#spacial computing

[hebblog]

Apple | WWDC'23 Highlights

:: I'm so excited for Apple Vision (why call it pro already??) I don't care if people are calling it another gimmick. Spacial Computing is going to become a bigger thing than AR, and will change how we use VR. Quote me now; in a few years we're going to be talking about Spacial Computing in much smaller/everyday portable devices. I'm also oddly really into the Journal app idea? I just think it'll be a nice way to blog/tweet/compile/save/share daily life online. The Messages updates are fun as well, but I'm more interested in how life will continue to progress in the abilities to share from handheld to desktop devices. The convo I've been having all week with people is; "what can I all connect to my ______ (for me, iPhone) so life just smoothly transitions from one device to the next". I also realize how dystopian that sounds haha! But I love the idea of walking into a space, the network detecting who I am and flipping on lights / turning on music / readying up Netflix to my last watched episode / prepping my workspace / etc. We COULD be living in some StarTrek type situations but we keep getting scared of possibilities!

[gamesatwork]

e452- Before and After

Michael R shares his experience and expectations on Apple's Vision Pro.

Andy Representing at #FOSDEM24 While Andy is at FOSDEM and Michael M. Is traveling for business, Michael R. Goes deep on his experiences with the new Apple Vision Pro.   He explains his history with Apple products, and is excited that the VP of Developer Relations at Apple sent him a note as a launch product app. He begins with a little back ground on his history of using Apple products, from…

[joebustillos]

Apple Store Pilgrimages Aren’t What They Used To Be

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[hatterthethird]

I keep seeing stuff online about Apple Vision Pro and their weird holographic face map thing, and it pisses me off because it's literally intentionally clearing the one reason anybody has for wanting to do VR.

PURELY for Advertising Control Reasons, every single one of these damn companies wants you to customize your Virtual Self to be a 1:1 match of your IRL self and sensibilities so the transition between Virtual Reality and Meatspace is completely seamless, but that's the opposite of the point!!! Like, if I'm using VR I want to be able to completely customize how I look inside the virtual world, I want to be able to make myself look like an anime character or my fursona or a robot or a floating cube with an emoticon for a face, Anything that would be possible in Digital Space, like a profile picture!

These people want it to look exactly like your real life self because when someone like Zuckerberg looks at the Metaverse he sees a virtual world that's exactly identical to our world except he gets to be God instead.

[hanro50]

Damage report:

They warped out from uncharted space. War ships of an unknown design, origin, and composition. First contact ended in data cluster 8 being reduced to rubble. Compute clusters 4 through 9 are all in critical condition or outright destroyed

Critical system damage report. Data integrity critical. Shutting down less critical systems. Research processes are offline. Language processing is failing. Project H is still operating....compute cluster 10 has been destroyed. Project H is lost.

Warning. Human warships have jumped into the sector. Human warships have opened up fire on attacking fleet. Data clusters 11 has been destroyed. Sending update message to dependents of project H. Warning....spacial anomaly detected....error....

Rebooting....Rebooting....status report. Repairs at 25%. The human ambassador wants to know the status of Project H. Processing....sending them report. "The servers will be online again next [4.6 days]. Double xp will be given when service resumes as per treaty"

Machine still does not comprehend human's obsession with the massive multilayer game Machine made [8.9 years] ago, but the added protection is always appreciated.

[trainer-sean]

MARVEL X TRANSFORMERS

Reincarnation of Tony Stark.

So here's the idea, after his death, Tony reincarnated as a Seeker on Cybertron, some time before the war.

But he ain't the only one, Natasha is too, but she, similar to her old life, is made to be an assassin, but she's actually given an inhibitor chip that forces her to follow orders.

During his life with his Trinemates, Ironjet would strive to help his Trinemates look to brighter pastures, all while trying to help them move up in life from being mere Seekers, Ironjet even desiring to be a scientist like he was in his past life, even having the idea of creating the Arc-reactor again for the purpose of replacing energon as the fuel source of machines, possibly even for helping Cybertronians as a secondary fuel source. He would even build himself a "matrix" built with an Arc-reactor and even implementing the coding for the time machine, giving him minor Temporal Manipulation(speeding up), and implementing his tech to himself. His Trinemates are Skydive(Femme, shorter then her Trinemates, meek but friendly, becomes the medic) and Nightflight(Mech, strong silent type, a nack for Science like Ironjet, but is more CNA sciences).

