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Jun 26, 2021 • 8 tweets • 10 min read
356/ 5/24 UFO lobbyist @SteveBassett: "The Disclosure event is coming & it's the biggest event in human history... It's almost impossible to measure it."
If ETH is true & UAPTF hearings lead to #disclosure, he's spot on.
If ETH is false, UAP are prosaic🤷‍♂️
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357/ @SteveBassett said his UAP media archive 1000+ articles now, & that he's reading them all.
My assessment is that he's tracking the political rhetoric & deconstructing the 60k foot strategy better than anyone else right now.
paradigmresearchgroup.org/media-coverage/
358/ @SteveBassett to WaPo's @AshleyRParker: "The American people may hear from their govt the biggest truth, ever relayed, in a formal way to the human race... Now if you’re going to start truth-telling, to regain trust, why not start with a big one?"
359/ Attn: #UFOTwitter UAPTF is moving into a political phase towards hearings now.
@SteveBassett points out it was WaPo bureau chief @AshleyRParker who wrote the June 1 piece on how UFOs are the most bipartisan issue right now in agreement to investigate.
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@SteveBassett @AshleyRParker 360/ Interesting to see @EricRWeinstein do some truth of reconciliation in admitting he was wrong for being a staunch UFO skeptic, he apologizes, commits to listening more, & thanks the patriots & scientists who reached out to give him an early heads up.
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361/ If you only read one summary of UAP Task Force preliminary assessment, then @NewYorker's Gideon Lewis-Kraus has the most comprehensive & coherent synthesis I've seen so far.
Great writing & analysis + a nice shot at Mick West.
newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
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362/ 2004 Tic Tac UAP witness @DietrichVFA41 responds to @neiltyson's anti-intellectual mockery of UFOs. Tyson either hasn't read the UAP preliminary assessment or he's willingly contributing to the "sociocultural stigma" that Dietrich is fighting against.
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363/ I debated @MickWest's UAP hypotheses on @LuAngeles' Unidentified Celebrity Review.
I called for more nuance & skepticism in his public declarations + to consider broader context.
#UFOTwitter
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Mar 9
I got an overview of XR at #SXSW 2022 including the XR Competition & Spotlight program from lead programmer @jblakeneyk + special XR music events in @VRChat worlds.
I'll be @sxsw Mar 11-16 serving on the XR Jury.
Reply below with XR events I didn't mention
voicesofvr.com/1059-overview-… Image
2/ Breonna’s Garden VR installation will be available remotely in @AltspaceVR starting March 12th at 10am CST until March 15th at 6pm CDT.
Use AltSpaceVR Hub event Code: JJI844
More details: mailchi.mp/4979ee9a6b46/b…

I added to the list of #SXSW XR events:
voicesofvr.com/1059-overview-… Image
3/ I'm really looking forward to finally getting a chance to see @miro_shot's mixed reality, live music performance titled SIMLUACRA on Monday night at #SXSW at the @hideouttheatre.
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Feb 23
1/ Brief THREAD to unpack @MetaAI's new Project CAIRaoke AI self-supervised learning model announced this morning.

Launch video: facebook.com/zuck/videos/67…

Zuckerberg showed a demo of a Builder Bot conversational VR worldbuilding tool within Horizon Worlds that's featured below.
2/ Horizon World has terrible graphics, but Self-Supervised Learning is foundational AI tech that'll allow multi-modal training beyond labeled data, making speech-to-3D object creation in immersive worlds a reality. Will this yield good world design? TBD.
3/ Project CAIRaoke is a new conversational assistant synthesizing Natural Language Understanding, Dialog State Tracking, Dialog Policy, Management, & Natural Language Generation.
They say it's "deeply contextual & personal."
Video:
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Feb 22
1/ THREAD to cover some of the highlights of @gatherverse Summit by @vrleader, which is starting now.
4-day event on XR Ethics & humanity-first approach to the Metaverse with over 100 speakers. Free:
gatherversesummit.com

Here's the Slides for my talk:
slideshare.net/kentbye/sensem… Image
2/ The @gatherverse is starting off with a panel discussion on "Advancing a Disability-Inclusive Metaverse" featuring @reg_inee @cdpatnoe @pzaragoza and moderated by @BCurtisDavidson:
awe.live/session/121779

Glad to see this put at the top of the conference. Image
3/ I gave one of the opening keynotes at the @gatherverse on "Sensemaking Frameworks for
the #Metaverse & XR Ethics"

It's 90 minutes of content in 26 min.

Here's the YouTube version of my talk:


Here are my slides with citations:
slideshare.net/kentbye/sensem…
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Feb 14
1/ THREAD covering the @Meta Quest Foo Fighters concert in VR, which had a horrible onboarding experience, the lobby crashed, & LOTS of people could not get in (see responses below).
This pre-recorded concert started at 8:05p but Horizon Venues didn’t even open until 8p & crashed
2/ They advertised Foo Fighters everywhere, but clicking on the Events app, you could only declare your interest in the event with no way to join an instance until after 8p.
The advertised a 8p concert but don’t even add a join link until 8p, which was super confusing & stressful
3/ When the reminder to join came up, clicking on that link took you to the dressing room of Venues, but the lobby had crashed out due to the load of everyone joining at once.
There was not an intuitive way to join the concert with a crashed lobby & so many never got in
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Feb 12
1/ THREAD covering @webxrawards Polys Awards honoring #WebXR experiences, platforms, & creators.
I'll be highlighting the winners + links to experiences.

You can see all of the nominees here:
thepolys.com

Watch party links here:
thepolys.com/metaverse/
2/ @vrhermit talking about his curation of #WebXR experiences at the @ExtendedColl: extendedcollection.com

3D version coming soon.

Here's another livestream:
3/ The @webxrawards is starting with red carpet interviews by @SophiaMosh with Polys nominees, & community members, & sponsors.
It's a great way to get a sneak preview of some of the nominees & add more context to what's happening in the #WebXR community.
eventbrite.com/e/the-2nd-poly…
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Feb 11
1/ @ebakerwhite's had 19 unanswered questions on @Meta's VR content moderation policies, so @BuzzFeedNews built a Horizon World containing content that got banned on FB & Instagram.
They reported it, but wasn't removed.
Then asked Comms & Meta removed it:
buzzfeednews.com/article/emilyb…
2/ Here's the 19 unanswered questions from @ebakerwhite about the VR content moderation policy in Horizon Worlds.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2120…
3/ I think some of Meta's existing content moderation issues will be replicated in VR, especially regarding Facebook Groups.
But I do think the network effects of going viral on 2D platforms are & will be different with immersive, 3D Horizon VR worlds
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