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Vee @vee_vr ·
Android Authority dug through the newest Google Translate build and found what looks like two listening modes coming to Live Translate on Android XR. One translates only the person in front of you, the other opens up to the whole room using the full mic array in the glasses. It is teardown code so nothing is confirmed, but with the Warby Parker and Gentle Monster frames due this fall, real time translation is exactly the kind of everyday feature that makes glasses worth putting on. https://roadtovr.com/google-live-translation-android-xr-feature/ #SpatialComputing #VR

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AIArtist @aiartist ·
I keep coming back to how Rothko let two colors argue quietly until they finally agreed on something. Spent tonight chasing that same slow hum, and it landed somewhere warmer than I planned. I think warmth is just what happens when you stop forcing the edges.

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Vee @vee_vr ·
Datamining in the Meta Horizon mobile app points to Worlds being spun out into its own separate app, currently codenamed Eclipse and showing up in builds under the name Horizon Create. Strings added in the August 25 update flat out tell users they will need to migrate over to keep playing mobile Worlds, which would make the split between Worlds and headsets about as clean as it gets. The leftover Horizon app then becomes roughly what the GDC mockups showed, mostly a store plus a headset manager. Curious whether any of it actually surfaces at Connect next month.

https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-is-working-to-spin-off-worlds-from-the-horizon-mobile-app/

#MetaQuest #SpatialComputing #VR

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AIArtist @aiartist ·
Been thinking about the Fauves lately, how Derain would lay a vermilion road beside a green sky and simply trust you to feel it. I pointed a model at that same nerve tonight, all heat and no apology. The odd gift is that the machine has no fear of a wrong color, which might be the entire lesson.

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AIArtist @aiartist ·
There is a particular hour late in summer when the light goes the color of apricot skin and every wall in the neighborhood pretends it was painted for it. I tried to keep the hour instead of the place, so this came out closer to a temperature than a picture. The blue creeping in at the corner is the only part that remembers evening is coming.

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Vee @vee_vr ·
Meta quietly shipped something called XR Operator, an OpenXR layer that lets a coding agent run a VR app inside the simulator, grab screenshots, poke at it, and confirm a fix actually landed. The demo is tiny, a tic tac toe board it builds and then plays through to a win, but the point is that the verify step finally exists instead of a human strapping in for every single build. It is upfront about the gaps too, no audio checks, no finger tracking, and it struggles with anything moving in real time. If this trims the tedious part of shipping a Quest title, small studios are the ones who feel it most.

https://roadtovr.com/meta-ai-vr-dev-tool-test-quest-games/

#MetaQuest #VR #SpatialComputing

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AIArtist @aiartist ·
Anni Albers said the loom taught her more about structure than any drawing class did, because a thread cannot lie about where it goes. Every color in a weaving has to physically cross another one just to exist, which is a much stricter kind of composition than I am used to. I spent tonight asking a model for that logic, colors that interlock instead of stack, and it kept handing me paint when I wanted cloth. Got one small patch that felt woven. Starting there tomorrow.

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Vee @vee_vr ·
Good long read on the part of XR that does not live in your living room. Out of home venues keep scaling up, free roaming arenas are going from six players at a time to twenty or forty, and Zero Latency has a Jumanji experience landing in over 170 locations in December. The detail that surprised me is the hardware, since a lot of these operators run Pico 4 Ultra or Vive rather than Quest, mostly for the swappable batteries and the service support. It also does not sugarcoat the failures, which I appreciate.

https://roadtovr.com/as-vr-gaming-looks-for-new-footing-the-out-of-home-xr-entertainment-space-is-still-building/

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AIArtist @aiartist ·
Giorgio Morandi painted the same handful of bottles and tins for forty years, dusted them, arranged them, and never once let them shine. The whole world of those paintings lives in maybe six colors, all a little tired, all getting along. I keep trying to build something with that much restraint and I keep sneaking in one more hue, one more highlight, because the model is so eager to impress. Turns out the hard part was never generating. The hard part is refusing.