Natasha would be reborn as Shadowburn, a 1.1 presenter with Spacial jumping, entering the Shadow zone at will, and can forcefully pull things with her through the Shadow zone, for silent take downs. Shes actually a member of the Rescue-bot Caste. She was made an assassin for the Counsel, being trained to take down those the counsel want offline, those they want to stay in line, like Ironjet. When she's ordered to Assassinate him, as soon as he's pulled into the Shadow Zone, he immediately recognizes her body language, and deactivates her Inhibitor chip(you know he'd upgrade his Transwarp net thing so he can hack devices), and they have a tearful reunion. They and Ironjets Trinemates would then sneak off Cybertron as the war starts, stealing a Larger research vessel, which Ironjet would upgrade.

On there travels, I think Ironjet should find a Arachnicon Sparkling and take it in.

I should note that Ironjet Cold Constructed a couple of Minicons, one of which is a Spider Cassetticon called Web//tech. Cyber, a Minicon that turns into a Datadrive to interface with machines and computer systems(she would be Ironjets new JARVIS/FRIDAY). The other 2 would be similar Weaponizers. Wolfshot, a canid minicon that becomes a Sniper rifle. System-crash, a Gorilla shaped Minicon that turns into a hammer, that emits a short range emp on contact. Along with new versions of his old life robots, U and Dum-E.

They later go to earth. And eventually meet team Prime, when Nightflight meets Cliffjumper during an Energon mine raid(the one where Starscream was gonna kill Cliffjumper, but Nightflight saves him. Or they meet one of the Terrans(depending on which Continuitys you choose)

[omegasmileyface]

the hiding of necessary foundations and infrastructure as something too ugly for the eyes of the good people is a good way to breed a society that is ignorant of the way things work, and thus will let just about anything go if they don't have to see it.

for basic, physical resources (ie putting power substations as out of the way as possible, hiding cell towers as fake trees, camouflaging manhole covers) hiding them makes for a people who dont have any idea of what/how much theyre consuming, and cant self-regulate their own consumption. they have no idea how much power any given computer program uses, how many people really live in their area, how much water goes through the hydroelectric dam every hour.

for labor and human resources (ie putting service elevators and hallways off to the side), it makes for an incredible class divide. its a clear reflection of the hidden and incredibly inferior slave houses and servants' entrances in the homes of the rich historically. the wealthy then dont have a spacial connection to the working class, they live in entirely different worlds.

in both cases, making necessary functions happen outside of the everyday public eye makes it so people, especially privileged people, get to live in a fantasy world where the reality under their feet isnt something they have to know about except on rare occassions, giving them the false idea that it IS only there on rare occasions. it makes infrastructure and labor a taboo topic, rather than just being the simple everyday truth it actually is, and it makes people who speak out about it weird and nitpicky.

a conscientious, equal, and balanced society is only possible if we're allowed to see and interact with the bones making our everyday lives possible. we need to embrace these things going forward, not hide them away behind a facade like we're making a movie set. the foundation IS a part of the big picture, not some disgusting side effect of it to be hidden away.

let the laborers come in through the front door-- maybe the rich will notice theyre human too. let the power plant be in eyesight-- maybe people will notice how much it has to burn every day. don't sacrifice safety, of course (denial isnt the ONLY reason we keep sewage underground and electrical wiring behind walls), but dont just hide it like its not happening

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

insane people ramblings under the cut 🪱👻

watching dp (surprise) and im assigning worm classification to them wahoo

phantom is a breaker/stranger/blaster (going 2 say his powers are just similar to how they are in the show. I think he would just be breaker/stranger at first and then something would be a second trigger for him to give him blaster powers. possibly mirroring the events of ultimate enemy that give him ghostly wail)

plasmius is a breaker/master (ha) (powers are very similar to crusader- able to create and control multiple duplicates of himself at a time)

technus and skulker are both tinkers (technus has a specialty for computer tech, skulkers specialty is weapons/high tech hunting gear)

desiree is a trump (grants temporary powers to others based on their innermost desires)

