dad • head of engineering at half byte • previously @meta, @twitter & @google • into bouldering, drumming & acquiring skills • hecho en México
San Francisco, CA
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my favorite mixed reality use cases are the ones that augment your capabilities via digital superpowers...
i can't draw, but drop me in @PencilXR and i can create a complex 3D character!
#DrawnWithPencil
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⛑️ LISTA SOBRE RESCATES ACTUALIZADA EN TIEMPO REAL ⛑️
➡️ bit.ly/rescatecdmx ⬅️
💚🇲🇽 #MéxicoEstáDePie #FuerzaMéxico #ayudaCDMX #sismoCDMX
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got some news! i’m thrilled to announce that after 10+ years of working at @twitter, over half of which i spent learning and building everything i could in XR, i am joining @FBRealityLabs as a Developer Relations Lead! 🤩🚀
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just pulled an all nighter to build a prototype of my first @magicleap app... now to brew some coffee while the kids wake up!😄
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putting the we in ᭙𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔭𝔢𝔬𝔭𝔩𝔢
🎉 🇺🇲🕺💃🏻
ALT Andrés and Lorena just having received their U.S. certificate of naturalization
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it's well known that starting a claim with "it's well known" is as ironclad as a tin foil hat
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a big part of @magicleap's success will no doubt be the unparalleled focus on creators, resulting in a solid set of developer tools; it was incredibly easy to deploy an app and they already support live previews straight from @unity3d!
... this is gonna be a blast 😎
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a few more hours of hacking and #MagicBubbleGun is coming together nicely!
now featuring:
⚪️ bubble physics
⚪️ popping when touched
⚪️ sound effects with dynamic pitch
⚪️ variable firing rate
next up: bouncing a bubble on your palm! 😄
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finally got to play with a Magic Leap One and it definitely feels like the beginning of a new era!
Spatial Computing will be to our kids what Personal Computing was to us, and they're already at home in this new world 🤩
#magicInTheMaking
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reality:
washing dishes
mixed reality:
reading predictions, monitoring social media, and watching the live feed for the #SuperBowl , with #MetaQuest3
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looking into some of the discrepancies, doesn't seem like there's any mathematical reason for them (assuming same data, of course)...
also, Lara's map has many counties flipped to red (but not the opposite), so can't help but suspect they artificially reddened the map 😒
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kinetic sand + augmented reality = 😱
props to @tomasdurkin for the engineering behind this awesome exhibit!
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same! the player clearly trying to figure it out (and learning from each death) makes this playthrough so heartbreaking it's hilarious 🤣
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🏆 achievement unlocked: Mark Zuckerberg using my footage on the #MetaConnect2023 keynote 🤩
shout out to @OddersLab for the awesome @LesMills Bodycombat mixed reality app!
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dear @mopub friends,
i'm sure you're having a pretty crazy day but if you need a referral or anything else i can help with once the dust settles, please don't hesitate to ask.
in the meantime, sending hugs from the other side 💙
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this one is for the history books... specifically for the chapter titled "The Day They Started Wearing Masks".
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finally had some time to hack this weekend and experimented with using playing cards as AR image targets... there's something very charming about being able to "hold" the planets 😄
ps. @Vuforia is awesome! this only took about an hour to build 🤯
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behold! the first in our new line of high-end VR devices: Meta Quest Pro!
featuring...
😎 premium ergonomics
🤩 Mixed Reality w/ color passthrough
🎮 self-tracked controllers w/ advanced haptics
🥞 next-generation optics
😉 natural facial expressions
⚙️ high-performance hardware
ALT product shot of Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest Touch Pro Controllers
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we woke up to a literal Thanks Giving breakfast our daughters prepared for us and i think i can retire from parenthood now 🥲
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thrilled we finally unveiled the whole vision!
with VR on one end of the immersive spectrum and Orion on the other end, mixed reality is the sandbox in the middle that lets you build for that future, today 🚀
#MetaConnect2024
Here’s a sneak peek at Meta’s new small form glasses, called Orion. They’re fully standalone and feature eye, hand, and even neural tracking. Can’t wait to try these!
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⚡️ “Creating with Magic Leap”
nitter.app/i/moments/103705889292…
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we're live! huge congrats to the @AcrossXR team for all the hard work and sleepless nights over the past year (or more for some!) to make this happen: @ali_heston @slukas @kaceyweiniger @CobyPal
we'll be hanging out in the "axr" session, so come say hi and make some art! 🎨👩🎨👨🎨🖌
Spatiate is now available on Magic Leap One! We can’t wait to see what you create 🎨✨ #Spatiatelaunch @magicleap
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also, can't forget that that VP of Engineering is the same one that "didn't want to lower the bar to increase diversity" (his words) and pitched an algorithm to classify candidates into minority groups based solely on their names (his idea)...
so yeah, it was painful to watch 😑
I finally had time to reflect on #TheSocialDilemma and as someone who has worked on tech policy issues throughout my career, had many, many thoughts. 🧵
(The following are entirely my personal views and don't in any way reflect those of my employers past or present.)
