Ian Hamilton @hmltn Twitter profile

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Ian Hamilton

6 years

I revisit an email from Ken Perlin at NYU so often I want it in my timeline. He sent it to me in August 2015 in response to questions for an article I was writing. Here’s what he wrote:

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

1 year

Tim Cook: AR is profound. Engineers: We can't do it. Cook: AR is profound. Engineers: VR works tho. Cook: AR is profound. Engineers: We engineered the VR so it's so good it looks like AR now. Cook: Ship it.

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3 years

“But, you know, here we are”

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Ian Hamilton

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6 years

This breaks my brain

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Ian Hamilton

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2 years

For those who've been wondering about the legs shown in the Connect keynote ( @hrafntho ). Meta: "To enable this preview of what’s to come, the segment featured animations created from motion capture."

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Ian Hamilton

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5 years

Here’s one use for that front USB port on Valve Index.

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Ian Hamilton

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3 years

What if one of the killer apps of AR glasses is ad block for the physical world?

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4 months

A kid sets up shop in his garage like 15 years ago and then, bam, Tim Cook is wearing fake eyeballs.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

2 years

Hey @disneyplus I’ll take at least 4 more seasons of The Orville: New Horizons thanks. @SethMacFarlane

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

8 years

Do not use Amazon’s game engine for “life-critical” systems. Unless there are zombies.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

11 months

Apple used the phrase "implement a virtual reality (VR) game"

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

1 year

For all the hate Mark Zuckerberg gets I always think back on this moment from 2017 when he had the VR developer audience laughing during Oculus Connect: "The biggest trend in transportation is that it's a lot easier to move bits around than atoms." Can you refute this?

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

5 years

Multiplayer @BeatSaber doesn’t exist yet. But it will. And it’ll be amazing to watch. (The girls just started their songs at the same time as best they could.)

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

5 years

Valve announcing its VR headset is an extraordinary moment. So few know the magic of HTC Vive was almost entirely Valve’s VR research and its tracking technology. This is looking like the BIG bet on VR — a doubling down — that some have been hoping Valve would make.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

6 years

What if Magic Leap ships an empty box with a printout of this tweet inside.

Rony Abovitz

@rabovitz

6 years

A few last bits: I really believe in the endless, infinite, creative potential within people. We all have it. The real magic leap is when you realize what you already have.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

5 years

Teaching my kid how to escape a hostile world and use the pulse engine in No Man’s Sky. I’m in VR, my kid isn’t and we’re seated right next to each other. Easily one of the best multiplayer moments in a video game for me ever.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

2 years

Anybody suggesting it's not a big deal to have virtual screens in a VR headset are getting something very wrong. Right now I'm in Quest 2 with Workrooms & three virtual monitors and it's easily better than my three screen physical setup.

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@UploadVR

2 years

Horizon Workrooms now gives you a solo Personal Office with 3 displays from your PC. With a Mac the extra 2 can be entirely virtual, and on Windows too "soon".

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

3 years

Facebook sent me the camera sunglasses. I’m just absolutely in love with this video I captured with them. After using the glasses for a day I took them off and I was walking around outside and idly thought to myself “Hey Facebook take a video”.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

1 year

Just spent the last couple hours in @BigscreenVR . I watched the entirety of Dune and talked to @DShankar for an an hour and a half in one of my deepest dive VR interviews ever.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

2 years

Trying out Top Gun: Maverick VR at Dave & Busters with @Heaney555 & @reverendkjr . Pretty cool magnetic head mounts.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

2 years

VR’s Biggest Year…So Far.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

3 years

Here's that scene from Ready Player One I'm sure a lot of you are thinking about.

UploadVR

@UploadVR

3 years

Facebook is beginning to test advertising in virtual reality.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

8 years

. @JeffBezos is 10x cooler today. From the Amazon Web Services terms, section 57.10

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

1 year

Found the VR experts @nchan & @benz145 . What a wild moment.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

3 years

Is that an Elite Strap?

Mikaël Dufresne

@purplemikey

3 years

I'm curious now. RE4 promo? New game..?

