Utopiah

Utopiah

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Utopiah
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Naive heuristic : avoiding gadgets or services (free or not) that increase inequality by design, through technology or business model or both, would be a good starting point.

Utopiah
@benetou.fr

Got a cool XR demo or prototype to showcase to friends & colleagues remotely? Join a (self-hosted) Jitsi Meet session then share your Frame camera. It won't be your face or your desktop but rather your point of view ... letting you showcase live, from the browser, with 0 installation!

Utopiah
@benetou.fr

Funny Frame trick, the IR passthrough let's you see inside the controller, on the left the controller turned off, seeing through its shell, on the right the controller turn on, UI overlaying on top of it, hiding its electronics.

Utopiah
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Current software development discussions : (plus typically it could be replaced by a (paid) API call or service or rely on an existing open source library 🤷‍♂️)

Utopiah
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Social media aren't just about sharing cute cat pictures, it's about power, actual political power.

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Casting XR PoV straight from Frame to a huge display thanks to an Android videoprojector running SteamLink.

Utopiah
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Sharing a VR or AR experience is so tricky so having a live perspective helps a ton.

Utopiah
@benetou.fr

Frame and Quest seeing each other thanks to #WebXR (specifically Networked AFrame) to explore cross-platform collaboration in XR.

Utopiah
@benetou.fr

A friend yesterday argued my constraints on AI usage were too harsh harsher than say for clothing or food. Initially I agreed without a proper reason, in retrospect the reason is the concentration of power that is radically different. Power asymmetry must follow my heuristic bsky.app/profile/bene...

Utopiah@benetou.fr

Naive heuristic : avoiding gadgets or services (free or not) that increase inequality by design, through technology or business model or both, would be a good starting point.

Utopiah
@benetou.fr

Showing the inside of the VR World to the outside, Steam Frame streaming to Steam link on mobile.

Utopiah
@benetou.fr

The difference between a high tech gadget vs a real computer (even if it straps to your face) : my 1To Frame has now 512Go more of storage... and it took a whole 1min or less, no formatting, just straight up push inside and use.

Utopiah
@benetou.fr

To be clear inequality is not a natural phenomenon. There is people who are precisely putting all their energy, and actual resources, in insuring they and their friends are the ones owning resources, singularity or not. It does not just happens, it's a constant systemic struggle. It's politics.

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮@unormal.bsky.social

One thing I didn't consider wrt singularity is that it's almost certain that a real singularity wouldn't be evenly distributed across culture, society, economics, etc; you'd see variations across it, like quantum flux during inflation, and the parts will recede from one another at very high speed

Utopiah
@benetou.fr

Exploring a VR framework, AFrame, in VR thanks to BabiaXR video.benetou.fr/w/5XXvroLDqQ... with simultaneously the visualization of the codebase, the documentation, but also the code itself. #WebXR

video.benetou.frBabiaXR city analysis of AFrame repository side-by-side with the actual repository and documentationUsing https://babiaxr.gitlab.io/aframe-babia-components/examples/codecity-repository-full/ by David Moreno Lumbreras and others pointing to https://github.com/aframevr/aframe/ itself used to build ...
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@benetou.fr

@cnrs-insmi.bsky.social bjr, suite a bsky.app/profile/cnrs... avez-vous une recommendation de livre interactif ou meme jeu sur les fractales pour les jeunes enfants, ~7ans svp ?

CNRS Mathématiques@cnrs-insmi.bsky.social

De la dimension des fractales aux marches aléatoires sur les groupes 🔎 Découvrez les travaux de Nicolás Matte Bon, chargé de recherche CNRS à l'Institut Camille Jordan, parus dans Inventiones mathematicae 👉 www.insmi.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

Utopiah
@benetou.fr

IMHO the choice isn't that obvious anymore, not so much because of marginally better hardware specs but mostly because of an open ecosystem leveraging interoperability, namely you use YOUR tools the way YOU want.

