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@tripmaster.bsky.social; founder, Windup Minds; ex-Oculus/PopCap/Bungie: Toybox, Bogo, First Steps/Contact, PvZ2); I try to ride a bike fast. Always hangry.

Seattle
Joined February 2009
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Reports confirm that a Blue Wave has flipped Isengard, a solidly Sauron district
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Texas Republicans trying to maintain the Governor and Senate
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knicks beat the spurs so bad they turned the whole state blue
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London is calling. BLUE EYE SAMURAI returns JANUARY 19, 2027.
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i <3 carson
"He looks to me like another Jackson Merrill." Tom Verducci breaks down NL Rookie of the Year finalist Carson Benge.
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maybe make movie gud
Marvel filmmaker Taika Waititi has called critics "sad lost souls who couldn't achieve their dreams" after his latest film, Klara and the Sun, premiered with negative reviews. bit.ly/47UP8vK
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Guest appearance at at VR dev class at CMU’s Ideate program. Lovely students. Lots of women! Asked them if they get motion sickness playing VR; half the class raised their hands. Made me continue to believe that we need to design VR experiences that don’t make ppl sick.
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Shohei Ohtani is one of a kind and two in one. Pitcher/Hitter. Yet doing both simultaneously may shorten how long he can awe us. Thoughts? My latest on @Substack! @Dodgers @MLB #Dodgers #MLB @TheAthleticMLB @espn @baseballhall Read⬇️⚾️⬇️ tinyurl.com/OhtaniParadox-WT…
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What Vivek Ramaswamy has done here is despicable beyond words
Amy Acton's brother slams Vivek Ramaswamy featuring her estranged mother in a campaign ad. "After he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy’s rapist until he died. This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants."
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I didn't realize it when I shared this but the person he's screaming at is a 22-year old female college student who is going to journalism school and good for her for giving it right back to his stupid old ass.
Republican Andy Harris crashes out after a bad debate and threatens a reporter. 🎥 baltimorebanner
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What was more improbable @BTLSportsCo : Dodgers swept or #knicksinfive? I wouldnt have thought something could shock me like the knicks win over spurs, but... last night... O_O
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It's a proud moment when I learn more from my son about baseball than I could teach him.
Division Series chaos. Yankees collapsed, Padres heartbreak, Dodgers inevitable, Cleveland made October flinch. Full breakdown below smithyeemcelroy.substack.com…
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Many things are killing the industry. A lack of ports killing VR is rewriting history. Since its inception we’ve had a ton of ports (RE, Fallout, Farpoint, Minecraft). Don’t blame developers blame the platforms for being awful stewards.
grateful every day that people are no longer listening to the old guard. They were literally killing the industry. games are about FUN and accessibility and not about whatever the crap “VR only” devs were rambling on about..
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I helped launch commercial VR at oculus. i left having worked on orion. phoenix/breckenridge/vr glasses have been demoed. what did they get right? what else should be a p0 priority? not a hot take - it’s as cold as logic and experience can be. with a little behind the scenes.
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A lot of chatter about my team's demo for @oculus Rift: First Contact. Talked about this @ViewConference. A slide dump: The brain processes things in arms reach differently than everything else. Small intimate experiences could have the impact in VR, like CoD has on console.
First Contact was incredible because, like Toybox before it, it focused on satisfying precise two-handed interactions in the near-field that are simply not possible on flatscreen platforms. Far too much of VR gaming over the past decade has instead tried to just tack VR onto far-field locomotion-focused flatscreen game design. That can be a lot of fun in its own right, but fundamentally misses the "magic" unique to XR.
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My example of outlier behavior: in an uber from FB HQ to SFO, the woman driving us slowly revealed she was using VR... during sex. With her partner. Also using VR. To embody different POVs that differed from their physical identities while doing something visceral and emotional.
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(this is a bonus post, bc Facebook comms would NEVER let me say that in a public talk!)
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@lauriewired maybe this might be interesting to ya!
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