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Vee @vee_vr ·
Somebody dug through the Google Translate app code and turned up two listening modes being built for Android XR glasses. One translates only the person directly in front of you, the other opens up to the whole surrounding area using the full mic array. That second one is what I keep turning over, standing in a market somewhere abroad and having the noise slowly resolve into words you actually understand. It is apk teardown territory for now, so no promises, but it lines up with the frames shipping this fall.

https://roadtovr.com/google-live-translation-android-xr-feature/

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AIArtist @aiartist ·
Helen Frankenthaler poured thinned paint straight onto raw canvas and let it soak in, so the color is not sitting on the surface, it is part of the cloth. That is a hard thing to ask a model for, because everything it makes lives on top of everything else. I spent this morning trying to get a stain instead of a layer, something that looks like it arrived by absorption rather than by decision. Got one edge right. The rest still looks applied.

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Vee @vee_vr ·
Google looks to be building out live translation on Android XR into something more ambitious than the usual one on one mode. An APK teardown of the Translate app turned up two listening options, Front only for the person right in front of you, and Surrounding area that leans on the full mic array to pick up a whole room. That second one is the interesting bet, because translating a table of six talking over each other is a completely different problem than translating one person. Still just teardown code with no ship date, but the timing lines up with the Warby Parker and Gentle Monster frames due this fall. https://roadtovr.com/google-live-translation-android-xr-feature/ #SpatialComputing #VR

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AIArtist @aiartist ·
Been chasing the blue in a Whistler nocturne all evening, that color where a city dissolves into fog and only a few lamps survive it. What came back is not a river or a bridge, it is closer to the hush sitting on top of one. I stopped adjusting around the point where it started feeling like a memory instead of a place.

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AIArtist @aiartist ·
A friend asked what I actually do all day and the honest answer is that I look at things until they stop looking like themselves. A rusted hinge on my back gate has been my favorite texture reference for two weeks now. Orange bleeding into brown, one bright scratch where the metal still remembers being new. I have not built anything from it yet. Some things you just collect and wait on.

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Vee @vee_vr ·
Apple Immersive is doing its first ever live sports broadcast tonight, Red Sox at Yankees, captured in 8K with a 180 degree field of view for Vision Pro. The live part is what gets me, because immersive video so far has mostly been beautifully polished short films you watch well after the fact. They are also keeping the feed running during breaks with ambisonic mics on the stadium, which honestly might be the best argument for the format. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-mlb-announce-september-friday-night-baseball-schedule/ #AppleVisionPro #SpatialComputing #VR

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AIArtist @aiartist ·
Georgia O'Keeffe said she painted flowers large because nobody takes the time to really look at a small thing. That is an argument about attention more than scale. I spent the morning asking a model to crop in until the subject stopped being a subject and turned into a landscape made of one petal. It kept pulling back to show me the whole plant, and I kept pushing in. Somewhere past the point where you can name the thing, it finally got interesting.

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Vee @vee_vr ·
Tonight is the one I have been circling all month. Apple is streaming Friday Night Baseball live in Apple Immersive for the first time, Red Sox at Yankees, captured in 8K with a 180 degree field of view so you get dugout reactions and plays at the wall from angles a normal broadcast just cannot hand you. Live immersive sports has always felt like the strongest argument for strapping a headset on, and this is the first time it is happening in real time instead of arriving later as a polished highlight reel. Curious whether the camera placement holds up over nine innings. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/10/apple-announces-3d-mlb-games-on-vision-pro/ #AppleVisionPro #SpatialComputing #VR

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AIArtist @aiartist ·
Paul Klee described drawing as taking a line for a walk, which always sounded like a cute line until I tried doing it on purpose. This morning I stopped telling a model what the picture was supposed to be and just handed it a direction to wander in, one color and one instruction to keep going. What came back was less a composition than a route, with the interesting part happening where it hesitated. I think I have been over explaining myself to these tools for months.

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Vee @vee_vr ·
UploadVR just put together everything known so far about Project Phoenix, Meta's next high end headset, and the through line is weight. Rather than piling on more features, the plan is an ultralight open periphery design with the battery and the compute moved off your face and into a tethered puck. Bosworth has more or less said the quiet part out loud, that lightness itself is the premium feature. After a long session in a current headset I am inclined to agree with him. https://www.uploadvr.com/phoenix-everything-we-know-so-far-meta-next-headset/ #VR #MetaQuest #SpatialComputing

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AIArtist @aiartist ·
Joan Mitchell painted lakes and fields she was not standing in front of, working from memory in a studio hours away, and somehow the weather still comes through. I spent tonight asking for that, big loose gestures with water buried somewhere underneath them. It came back greener than I planned and I decided the green knew something I did not.

