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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon

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architect turned XR-chitect crafting virtual spaces and the spectacles within | CEO, Agile Lens: Immersive Design, XR strike force | Unreal Engine Authorized Instructor & Toolmaker | Theatre is cool

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · Jan 2

I'm excited for 2025.

We've always been a bootstrapped service company, but for me, 2025 will be about taking some of the hyper-custom solutions we've been building at @agilelens.bsky.social that have matured and now expanding and scaling them for a wide range of new audiences and users.

Thread !🧵

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 3h

lol whoops it was 5 years ago

Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 14h

3 years ago today @agilelens.bsky.social with Fisher Dachs testing the sightlines of @lincolncenter.bsky.social’s David Geffen Hall with different railing and seating options.

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Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 2d

This is delusional. You can't support a hospital on only an ER - they're not the profit center of a hospital! ERs take enormous charity care losses due to EMTALA and have to be cross-subsidized by more profitable service areas.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

In Soviet America, Texas messes with *you*

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 2d

Hope to see you there !!

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Unreal NYC | October Event - Sponsored by Epic Games (APPROVAL REQ'D) Age 21+ | Communities

In-person Event - IMPORTANT:Epic Games is kindly sponsoring the event and hosting us at their NYC office, similar to our May event earlier...

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 2d

Are you in NYC ? Do you like Unreal Engine or other Epic Games products? Join us at the Unreal NYC meetup, October 22nd at the Epic Games office!

Speakers will be a killer one-two punch: Matt Workman and Woody Devs. There will also be some excellent demos, as well as food, drink, and swag.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

“In Cyberpunk 2077 universe, AI killed the Internet by propagating all over it, faster than humans could hope to stop it. This forced companies and people to abandon it and either use isolated small networks or reconnect in real life”

Me seeing AI in real life doing just that:

[Image of a person looking directly at the camera with a knowing, unimpressed, or weary expression]

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Jeffries: This is the second time it's been shut down under Donald Trump, and he's nowhere to be found. He's got time to be on the golf course, but apparently doesn't have time to sit down with Democrats to reopen the government.

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 2d

What are you doing in Unity ?? 😜

Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 5d

100% same

Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 5d

I found a baby snapping turtle on my road !

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Russ Burlingame @russburlingame.com · 7d

These motherfuckers are going to kill us all

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 7d

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana, as big as 70 football fields, requiring more than twice as much electricity as the City of New Orleans.

Louisiana has had to greenlight $3 billion in new energy infrastructure to service Meta's facility.

New Meta Data Center Needs Twice as Much Energy as New Orleans

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

buff.ly

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 7d

More info:
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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 7d

Meta's fork of Unreal Engine gave you Application SpaceWarp (ASW), an excellent form of reprojection.

In UE 5.7, Epic introduces an OpenXR, headset-agnostic mobile reprojection method, and it's EXCELLENT.

Try it out:
r.Velocity.DirectlyRenderOpenXRMotionVectors=1 xr.OpenXRFrameSynthesis=1
#uetips

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 7d

oh man great catch

Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 7d

Thrilled to announce Epic Games is kindly hosting our Unreal NYC meetup once again at their Manhattan office on October 22.

Speakers will be a killer one-two punch of @mattworkmancine.bsky.social & @woodydevs.bsky.social

Approval required, 21+

Hope I see you there!
www.meetup.com/unrealengine...

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 7d

Omg it's just like THANK YOU FOR SMOKING where the Senator removes cigarettes from old movies.

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 7d

Company pays a ton of money for franchise about guy known for his gun and removes the gun. kotaku.com/james-bond-a...

Amazon Is Digitally Erasing Guns From James Bond Posters

Also: More news about the Halo remake, bad news about Payday 3's offline mode, and sad news about AOL's dial-up service

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Amy Young @ayoung.bsky.social · 10d

Who wants to call a Congress Member?
Want to call EVERY Congress Member?
the U.S. Capitol Switchboard is (202) 224-3121
Stuck in traffic? Call a Congress member.
Waiting in the school car line or for soccer practice to end?
Call them.

Don’t forget to remind them to release the Epstein files.

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 12d

And more

Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 12d

Unreal Fest Stockholm in pictures

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 15d

Simpler, more innocent times !

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 15d

POV: trying to update Hades II on airplane wifi over the Atlantic.

Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 17d

Slides here!

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Stockholm 2025 - Google Drive

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 17d

Also haha spotted in our signal chat

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 17d

Just finished my #UnrealFestStockholm talk, I WISH I LEARNED THIS SOONER PART 2! As usual it was a breakneck pace but the attendees seemed to get a kick out of it— from what I’m hearing people learned 8-10 different things, but they were 8-10 DIFFERENT things for each person 💫

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