e430 — that’s no moon, it’s the Moon!

photo of Moon over Hatteras, NC, June 2011 — photo by Michael Martine, Moon over Hatteras, NC, June 2011

Published 28 August 2023

Michael Andy and Michael get together for an out of the world show, starting with the Earth’s Moon. They celebrate the successful landing of Chandrayaan 3 on the Moon and hope for the discovery of water.

Moving from the extraterrestrial to the virtual world, the co-hosts turn to a couple of articles about the state of development with Apple’s Vision Pro headset. Developers have been invited to participate in expanding their iOS, iPadOS and MacOS apps in a dynamic and spatial computing manner. The post about the Vision Pro Labs gives some tremendous insight into what those initial experiences have been like for these developers taking their existing code and seeing how it fits into the Vision Pro (virtual) world. A 9 to 5 Mac article explores how a recent patent which details a “small, portable physical object for use in an extended reality system.” may be used. After imagining a digital version of a golf ball marker which could be a physical representation of an AR object, the team also discusses the Star Wars holoprojector concept.

Switching gears, the co-hosts then discuss a blog post by Gergely Orosz on how games are built. They continue with a couple of stories on the Kinect the new HDMI version of the Atari 2600+ and a handcrafted wooden computer.

Closing out this week’s episode is a new song by TenaciousD called Video Games and excitement about the 4K version of Star Wars:Dark Forces coming up.

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