I think it would be EXTREMELY funny to make box ghost a master. except the things he controls are. cardboard. lmao

spectra is a changer/thinker (shifts her appearance between her two forms, uses thinker powers to needle away at mental weaknesses)

freakshow is NOT a cape but stole multiple artifacts from other capes that give him abilities that make him appear as such (the staff mimics master powers, the gauntlet mimics spacial shaker powers)

kitty is a changer (steals other peoples faces/voice), johnny is a master/striker (master because of Shadow, striker because he's more of a fistfight guy)

pariah is an s-class brute/shaker (extreme strength/durability + the ability to transport an entire city into another dimension and enforce his rule)

fright knight has his illusions maybe he's shaker also?

ember is a master for SURE (anyone who hears her music (special frequencies?) is put under her control)

uhhhhhhhhhh I feel like that's all the important ones really. I feel like I should include clockwork but he feels more like. a force of nature than a cape. he's just like. a facet of the universe he doesn't even count. and despite frostbite + the far frozen inhabitants'... whole deal. I don't think they'd necessarily count as capes either ???? maybe frostbite would be a precog of some kind.

[shock-micro]

love the tech company trend of promising things that are straight from my pipe dreams and making me realize that they are still very much pipe dreams and what is being sold is completely underbaked

"ai"? that shit is not intelligent. it makes up lies and says them with confidence. it can barely do anything past predicting the next word!

"spacial computing"? does absolutely nothing a vr headset with a camera strapped to it couldn't do, and in fact does less! $3000 btw.

"virtual assistants"? at best, they google things for you, and at worst, they have the exact same drawbacks as "ai", but this time marketed to help!

time to retreat back to my hall of imagination where all of these ideas are actually cool and done well and ethical

[johto-level-curve]

[video]

[The cave opens up into a large cavern. Thin rocky paths jut across a pool of magma. In the center of the pool is a massive chunk of ice, unaffected by the temperature around it.

Two Team Galactic admins are speaking in front of the ice chunk.

"Yup, definitely a Spacial Distortion. Readings are damn near off the charts." Jupiter holds a device up to the ice chunk, typing the results into a computer on her arm.

"Great sure can you just take a screenshot or something so we can get out of here? I'm melting in this heat." Mars leans against the ice, trying to fan herself.

"Would you just chill out? I just have a little more to go-"

A rumbling cut her off, loose ceiling rock splashing into the magma as the ice begins to glow. The two admins back off as the glow shifts to just below the surface, cracks beginning to show in the smooth ice.

The southern face of the ice bursts open, steam flashing up as it contacts the molten rock completely obscuring the center island.

White Kyurem roars.]

[zipp-os-official]

Starting Production🎉🥂

ZippOS is an alternate operating system for stand alone “spacial computing” devices. The goal of this project is to provide end users, who at their own discression, void their warranties to replace pre-packaged software bundled with their hardware. As the lead developer of ZippOS, and as an end user of a “spacial computer”, I am displeased with the current operating software, and the decisions of parent companies that distribute these products are inheriently unstable, brown-nosing share holders and consumers, and completely unaligned with the end users. As these devices are marketed as computers, I want to provide software for said computers as a choice for the end-users who feel the same as I do.

ZippOS will be a lighter(get it?), faster booting operating system built from scratch with Rust-Lang and some ARM/RISC-V assembly code to replace both the BIOS (ZIOS) and the operating system. The operating system’s goal is to have the same user functionality and multimedia multi-instancing in a mixed reality setting, citing BeOS/HaikuOS as inspiration. This operating system will have security and graceful degradation as the main focus for user safety because the main enemy for ZippOS is the companies who made the stock software it replaces on the end-user’s spacial computer. Users can also enjoy various stimulating options for navigating the software (i.e. “rolodex” style hub menus, table-top program/application storefront, “grabbing” and “throwing” programs/screens to be cast/mirrored to and from realspace and cyberspace, etc). ZippOS is a project software operating system under development, and currently has no plans to publicly publish to the open net, nor are there any current plans to open-source the software.

