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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 14d

Fantastic video

Amazing how far solar + batteries go in situations where they’re the most reliable option

Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 21d

Excited to see it!

In the 2000’s, it was also sort of like Cuba in the sense that you’d see many, many old American Chevrolets from the 50’s being fixed and driven every day. I think they had huge tariffs on new cars. Looking forward to your video about the tech!

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · Jun 27

Death stranding 2 feels overrated with review scores of 9s and 10s (and I say this as a big DS fan)

Glad to see a lot more nuanced takes in this Reddit thread from hardcore fans www.reddit.com/r/DeathStran...

From the DeathStranding community on Reddit: No spoilers how would you guys rate death stranding 2 compared to the first one

Explore this post and more from the DeathStranding community

www.reddit.com

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · Jun 27

Jeff, as a death stranding 2 fan, you reaaally don’t need to play nor enjoy it

Thankfully you don’t need to manage reviews at a large gaming media org where you need reviews on everything new

Today, people follow you to hear about what YOU like (and also really dislike). It’s ok to not play DS2!

Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · Jun 23

Death Stranding 2 reviews are looking goooood. So excited to play tonight!

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · May 21

@garnettlee.bsky.social do you ever consider podcasting again on the regular? Maybe from an investor/game biz perspective?

You and John D are the people I miss hearing from the most

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · May 14

Andor’s and Bix’s arc was done with bix specifically leaving him to focus on the rebellion (and likely because she knew she was pregnant)

Why would should try to get back in touch with him? Completely invalidates the sacrifice she made when leaving.

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · May 14

The last conversation between Andor and bail organa was SO bad
“Did you sleep well?
“No”
“Do you ever?”
“No”
“Me neither. We have something in common”
Huhh?

This again read like a typical Star Wars show level writing.

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · May 14

The rebel council having no reason to scoff at Andor’s news. What’s so unbelievable about the empire building a weapon? It suddenly felt like every other Star Wars show with characters being incompetent to move a plot along. The whole room I was in was yelling wtf?

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · May 14

Andor was an incredible show.

But tbat last episode was SO bad that it left a bad taste in my mouth. It felt like it was written by a completely different crew. Ugh

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · May 10

ive been on a hunt to figure out what games support 480hz (or above). here's what i've found so far

any game that has a fully unlocked frame rate works

any other games that come to mind?

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · May 9

Noticing that many PC games from the early to mid 2010s have an arbitrary limit of 200fps ie:

- doom 2016
- mirrors edge catalyst
- battlefield 4

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · May 9

I’m buying a PS5 for death stranding 2

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · Apr 18

Unfortunately not. Thanks for the feedback!

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · Apr 18

Also, if you’re deving with openXR, I highly recommend using virtual desktop to stream to your Quest 3

You’ll go desktop 2D <-> VR instance instantly x.com/azadux/statu...

x.com

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · Apr 18

+1

I have bobovr m3 pro strap that has a flip up visor functionality, ideal for going VR<->PC super easily

I also have a long USB C cable w/ 20watts plugged into it almost at all times to keep it continually charged (so like an AVP), unless I need to unplug and walk around. Work great

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Jon Barron @jonbarron.bsky.social · Apr 8

A thread of thoughts on radiance fields, from my keynote at 3DV:

Radiance fields have had 3 distinct generations. First was NeRF: just posenc and a tiny MLP. This was slow to train but worked really well, and it was unusually compressed --- The NeRF was smaller than the images.

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · Mar 27

This open-air quest 3 facial interface is truly the convertible, drop-top, “feel and smell the air around you” accessory of VR

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Kris (WB) Winters 🌱 @kriswbennett.co.uk · Mar 27

Hey VR/MR devs 👋

We need your 📈 DATA 📉 for our Reboot Blue talk;

'The game has changed: VR games marketing in 2025'

- All data you provide is completely anonymous
- We'll post a summary of the findings after Reboot
- Should only take you 5 mins
- We'd be very appreciative
- Form below 👇

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Mohamed Sayed @mohamedsayed.bsky.social · Mar 17

Splats are great, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could transform them into the stuff of dreams? Introducing our #CVPR2025 paper ✨Morpheus✨!

Morpheus lets you change the shape and appearance of 3D Gaussian splats with a few words!

nianticlabs.github.io/morpheus/

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · Mar 23

end-to-end latency test for moonlight streaming from my PC (shown on the monitor) to me Steam Deck

Total latency at 60fps is around a frame (16ms). Even less so for 90fps.

Feels fantastic for playing with a controller

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · Mar 18

the white Core 2 is gorgeous. Ordered!

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · Mar 16

Who’s in town for GDC?

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · Mar 10

“Back in my day, MR meant green screens damnit!”

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Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · Mar 10

It’s just something that feels like it’s a core part of the steam deck/box/deckard experience. Why not make it *actually* great, esp when the better streaming option is readily available