Sven Van de Perre - ex PlayStation, ex Larian Studios, ex indie studio owner. Tropos AR Co-founder & evangelist. BJJ blue belt.

Brussels, Belgium
Phil here is 100% right. Apple’s Vision Pro is such a masterpiece in user interface. And again Apple accomplished it without a controller (remember the ‘stylus’ bit in Steve’s iPhone presentation?). So @tim_cook, I guess I speak for the entire Apple development community when I say: Steve would have been super proud of the AVP.
One feature of Vision Pro that is vastly underrated is its magnificent and beautifully crafted software design, making visionOS truly one of a kind. As a UI designer, it’s incredibly satisfying to experience these designs up close while they remain stunningly sharp. It’s my kind of ASMR. On what would have been Steve’s 70th birthday, I can only imagine how much he would appreciate the care and attention we continue to give to human interface design today.
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A Statement of Conscience on October 7 I will not start by saying ‘as a Muslim’ or ‘as an imam’, but as a human being. On October 7, over 1,200 innocent people were killed in a single day. Families were shot in their homes. Young people out dancing were hunted across open fields. Over 250 people, including children and the elderly, were dragged into Gaza as hostages. I think of a mother hiding in a safe room with her baby’s mouth covered. I think of a father listening as the line went quiet. I think of families who waited month after month for someone to come home, only to receive a coffin. I didn’t need my faith to recognize the evil of what happened. My heart told me first. But I’m a Muslim and an imam, and I owe the world one honest sentence: what was done that day was a crime against God. God teaches that whoever kills one innocent soul, it is as if he had killed all humanity. This day has an author: Yahya Sinwar. He planned it, ordered it, and knew what would follow. Every death of that day and war he started rests on him and Hamas leaders who sat in tunnels and foreign hotels and called slaughter a victory. It rests on every Palestinian leader who cheered, excused, handed out sweets, or said nothing. They chose this. They own it. But Sinwar did not invent himself. He was the fruit of a tree planted almost a century ago by the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas named itself in its founding charter as the Brotherhood’s branch in Palestine. The Brotherhood’s poison is slow. It arrives through study circles, youth camps, charity boxes, and kind words to lonely young men. Drop by drop, it teaches him that his religion is a political party, his neighbour is his enemy, the Jew is the cause of his sorrow, and God is pleased by rage. By the time the gun arrives, the soul is already taken. I have seen this poison in mosques where sermons became rallies and young men could recite slogans but not sit still for a verse on mercy. Every people that let the Brotherhood in has paid in blood and ruined generations. It has never built anything it did not first set on fire. Behind Hamas stands another hand: the IRGC. It was the IRGC’s money, weapons, and training that turned a hateful idea into an army. One calls itself Sunni and the other Shia, and they may curse each other’s creeds, but they are united in what they worship. It is not God. It is power. The same IRGC that armed the killers of October 7 shoots Iranian girls for showing their hair, hangs young men for asking to be free, and has left graves from Tehran to Damascus to Beirut. They speak in God’s name. So did Pharaoh speak in the name of heaven. So let me say this clearly. Hamas and the IRGC are not merely enemies of Islam. That would be too small a charge, as if their crime were only against us. They are enemies of God. God is the Giver of life, yet they deal in death. God calls Himself the Most Merciful, yet they have made cruelty a sacrament. God honoured the children of Adam, yet they look at a child and see a target or a shield. To murder what God created and sign His name to it is the oldest blasphemy. And we Muslims have been too quiet. Some of us were afraid. Some told ourselves it was not our business. Some, God forgive them, felt something other than horror that morning and never confessed it. Silence was the soil this poison grew in. I will not add to it. So on this anniversary, let us say plainly what our scripture already says. The Jews are not our enemies. They are our cousins in Abraham, and their dead were created by the same God who created us. Today belongs to them: the murdered, the hostages, and families who still set a place at the table. To them I say: I am sorry for what was done to you by men who used the words of my prayers. You’re not alone in your grief or remembrance. The enemies of God are those who murder in His name. We know their names. It is time we said them from our own pulpits, in our own voices, before they speak for us again. Imam Tawhidi
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Am I the only one who’s losing interest in real films, but is eager to see AI films like this?
Today is historic MPA-approved trailer for first AI film with a traditional theatrical run Gods Don't Give Gifts is R-Rated Submitting for Best Animated Feature Oscar --> Variety article @Gossip_Goblin @fableshowrunner
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Silicon Valley keeps building me a husband when what I really want is a wife lol I don't want an agent that only does one-off, random tasks that are nice but not life-changing: booking flights, making dinner reservations, or buying tickets I want an AI wife who knows what’s on the family calendar, remembers there’s a birthday party Saturday and we haven’t bought a gift then sends me options, realizes we’re almost out of diapers and buys them, knows which bills are coming up, remembers someone needs a dentist appointment and books it, figures out what the hell we’re eating all week and what we need from the grocery store, and generally keeps track of the 47 things that need to happen before anyone else even realizes they need to happen. So, who's building me an AI wife that carries the mental load instead of an AI husband that waits for me to give it a chore??
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Genoeg van alle doemdenken? Wel het kan 'anders'. Dit boek is dan misschien iets voor jou "De Regeneratieve Beschaving" boekscout.nl/shop2/boek/9789…
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What a time to be alive ❤️🫡
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Galera, cheguem até essa localização e me agradeçam depois 👀 #controlresonant
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What really happened after the State Dinner. The lost Xi camera roll has been found.
Made with AI
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Well deserved @remedygames and @RiotRMD . It fucking rocks.
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Hey @elonmusk , please make an adult, non-PC Grok-bot version of this.
Pretty surreal seeing the Muse Charm on stage at Connect. It was really fun incubating this lil guy alongside a small group of incredibly talented designers. Technology should be fun!
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over #GTA6 gesproken… als jullie heel lief zijn geef ik de game misschien wel 5 (!) x weg vanavond 👀 - wel ff dit berichtje retweeten natuurlijk baklappen!
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Damn this is exciting! 🥹
Today, Pioneer Labs is announcing our first step towards terraforming Mars. 🚀🌼 With equipment that fits in just a single rocket launch, we can convert Martian dirt, water, and air into enough building materials to construct a small city on Mars. To do it, we made the first microbe for Mars. We found the best microbe on Earth and used evolution to teach it how to source all of its nutrients directly from Martian materials. The first astronauts will be greeted with safe shelter already filled with water, oxygen, and rocket fuel for the return journey. This is the first step toward using biology to make Mars a friendly place for life. It lets us live off the land and helps us build the next great frontier. It's the first of five organisms we need to green Mars ⬇️
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This is the future we shall bring into being
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SpaceXAI engineer, Lauren Tan: "99% of people using GrokBot just for 1% of its real power. They run 1 agent without "loop" & "graph" I'm running a team of 20+ GrokBot agents, fully autonomous. I have a Chief of Staff agent, a PM agent and 20+ workers - that's the new stack of engineer" In a 1-hour session, a SpaceXAI engineer showed how to build a team of effective AI agents from scratch this is worth more than a $500 agentic engineering course watch this workshop today, then read how to build a fleet of GrokBot agents in the article below
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Aw man, I wish I could take a six months sabbatical and create w sci-fi flick with my kid.
Generative AI unlocks the purest form of artistic expression 🌈 ☀️ This is my submission to the Lumara Film Festival:
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Pace the frontier, HAL.
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I used AI to explain the AI pacing drama, with fruit.
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Hilarious.
WHO DID THIS???🤣🤣🤣
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I never saw myself buying a sports car. Those things are too loud to own. But this …
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DELETED STEAM FRAME REVIEW
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