Brandel Zachernuk

A step into the spatial web: The HTML model element in Apple Vision Pro visionOS 26 brings a major update to an important building block for the spatial web: The HTML model element is enabled by default, with a new API that’s ready to use today.

3D models on the web have been at the center of my world for over a decade, and I’m so excited about where we are today.

We’ve got a new post about the HTML Model element and how to use it - and cool demos you can take a look at yourself! Check it out at webkit.org/blog/17118/a...

I've heard first-hand from engineers and designers at Facebook that their goal was "light-touch social" - comparatively superficial engagement that peters out if anyone gets too carried away. The platform choices are real, different and have far-reaching consequences for what's thinkable on each.

YouTube video by Reelblack One This Is Marshall McLuhan - The Medium Is The Massage (1967)

I like it, it's a very McLuhanesque reading.

But your point that LinkedIn is not Twitter is not Facebook is something finer-grained than McLuhan made, and those subtle (if at times, emergent) differences are immensely important.
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Optimize for the spatial web - WWDC24 - Videos - Apple Developer Discover how to make the most of visionOS capabilities on the web. Explore recent updates like improvements to selection highlighting,...

Want to know more about building great content for the spatial web in visionOS? I had the privilege to cover it at #wwdc24 - and the video is now live! Check it out at
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I hope it gets your wheels turning 🚲 about what you can do on the platform 😄

Introducing Natural Input for WebXR in Apple Vision Pro Apple Vision Pro is here, and with it, a lot of excitement about the possibilities for WebXR in visionOS.

My first contribution to WebKit.org is up! Today we're pleased to introduce a new, privacy-preserving mode of input for WebXR. It's both standards-compliant _and_ more in line with user expectations on visionOS. Check it out!
webkit.org/blog/15162/i...

But we do ourselves a disservice by ignoring the other revolutionary moments that lead us to this point. Inventing the future is some of the hardest work we can pursue - but with luck, our descendants will see it as inevitable, even disbelieving there could be a time before it. 7/7

That said, there is something different about the present moment. Spatial computing gives us an opportunity to live and express outside the laws of physics, to encode and discern meaning without the explicit interaction with physical surfaces. 6/

And it’s also essential to understand that what looks revolutionary on a 5-year timeline is really only contributing at the margins of a vast, millennia-long project of better pursuing the universal human goal of expression and comprehension. 5/

I’m enormously optimistic about the scope of technology to change human life - that’s why I do what I do. But it’s also essential to understand that *everything* we interact with is technology, including reading and writing. 4/

Most people are aware that printing is only 500 years old - but did you know that _page numbers_ only became popular about 50 years later? And punctuation - including the *the spaces between words* - only really emerged as a standard 500 years before that, around 1000 AD? 3/

Why look to the past, and why bother going so far? Because it’s the only way we can see change at a scale we need to imagine for the future. Here in the early 21st century, it can be easy to feel like the way we communicate is more or less fixed. Not so! 2/

A History of Reading Tracing the complete story of reading from the age when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day, Steven Roger Fischer’s fascinating A History of Reading offers a ...

🧵 To help build the future of computing, I’m reading Steven Roger Fischer’s _A history of Reading._ It’s a stunning, yet matter-of-fact account of the last 5000 years of text and recording.
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Thank you sir, it's good to be here! When I heard Paul was helping kiwis off of the other place I was jumped at the opportunity.

There will be a little work pulling all the networks over but it looks like it'll be necessary, it's not going to get better :/

Many thanks to @paulbrislen.bsky.social for the invite - looking forward to a fresh start on here!