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saying "the children will be confused", is such a confused adult thing to say 🙄
I was raised bilingual and we're raising our daughters trilingual; blown away by how early they can tell which language to use with whom...
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this "Drive" developer sample is quickly becoming a favorite among new leapers... no idea why it wasn't included in ML1!
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it's been an exciting year, working hard to ensure there's plenty of Mixed Reality awesomeness at launch (and beyond)... can't wait to share more details! 🤩🚀
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even though current devices offer but a taste of the future, you can use them today to build the experiences of tomorrow, while laying the foundation for the eventual ubiquitous spatial computer future 🚀
what will your contribution to that future be? don't wait to get started!
When we stop to think about the future, beyond the limitations of any device, there will no longer be any AR, MR or even VR... There is only a sliding scale of perception, along the spectrum of realities.
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in this episode of "Cardboard Engineering": pedals
👷🏼♂️📦🚙👧🏻
ALT a cardboard box with flaps cut out in the shape of car pedals, with a recoil mechanism made of chopsticks and rubber bands
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my 6-year-old loves playing with toilet paper tubes. after adding some rare white ones to her collection, first thing she did was stand them all up together and said "they're marching for Black Lives Matter, because the white ones need to say it too." 👏😭
ALT several brown toilet paper tubes standing with two white ones amongst them
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@magicleap physics: 1 rocket > 1 fan, but 2 fans > 1 rocket
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started picking up climbing after over a decade of barely any, and feels great to start getting my Spidey skills back!
this was a V3 on my third visit to Dogpatch Boulders 🧗 🕺🏼
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getting it "right" is 100% subjective since it relates to personal experience; this is *their* story, so if generalized it's on the viewers.
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there's no confusion; those "individuals" were the "before" of a "clean up" you are proud of and the "after" is their absence and meager possessions being discarded... while those human beings "left"
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planning the Spatiate launch using Spatiate 😎
cc @kaceyweiniger @Spatiate_app @AcrossXR @magicleap
#telepresence #acrossrealities #madewithunity
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please #vote.
this immigrant who has been terrified of applying for citizenship since last year will surely appreciate it 💙
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📣 i'm moderating a dev panel at #MetaConnect2024!
join us to...
🎹 learn about Lifestyle Experiences
✍️ hear from the ground-breaking developers of @PencilXR, Everpresent, and Dance Guru
🚀 kickstart your own Lifestyle app!
🗓️ Thursday at 11:45
📍 Building 15 - Chips & Salsa
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that could've been ANY user that changed their display name to "Preet Bharara", since the notification does not include the (unique) username
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weathering the heat, smoke, and covid to help my fellow citizens get tested...
just stop by the John O'Connel soccer field, fill out this form, and get your results in 1-3 days!
😷💙🌉
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my daughters kept asking me to rewind this moment, so figured a GIF was in order 😆
thank you for bringing that sparkly dino along, @AstroBehnken!
#LaunchAmerica
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you can simultaneously applaud @Microsoft for pushing the industry forward from the enterprise angle, while at the same time keep rooting for @magicleap to keep enabling innovation for creators and end consumers
more than a horse race, I think this closer to space exploration 😉
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no it's not; that's a mobile carrier commercial #checkYourSources
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the first thing i did with @FigminXR on Quest over a year ago was to augment my drum set, just to have some rad visuals and videos to play along to, dreaming of the day this would be an actual interactive experience...
blown away by how quickly that day has come!
🥁🤩🚀
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me:
alright, i'm turning 35 soon, time to start adulting for real...
me, turning 35:
i need to go karting and get a new lego set for my birthday 🥳🏎️🚀
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I'm fairly convinced USING multiple languages and navigating different cultures opens up multiple thought patterns, diversifying your perspective and potentially resulting in more wisdom...
which is likely impossible to test for, and hence I empirically say "fairly convinced" 🤓
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few things make me prouder than seeing the results of all the research and experimentation needed to achieve this level of cast iron seasoning ☺️
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I don't think they understand what "anonymously" means 🤔
... which is not to say this is the worst thing about this "product" 🙃
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dear @twitter friends,
the @mopub crew is awesome and you'd be lucky to have them! feel free to reach out if you'd like specifics, but know that you can't go wrong with these folks.
it was very hard leaving them and would work alongside any of them again in a heartbeat 💙
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finally, the light at the end of the tunnel i was especially looking forward to... father-daughter bouldering time! 🥰🧗🏻♀️
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Marking a tweet as Favorite is a great way to tell the author you enjoyed their tweet. If you think your followers will too, then Retweet!
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on this #IWD2019, thought I'd share women in my timeline who constantly inspire me:
@sannabh
@Aleissia
@triciaakatz
@rebeccabarkin
@timoni
@downtohoerth
@sophiaedm
@AdrianaVecc
@SuzanneBorders
@KatVHarris
@Gaohmee
@yatusr
@Hillarycoe
@AstroAnnimal
@omcintyre
@jessphoenix2018
@AOC
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what a day! super exciting to see everyone's reactions to the #QuestPro and the launch content we've been working on...
once all our launch partners have rolled out their announcements, i'll post a thread showcasing them all! #stayTuned
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