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whatthecj

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software engineer 👨🏻‍💻 hiker 🧗🏻‍♂️ pizza aficionado 🍕 Los Angeles 🌴

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jamesthomson, to random
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About by PCalc for visionOS is now available!

Perhaps the most pointless app on Vision Pro, but still quite fun to play with. This is a complete remake of the original PCalc About screen in VR. It's basically me experimenting with what's possible today with RealityKit, over-engineering things as usual, and then for some inexplicable reason actually shipping it. I hope you enjoy it!

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/about-by-pcalc/id1613982997?platform=vision

Hundreds of objects swirl around a PCalc icon.
A lovely view of the public transport options in the PCalc About screen.
A distant dragon watches over the city.

whatthecj,
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@jamesthomson free?? Will you have a tip jar?

whatthecj,
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@jamesthomson very fair! Well it looks awesome 😎 can’t wait to try it out

whatthecj, to random
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I would like to follow more non-English speakers

Specifically if they post in French or Italian, however I’m really game for cool folks who speak any language

If you, or anyone you know, post in languages other than English, drop the @

🚀 Boosts appreciated too, I’m trying to take in more of the world from different perspectives 🗺️

whatthecj, to random
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A couple months ago, I went to this VR experience and one of the walls was a timeline of stereoscopic, 3D, and VR devices and concepts through the ages

The earliest stereoscope was invented in the early 1830s. I find it fascinating how humans have been interested in 3D/depth imagery

Then, just recently I happened to stumble upon something in an antique store…

Focusing on the left side of the timeline wall of devices, we see at the top left the stereoscope made of wood with a paper insert.

whatthecj,
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The device that basically started the entire concept of 3D images with depth, a relic from before our digital revolution

The opposite end of the stereoscope, the metal frame that you look through.
A side profile of the device with a card inserted. The card is of a rock formation from Pike’s Peak in Colorado.
Holding up the device from the wooden handle, through the lenses a distorted image of the rock formation.

whatthecj,
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Side by side to a modern sibling, the Apple Vision Pro

I find the curvature of the portion that you put up to your face to be fascinating

Inscribed into one side of the stereoscope is a patent date of June 14, 1881

Not particularly sure when this specific stereoscope was manufactured, but I’d guess anywhere between 1881 and the very early 1900s

Certainly this has become the oldest, and most fascinating, piece of technology I own 😎

Looking at the backside of each device side by side, both are strikingly similar in their curvature. The dual lenses for each eye are different, with Vision Pro being oval and the stereoscope being square
Etched into the hinge of the holding mechanism is a patent date of June 14, 1881

whatthecj,
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https://scalar.chapman.edu/scalar/this-land-is-your-land/stereoscopes

https://futuraphoto.com/blog/the-history-of-stereoscopic-photography/

whatthecj,
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Out of the corner of my eye, I spot a stereoscope! It’s slightly different from the one in the timeline wall, with a metal frame, but nonetheless I was intrigued

It was only $99 so I immediately scooped it up

whatthecj, to random
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Do you “click” a link/button or “tap” it on a touchscreen?

I can’t help but say “click” like the good ol days.

whatthecj,
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@RobW click click click! Better not hold it against me 😂

I had an offer to work at an Apple Store in my college days, and I highly regret (like major life regret!) not taking it. It was just a little too far from my school

To think all of the marketing training that could have been instilled in me, alas I say “click”

whatthecj, to random
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The sky is beautiful tonight holy shit

whatthecj,
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Absolutely stunning

RobW, to random
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North American folks: The Aurora incredible. You’re in for a treat in a few hours. Get y’self outside!

whatthecj,
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@RobW it’s so overcast here in Los Angeles. Idk if it would have even been visible if not, but for sure not with the overcast :/

michaelsteeber, to random
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I don't want a Rabbit R1, but seeing videos of it reinforces how much I want to write software for extremely tiny, handheld hardware. I think about it almost every day. Is the Playdate the only accessible platform that allows this today?

whatthecj,
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@michaelsteeber not a consumer device, but this may be a neat option https://madmachine.io/

whatthecj,
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@michaelsteeber if you pick one up, I’d love to hear about it all

whatthecj, to random
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US Govt banning TikTok is 100% about silencing American voices, especially the youth, under the guise of national security

If you spend like 15 minutes on TikTok, you see why they want to ban it, and it’s nothing to do with the CCP, but because they can’t control the narrative. The collective.

You think information moves fast on Twitter/Mastodon/Insta… TikTok is faster, deeper, and far more nuanced. People are waking up, on TikTok, and I’m not being hyperbolic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLbWnJGlyMU

RobW, to random
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Today’s grumpy old man opinion:
Search bars that aren’t actually search bars but buttons that take you to a new screen are bad.

whatthecj,
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@RobW huge pet peeve of mine !

rileytestut, to random
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🙃
https://mastodon.social/@rileytestut/112163170157140620

whatthecj,
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@rileytestut “stay in Europe!” — Apple

rileytestut, to random
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the adventure continues! After a week in Berlin we’re now in Copenhagen 🇩🇰

this is basically the backpacking trip through Europe I always wanted…except with 2 suitcases and an iMac https://mastodon.social/@rileytestut/112155945520419312

whatthecj,
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@rileytestut

Riley: “going to build an App Store for Europe”

Apple: “are you European? By the time we approve it you might be”

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Registration has now closed, but if you happened to sign up for access to the EU/Apple DMA workshop today and have a password to log in, there's a 9-hour VOD available: https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/compliance-with-the-dma-apple-2024-03-18

whatthecj,
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@rileytestut you rocked that dude, from the question down to the sweatshirt. Proving exactly the point!

rileytestut, to random
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MarketplaceKit entitlement approved 🥳

whatthecj,
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@rileytestut congratulations Riley! I wish there was a way us US folks would get a way to try out AltStore officially ☹️

brunoph, to random
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Time-off laws in North America are a fucking joke. No wonder everyone struggles with mental health.

whatthecj,
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@brunoph what laws? 🥲

schwa, to random
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    whatthecj,
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    @aurelien @christianselig @schwa I just sent a print for this on pcbway. Doing a quick print with resin. If all looks good going to do another in aluminum

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    @christianselig @aurelien @schwa absolutely will do! going to do a wooden rod and aluminum pringle and base once the resin arrives and confirm all looks as expected

    whatthecj, to random
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    I know nothing about 3D printing

    Could somebody help point me in the direction of sending this off to a 3rd party to be printed in metal?

    Any and all suggestions would be appreciated https://mastodon.social/@christianselig/111960066868224401

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