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In this house, we watch @techaltar.bsky.social on the big screen. Pure kino

24.01.2026 03:19 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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My new, open sourced minichord synth

10.01.2026 20:09 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

I heard that the Xbox team was around 300 people in the 360 era and multiple thousands by the Xbone era

The 360 was a good product because it had leaders with a clear vision, novel ideas, and a tight team to execute

The Xbone was a bundled mess of corporate interests

26.11.2025 23:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Quite good imho

26.11.2025 23:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This thing is so sweet….

Finally getting to play thru DS/3DS and other console games that I never had. AYN Thor. Amazing retro emulator handheld

24.11.2025 05:34 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
GFW Radio Episode 115 06-26-2008
GFW Radio Episode 115 06-26-2008 YouTube video by 1uparchive

Along that vein, I also recently listened to GFW #116 where you and Shawn played a beautifully produced β€œmerchants of cool” segment, which included SFX and music from your band along with other aspects of things that ended up in A Life Well Wasted youtu.be/IDX2NaHcjGg?...

17 years ago! So cool.

11.11.2025 00:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I recently started listing to an archive of β€œOut of the game” and in one of the episodes, you talked about A Life Well Wasted and how you’re hoping to make more episodes

To my surprise, I found that you still are, and they’re produced so incredibly well. Beautiful work Robert.

05.11.2025 16:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Fantastic video

Amazing how far solar + batteries go in situations where they’re the most reliable option

26.09.2025 19:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Excited to see it!

In the 2000’s, it was also sort of like Cuba in the sense that you’d see many, many old American Chevrolets from the 50’s being fixed and driven every day. I think they had huge tariffs on new cars. Looking forward to your video about the tech!

19.09.2025 16:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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From the DeathStranding community on Reddit: No spoilers how would you guys rate death stranding 2 compared to the first one Explore this post and more from the DeathStranding community

Death stranding 2 feels overrated with review scores of 9s and 10s (and I say this as a big DS fan)

Glad to see a lot more nuanced takes in this Reddit thread from hardcore fans www.reddit.com/r/DeathStran...

27.06.2025 13:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jeff, as a death stranding 2 fan, you reaaally don’t need to play nor enjoy it

Thankfully you don’t need to manage reviews at a large gaming media org where you need reviews on everything new

Today, people follow you to hear about what YOU like (and also really dislike). It’s ok to not play DS2!

27.06.2025 05:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Death Stranding 2 reviews are looking goooood. So excited to play tonight!

23.06.2025 14:29 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@garnettlee.bsky.social do you ever consider podcasting again on the regular? Maybe from an investor/game biz perspective?

You and John D are the people I miss hearing from the most

21.05.2025 12:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Andor’s and Bix’s arc was done with bix specifically leaving him to focus on the rebellion (and likely because she knew she was pregnant)

Why would should try to get back in touch with him? Completely invalidates the sacrifice she made when leaving.

14.05.2025 14:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The last conversation between Andor and bail organa was SO bad
β€œDid you sleep well?
β€œNo”
β€œDo you ever?”
β€œNo”
β€œMe neither. We have something in common”
Huhh?

This again read like a typical Star Wars show level writing.

14.05.2025 14:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The rebel council having no reason to scoff at Andor’s news. What’s so unbelievable about the empire building a weapon? It suddenly felt like every other Star Wars show with characters being incompetent to move a plot along. The whole room I was in was yelling wtf?

14.05.2025 14:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Andor was an incredible show.

But tbat last episode was SO bad that it left a bad taste in my mouth. It felt like it was written by a completely different crew. Ugh

14.05.2025 04:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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ive been on a hunt to figure out what games support 480hz (or above). here's what i've found so far

any game that has a fully unlocked frame rate works

any other games that come to mind?

10.05.2025 00:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Noticing that many PC games from the early to mid 2010s have an arbitrary limit of 200fps ie:

- doom 2016
- mirrors edge catalyst
- battlefield 4

09.05.2025 22:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m buying a PS5 for death stranding 2

09.05.2025 17:38 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately not. Thanks for the feedback!

18.04.2025 19:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, if you’re deving with openXR, I highly recommend using virtual desktop to stream to your Quest 3

You’ll go desktop 2D <-> VR instance instantly x.com/azadux/statu...

18.04.2025 19:38 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

+1

I have bobovr m3 pro strap that has a flip up visor functionality, ideal for going VR<->PC super easily

I also have a long USB C cable w/ 20watts plugged into it almost at all times to keep it continually charged (so like an AVP), unless I need to unplug and walk around. Work great

18.04.2025 19:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A thread of thoughts on radiance fields, from my keynote at 3DV:

Radiance fields have had 3 distinct generations. First was NeRF: just posenc and a tiny MLP. This was slow to train but worked really well, and it was unusually compressed --- The NeRF was smaller than the images.

08.04.2025 17:25 πŸ‘ 93 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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This open-air quest 3 facial interface is truly the convertible, drop-top, β€œfeel and smell the air around you” accessory of VR

27.03.2025 17:59 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey VR/MR devs πŸ‘‹

We need your πŸ“ˆ DATA πŸ“‰ for our Reboot Blue talk;

'The game has changed: VR games marketing in 2025'

- All data you provide is completely anonymous
- We'll post a summary of the findings after Reboot
- Should only take you 5 mins
- We'd be very appreciative
- Form below πŸ‘‡

27.03.2025 16:34 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Splats are great, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could transform them into the stuff of dreams? Introducing our #CVPR2025 paper ✨Morpheus✨!

Morpheus lets you change the shape and appearance of 3D Gaussian splats with a few words!

nianticlabs.github.io/morpheus/

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17.03.2025 14:50 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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end-to-end latency test for moonlight streaming from my PC (shown on the monitor) to me Steam Deck

Total latency at 60fps is around a frame (16ms). Even less so for 90fps.

Feels fantastic for playing with a controller

23.03.2025 15:41 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the white Core 2 is gorgeous. Ordered!

18.03.2025 16:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Who’s in town for GDC?

16.03.2025 18:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0