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CNET - future tech, VR/AR, wearables, games, immersive, existential dread/whimsy. Looking in weeds for little frogs. Subscribe to The Intertwixt, my newsletter about strange overlaps: https://intertwixt.beehiiv.com

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Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · Aug 29

So I’m joining everyone else and doing a personal newsletter. Mine’s gonna be all about the overlaps with AR/VR, immersive places, theater, games, magic, life, chaos, creativity, books, etc etc. If you want to start, it’ll go out later tonight and you can sign up now intertwixt.beehiiv.com

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A place where the virtual and real and all the pieces in between intertwine. Immersive, VR/AR, gaming, book, theater and related thoughts by Scott Stein

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Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 2h

Wondering what to Intertwixt about this week

Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 9h

Hey, just learned that my story about Epic Universe won an Eddie award. I didn’t even know it was nominated! Here it is. www.cnet.com/tech/my-trip...

My Trip Inside Epic Universe: The Line Between Real and Virtual Blurs Even More

I got an early visit to one of the biggest new theme parks in decades, and it showed us a bit of the future -- for those who can afford it.

www.cnet.com

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Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 13h

Morning self portrait attempt - Rokid Glasses. Yeah you can see the displays at angles

Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 13h

Absolutely no way this is true

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14h

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of cosplaying recently

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

NEW from me:

CBS News staffers literally rolled their eyes after new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss delivered a "cringey" rallying cry during today's editorial call, exclaiming: "Let's do the fucking news!"

"She's cosplaying as a broadcast journalist," one said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

‘Let’s do the f***ing news’: Bari Weiss causes ‘eye rolls’ with CBS News rallying cry

EXCLUSIVE: Multiple CBS News staffers told The Independent that Bari Weiss’ ‘cringey’ comments on the editorial call literally caused eyes to roll.

www.independent.co.uk

Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 2d

I broke. I’m reading a cozy fantasy

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Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yes yes

Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 2d

Living between multiple pairs of smart glasses is hard because I only have two eyes as opposed to multiple wrists

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Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 2d

Feeling deep existential pangs today. Are you?

Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 2d

Reading books still works

Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 2d

I’m heading to Vegas in January. Old haunt, new times

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Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 2d

The situation now is people are fragmenting in their blame of the cause of the enshittifying. Loved Doctorow’s book The Lost Cause

Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 2d

Is our common unifying thread that we all think everything is fucked up

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Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 2d

Rokid is both

Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 2d

There is a teleprompter mode that’s pretty cool though. Smart scroll a little wonky but it’s a fascinating idea (as long as you don’t see the green display though my lens)

Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 2d

Also they have displays in both eyes, so the green monochrome floats as one display seen by both. Not monocular like Ray-Ban Display. But also these are just green text, few apps

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Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 2d

Two differences over Ray-Ban Display: charge cable runs right to glasses arm (you could charge while wearing?) and prescription inserts magnetically snap in. But no Neural Band here, it’s all voice and side touch arm controls

Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 2d

Rokid Glasses, which have inserts in my prescription that magnetically snap in. I like that, and they’re small, but the style and function are a little weird so far. Green monochrome display can show through from outside

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Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 2d

Putting a new pair of smart glasses. It’s glasses season

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Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 2d

This administration is going to result in the kind of map you’d find in the front of a dystopian sci-fi paperback. “Indigenous Nation Tariff-Free Trading Corridor” sounds like something Philip K. Dick would have with come up with in 1972.

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 3d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 3d

That’s exactly it. You can go to Disney sometimes or try to be in constantly

Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 3d

About the glasses or the VR?

Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 3d

Been thinking about VR (increasingly seemingly demonized) vs smart glasses. The nice thing about VR is, you use it and then stop using it. It’s temporary. Smart glasses…the idea is to have them on forever

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Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 3d

It isn’t AI slop but it sounds like it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "Please remember I wrote Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before he blew up the World Trade Center. And I said, 'You gotta watch Osama bin Laden!' ... I gotta take a little credit."

Scott Stein 🥑 @scottstein.bsky.social · 3d

Dolphins suck, Giants suck, Jets suck way more