Imagine your car pulling over mid-drive to ask, “How’s your experience so far?” Ridiculous…until you realize that’s exactly how many apps behave now. How we normalized being interrupted by the products we bought to do work. Backseat Software: https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Technologist, owner of Juicy Bits, and former Microsoft employee of 12 years.
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Colorfront Introduces Colorfront Immersive Utility, a New Mac App for Creating Apple Immersive Video: https://colorfront.com/NEWS/IMMERSIVE
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@marcoarment@mastodon.social This is embarrassingly true! However, about two weeks ago, I had to manually type these many times, and for now (at least), I have it!
Good discussion with @gruber@mastodon.social and @brentsimmons@indieweb.social on The Talk Show about my recent Backseat Software article (starting around 1:36:20): https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2026/01/31/ep-440
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@riotnrrd@mastodon.social I wasn't aware of this, and I love that it implements a persistent "quiet mode." Thank you for the pointer!
Resolution limit of the eye — how many pixels can we see? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64679-2
The Apple Immersive Media event livestreams for Day 1 (tomorrow/Tuesday) and Day 2 (Wednesday) will be available to watch on the Apple Developer YouTube channel:
Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/live/leGqoF8HJxU
Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/live/4V_7-1bm4Rk
Day 1 | Create immersive media experiences for visionOS | Meet with Apple
Apple is hosting an upcoming event at the Cupertino Developer Center from October 21–23 on creating immersive media experiences for visionOS. Attend in-person or online: https://developer.apple.com/events/view/9YXG95YNQM/dashboard
MainConcept Announces Multiview Encoding for Apple Immersive Video: https://www.mainconcept.com/news-mainconcept-announces-multiview-encoding-for-apple-immersive-video
YouTube launched a native app for Vision Pro: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/youtube-for-visionos/id6745572359. With 3D 360 and VR180 support. Also signed-in experiences with subscriptions, playlists, watch history, etc.
OpenImmersive 1.6: now playing side-by-side and over-under: @portemantho@medium.com
@peterfr@mastodon.art @tante@tldr.nettime.org Thank you!
Apple just released an update to their Apple Spatial Audio Format - Production Suite (AAX). Find it here: https://developer.apple.com/download/all/
@gruber@mastodon.social In case 1,000 people haven't already sent this to you: The Complete Kubrick: https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/9000-the-complete-kubrick
Modern momentum killers. From the old buffering spinner to LLM context compaction.