another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
HCI failure spotted in the wild-- if you call CVS while it's closed, the automated voice will no longer allow you to type numbers to answer yes/no questions. If you don't talk to the AI, it will hang up. Which means that you *have* to say the name of your prescription out loud in order to refill it.
We’re running a study on how people learn procedural tasks in virtual reality:
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Massively agree with everything Jason has to say here. Animation is a medium that's meant to be expressive and deeply weird.
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Lit reviews as an academic in VR is so weird because there's just so, so much stuff that no one has bothered to look at yet. Like, either there is *no* published instance of a hint system for a VR training simulation, or I just literally cannot read.
Genuinely impressed by this phishing campaign. All of the links on the page go back to actual official sites, and it matched their design decently well. If it weren't for the fact that I can't drive, and therefore probably don't owe unpaid tolls, this might have gotten me: mass.gov-ybu.win/pay/
Just booked the flights for CHI and the time zones are so weird that one of my flights lands an hour *before* it takes off.
The Earth being round is very complicated.
Not one, but both of my LBW papers got accepted at CHI. Which is? How? What? More info as I get the documentation for them nice-looking enough to share OfficiallyTM but for now
yes
oblique strategy cards are tarot for designers
When I tell people I'm a programmer but not a software engineer, this is what I mean.
Now I am become Earring Magic Ken, destroyer of Mattel's 1993 PR team
I'm going to see it 80 times before next week lfg
I've started taking a sip of coffee while still wearing the headset every time I record a demo video in passthrough which, while incredibly inconvenient, feels METAL as FUCK.
momdusa is such an icon
rude
I don't know how to explain it but this is what posting on this app feels like right now
Small vent: HR734 is obviously Awful for trans women, but it also disregards the existence of trans men? If "For the purposes of this subsection, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth" should my mustache and I be competing in womens sports?
make sure to be gay on the computer or alan turing died for nothing
Before whoever made this beautiful little easter egg is also asked to take it down, please give yourself a 404 error on the Biden campaign website: https://joebiden.com/beepboopbeep
This is how my house makes pride pasta!
the sculpey eyes I make when I'm AnxiousTM have evolved to a new level of Man-Made HorrorsTM
is this the bluesky logo
