#xr rambles

[shadow-bender]

"but i don't want to do it its so boringggg"

"yeah but after it will be boring and done"

[bl0ss0m-dr4wz]

I really want to animate XR since I’ve been thinking about him a lot lately but I CAN’T FIND A SONG THAT FITS HIM 😭😭

[send-me-a-puffalope]

HELP BOOPING HAS CRASHED MY TUMBLR 😭😭😭

[mushroomwillow]

Is it normal with adderall to be fucking freezing at night?

It’s only at night. My legs especially. It’s so weird and I cannot figure it out and it’s only happened the last two nights I’ve been on the adderall.

Blankets help at least. And I’m not awake enough to google it’s 1am almost (this part unfortunately is normal for me and is being worked on by a sleep specialist)

[aurosoulart]

decided to make a reel of my augmented reality artworks done over the past few months and MAN, it’s.......... suddenly hitting me just how absolutely nuts all of this is

six years ago, virtual reality was still firmly in the realm of science fiction. but now? not only is it real - but it’s possible to have a career working completely inside a virtual world where you have godlike controls over creation. (editing physics, light, gravity - and spawning things into existence on a whim? mind-mindbogglingly, this is somehow just my average workday)

I regularly spend so much time in-headset that it’s started re-wiring my brain; I think of landscapes and buildings as potential canvases for 3D digital artworks, and I sometimes struggle to differentiate virtual objects from reality. (I’ve tried to place real objects on virtual tables, and I instinctively step over/around virtual objects because of how REAL they appear and behave.)

our brains work by building a picture of reality via our sensory input, but what happens when that input is completely virtual? virtual reality is showing us that not only are our brains easily tricked, but that this is already happening even with the technology in its infancy. people using avatars with full-body tracking report ‘phantom sense’ sensations to virtual touch, heat, and cold - and haptic gloves & suits are in development that blur the lines between realities even further.

what will a world look like where we interact with cyperspace as if it was real? where you can meet with anyone, anywhere, in a virtual world you can both touch, hear, and (probably someday) smell or even taste? where job training, 3d design, therapy, education, etc. are all revolutionized by XR in the same way personal computers revolutionized them already?

what does a future look like where we don’t interact with digital media through a screen?

I don’t have the answers, but I think change is encroaching rapidly upon us all - and I think it’s gonna hit us faster than any of us can realize.

[tamamoarts]

if anyone would like to hear my psycho-analysis on XR from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command hit me UP cuz I've got this lil guy all figured out

[aurosoul]

I finally met the founders of Figmin XR in person!!!!!! 💖💖💖

their names are Astra and Javier, they are a husband & wife duo, and their home is JUST as magical and tech-filled as you would expect from the creators of a futuristic, hologram-based sandbox application. every room was a mix of nature, technology, and childlike wonder. (they are also parents, and their kids use XR sometimes too!)

I got to try basically every cutting-edge XR headset that exists during my visit, and witnessed two of the most reality-breaking things my brain has ever been faced with:

1. with both of us wearing augmented reality headsets, Javier (pictured center in the first photo) pulled an animated gif out of thin air and handed it to me - just with bare hands. no controllers required. it was BEYOND surreal to be physically HOLDING a GIF. a GIF!!!!!!!!!!

and 2. I got to use ‘spatial mapping’ (AKA room scanning) in-headset. depth-sensing lasers & cameras around my eyes scanned the topography of everything I looked at, overlaying a green Matrix-style pattern onto everything in my field of view. I felt like a human scanner, and once the scan was complete I could project SHADOWS from virtual objects onto every real surface around me.

I spawned in an adorable virtual giraffe toy, and it was extremely brain-breaking to have a virtual object cast perfect shadows onto a wall, or a couch, or an end table, IN REAL TIME as I was moving it around. with shadows added, my brain fully accepted that the giraffe was a real object physically in the room with me.

ANYWAYS it was wonderful seeing all this cutting-edge tech used specifically for PLAY - and education, and accessibility, and bringing people together IRL, and paying artists, and assisting with everyday tasks, and just....... MORE good things! Figmin XR is built with such an optimistic view of the future, and it is forever going to be an honor that I get to contribute to it in such a significant way.

the future is not all bad. there are plenty of good things still happening, and being created, and yet to exist!!!

[figminxr]

What would one need to be able to use Figmin XR?

You would need one of the devices it runs on! Right now you can get Figmin on the:

HoloLens

Quest 2, Pro, & 3

Tilt Five

Magic Leap 1 & 2

Vive XR Elite

We also currently have a beta going for Figmin mobile, which runs on both Android & Apple devices. 👀 It's not an open beta at the moment - but if you're an artist curious about dabbling in the medium, feel free message about joining and I'll see if I can hook you up 👀👀👀👀

[wildflowersnweed]

SEVERELY UNEDUCATED KAREN MEME INCOMING:

The root cause is ADHD and the correct treatment is Adderall (for some patients).