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

2 years

Meta shared a huge number of updates about its efforts in VR/AR and my @UploadVR team is all over it. Here's a thread of some of the biggest takeaways. 🧵

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 years

Somebody get that guy in the background an @Oculus Quest @boztank

Navah Berg

@Navahk

4 years

When “The Price is Right” has an #OculusQuest for the “showcase showdown” VR is here 🤟 #VR #QuarantineMoneyMakingIdeas

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

7 years

Why I am interested in VR and AR tech, summed up by Ken Perlin in Aug. 2015.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

6 years

Magic Leap uses the word “creator” in place of the word “developer”. I like that. The word “creator’ captures the ultimate potential of VR/AR to allow a larger group of people to make and share digital stuff with each other.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

2 months

@ID_AA_Carmack @PalmerLuckey You can confirm that internally at a high level it was a firing motivated by politics?

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

1 year

“I think I’ll stick with the Oculus for now,” says my Uber driver upon telling him the cost of Apple Vision Pro. “Yeah, you can quote me on that.”

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

6 years

My dad died last night. He was the bravest man I ever knew who faced an incurable cancer diagnosis with love and humor. He left this world my personal hero. Love you dad and thank you for your strength.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 years

Do pass on Oculus Go, keep your $200. If your kid asked for VR, Go is not what they want. Even at $129. Don’t do it. DON’T FUCKING DO IT. Get the $400 Oculus Quest and if that’s too much to stomach skip VR and get a $200 Switch to make your kid happy.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

6 years

I’ve been watching the VR industry intently since 2012. I’ve been reporting on it full time since 2015. Over the last year or so, lots of people have been losing their jobs as various VR ventures ran out of money. Here’s a thread diving into that subject.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 years

New profile pic? Kinda wild to wear a VR headset that actually shows my face.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 years

While Palpatine electricity power is super cool the finger slingshot with hand tracking on @oculus Quest is really really really cool from @AldinDynamics . To hell with finger guns.

Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 years

Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the Dark Side.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

1 year

Do it, @valvesoftware , we wants it.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

3 years

“I buy the VR only for VrChat.” “I laughed, I cried, I screamed, I met new people, I hated others, I found love, I found friends, I began to have a broader view of my world” “Live, be free to be what you want!”

Jimmy6DOF

@jimmy6DOF

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@Heaney555 on a related note > Guy leaves a heartfelt Steam Review for VRChat after 5000hrs and it's enough to restore your faith in humanity

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

7 years

SIGGRAPH 2017

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 months

Tim Cook is on the cover of Vanity Fair in a VR headset after selling like $500M+ in gear before reviews even dropped. Mark Zuckerberg just turned in his first ever $1 billion quarterly report card for VR and he’s about to ship an even cheaper one with the same great features.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

1 year

Saw the latest @tiltfive demo with @jeriellsworth . Easily the best AR I’ve seen and it’s not even close. She leaned over to point to AR content only we could see, demonstrating perfect occlusion in the process.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

5 years

Some of the prototypes Valve showed at the Index hands-on preview last month.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

5 years

This is the opening page of the Valve Index setup guide.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

8 years

This tweet is to remind you of that time when people sky dived into the Google I/O keynote wearing Google Glass.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

3 years

Quest 2 is now a $299 AR development kit.

UploadVR

@UploadVR

3 years

Facebook shared some details about its experimental Passthrough API to enable new kinds of mixed reality apps for Oculus Quest 2.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

6 years

Samsung has a 1200 pixels per inch display here. Have a look through the lens. #DisplayWeek18

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

5 years

Magic Leap: We lost our CFO and the guy who did the special effects for The Matrix but if you buy our $2,300 glasses (plus fanny pack of course) you can pin Spotify album art to your walls.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 years

“In hindsight, the downvotes from people with more real-world experience than me were definitely justified,” says @PalmerLuckey

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

1 year

In 2012, Oculus planted a flag in the future of personal computing. In 2014, Facebook legitimized VR in buying Oculus. The moment was a pit-of-the-stomach realization Zuckerberg had true vision and resources to deliver. Then a decade of wondering whether @tim_cook would answer.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 years

Double tap the side of the Oculus Quest to see the outside world passthrough!

UploadVR

@UploadVR

4 years

The Oculus Quest UI redesign began rolling out to users this week with the V15 software, alongside more new features and Oculus Link bug fixes.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

2 years

2012: PC VR 2022: VR PC

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

3 years

27 minutes of @ID_AA_Carmack and @boztank talking Quest Pro, the Metaverse, future features, motion sickness reduction, work in VR, and artificial intelligence.

John Carmack & Facebook's Head of VR Talk Quest Pro, the Metaverse &...

John Carmack and Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth took to Twitter Spaces to answer questions, covering everything from Quest Pro and next gen VR to how Carmack could en...

