Todd Heberlein

Xbox console was already struggling. This may be the knockout blow.

PlayStation VR2 Sense Controller & Charging Station Now it’s easy to navigate Apple Vision Pro using PlayStation VR2 Sense Controllers. Buy online now at apple.com.

PlayStation VR2 controllers are now available from Apple.

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Military families, who will probably be far more anti-socialist than other voter groups, live very socialist lives.

The base commander’s children go to the same schools and played in the same sports teams and bands as the lowest enlisted members kids do.

Commissaries, doctor visits… all the same.

A new Apple Immersive Video has dropped: Flight Ready

14 minutes of amazing video from the USS Nimitz. (the UFO/UAP people will know this carrier!)

This is my new favorite.

Meet with Apple - Apple Developer Join us around the world for a variety of sessions, labs, and workshops — tailored for you.

Did you know Apple is hosting three in-person workshops for visionOS developers?

New York - Dec 2-4, 2025
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Berlin - Dec 4-5, 2025
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London - Dec 18-19, 2025
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I signed up for the New York event

With Apple significantly growing its services revenue per user, growing its user base with lower cost hardware makes a lot more sense than it did 10 years ago.

YouTube video by Apple Developer Press Start: Game development on Apple platforms | Meet with Apple

Another Apple developer day with a live YouTube stream next week. This one focused on game development.

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A common theory I hear is that Apple doesn't want to encourage regular people to buy the Apple Vision Pro right now until Apple, developers, & creators can figure out strong use cases and create content.

Apple Immersive Video end-to-end tooling is just now coming out.

A former L3 Harris executive pleads guilty in a US district court to selling eight zero-day exploits to a Russian broker in exchange for millions of dollars (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)

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I feel with the Internet boom and then the mobile boom, new opportunities, businesses, and jobs were created.

With AI, it seems mostly about destruction of jobs and increasing wealth inequality as a very few become incredibly wealthy.

Pre-release? Amazon is showing that it won't be released until Nov 4.

I think of LLMs as lossy compression of the Internet.

They perform well at finding & rephrasing stuff that is already out there, especially if there is a lot of relevant content and not contradictory content.

E.g., ChatGPT usually suggests *deprecated* SwiftUI APIs and not the newer APIs. Grrr.

Road trips are what audio books were invented for. :-)

Federal agency overseeing US nuclear stockpile will furlough most of its workforce starting Monday | CNN Politics The federal agency responsible for overseeing and modernizing the US nuclear stockpile will furlough the vast majority of its staff Monday as the government shutdown drags on, according to the Departm...

(The employees are being furloughed, not fired)

Holy sh*t, what timing. The National Nuclear Security Administration is furloughing 1,400 people on a day that I broke the story that a foreign threat actor infiltrated the NNSA's Kansas City manufacturing plant.
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Maybe in a month or so I may be looking to contract for some low-poly environments, preferably in Blender. Do you know of good sites that lists artists, shows some examples of their works, and provides price estimates?

I don’t even know what I should be budgeting for. $100, $500, $1000, …?

Huh? Apple is saying its Developer Strap is available for order on Oct 22.

Is this different than the old strap? Does it enable any new functionality?

I wonder if this is to support Apple's new functionality to render content on the Mac and display in AVP?

Apple Developer Hello and welcome to the official Apple Developer YouTube channel.

Apple's visionOS-focused cozy-WWDC, "Create immersive media experiences for visionOS", will be streamed live on YouTube next week.

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Happy Friday Morning!

I agree on the aesthetics, and I suspect the marketing people were not happy.

As a user who doesn’t wear my AVP in public, if the strap makes the AVP more comfortable, I’m all in. I’ve ordered one for my M2 AVP. I hope it helps.

I often wonder if I will run into Kim Stanley Robinson at my local grocery store or coffee shop in Davis, CA. I hope I will recognize him if I do.

Updated Apple Vision Pro with M5 and new head strap is out.

NASA Found a Secret Military Base Buried 100 Feet Deep in Greenland’s Ice Shelf — Popular Mechanics The base is abandoned, but the U.S. Army left some waste behind.

@scalzi.com I immediately thought of you when I saw this article.

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Interrupting the "Apple Vision Pro is dead" discussions to remind people that Apple has a 3-day immersive storytelling mini-WWDC next week, live and online (online is only 2 days).

I've registered for the online experience.

Immersive live NBA games coming to Vision Pro Apple has shown some immersive sports events, including NBA All-Star weekend, after the fact. But live streaming immersive video hasn’t happened yet. After much anticipation, it’s final…

Live basketball games coming to Apple Immersive Pro.

I wonder if Apple will highlight a bunch of new content like this when they release the updated Apple Vision Pro in the coming weeks.

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I largely gave up interest in the UFO/UAP topic because Congressional people leading hearings are some of the worst human beings, and too many in the UFO community embrace them.

Gurman criticizes headsets as too isolating, but that is often what we want - to be engrossed in a story.

When we go to the movies, they turn down the lights to isolate you.

When we read a book, our eyes are focused on the page.

Even when playing games, we are focused on the screen.

And much of the US stock market is being propped up by a massive AI bubble.

Outstanding! Give it a watch.

Another example of why I would prefer Apple stay away from creating a frontier LLM and let users choose from several 3rd party options.

In today’s highly polarized world, any training data about the world will be seen as biased by one group or another.

We have an incredibly vindictive administration with the full power of federal law enforcement at its disposal.

Allowing people to access content and speak anonymously has never been more important.