freshwater—some operators increasingly use reclaimed wastewater or non-potable sources, and alternatives like air cooling, immersion/liquid cooling, or dry coolers can slash or nearly eliminate water use (though they may trade off energy efficiency)." x.com/i/grok/share/e…

@en3coa @battleangelviv prove me wrong then because i can pull some receipts

Insane thing to post from a company account

@4thDownFanatic @battleangelviv Not really

@en3coa @battleangelviv the thing everyone should know already? AI data centers are using fresh water supply

@pinkflowaaaa @battleangelviv Not really

@en3coa @battleangelviv generative ai is a competitor to photo taking

@alexabelonix How do you mean?

@en3coa big momentum here.

Increasingly difficult to find movies where the plot would not be dramatically simpler given an LLM lol

I guess it's also why people have struggled to come up with decent premises in the recent decade or so Everything can be resolved or figured out rather fast, especially now "@ grok what do" breaks most plots and makes it much more boring

What you’re obsessed with becomes your identity

@lazaro45ive It's kinda similar to one of the shots on an ending mission in Cyberpunk 2077 where you ride a Delamain taxi back to Night City I think the mission is "Things Done Changed"(?)

people thinking this is from a videogame when I actually made it from scratch in Blender 🤷🏻‍♂️

Yeah. I also think people need to be allowed a few years to initially access and explore the sheer volume of information and ways of the Internet before they can actually apply it to any meaningful decision making, so they can learn contexts and "digital etiquette" so to speak; like you say, it's a social layer you can't exactly opt out of these days, and not having it is crippling and will stunt people with unrealistic expectations/no immunity to things like trolling from legacy internet culture etc. and will create "oversensitivity" (seen in the digital ID verification push ignoring everything bad about it because of short sighted morals) Everyone kind of needs a digital "youthful angst" phase of whatever edgy ideology they end up leaning to, but also need to have the freedom and capacity to be able to exit it with maturity as most do with a regular teenage angst phase Because that said, social media's push to engagement-driven capture is also a problem that even "adults" still struggle to wrap their heads around (ending up pigeonholed into digital silos and echo chambers thinking it's what everyone else sees) and unfortunately it's a blind spot everyone generally has to an extent, meaning people often get stuck in a fandom/community/ideology with no escape I think it needs a balance of people being formally taught how the infrastructure of the internet/social media works other than "magic algorithm shows me things I like somehow", perhaps increasingly also with a side of "internet history" to understand the landscape (like how a lot of the "culture war" stems from 4chan/tumblr) so people are aware before they go into the digital trenches But ultimately being able to actually experience it and each community, whether "good" or "bad", needs to be an element to understand how it works too, like how one only truly learns about life by actually living, not through [biased] taught history and layers of abstraction

Many of these things were set arbitrarily to begin with. Voting most notably. 21, for many of these things, strikes me as a good age given the prolonged-adolescence which people experience well into their mid 20s. As to social media bans; this is now the primary means of human communication and information exchange - limiting it is essentially choosing to stunt & cripple a generation who will be required to be digitally aware in ways that were formerly optional. Many of that forthcoming generation have already been learning-impaired by the isolation of multi-year lockdowns to boot.

It would make going to historical sites incredible if XR glasses could fill in wireframe views of what things were actually meant to look like

This, but in AR Who is building this

@BetaProfiles Would be nice if AirPlay would actually work on the beta though ahaha

iOS 27 beta 2 adds a progressive blur layer behind the AirPlay menu.

iOS 27 really is the new iOS 12

there is a certain feeling i get when i see evangelion electronics visuals that inspires me to make them a reality