No, this is not an Augmented Reality demonstration, it is an amazing Drone swarm! Or would be a Drone school?
This aquatic scene was viewed at a performance in Madison Square Garden for the band Phish.
https://marcusleshock.com/phish-whale-and-dolphin-drones-turn-madison-square-garden-into-an-aquarium/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ZM58WjhKk
Whoever said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results has obviously never had to reboot a computer.
—William Petersen
An excellent explanation of the use of the keyword Final in Swift by Steven Curtis.
Steven mentions that using Final can help prevent the overuse of Inheritance (i.e. Composition over inheritance).
https://stevenpcurtis.medium.com/your-swift-classes-should-be-final-78cb41b79da0
Did you know the “@“ symbol was called the “Strudel” in Israel?
Here is a cute article from BBC talking about the famous At Sign.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160307-how-do-you-say-in-other-languages
Wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign
Another @ article: https://people.howstuffworks.com/arroba.htm
Here Ia a bit of Internet history, the archived copies of AppleLink magazine.
Before iCloud, Facebook, and even AOL, there was AppleLink Personal Edition (made by the folks who became AOL).
https://archive.org/details/@savetz?query=applelink
PS. If you have some old copies of this publication, please check if you have some of the missing issues!
Here is a CNN article on the surprising (for them) success of VR Exercising.
“The Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise (VRHI) found that popular VR fitness apps can be just as vigorous as common real-world workouts.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/21/vr-workout-games/
Oculus announced improvements their Hand Tracking API, relating to Presence Platform’s hand tracking capability.
Watch the video to appreciate the changes!
https://developer.oculus.com/blog/presence-platforms-hand-tracking-api-gets-an-upgrade/
Apple Stores have become something of monuments in some cities, some more than others.
The Chicago stores were the first, for a number of reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSHAgKb3fSM
In 2011, Cornell University students plugged two AI bots into each other, and got this conversation.
10 years later, over 23 million people have watch these two robots getting snotty with each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzlbyTZsQY
Article from 2011: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/08/chatty-robots-go-viral-youtube
ARitize Maps, from Nextech AR, is a new mapping solution for the Metaverse.
“This app is an all-in-one Metaverse creation tool, and the first end-to-end Metaverse mapping solution for consumers and brands alike.”
https://www.thevrara.com/blog2/http/wwwnextecharcom/press-releases-and-media/nextech-ar-launches-metaverse-builder-app-aritize-maps
Press release: https://www.nextechar.com/press-releases-and-media/nextech-ar-launches-metaverse-builder-app-aritize-maps
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyXBZFOBxjM
Ten years ago this week, I took this video of the Space Shuttle flying in to Dulles & the Smithsonian.
No, it wasn’t flying itself, it was piggyback on a 747 (with two escort Jets).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9Nke-n9WnA
Full text posting I wrote of the posting:
On April 17, 2012, The Space Shuttle Discovery landed at Dulles Airport, Sterling, Virginia, for permanent display at the National Air and Space Museum annex, the Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center. I shot this video about a mile and half short of the runway, in a parking lot in Chantilly, VA using my iPhone 4S. Everywhere, the traffic had come to a stop, as people watched the 747 carrying the shuttle, and a T-38 escort jet flew overhead for 45 minutes. This is the second time the shuttle flew by this exact path, moments later it landed at the airport. The first time it flew by, I never got a chance to take a photo, since I was just standing there open mouthed, watching it soar by. The large crowd let up a big cheer, and then started leaving. Moments later we heard on the radio, that the first pass was just to observe, and the jet was coming around for another one. I moved to this less crowded position, and took this video. According to the radio, they had to land due to low fuel, not of the 747, but of the escort jet.
Apple's yearly photo contest “…highlight the global community of iPhone photographers”.
Using the iPhone 13 Pro lineup, these ten best photos will be by Apple, including on billboards in select cities.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/04/apple-unveils-the-best-photos-from-the-shot-on-iphone-macro-challenge/
Color Theory is just as crucial in Software Design as in Movie Production, which this video explains.
I have used Primary-Secondary-Tertiary in my designs but never knew about the 60/30/10 ratio. I will use it from now on!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYRyaY-9F_g
SwiftUI, SceneKit, and AR camera input come together in this article from Mark Lucking of Better Programming.
While we wait (patiently?) for proper AR hardware, we are seeing more and more Apps use the camera in interesting ways.
https://betterprogramming.pub/managing-the-camera-in-scenekit-under-swiftui-6608e7a0de52
LinkedIn New reports that Apple’s manufacturing in India, Apple’s 2nd most significant market, will be doubling.
There is no doubt that Apple is shifting its heavy reliance on Chinese manufacturing.
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/apple-bets-big-on-india-5807426/
Reuters original story: https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-starts-manufacturing-iphone-13-india-2022-04-11/
I must be feeling Nostalgic, either that or Old, because this look into the past amused me.
I was at Apple when SCSI was mainstreamed. We were told NOT to call it Scuzzy, that was not a term computer users would like.
https://www.macworld.com/article/631921/mac-future-nostalgia-scsi-network-connectivity.html
Does anyone else remember their Mother telling them “Don’t sit so close to the TV, it will hurt your eyes.”? I remember that today, as I strapped on my VR headset.
Thank you to Avi Tsadok for this first exposure to a feature of Swift 5.7.
Replace the old swift standard “if let x = x” with shortened shadowing of “if let x“.
https://betterprogramming.pub/swift-5-7-unwrapping-optionals-gets-improvement-be81c578e9fa
An interesting Quora posting about OS X becoming Unix Compliant during the early days.
For legal reason, certification was needed, but the changes broke all of the Mac code. Until they fixed it.
https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix-compliant-certified
Here is a different view of what the future Verse may be focused on.
Education may be the most key portion of future tech, Founder Michael Bodekaer Jensen thinks he is has a jump ahead on this.
https://sifted.eu/articles/labster-edtech-raise/
Apple's new “Friday Night Baseball” will include additional online content.
Sports & Entertainment venues have been working on this type of merging live/televised events with information on handheld devices. NFL specifically has been experimenting.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/04/apple-introduces-broadcasters-and-production-details-for-friday-night-baseball/
Roses are RED
Violets are BLUE
Unexpected error,
On line 42.
(I need that for a Father's Day card!)
An interesting outsider view of the rise & fall of AOL.
There were many reasons for the success, and ultimate failure, but AOL will always have a place in Internet history.
https://slidebean.com/story/does-aol-still-exist
Ps. One mistake, Steve Case did not change the name from Quantum to AOL. The employees actually voted on it. The #2 choice, the one I preferred, because I thought AOL was too USA specific, was Crossroads!
The first day at Meta, 100% Remote.
I have been repeatedly asked how did I like it. I can safely say I loved the Commute.
Thanks to Dhruba Dahal for this article on how to write functions as a Pro.
I have been following using an object as a parameter for years, but the idea of not having Boolean Flag arguments makes sense.
https://dhruba-dahal.medium.com/eight-tips-to-write-functions-like-a-senior-developer-794140719351
There are two major products of Berkeley, CA -- LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be strictly by coincidence.
Protobuf is an API to help structure communication between Client-Server, with a better data transfer rate than JSON.
Elye’s article explains how to use this Google API to save/restore iOS data locally to disk.
https://medium.com/mobile-app-development-publication/learning-protobuf-for-ios-locally-58169f421924
