VR AR MR XR
Apple is telling app makers not to call their programs VR or AR
Deus Ex in Unreal Engine and VR
AR used to make new Ted TV series
Creating scene responsiveness in XR
VR: UEVR
11,000 Unreal Games are now VR
About the project directly
XR: Year in review or predictions
AR and VR are big again
What I want for VR in 2024
XR year in review
XR: Hardware
Xreal Air 2 Ultra
The best haptic gloves so far.
Sony has a Vision Pro style headset coming up
XR4 by Varjo is announced. This is the big high end name in VR and XR.
MR: Meta
Meta 3 browser looks nice
New widgets for Meta VR
Praise for the Meta 3
Meta Quest 3 first exclusive
Next meta prototype has the CTO really happy
Meta Quest 2 doesn't stream to TV as easily.
Microsoft office on Quest 3
Meta is not doing well
Film TV
Prime is putting ads in movies and shows.
Constantine 2 trailer
Jack Black in X Files
The King’s Christmas message beat the Doctor Who Christmas specials
Fan made retelling of the best part of Home Alone as if it was Anime
Are BlueRays the new Vinyl?
New Sentai Announced!
Narnia Franchise on Netflix
The story of QI and how it began.
ESPN forced to give back Emmys because of fake reporters. Like the reporters didn't exist.
Henry Cavill is fully in charge of Warhammer media
New Rey Star Wars film very special
Nicholas Cage talks about his CG appearance on the Flash
15 movies to watch before Highlander remake. Great movies.
Film TV: Disney
Snow White and her CGI Dwarves
Disney no longer the biggest distributor in movies
Film TV: Marvel
Marvel leadership and creators had a meeting to discuss problems
Echo looks terrible before it was even released
No one at Marvel wanted Agents of SHIELD. Joss Whedon tells his story.
TV: Doctor Who
The Christmas specials were season 1
There's a old doctor mini episode series called omnibuses
It's a bit of a new new Who
BBC defends useless trans side character
Timeless child is going to be cannon in the show
Film: Horror
Abigail trailer released
28 years later announced
How Locecraftian horror is it's own genre
Film TV: Video Games
Jack Black as Steve in Minecraft movie
A show called Game Genome covers various games. The next season and games has been announced
Film: Zelda by Sony
Sony announced they are making the Zelda movie.
Sony execs are excited for the movie
Theme Parks and Experiences
New experience based on movie Poor Things
Universal, Disney, and others are building apartments for their workforce.
Universal Annual pass holders need to schedule when they will be visiting.
Disney planning smaller experiences that travel. The article makes a lot of drama over this
Universal Florida gets new projectors and water fountains for night show
Theme Park: Videogames
Donkey Kong Country Preview
Super Mario World is the best new attraction
Five Nights at Freddy's might make a return to universal
Theme Park: Kidzania
KidZania in London has closed down. The London market seems to be closing. There are other KidZanias around the globe, so this one isn't doing well. It's a park where kids can do stuff like drive an ambulance or work at a grocery store.
Here's an archived website of KidZania in Dallas.
Arcade FEC Social Gaming
An interview with Dock Mac of Galloping Ghost fame. The arcade is crammed full. The area it's in is a dusty older area no one would expect to find Half Life 2 the arcade game.
15 biggest arcade games by Sega. Virtual On is not listed.
90’s arcade racers
Arcade: Pinball
New Jaws Pinball shown off
Ever seen the back of an electro mechanical pinball machine? It's amazing
Pizza Hut Classics
Nostalgia vs newstalgia
Known locations of classics.
Architecture
A cement house in Argentina.
100 BIM projects to grab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuUSkitu4UA
I found the creators of an all time favorite from when I was a wee’n. They look so small now.
Studying urban design through multiple cities, and how to effects the feel of the city.
A cubist window
A walkthrough building. Really weird but cool idea
Rendering programs for engineering and architecture
Architecture Lab #3 looks nice.
Architecture: Prefab
Moore Prefab lists!
Prefab homes aren't saving us!
LG Smart cottage is prefab with furniture as well
Architecture: Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid design for Chengdu
More about that design
Architecture: Volferda
A really interesting prefab mini home set up, that can connect several buildings together.
Here are some promotional videos
https://youtube.com/@Volferda?si=fLAm2n05Ti0eZKxu
Books and Comics
Chuck Wendig told off by successful Baen author
There is a book about the dark souls trilogy coming out
Interview with Dave Barry
TTRPG
WarHammer co creator passes away. He will be kept enthroned to watch us all.
Cars
N Vision 74 is for sale
9 oh Hyundai's greatest hits. Veloster is mentioned.
Toyota truck is cheap because you have to finish building it
Lidar integration with driving
NVidia showed off it's automative creation tools using AI and their other products. This could be in AI and Tech.
Hertz selling EVs, because people want gas powered cars.