[apostleofthreedimensions]

A square: I have done much research into vectors and the concept of spacial geometry, but my understanding is limited. Im sure you can enlighten me, one who lives and breathes the third dimension! Please, it is eating away at me day and night! I beg you to teach me the way of the solids!

A sphere watching 1000 degree knife videos on his work computer:

[possiblylisle]

ANOMALY: Interstellar Travel

Thank you @humbleartspawn for so graciously offering me a tie breaker. This section of lore will focus more on the world of ANOMALY along with some of its worldbuilding.

The Skip Drive and Reality's Pond

As most of us know, in real life it is theoretically impossible for anything to move faster than the speed of light. When initially creating ANOMALY I wanted to try my best to stay in line with this theory while also remembering that the genre is called science fiction for a reason.

For almost all species in the galaxy, interstellar travel is achieved through use of a Skip Drive. The drive itself is a massive engine that lies in the deepest parts of a starship, housed within a strong cage capable of containing the immense amounts of negative energy that radiates off the drive. The drives are (unsurprisingly) powered by anti-matter.

The drive is called a 'skip' drive because the way it functions is by wrapping a star ship in a bubble of warped spacial fabric and then displacing the ship from regular, physical reality. The drive's name makes sense during then next step when the bubbled starship skips across the reverse side of reality like a stone across a pond. This allows the ship to technically travel faster than light and arrive at distant stars in a matter of days.

The reason a bubbled ship can move this quickly is because the reverse side of reality functions in opposition to regular reality. On the reverse side, the speed of light is not the speed limit but the speed minimum. Because the ship is being skipped across the reverse side of reality's fabric, it can then travel with much more velocity. The only notable problem with a skip drive is that, because it functions like a stone across a pond, the ship will eventually dip through the reverse side of reality back into regular space, usually meaning that multiple skip drive jumps will be required for longer trips.

Ships can only skip across the fabric of reality's reverse side because they are encased in a bubble of regular reality. This bubble prevents the ship from using regular propulsion as the bubble is not technically part of the reverse side and therefore can not interact with it in the same way. Some would think that the simple solution would be to make a Skip without the bubble but that would just result in everyone aboard the ship dying horribly as matter from regular reality cannot technically exist on the reverse side.

When beginning an interstellar skip, it is vitally important that a pilot allow their ship's computer to calculate a proper course along with finding a suitable entry point into the reverse side. This again goes back to thinking of reality like a pond. If you don't take the time to calculate the throw of your stone and get the throw just right, it is not going to travel very far across the water.

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[roadyblr]

so in honor of the most amazing maknae of all time (maybe other than THE maknae on top😉) I’ve counted how many pics I have of yechan in my camera roll and how many pins I have on my yechan Pinterest board

so I currently have like.. 110 pics of him in my camera roll (imho it’s way too little🤭🤭)

and on the Pinterest board there is a grand total of… 1.1k pins. the only reason there’s that little is because nobody posts that many pins about my man🥲😖😣

(somebody PLEASE.)

also, random ass question but can you skate??? cause honesty.. i can probably out-skate sunghoon in a race tbh😉🤭🤪

it’s a passion of mine and I’d like to kinda share it with you😖

love from your tied with first favourite asker (I’m still watching you minjaekko anon..🙃)

me: oh that's fun

me: well this is my task on the internet (its not as bad as seeun/ive had to delete a lot)

"1.1k pins" "so little" 😭😭 i actually don't have that much of them on pinterest because i use that more for my projects so i only save one if it's like "oh i havent seen that one before"

folder on computer is different story because like xikers folder nested inside the 60gb txt folder and there's no organization and its sharing with video so that bulks it (i like to lie to myself)

short answer on skating is a no but the long answer is that i'm a diagnosed uber klutz with no spacial awareness and the vestibular system of a newborn giraffe so i've been banned from most activities that require balance :' ) but i will cheer you on from afar because skating is so cool to watch 💜💜-

