Opening portals to VR without headsets at @portalvr_io. Problems soluble, potential to improve invariant.
Dec 19 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Today I'm releasing PortalVR 2.0, which lets you play the entire SteamVR ecosystem without wearing a headset. You plug in your Quest, put it on your desk, and play on your monitor.
It supports 3D glasses and even 3D monitors! 😎
Get it now:
Thread 🧵 portalvr.io
PortalVR 2.0 is the result of many months of user testing and R&D. The first big breakthrough was getting the Quest to act as a controller base station. You put it in developer mode, plug it in, and PortalVR sets it all up. Leave it plugged in, and you have permanent PC 6DOF.
Aug 14 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
I've been trying to crack handheld virtual reality.
I think I’ve finally got it. Introducing Portal. Portal lets you play unmodified VR content with just a tablet and a phone.
This early version of Portal aims to solve some big long-standing pain points for VR devs. A 🧵 👇
With , you can stop taking your headset on and off over and over again to test your game.
And, people can try your game in-person without putting on a headset first.
Devs, if you need to take a moment before continuing, I understand. 😭portalvr.io
Mar 24 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Giving very young kids access to real laptops with high ceiling video games is such a cheat code. My kids bootstrapped reading, math, spatial reasoning, etc, just because they had a *need* to do it since the carefully chosen games I've put them in front of *demand* it of them.
School tries to construct motivation out of thin air by a sick deterrence: do your homework, or we will fail you. Games motivate it so you can get something to happen you want to happen. Night and day in terms of unlocking the mind's potential and drive.
Dec 15, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I’m tired of answering the same questions and being ridiculed but will say that government searching for leaks of hot gas based on intel is obviously a good explanation for everything. Could be degredating nerve agents, chemical manufacturing processes, etc. Not nukes.
Islamists won’t hit the US with some obvious scheme, they’ll find a systemic hole and exploit it in a spectacular attack that surprises us. I can only speculate, and this is obviously layered upon layers of speculation, but the government is lying and people should be vigilant.
Sep 4, 2023 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
I have a 3 and 5 year old and I've been kind of YOLOing my own bespoke selection of digital devices and content in my house for them. A 🧵 on what I've been using (and not using) far:
First, I don't give them any computers that don't have either a keyboard, mouse, or (eventually) a stylus. Pictures-under-glass, fingerpaint style devices are not in the repitore. To me, they make you stupid, esp in terms of opportunity costs.
The best explanation for the sudden UAP cover-up & stigmatization after Project Blue Book was information gain by the US govt. This best explanation must also presume a good faith rational motive.
My guess: in the 1960s the government learned some "non-urgent, very bad news" 1/
Non-urgent, very bad news for our species arriving in the 1950s or 1960s motivates a sustained, tightly controlled, well organized cover-up. If it was good news, it would be less controlled or shared sooner. If it was urgent news, we would have had to reckon with it already.