Honda 0 Series looks old school
Cars: James May
James May looks forward to new car shows
In fact, he wouldn't mind doing a different show with Clarkson and Hammond. I hope it's a travel show.
Cars: Toyota Celica fakes
A lot of people are making ideas of what the new Celica should look like.
Another fake Celica design. This is an all time favorite with several models that hold dear to my heart. The real car not the fakes.
Cars: Sony Afeela
It can be driven by a PS5 controller
Sony’s concept car Afeela
Tech
Skin integrated multi modal interaction
KiCAD to Blender
Looking beyond Open Source. The creator of GPL says it's not being used correctly, and companies have abused it. So, he's coming up with new ideas.
First Functional semi conductor made from Graphene
Air Taxis coming to Orlando
Cameras with hundreds of megapixels are coming. You can take a wide shot of a kid, and then get a perfectly clear shot of a single pore on his face.
NVidia countdown city
Small sized websites making a comeback
Analog Toolkit
Libraries are expanding what they do, to stay relevant
There is a Windows XP version for 2024
Filming Hockey from below the ice
Could be in propaganda. Smartphones can be addictive and need to be controlled
New Bioengineering creation has plants that take out micro plastics
Space Force intends to upgrade and expand. BTW, I am jealous of their base in Florida. It's across the street from a nice beach.
EInk picture frame
Ways to use internet archive
3D assets
Tech: CES
New stuff from CES
A 3D gaming screen that doesn't need glasses by Samsung. I hope I can connect my PS3 to it. I have Batman in 3D
Adding smart device to your regular glasses
True story, gaming chairs are the only ones that promote how long you can be in them. Business and other chairs promote how good looking they are. So Razer had a chair expert at CES telling people how to sit
Birdwatching, Ballie, and Basketball: Spatial Computing at CES 2024
Tech: Robotics
Open Source robotic controls
Here's a few demonstrations
Digital twins and robotics databases
Personalized robot navigation
The first fully automated McDonald's has been tested out in Fort Worth Texas. There is one in Denver as well apparently. You walk up to a touch pad or order through the phone, and it is delivered via robot waiter. There is likely one human employee to maintain the machinery.
https://youtube.com/shorts/h5Ziq_EGIjw
A fully automated house
Electric balls monitor power coming through cords. They were placed by drones.
Tech: 3D Printer
3D printed mass spectrometer
Multicolored print with a single extruder
3D scanning and then printing parts.
Science
Undersea Plateau is bigger than Idaho, Washington and Oregon combined
24,000 year old micro organism comes back to life and procreates with itself.
Cats have 300 facial emotions
Chinese Rover shows Mars is stranger than expected.
Electric Soil makes plants bigger
Quantum Batteries
Video of plants talking to each other.
2,000 year old bullet
Business
Microsoft, Google and others start HQs in Saudi Arabia
Platform decay, and how websites slowly die
Translating corporate speak
BVO outlawed in the US Soda
Neiman Marcus is not going back to the office
SpaceX workers who complained were fired.
Weird
The Jesus Ouija Board. Don't pray and seek guidance through the spirit of God, use this boardgame famous for demons. Now at Amazon.
Keeping random bad weapons out of fear in your house
Weird: Florida Man Games
Games based on Florida man stories will be started and competed on in Florida.
Guess who's hosting it?
https://youtube.com/shorts/rqhpxAkF2TQ
Propaganda
An End to Doomerism. We aren’t doomed, unless you don’t do as we say.
A museum refused to give a work of art to a woman's family because it was hers at one time.
Corruption in China is filling missile silos with water.
Family estrangement is because the traditional family is false
All modern cities expected to decline by at least 23% by 2100
Why do we talk about Palestine when wars between Muslims are worse?
More strikes in California. This time it's teachers at universities
Ron DeSantis calls for more institutionalization than red flag laws
Whatever is making modern man heavier is not whatever you're thinking about. Earlier people had more calories, sugars and sedentary lives. They still didn't weigh as much.
Propaganda: Finance
Billionaires are richer and you are not. Communism!
You need to move to Seattle. It is so much better than the other lefty crap holes you live in.
Buying a house is impossible now
Where Americans are moving
Propaganda: Schools
Florida schools maliciously comply to rules by demanding paperwork for everything
Kids aren't reading as much anymore
Scholarship attacks are now how the war on education will continue. Big name teachers found to be plagiarizing.
Propaganda: Trump
Fox News just doesn't hold Trump accountable as they should. I had this tweet recommended to me by X
Mark Cuban makes a weird post about Biden and Trump.
Donald Trump attracts “evangelicals”
Propaganda: Disney
Disney is at a low point
Disney and Epstein island
Now that's just hilarious, he isn't even as favoured as his mother the former Queen. Heard they also had an 'alternative message' broadcast that was all divisive, gay and Jewish that I'd love to see ratings between the two speeches there
I like to call him the Queen after all the rumours about him.