Geordi to The Masterpiece Society that would never allow a blind person to be born: “I can see you just fine, sir.”

A good first month for Good Virtual Reality. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support my work. I am producing independently for the first time in my life supported by individuals allowing me to do this: www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/good-virtu...

Reddit has figured out I want Steam Frame and started to serve me the same posts by the same distraught people over and over again.

Looks like it is time for TestFlight on my volumetric newspaper.

Just had a thought that we got here all because MFs couldn't run Crysis

I’m told the market is small for my idea of a raccoon stuffed animal that doubles as a VR headset bag. Pull your headset out and put it on then cuddle your raccoon and go to sleep. Profit.

Someone else HAS to take over this space. I curse meta's frustrating UX daily. I have programmed VCRs in the 90s with less friction than just trying to get a screenshot off a headset, or connecting a different headset to Link.

Imagine getting hired from Apple to work at Meta and knowing what Apple is going to do in the next two years with hardware and then your boss at Meta comes to you and is like: "Center Name Tags in your product designs. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/mark-zucke...

The first podcast from Good Virtual Reality is public now! Listen to Doug North Cook talk about learnings from 14 years of exploration in VR and the work he's doing today with Creature. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/the-most-i...

That’s a fucking ladder and he’s carrying another ladder. The captcha demands it be understood as stairs. I object and fuck you.

This makes complete sense if you understand "AI" as predicting which word comes next based on statistics from lots of existing novels. The model isn't concerned with strategizing, it's ensuring dramatic deployment of Chekhov's gun.

Made it to the last two episodes of season 1 and my wife is ready to change the password to the HBO account to keep me from finishing the show she got lured into four hours ago.

Can’t stop watching The Pitt.

My new podcast is live with its first episode! Time to look at making this publishing and editing process easier, and improving audio quality. I know a lot of people are readers rather than listeners, so the page includes an edited transcript with key ideas from my guest bolded.

Some of the VR subreddits are developing strong resistance to the empty hyping grifters and I love to see it. www.reddit.com/r/virtualrea...

This is the right move!

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

4 hours in headsets on a Saturday night.

10-minute intermission after the biggest jump scare of the movie.

Had a slight crisis of decision trying to not go to the one-of-a-kind VR horror movie experience in a physical theater because I’d rather just use my Vision Pro at home. I’m on my way though.

Oh. I don’t see HMDs being adopted like shoes at the bowling alley. BYOHMD or GTFO

Back in my day

idk, i think that the platforms are just designed bad for HCI in the first place... you can't switch modes in vr like you can a 2D computer because it's so much more immersive, adds boatloads of attention residue and friction the lab's bubbles were a great way to prevent this tbh

Yes, I remain convinced that classic games like Quake in flat mode on Steam Frame are going to bring back LAN parties.

I had these bags made a couple years ago to carry Steam Frame when I first heard about how small the headset would be. Still think it’s a great idea.

I’ve added commentary paragraph by paragraph to the new and vague strategy document Meta released explaining that they’ve separated Quest from Horizon Worlds. For paid subscribers. open.substack.com/pub/goodvr/p...

Yesterday I was writing about the core technical terminology of an emerging technology. Today, cats. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/interactin...

It’s inspiring, really. They spent 40 years researching how to make a head mount, and settled on a tripod that makes you look like a bird drinking water. Science is beautiful.

All this + terribly low energy from being a parent of a toddler means that I need a *good* reason to get on and make all that worth it. My days of casually getting in every night and looking for something to do are over, I'm only getting on if I know I'm gonna have a great time.

For me, my biggest "travel time" is setting up and putting on the gear. Move the ceiling hook for my cable, braid my hair, put in contacts, put on shoes, unplug/replugin 6 trackers, and then attach those trackers to my body. A 10+ minute endeavor. That's my biggest hurdle to getting on.

No more wordplay with VR & AR. This is science and engineering. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/apple-visi...

This is a depiction of Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth telling the king to focus on AI when VR remains the foundation of spatial computing.

Writing about VR when both Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook call the end goal dream of their technologies AR.

the state of our internal tooling and projects has me doing Claude coding at home for fun and regular coding at work....... which feels exactly backwards why am I making them the nice sandwich and batch prepping gas station egg salad at home

Explaining to Deadpool what some of the biggest technology companies on the planet do not yet understand.

My first new VR hardware of 2026.

Introducing Selling Safety! A report that lays bare the ethnically dubious world of marketing and selling police surveillance technology, how effectiveness numbers are manufactured, the role police play in a massive for-profit industry, and new critical questions for reporters and law makers.

Only a couple weeks into my independent venture and my publication is providing insight professionals and enthusiasts in this space need to read. These words went to subscribers first who are paying for Good Virtual Reality.

Phil Gonzalez from CBS, welcome to the Verge’s background policy www.theverge.com/policy/88000...

AI has slipped from chatbot novelty to infrastructure in our schools, offices and hospitals. The harms may scale faster than the gains

I don't have a grand speech here or profound insights you've likely not heard elsewhere. But its never been more critical to celebrate art and the fantastic people making it. Every single time, give me a janky game that's rough around the edges than something regurgitated by machines

it seems obvious in retrospect that the SaaS model was a prequel to HaaS. what they didn’t have at the time was a giant tech money ouroboros rolling up the entire supply chain like an evil katamari

after all, what better way to force people to use your bullshit wrong answer machines than making it extremely costly for anyone to do computation locally and thus establish said machines as the sole method of interface ?

This is what AI has done to us. I agree completely with The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian.

Facebook frequently used this strategy of saying they are not doing something at the exact same time they are doing it. “Decline for now” “No plans” And now they’ve taken it to patents. Doublespeak as corporate strategy.

I needed a space to scream into that isn’t just Bluesky about bad ideas in AI, and I cannot let it pollute my effort to highlight Good Virtual Reality. So I vomited this. I still have a mouth and I can still scream, at least for now. badartificialintelligence.substack.com/p/metas-cto-...

Forgot how much I loved The Doctor on Voyager. “A hologram that programs himself? What would I do with that ability? Have a family? Raise an army?”

people misunderstand AI "replacing" workers as 100% bot per person skilled people are risky to replace, boss around or negotiate lower pay. business fantasy is to get min wage 19 year old to ask a machine trained on your life's work to fake what you do closely enough customers will still pay for it

Oh no unexpected existential crisis remembering my friend from Elementary School who had one we played together exactly once.