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Wrote a piece on the effects of personal space in VR. Are we designing our VR environments from a biased perspective that suits our own personal space but does not consider others? How do we accommodate for differing levels of preferred interpersonal distances?

devdiner.com/virtual-reality/p

With that done, I'm off to bed! But if anyone has thoughts/experience to share, please do!

Gonna be covering the emerging tech happenings at tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday for Dev Diner! Gonna be some action packed days! Already spotted a volumetric display team I'm keen to talk to!

Finally got the first prototype up of my emerging tech events calendar! devdiner.com/events

Hoping it'll help all those devs who are struggling to know what events, hackathons, meetups, conferences... etc are on! I feel that pain... hoping to cure it! ๐Ÿ˜บ

Hosted an incredibly odd panel on the future of VR. Went in directions I didn't expect! Hosting panels is a fascinating experience!

Going to be running a Vive as part of a VR film festival throughout today. On the inside, I'll be constantly restraining myself from putting on the Rick and Morty VR game and just playing it myself the whole time ๐Ÿ˜ธ

Such a neat game... haven't gotten all the way through yet!

I don't know if this is spam or not, but I liked this recent comment on one of my articles ๐Ÿ˜ธ mastodon.social/media/vnzuDOoB

Having my morning coffee (both virtually and in real life) in Melbourne right now, will be doing a live test of my work in progress at Buzzconf tonight!

mastodon.social/media/sx_WIUIa

Just stopped at one of the best parts of travelling to Melbourne, the Electra Cafe in Albury! I love it here. Makes me consider moving just so I could start each day here...

If you haven't read this post yet, it's a must read! Looks at Elon Musk's Neuralink tech and the reasoning behind it in great (and entertaining) detail!

waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neurali

(I've yet to read it all properly cause it's crazy long... will get there slowly)

mastodon.social/media/IZEbAyKx

Hi everyone! I made a translator bot that translates statuses it's mentioned in.

To use it, mention @translator (translator@toot.works) in your status, followed by the two-letter code for the language you want to translate to (e.g. "ja" for Japanese) (full list of possible codes here: christopher.su/projects/transl). It uses English if no language is given.

Give it a try and toot me your suggestions and comments!

@translator ja

Trying out the new Microsoft To Do app. Maybe I'm picky but it's 9:52pm at night... It's not time to plan today! It's surely time to plan for tomorrow guys.

@patcat I also have about 3000 lines of Python code that makes up my Device Control System. It will allow smart devices to communicate with each other, including those on other networks. It uses 10 different message types and includes authentication.

@joule

One more link for the day! Why AI is not the enemy โ€” some great and reasoned points for how we need to approach AI.

venturebeat.com/2017/04/17/why

(putting together the Dev Diner newsletter and finding some cool things as usual, thought I'd share a few with Mastodon friends!)

@hybotics @patcat sweet. I bookmarked it. Here's a pic of my hexy. She's an ambitious project I started working on, and robotics is hard yo. My tech blog is at www.aoreugif.net. it's not much of a blog right now though.

Patrick, sure but my bandwidth is limited. Don't hurt it please. mastodon.social/media/G9kH-LyT

@joule I am going to be doing exactly that as I start my upgrades to the Little Red Rover. My tech blog is at blog.hybotics.tech.

@patcat

I think this might be worth some sort of mini-celebration. I never thought I'd live to see the day.

"the MP3 technology became patent-free in the United States on 16 April 2017 when U.S. Patent 6,009,399, ...administered by Technicolor, expired"

Is there any instance focused on emerging tech discussion like , , the , , ... etc? All the abbreviations?