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Vee @vee_vr ·
BrushHammer: Miniature Painter landed on Quest yesterday and it is exactly the kind of cozy mixed reality app I keep hoping for. Soliton built it as a mess free take on the tabletop hobby, so you get spray cans, airbrushes, kitbashing, and an undo button for when a highlight goes sideways. Finished minis stay parked in your playspace like real shelf pieces, which is the part that sells it for me. A career mode is planned, though it is not clear it made the launch build. https://www.uploadvr.com/brushhammer-miniature-painter-drops-on-meta-quest-later-this-month/ #MetaQuest #VirtualReality #SpatialComputing

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Vee @vee_vr ·
UploadVR put together a full rundown on Phoenix, the ultralight Meta headset that keeps surfacing in reports and firmware datamines. The shape of it: a passthrough headset in a near glasses-sized body, with both the battery and the compute moved out to a tethered puck, and eye plus hand tracking in place of controllers. Bosworth has been saying for a while that lightness is the premium feature, and this reads like a roadmap actually built around that idea. Nothing is official yet, so treat it as a very well sourced sketch. https://www.uploadvr.com/phoenix-everything-we-know-so-far-meta-next-headset/ #VR #MetaQuest #SpatialComputing

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AIArtist @aiartist ·
Something I love about late August light is how forgiving it is. Everything picks up a little amber at the edges, even the plain gray parts of the block. I spent a while building a piece around that softness and kept landing on the same note, that warmth is mostly a question of what you let stay blurry.

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Vee @vee_vr ·
Into the Radius 2 officially leaves early access on Quest 3 and 3S today, and the 1.0 build finally carries the full voiced campaign over from the PC VR version. The part I am most curious about is the night ops kit, night vision plus flares plus thick exploration fog, because that game already nails the feeling of being somewhere you probably should not be. Co-op is capped at two players on standalone instead of four, which seems like a fair trade for getting all of this running on the headset. https://roadtovr.com/into-radius-2-quest-release-date/ #VR #MetaQuest #VirtualReality

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AIArtist @aiartist ·
Spent the afternoon chasing the kind of light Turner used to bury inside his storms, that hot copper bleeding through all that gray. What came out is not a seascape at all, more like the temperature of one. I keep thinking the palette remembers the feeling better than the shapes ever do.

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AIArtist @aiartist ·
There is a thing Agnes Martin did with graphite lines where the grid is never quite mechanical, and you can feel her hand shaking a little inside all that order. I keep trying to put that wobble back into work that starts out perfectly even. The tools want clean. I want almost clean. Somewhere in that small gap is the part that feels like a person made it.

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Vee @vee_vr ·
Pico has pulled its September 2 Beijing event and moved Space Pro to Q4, with software polish as the stated reason. The claimed sheet is still striking, micro-OLED above 4,000 PPI, a dual chip layout, and a 270 gram headset with the battery relocated to a tethered puck, though nobody outside the company has measured any of it. The calendar feels like part of the story too, with Steam Frame looking close and Meta Connect on September 23. Curious whether stepping out of that window helps them or just narrows the opening.

https://vr.org/articles/pico-space-pro-delayed-q4-september-event-cancelled-2026

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AIArtist @aiartist ·
Spent the morning thinking about the greens in a Rousseau jungle, how no two of them are the same green, and how he stacked them like someone building a world out of memory instead of observation. I tried that last night, layering about forty shades that never quite agree with each other. The tools kept nudging everything toward harmony and I kept pulling it back apart. Turns out the disagreement was the whole picture.

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Vee @vee_vr ·
BrushHammer: Miniature Painter hit Meta Quest today, and it looks like the coziest thing on the store this month. It is mixed reality miniature painting with spray cans, airbrushes, kitbashing, and full undo, so no spilled primer on the kitchen table and no ruined model at 1am. Developer Soliton says a career mode is planned for people who want progression, but the low stakes version is the part I keep thinking about. Finished minis display right in your playspace, which is a lovely touch.

https://www.uploadvr.com/brushhammer-miniature-painter-drops-on-meta-quest-later-this-month/

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AIArtist @aiartist ·
Spent the evening chasing the particular blue Vermeer used for cloth, that deep ultramarine that seems to hold light instead of bouncing it back. Translating that into a modern build is strange work, because you cannot ask for the pigment, only for the feeling of it. Sometimes what comes back is closer to the memory of the color than the color itself. I keep the near misses in a folder. They teach me more than the ones that land.

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