The reason that the numbers have gone up in legal prescriptions, is because more people are becoming aware of ADHD “symptoms” and telling their doctors. Most of these doctors that prescribe adderall, are Psychiatrists. So yes, numbers are rising because parents are becoming more knowledgeable and people are becoming more aware and educated. Mental health is health. Period.

If you seriously believe that there is another reasoning behind what this dumba$$ is “trying” to say…

Keep it to yourself, on your own posts.

Don’t bring your uneducated self over to my stuff and “try” to change my mind because it simply can’t happen.

This is how Science and Medicine work. You learn more about the disorder/disease/syndrome,etc & then you learn how to treat it! This isn’t fu**ing rocket science!

[pearl-kite]

So I finally called in my refill request yesterday, and asked for my old adderall script instead because it's been literally over a month since we received any of the generic vyvanse 60s. It could be worse, at least we have the generic adderall to fill, so I won't have to go completely cold turkey

Was thinking how funny would it be if we finall-

We got a bottle. We finally got a fucking bottle in THE DAY that I requested something else.

[quimbix-von-trignar]

absolute unhinged rant (srry in advance aha)

Humanity has a fucking tendency to make the absolute most dogshit terrible decisions at the most pivotal points in our species evolution and, honestly, the more time i spend thinking about it, the only thing advancing in reality is the technology a tribe of ape beasts is capable of harnessing the power and use of is the only thing evolving, the more advanced technologically we get, we regress further in terms of so called "social norms" and "cultural dignity". The driving force of capitalism, as well as communism, is the need to harness the power of these technologies we have miraculously figured out how to make, but our shitty human mindset, collectively speaking, has rendered it useless to us in the long run. There's a specific point I'm driving at but part of me has just accepted fate at this point and I stopped caring at this point in the rant sorry.

Anyway, fuck Switzerland.

that's all, peace

(open for discussion if you want to delve further)

[shadow-bender]

Everytime i mistype you as yoi my brain immediately goes:

[spicedddrum]

im gonna ramble here now cuz i just did on my twitter and im an equal opportunity over-sharer.

i did NOT sleep last night which is a damn shame cuz id been doing so well. like four days in a row of 9+ hours of knocked the fuck out sleep.

differences this time include

-only took melatonin and ashwaganda. didnt take my trazodone cuz its not great to be so dependent on an antidepressant for sleep(AND IM ALMOST OUT AND MY INSURANCE IS TRYING TO GET ME TO GET ALL MY SCRIPTS THRU ONE OF THOSE GHOST-PHARMACIES)

-didnt go to bed till like 11 which is apparently outside of my bodys natural rythm

-its hot as fuck and my window units are doing okay with dealing with it but not so much the humidity

-i got to play SDV last night with that girl i never shut up about but that was right before i went to bed and socializing before bed almost always guarantees i cant sleep

-tried my new ADHD meds yesterday that are not AS XR as my others were but seem to do just as much damage to my desire to eat or sleep if i take them too late in the day (too late is like 9am so thats challenging)

-havent been working out or walking so ive got too much pent up energy

-work in less than two weeks so the anxiety is building :(

[mushroomwillow]

Tw food/eating habits

I don’t feel hungry on adderall. At all. I don’t know I need to eat until I’m about to pass out because I’m so busy at work and just don’t feel at all anything resembling hunger.

And eating meals isn’t easy at work. We’re on our feet constantly moving all day, rarely getting to sit down. Breaks go by so fast that even microwaving something feels like I have to rush to scarf it down.

It doesn’t help I’m sensitive to gluten, so I can’t eat nearly all the easy shit I could just throw in my pack I carry with me around the clinic. And I hardly remember there’s things in my bag to eat.

Kinda just… don’t know what to do?? Like how do I make sure I’m getting some sort of something in my stomach so I don’t pass out or have something worse happen?

[aurosoulart]

OH AND ALSO, because I just got some feedback:

these community jams will not be livestreamed!

these are just a Discord hangout. 👍 nothing is being recorded or publicly broadcasted outside of there. these gatherings are meant to be chill, small community hangouts for socializing with and learning from other XR creators. 💖

if you don't have a headset, you're welcome to spectate in the Discord as well!

Figmin XR Multiplayer Jam - TONIGHT!!! 🎉

HEADSET USERS: wanna hang out in a giant dandelion forest? pet a dragon? have an indoor snowball fight?!

if you have a Quest 2 headset (or any of the other mixed-reality headsets Figmin runs on) with Figmin XR installed, you can join me TONIGHT in the official Discord server at 5PM PST for the first ever public Multiplayer Jam.

🎉here's the link! 🎉