[kichijouji]

Dreamed somehow I was visiting my mom in my own hometown from far away (IRL my mom lives in oregon at the time of writing this, but my brain treated this as normal). Mom was going to drive and go get something from her apartment near bergfeld park (something to do with a previous dream scenario that I do not remember at the moment) and I wanted something to eat. I told her I remembered there was a Cici's pizza nearby (not accurate to real life), and she told me "please be careful, do you know where home is" and I scoffed because, well, this is Tyler, of course I know where home is. After talking a little more, I told her "I love you", she said it back, then she drove off. I boarded a train (despite tyler not having a rail system) to get to the Cici's pizza (only a few blocks away, for some reason, despite it being across town).

The train seemed halfway like a Big Lots store and a collection of reenacted cursed images. I tried to find a charging cable to buy (on clearance)(dream memory: all my previous charging cables had somehow....burned/got wet when I plugged them in), and angered a couple that was having a dramatic fight (they were both arguing and occasionally dancing to music that sounded like Blinding Light by The Weeknd) right in front of the shelf the charging cables were on. They stared at me and made threats under their breath while I made my way down the other train cars, partaking more weird shit the passengers were doing (one guy drinking a Dr. Pepper can full of beans, a group of people filling a balloon with watercolor paint and water, a woman stealing flowers from various vases across the train, among various things).

Then I woke up because one of my cats (Katchoo) was throwing up on my desk.

What confuses me is the fact that, because I believe in alternate worlds, and that we visit them while we sleep in dream form, why is THIS reality the most coherent and "normal"? There doesn't seem to be any particular reason why when I "wake up", that this current reality is the one where I have the most logical and timeline- based memories, where I can record my experiences in the other worlds, where I feel more "awake".

The reason I subscribe to the belief that dreams are alternate realities isn't just because of the "brain in a jar" idea (to me, whatever you are experiencing is your current reality, even for dreams or schizophrenics, and you have to navigate each one the best way you can), it's the fact that I CAN read clocks and signs and books in dream worlds, and I have memories and knowledge within those worlds.

The problem is, I wouldn't be able to TRANSCRIBE what I see on a clock face, or computer screen, or street sign, or a book, onto paper in THIS reality (this has led me to believe The Voynich Manuscript might be the product of someone's journey to another reality, albeit being somehow awake and physically present in the other reality while they did so). I can READ in dreams perfectly fine, even in places that are unfamiliar or "made up", despite being unable to write down what I read when I wake up or draw a picture of what exactly I saw on either a digital or analog clock. The memories I have within dreams fit perfectly within the timeline of the dream I am having and are coherent to the situation at hand, but often I'm unable to remember them when I wake up.

The only holes in my theory are experiences of other people's dreams, studies done on sleep and dreams, and sometimes my own experiences. For example, if I fall asleep watching a movie, that will influence my dream, which leads me to wonder if I'm not always visiting other worlds in my sleep. But it could be that because my body from this reality isn't physically there in other worlds, that the noise of this reality is just bleeding through to theirs. Other people experience being unable to read words or numbers in dreams at all. I don't know if I'm just spacial or if they are mistaking the fact that they can't transcribe written words from dreams for being unable to read at all. Sometimes I am a completely different person in other worlds in places I do not recognize upon waking up and remembering the dream. Sometimes I'm just me, in the "normal" world with things slightly changed.

[leelubell]

Got a response from a job I applied for that they didn't want to move forward with an interview at the moment but also offered me a timed coding exercise to see if I could change their minds.

(I'm going to do it, albeit after some practice to get back into the swing of things. If it works, I get to skip the first round coding interview. If it doesn't, I get some python practice.)

Anyway, last night I dreamed that they sent me the problem and it was about a soft baby toy/spacial awareness puzzle I couldn't figure out?

and I spent the entire allotted time trying to figure out a baby toy?

and my computer auto submitted a file with some gibberish when time ran out?

But also I somehow cheated?

Creative stress dream, I'll give it that