Saturday Tech Humor
A man is smoking a cigarette and blowing smoke rings into the air. His girlfriend becomes irritated with the smoke and says, “Can’t you see the warning on the cigarette pack? Smoking is hazardous to your health!”
To which the man replies, “I am a programmer. We don’t worry about warnings; we only worry about errors.”
With the release of Facebook Passthrough SDK, we are finally starting to see hardware/software that merges VR with AR.
Part of Oculus v31 SDK release, apps can use the for co-location social presence, gaming and even accessing your keyboard while in your VR world.
https://developer.oculus.com/blog/mixed-reality-with-passthrough/
Freya Holmér (@YO_SU_RA) created this fantastic video explaining the math and details behind the Bézier Curve.
I admit it, a good portion of this math is beyond me, but it is good to know what you can do with a Bézier Curve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHniEw
Facebook release Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses.
With photo/video records, ability to place phone call, and list to audio, it reminds me a lot of Google Glass without the terribly bad view screen.
https://skarredghost.com/2021/09/09/ray-ban-stories-facebook-smartglasses/
A wonderfully useful article by Philip Niedertscheider (@philprimes)on 5 different new Swift patterns.
A better safe array, a better way to handle empty/nil strings, multi-assignment operators, and 2 more.
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/5-swift-extensions-to-write-smarter-code-7287b86fde68
Thank you to everyone who been sending me positive energy and thoughts. I am pretty much over whatever illness clobbered me for the last 2 weeks. I will be returning to work tomorrow, though I suspect it will be another week until I am back to my normal routine.
