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Andy Baker

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Software Dev, Creative Tech. Making open source tools for artists, designers and educators. Mainly Open Brush/Blocks and Icosa Gallery https://linktr.ee/andybak

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Open Brush Quill Scene Import
Open Brush Quill Scene Import YouTube video by Andy Baker

Testing importing a fairly complex Quill scene. Fidelity is pretty good now thanks to some fixes by Joan Charmant. (original sketch by www.mattschaeferdesign.com )

youtu.be/kjbDrNpq3lI

07.02.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hill I will die on # 362. Grant Hart is one of the most underrated songwriters of the last few decades.

30.01.2026 18:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Forbes is entirely paid "guest writers" now isn't it? Does it have any authentic contributors any more?

20.01.2026 19:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My landlord is getting on at me about being behind on rent. I’m worried for the future, please share this if you can. I’m trying my best but I’m still struggling

18.01.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Windows Thumbnail Extension is now available from openbrush.itch.io/openbrush (see the last item in the download list). This should make it much easier to rename and sort your sketches. Quest users can use this as well. Just copy over your sketches to a PC, organise them and copy them back.

31.12.2025 17:28 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I like you. You're as stubborn as i am. Almost...

14.11.2025 11:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

> the steam frame is a strictly VR headset

Yeah. Apart from that pesky passthrough. ;)

13.11.2025 23:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Personally I might settle on "VR" - mainly because of the amount of effort Apple and Microsoft expended to avoid every using it. That has to be a point in it's favour.

13.11.2025 23:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You know. I think we're both wrong. In terms of non-techie or non-insider usage "VR" *is* the blanket term. I'm not sure any other term has gained much mindshare at all. Despite how much people like me and you like to debate the finer points...

13.11.2025 23:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

MR is the redundant one. And (aside from some fairly obscure usages) XR preceded it. So let's pretend it doesn't even exist, eh? XR = AR+VR. Simple...

13.11.2025 23:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm going to disagree on that. And "a marketing person once claimed otherwise" isn't enough to sway me.

13.11.2025 23:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And I'm saying "it's got passthrough so it's XR" :)

13.11.2025 22:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My point is that any device with passthrough is meets most reasonable definitions of "XR" - considering that's pretty much why the term was first coined. Weather it's simply monochrome or whether the manufacturer doesn't want to emphasize that use case is beside the point.

13.11.2025 22:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Strictly" it's not. I might have conceded "Arguably"

13.11.2025 22:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure why none of you thought to just ask one of us!

26.10.2025 23:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If we could get our hands on a headset we'd have a better shot at getting it working.

26.10.2025 21:39 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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GitHub - icosa-foundation/icosa-gallery: Icosa Gallery is a 3D model hosting solution, intended as a replacement for Google's Poly Icosa Gallery is a 3D model hosting solution, intended as a replacement for Google's Poly - icosa-foundation/icosa-gallery

Just updated our Github readme with all the current integrations and plugins and it looks kinda impressive all in one place: github.com/icosa-founda...

24.10.2025 11:27 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I've had a couple of emails back from M.P. Peter Kyle regarding the Online Safety Act and I can say without hesitation that the man is an idiot.

06.08.2025 13:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In this case it was @recroom.bsky.social but not picking on them especially.

05.08.2025 22:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Basically - any login that doesn't use a password manager or some other convenient way to login - especially in VR (although handheld devices also fall into this category) - is too much hassle.

05.08.2025 22:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Game I play infrequently in VR suddenly decides I need to re-enter my password. Me: "Well. I guess I'll never play that again..."

05.08.2025 22:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

*sips tea* yummy good XR interactions :3

05.08.2025 18:12 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Companies trying to build a business solely on the fact they can create or display gaussian splats is a bit like trying to build a business on the fact you can display jpgs.

01.08.2025 16:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

7,6,11,5,29,4,11,17 is strangely lacking from the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences...

26.07.2025 10:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Horror story idea. You start a new job. As you go for lunch you open the wrong door and it's all fuzzy gaussian splats.

06.07.2025 11:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Took me a while to find the link on that page. Tell your designer that your links need to look more linky. I believe the UX term is "affordance"

29.06.2025 10:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's just occurred to me that LLMs have taught us something we already knew - "pretending to be intelligent can get you a long way"

29.06.2025 10:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I want to write a post that ends with the line "He was more Herb Alpert than Richard Alpert" but I haven't got much further than the ending.

16.06.2025 11:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Christ. The irony that the first like came from some reply bot for an SEO company.

14.06.2025 22:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
44 Hilarious Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory Puns - Punstoppable πŸ›‘ A list of 44 Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory puns!

pov: trying to explain hyper-optimized-SEO-slop to an alien... punstoppable.com/Zermelo%E2%8...

14.06.2025 22:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0