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elkraneo
@elkraneo.bsky.social
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Humanist, developer, aspiring meta-programmer
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A11y, SpatialComputing, Swift, ScienceFiction

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Inside The BioVault / Ep. 5 (2/2) → Enter Houdini; with this simple trick, we can finally go from concept to asset ready.

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#AppleVisionPro #SpatialComputing #visionOS #TheGreenSpurt
October 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Inside The BioVault / Ep. 5 → The hunt for an impossible structure, creating the BioVault.

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#AppleVisionPro #SpatialComputing #visionOS #TheGreenSpurt
October 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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"Inside The BioVault" / Episode 2 of our new series about The Green Spurt → How we created a more compelling equipment interaction for a critical component of the game

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#AppleVisionPro #SpatialComputing #visionOS #TheGreenSpurt
October 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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View Mirroring > Audio Routing is an invaluable feature in visionOS 1.1. Previously, there was a compromise between displaying the video to everyone and canceling the user's audio experience. We can now choose to maintain both individual experience and external participation
Screenshot of the control center within visionOS for the most recent beta release, showcasing the view mirroring and audio routing options
February 16, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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Cyberpop.2
Collage of a frame from the Max Headroom TV series labeled "Cyberpunk" on the left and a marketing photo for the Vision Pro Persona feature labeled "Cyberpop" on the right. Both figures are clearly synthetic, looking to the side, but the changes in the polygon count and texturing, as well as the characters' attitudes, illustrate how Apple aims for this device to become a common "popular" object, thus "Cyberpop"
February 8, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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Cyberpop.1
Collage of a frame from the Johnny Mnemonic movie with the caption "Cyberpunk" on the left and one of the marketing photos for the Vision Pro Dual Loop Band release with the caption "Cyberpop" on the right. Both characters are wearing VR goggles looking to the side, but the differences in the packaging (cables, softness) and the characters' attitudes demonstrate how Apple intends for this device to become a common "popular" object, thus "Cyberpop"
January 9, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Cyberpop
Collage of one of the covers of Neuromancer with the caption "Cyberpunk" on the left and one of the marketing photos for the VIsion Pro release with the caption "Cyberpop" on the right. Both figures are wearing VR goggles looking to the front, but the differences in the packaging (cables, softness) and the characters' attitudes signs to how Apple intends for this device to become a common "popular" object, thus "Cyberpop"
January 5, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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It's possible that I inadvertently purchased RealityCheck stickers for my upcoming presentation. Who would be able to deny such an alluring opportunity?
A RealityCheck icon sticker is in the middle of the LEGO 920-2 - Rocket Launch Pad located in my living room; I'm content with its size, yet the quality could be better.
November 8, 2023 at 12:14 PM
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I thought all RealityKit Entities had a Transform component but found one without while improving multiscene support in RealityCheck
Screenshot of the latest iteration of RealityCheck with multi scene support, displaying an Entity without Transform component
October 30, 2023 at 10:55 AM
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I had a super chill and nice chat yesterday about the motivations behind RealityCheck and the work that's been done so far to make it useful for visionOS. The new version is going well, especially considering the amount of fascinating rabbit holes there are 🐇
A screenshot of the forthcoming version of RealityCheck, which is currently in the current feature/visionOS branch, displaying its updated layout to work alongside the simulator and demonstrating the revised logic to inspect visionOS RealityKit hierarchies.
October 25, 2023 at 1:34 PM
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Here's a little teaser.
Turn on the notification on Youtube: www.youtube.com/live/89iYsoW...
Or register on LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/events/opens...
A screenshot of the title of the presentation for tomorrow's session. A background of the logs displaying RealityKit hierarchies in visionOS generated during the development can be read in "RealityCheck 0.0.3 — The Way of the Spatial."
October 23, 2023 at 2:52 PM
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Debug viewers in Playgrounds really talk to me, but I found the way Xcode does it much more attractive than Swift Playgrounds. ☕
Screen recording of Xcode playgrounds adding a debug viewer to a line using "dump" and displaying the data with an outliner component, similar to a sidebar Screen recording of Swift playgrounds on macOS adding a debug viewer to a line using 'dump' and displaying the data in a drill-down way, similar to iPhone.
October 17, 2023 at 10:37 AM
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Is there a question that isn't a rabbit hole? This happens when you ask how two square screens can show a whole filed of view
Screenshot of the Near-Eye Display Testing device, showing how to measure near-eye displays (NEDs). The diagram shows the aperture location inside a standard lens compared to the one in AR/VR lenses Screenshot of the Near-Eye Display Testing device, showing a ProMetric I29 image colorimetered? of the process done in the factory for distortion calibration
October 9, 2023 at 9:22 AM
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I had the chance to visit some museums recently. While I was looking at the exhibits, I wondered how it would have been for a blind friend, so I took my phone and started scanning using iOS17s magnifier feature. I was hoping for some critic-level insight, but we are not there yet...
Mark Rothko, No. 16 (1960), painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, described as "A blue and red painting hanging on a white wall" by the magnifier feature on iOS17
October 8, 2023 at 5:39 PM
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This is my life right now.
A screenshot of my dock shows four different versions of Xcode, one missing system update, and some incompatible app versions with Sonoma
October 4, 2023 at 2:15 PM
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Characterizing today's Apple Vision Pro Lab in London
A photo of myself with an emotive expression in front of the Battersea Energy Plant, where the Vision Pro Lab was today
September 28, 2023 at 7:48 PM
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I was looking for examples or ways to make MV-HEVC stereoscopic videos and came across this beast
Canon's Dual Fisheye Lens Camera is called VR Content Creator Kit and costs $5,499.00
September 26, 2023 at 1:36 PM
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We’re talking about 29.548.400 triangles or 2 gigabytes of memory for this particular model (x700), which makes me think it’s not really using instancing and is just duplicating it
Screenshot of Reality Composer Pro displaying the number of triangles for the robot (42.212) and vertices (26.220) After duplicating the model several times, a screenshot of the Activity Monitor app shows 9 GB of memory used by keynote.
September 22, 2023 at 12:40 PM
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It starts to struggle on an M1 pro with 32 GB or RAM after 700 instances.
vimeo.com/867150893?sh...
video recording of a keynote presentation displaying the vintage robot USDZ demo model on the first slide, then 3 and then multiplying by a factor of 4 on every slide until there are 700 models on screen. Even though the recording doesn't drop frames, manipulating that number of models in Keynote started to stress the app
September 22, 2023 at 12:39 PM
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3D animation in Keynote running on an iPhone, what a time to be alive…
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Screenshot of the Keynote 13.2 release notes, which details the new 3D capabilities. It reads as follows:  Bring new dimension to your presentations with 3D objects in USDZ format Play embedded animations within USDZ files or use Magic Move to animate 3D objects across slides
September 21, 2023 at 4:58 PM
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What is the word that conveys cool, cute, and ingenious at the same time?
A screenshot of the imported subway experience model, showing its tiny initial size, spread out like components in a library, waiting to be used on the scene A screenshot of the imported subway experience model in the travelling part shows how the remaining components animate around to make it feel like the train moves. The skybox moves at different speeds to create a parallax effect when looking through the windows.
September 20, 2023 at 3:11 PM