∞ Leading Unity into the Future
Unity’s new CEO is answering questions on the forum:
As for Unity, “democratizing” to me means putting the developer first.
As for democratizing… to me this is about recognizing that developing a great game is hard, and then even you pull it off, having your game discovered, installed is also hard… and earning a good living on all of this is very hard. David, Joachim and Nicholas recognized this early, and put Unity squarely in the camp of supporting developers in the journey to help them make the best games possible. I intend to ensure that remains true and also help developers find audiences for their games.
Read that thread if you are interested in John’s thoughts on Unity. My take: Unity is definitely expanding its services beyond the game engine, and it will become big.
∞ Raspberry Pi Founder Shows Off Incoming Touch Panel For Making DIY ‘Pi Pads’
Upton was speaking during an on stage interview with TechCrunch’s John Biggs. He showed off the seven inch VGA capacitive touch panel that’s designed to be combined with a Pi to build what would be a rather chunky tablet, but a tablet nonetheless.
Now I’m totally interested in this thing!
Beautiful Chemical Structures
Beautiful Chemistry is a project collaboration between the Institute of Advanced Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China and Tsinghua University Press. The goal of this project is to bring the beauty of chemistry to the general public through digital media and technology.
Wonderful project. Heading to their website to see more.
Harassment In The Games World
I can’t wait for the day that, I’m just a game designer, not a female game designer.
Let’s make it happen.
Vimeo’s Login Screen
Vimeo's login screen has this minimal design with a really warm message:
Nice to see you again.
I haven’t seen such a good login screen for a while, as now they are paying too much attention to the sign up screen.
Google Cardboard
Finally had a chance to use my Cardboard as my first VR headset experience, I’d say it’s matching my (years of) expectations and it definitely has huge potential.
For Cardboard itself, the freaking brilliant design of ring magnet seems not working well with my Moto X, otherwise it’s just awesome.
∞ How the Napa Earthquake Affected Bay Area Sleepers
The Napa Earthquake was the strongest to hit Northern California in 25 years. See how it impacted the sleep of UP wearers in the Bay Area.
Chart generated by Jawbone’s UP. Goto the original post to see it, interesting stats.
I Wish I Was Wearing Google Glass Today
I tried Google Glass before, but couldn’t think of a good use case for me to actually buy one.
I thought maybe I would wait until I have kids, since I have heard a lot of times that people enjoy having a Glass while spending time with their kids.
But today, for the first time ever, I wish I had a Google Glass, so badly.
I was cycling in the bay area, mostly along the Bay Trail today. It is an absolutely beautiful ride.
During the ride, I stopped several times, to take pictures, either with my phone or my SLR (for different kind of pictures). That is the great part.
The bad part is, there were many many more times that I wish I could also take pictures, especially take pictures of what I see. Or sometimes better, videos of what I see.
Then I said, “Wish I had a Google Glass.”
I admit I won’t buy it yet, because the value and price ratio is still too low for me. But, I’m looking forward to finding more ways to increase the former. Otherwise I will just get a GoPro.
∞ 10 Years Ago, The Daily Show Slammed Camera Phones Over Privacy
Ten years from now, we’ll look back at these articles and videos (about Google Glass) from 2014 and just laugh.
Absolutely true.
∞ Google I/O Thoughts from an iOS Developer
This year was the first time I’ve attended the Google I/O conference, and it was a fascinating experience. As someone who is primarily an iOS developer and has been to WWDC before a lot of things about the way Google ran their conference fascinated me. I thought it might be interesting to briefly share some of those.
A great read. And this shocks me a little bit:
Perhaps it’s just the ones I’ve met at Apple, but I’ve never had this experience before. Our developer rep (from Apple) is a nice guy, but he’s not the least bit technical, and in general I could only talk to him when he contacts me. I say ‘could’ because ever since we’ve had success on the Android platform he’s made it very clear that his services are no longer available to us. Perhaps that makes me bitter and jaded about the Developer Rep experience at Apple, but if you ask me it’s justified.
Well, maybe not.