Utopiah
@benetou.fr

To clarify the versus is provocative, one does NOT have to chose either or, rather use the right setup in the right context, and again make them interoperate so that the transition is seamless.

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Iris van Rooij 💭
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social

This point about the intrinsic limits of hill-climbing is really important. Read full context in this blogpost: irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/09/12/c...

irisvanrooijcogsci.comComputational complexity for hype immunityUsing some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity…
Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social

In other words, any intractable problem that allows for local hill climbing cannot be globally well approximated. Well, isn't that the *opposite* of what many people think and claim 🙃

Utopiah
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AR in WebXR on the Frame, and hand tracking thanks to controllers (no CV) thanks to the Chromium Canary build.

Utopiah
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WebXR on the Steam Frame. The trick was using steamos-add-to-steam Wolvic-steam-arm64-gecko-generic-debug.apk then let Lepton do the rest 👌 🐧

Utopiah
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KDE Connect on the Steam Frame, integrating with my other Linux devices, controlling my desktop pointer with a 6DoF controller 👌 and getting notification that I've been tinkering enough and it's time to recharge batteries 😅

Utopiah
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More integrations with open source tools I already rely on, here Firefox with my tabs, passwords, etc thanks to Mozilla Profile

Utopiah
@benetou.fr

Finally got time to tinker with the Steam Frame, here testing frametop "Multi-screen KDE Plasma desktop and universal 3D mouse for the Valve Steam Frame (SteamVR)"

Utopiah
@benetou.fr

Brings me back nearly a decade ago as I was tinkering with Bose Frames twitter-archive.benetou.fr/utopiah/stat... in early 2017 during a hackathon in NYC. Is the past the future?😎 /s

UploadVR@uploadvr.com

Ray-Ban Meta Audio drops the camera for a lighter and sleeker design that's likely to be more socially acceptable amid the public privacy backlash. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/ray-ban-meta...

Utopiah
@benetou.fr

Exciting prospects faster than expected bsky.app/profile/bene...

Utopiah@benetou.fr

Damn, so there is in fact on-going work for WebXR support on the Valve Frame github.com/utzcoz/chrom... with some support from Valve (which makes the device) and some verification from Google (which makes Chrome the browser). Very exciting, can't wait to give it a go.🚀 🐧 🕶️

github.comFrame support · Issue #5 · utzcoz/chromium-webxr-linuxHey, interesting project, does this work on the Valve Frame?
Utopiah
@benetou.fr

You know it's going to be mind bending when you have to use a virtual camera overlay to explain a perspective shift.😅

Utopiah
@benetou.fr

Difficulty scaling examples : - number modifier, e.g. 3j instead of jjj - hide mapping, show mapping line by line with each failed attempt

Utopiah
@benetou.fr

Wireless scrcpy : Android-to-VMed Linux-to-Android it still works on Pixel with GrapheneOS to Quest 3

Utopiah
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Neat, I can also pull and push files on my XR headset hollywood:/storage/self/primary/Documents $ cat cacert.cer.fake datafaked hollywood:/storage/self/primary/Documents $ all via the Web (well... on that 1 browser supporting WebUSB at least)

Utopiah
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... using a massive amount of resources (GPUs, RAM, themselves consuming a lot of energy, establishing data centers in water poor areas, using gas turbine to temporary power them) and horrendous work condition (for supervising learning, curating datasets, etc) ...

Utopiah
@benetou.fr

Love Scratch (or ScratchJr or OctoStudio) but feel somehow limited by the existing blocks? Check out Snap snap.berkeley.edu thanks to which, with its custom block and JavaScript extension support, I was able to communicate to VR content and play with a GamePad in minutes!😍

Utopiah
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This is so obvious it got overlook but IMHO this short video in the head is exactly what the Web is about knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... It grabs the attentions but only to shows in few seconds an illustration of the core idea of the article. Then you move on to text and photos.

knowablemagazine.orgRope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone AgeMissing from the archaeological record, fiber innovations like string played a huge role in the daily lives of our ancestors. Researchers are working to weave together new insights from the traces the...