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 years

Mark Zuckerberg: Our latest VR headset Oculus Quest is doing better then I expected and we can’t make them fast enough. Columnists: Facebook’s older VR headset sucks and therefore VR is dead.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 months

“Thousands”

PICO XR

@PICOXR

4 months

As the world gears up to embrace the new, let’s remind ourselves why thousands have chosen PICO. Here’s to the ever-expanding world of VR where every brand adds its own spark. Stay tuned for more from PICO as we redefine the future of immersive tech together.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 years

Every other major VR headset is designed as an accessory. Not exactly a surprise (at least in retrospect) the one headset which treats VR as an independent medium, and a PC as an accessory, is starting to see its usage outstrip others.

UploadVR

@UploadVR

4 years

Remarkably, there are now more Oculus Quest headsets connected to Steam than the entire Windows Mixed Reality ecosystem combined.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

3 years

THE OCULUS RIFT IS F-ING DEAD DO YOU HEAR ME ITS DEAD

Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

3 years

Lol the size of the font here

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

1 year

I don’t know what’s coming, but I hope Apple remembers to woo crazy developers who for the last decade staked their livelihoods on this idea and built incredible amounts of expertise in the process. Here’s To The Crazy Ones.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 years

oh my godddddd

Daniel Beauchamp

@pushmatrix

4 years

Miniature Beat Saber. Would you play it?

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

2 years

A decade from this article to the crazy Christmas VR is going to have in 2022.

Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

11 years

Oculus building immersive gaming goggles http://t.co/OvMYttFo

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Ian Hamilton

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2 years

Oooh I like this VR headset design in The Peripheral.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

1 year

Taking a flight to SFO tomorrow to get ready for Apple. Is it just me getting a little overwhelmed by the moment? I’ve talked to a lot of VR devs over the years and I’m thinking of you all and what this moment means to you.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

1 year

Forbes: VR is dead Reddit:

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 years

Something something VR is dead

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

5 years

Nintendo Labo VR, Valve Index and Oculus Quest are all actually happening in 2019. Anyone who knows me in this industry probably knows me as pretty reserved most of the time? Not right now.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 years

I’ve been retweeting every Quest dev I can find regarding their reach with Quest 2. I’m hearing consistently that sales are a multiple above original Quest. Quest was promising for VR software sales, but Quest 2 appears to be life changing for some.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

1 year

Email in my inbox from Meta: “42 out of the 49 launch window titles for PSVR2 are already available on or also coming to Meta Quest 2, with many of them brought to life through Meta funding.”

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

3 years

When the field of view is too small.

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3 years

I’m still kinda unclear here, will I be able to unlink my Facebook account and delete it and keep and use my purchased VR content with Quest 2? @boztank

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@hmltn

3 years

“If you want to play VR games you’d be a fool to pick Flow, but if the reason you want a headset is to have a personal cinema screen it simply blows Quest 2 out of the water.”

UploadVR

@UploadVR

3 years

We got hands-on with HTC Vive Flow. Here's our initial impressions of the ultra compact headset:

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

7 years

VR folks keep talking about realizing the Metaverse and Matrix. I want something in between The Holodeck and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

3 years

This headline is bigger than some people realize. This is essentially confirmation that Apple is taking Oculus Quest seriously. The Oculus Quest is a "Niche Precursor to Eventual AR Glasses" too. Of course, Apple could still kill the product, but 2022 is already late to the game.

Mark Gurman

@markgurman

3 years

New story: Apple plans its first headset to be a high-end, niche VR-focused device as a precursor to its future AR glasses. Details on the headset’s design, prescription lens system, inclusion of a fan, features, development hurdles, and more:

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

5 years

I army crawled across my living room to paintball some folks in Rec Room on @oculus Quest.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

2 years

Some people didn’t get it so I’ll just add here that VR headsets transformed from an accessory for a PC in 2012 into a new kind of standalone personal computer in 2022. A traditional PC is one of the best accessories to get for your VR headset.

Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

2 years

2012: PC VR 2022: VR PC

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 years

I’m so tired. The last 2 months were transformative for the VR industry and keeping up is a challenge. What an amazing, exhausting, time. Congratulations, truly, to anyone who made literally anything for @Oculus Quest @valvesoftware Index, Vive, PSVR. You’re absolutely a pioneer.

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Ian Hamilton

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6 years

“After all, natural language is really the great superpower of our species. All of our other powers are outgrowths of that one. So evolving natural language to becoming even more powerful is perhaps the most important thing we can do.”

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

2 years

I only shot a couple videos during my day at Meta’s research lab in the Seattle area. Here’s the last one of a very long day, asking Michael Abrash if we’re still in “the good old days.”

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

1 month

I’m so ashamed but I’m going here

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 months

I'm scheduled to see Vision Pro tomorrow afternoon here in New York. First impressions here:

Apple Vision Pro Hands-On: Way Ahead of Meta In Critical Ways

Apple Vision Pro is the real deal. This is the future of personal computing. Our first hands-on report:

www.uploadvr.com

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 months

My thanks to @_jamesoloughlin for this gift today.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

2 years

Caption this with what PSVR2 is thinking.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

3 years

This 2016 image of the Meta CEO holding nothing always seemed pretty symbolic of AR in the 2010s.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

5 years

Lots of eye-tracking demos here at CES. We are going to need to discuss more in depth how precisely VR and AR head-mounted displays anonymize (or disclose) the use of eye-tracking data. Once the feature is there you won’t want it turned off.

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Ian Hamilton

@hmltn

4 months

Tim Cook: “There’s virtual reality and there’s augmented reality — both of these are incredibly interesting. But my own view is that augmented reality is the larger of the two, probably by far.” T-Pain:

T-Pain

@TPAIN

4 months

I’m not a part of this weak ass reality anymore. This how I’m showin up everywhere so just don’t even say anything about it when I come in the room. ITS OVER!!

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3 years

Can’t get it outta my head that I’ll have been at this 10 years pretty soon.

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11 years

Oculus building immersive gaming goggles http://t.co/OvMYttFo

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4 years

The lone developer of @VRDesktop doesn’t have an Oculus Quest 2 yet. Still, two weeks before release, Guy Godin already activated wireless PC VR streaming at 90 Hz.

Virtual Desktop On Oculus Quest 2 Already Runs PC VR At 90 Hz

September 30 update: Virtual Desktop’s developer received an Oculus Quest 2 the day after this article published, and tweeted the following update about 90 Hz mode: PSA: Just got word from Oculus...

www.uploadvr.com

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Ian Hamilton

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7 years

VR Update Sony: Nearly 1M sold Samsung: New controller Facebook: -$200 for Rift+Touch Microsoft: Dev kits coming LG: Does high-end VR too

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8 months

What a stupid misrepresentation. *clicks on profile* “Advisor / Crypto”

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4 years

How I know VR is going to change the world is that 8 years after becoming hooked on the idea that it could change the world I’m still experiencing new demos that strengthen my original thesis.

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5 years

I can barely believe how far VR has come. Going on a quest with friends in the Oculus Quest all-in-one begins by unplugging the VR headset and fist-bumping in @recroom . That’s new and extraordinary and magical. So many people are going to “defy distance” starting this summer.

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2 years

Zuckerberg: "We have legs!" Devs: "Those aren't real." Meta: "Yeah, I know." Deep Dive Dev Videos: "Quest Pro has true multitasking and its controllers have significant new haptic and tracking features." Devs: "Omg, why wasn't this in the keynote?" Meta: "..."

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5 years

Today was the biggest day for VR since Facebook announced it was acquiring Oculus back in 2014. I'm still collecting my thoughts but there's magic and meaning in @Oculus Link and @valvesoftware Half-Life: Alyx working together. Raising a glass tonight to the magicians out there.

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4 years

This week I experienced something entirely new in VR. One of the most impressive demonstrations of the technology I've ever encountered, a true preview of the future. And it just doesn't feel right to care or share about it when so many people are hurting.

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4 years

This weekend marks the 5th anniversary of writing about VR for . I had five years under my belt at the OC Register before I took a buyout and used the $ to build a VR PC and start freelancing.

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1 year

Soundcloud:

Apple Vision Pro Hands-On: Way Ahead of Meta In Critical Ways

Apple Vision Pro is the real deal. This is the future of personal computing. Our first hands-on report:

www.uploadvr.com

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5 years

The future of interviews right here

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@hmltn

5 years

There were some connections issues so the end of my first live interview in VR with @SculptrVR is simply magical.

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4 years

Can’t stop thinking about how impressive the finger slingshot is in Waltz of the Wizard. A little red dot appears on the target to zero in your aim.

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4 years

Might be interested in an article about how Mozilla shaped VR on the Web, given this week. I believe it’s an important chapter in VR history and would be a bummer not to record the contributions before folks scatter. My DMs are open & will retweet interesting/informative replies.

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VR/AR sources dropping into my inboxes from all directions with moderate-sized bombshells incoming.

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