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Building Real Steel IRL - REK @RobotKombat - Decade of startups in AR/VR - Founder @LIV + others
Joined January 2013
A new era of Kombat begins REK @RobotKombat.Humanoids embodied by Humans, in a battle to the rekt. Countdown to full announcement in 3 days.
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How long until someone vibe codes a robot that accidentally kills them?
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@laurenlself Honestly I think he can lift more than this he’s just toward the end of his sets.
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This Christmas I showed my family:.OpenAI Vision in the living room.Sora video for my cousin (he wanted to see a monkey dealing drugs).Suno v4 vocal song about them surfing.Midjourney A blend image of a painting and a picture of the dog.OpenAI Realtime Coding. No one gave a shit.
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OK don't be mad. But someone had to do it. walked into a cafe in mixed reality
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A very cool and practical use of AR (Augmented Reality). Visual explanations of real world objects. Here demonstrated with the @Raspberry_Pi
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Unboxing a 6 foot tall human robot that costs more than a luxury car. Wut do
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Imagine a world where Carmack was chosen as the CTO of Meta instead of the current Bozo. The AR/VR industry would surely be in a much better place.
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I work on humanoids every day, here is my thoughts. 1. Legs are not great for most use cases; complex, expensive. Just use wheels. 2. You don’t want these heavy things in your house. 3. For manufacturing it’s basically a bad human worker but costs 200K. But… they look awesome.
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Good night metal prince. Tomorrow I awake you to destroy the humans.
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Important VR PSA: 👉 Deactivating your Facebook profile disables your Oculus Profile. 👉 Deleting your Facebook account takes away all your games, purchases, and progress. Source: Eli Schwartz
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DAY 3.5 . HES ALIVE AND ALMOST BROKE MY MIRROR. I literally caught him like I’m teaching a child to walk and he responded. CRAZY TECH
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Day 24 human robot. Home boy getting open heart surgery to fix a dev board . A scene that will become much more common in the future
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I don’t know team this kinda feels like I’m getting rid of a dead body.
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New video of the G1 to prove to everyone that the video was in fact not CGI. As several of twitter geniuses were fighting me over the last few days saying it was fake.
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Zuck somehow trolled everyone. This demo used a million dollar camera array for the scans. Then was cleaned up and rigged (takes days to weeks). A PC was tethered to render the scene. It's not coming to your Quest 3. It doesn't even have face tracking! Stop it.
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1/ Important VR PSA #3: 👉 @oculus @FBRealityLabs blocks, breaks, and kills successful VR companies. The story of @yur_fit:.- Blocked from the @oculus store.- Broke by firmware updates 4x.- Attempted to poach CTO 4x.- Copied by "Oculus Move".- More stories soon 👇. #antitrust
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i had to one up my cafe video. You've heard of vision pros,.what about Vision Bros?
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Hey AR/VR peeps. We need to drop the term “Metaverse” entirely. Our Web3 “friends” (and others) have butchered the term and we need to run away from it. Now. I suggest we call the AR/VR space:. “The Oculus”.
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Today I announce my newest thing! @VENDOR_GG!. "Sell items in seconds using AI". Here showing a concept with VisionOS (Apple Vision Pro). Launching on iOS + Discord Bot later this month for SF!. Super excited to be founding with @mentarus a @ycombinator founder and good friend.
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"Hey can I copy your homework?". "yeah but change it a bit so it's not obvious you copied". VR edition.
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1/ It’s my birthday, it’s time to announce a new company. Check out this teaser!. sports of the metaverse @rekverse. Joining me on this journey is @BartronPolygon an ex-Apple AR engineer. Let’s discuss the why, and how we're gonna make this big. ⬇️
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Day 3 people making smoking memes about the robot. I’m having issues with joint loader in the software, trying to resolve so I can show the robot walking around soon.
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What if you could punch a hole in your wall to go from AR to VR?. WELCOME TO REK! 😀 @REKfitness .Alpha coming end of March. Tech showcased:.- Hand Tracking 2.1 👍.- Presence Platform.- Passthrough/Mixed Reality
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Day 50 human robot. Successfully achieved moving the upper body while the lower body is walking
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Day 56 human robot. Ready player robot!. Well this is a big achievement we have been translating human lower body movement into the robot. Teleporting human to robot if you will.
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Day 41 human robot. more robot surgery. Need to add another dev board and recalibrate.
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Important VR PSA #2: 👉 Oculus headsets being used simultaneously on the same Facebook account will get it banned. “not be able to use two headsets” “lead to one or both Facebook accounts being disabled or permanently banned”. Comms: @FBRealityLabs.Source: Reddit - kommanderk33n
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People saying XR hardware don't matter are out of their minds. GPU power:. Quest 2: 1.2 TFlops.PS5: 10.3 TFlops.4090: 83 TFlops. Latest PC GPU is 70 TIMES faster than the Quest 2. 20-40% of the Quest 2 compute used by hand tracking etc. Greatly limits what devs can do, period.
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day 43 human robot.WAKE UP ROBOT. controlling humanoids with HOLOGRAMS
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I have worked in VR for 10 years. To see Meta still push this seriously as the future of social interaction is honestly depressing. To see brilliant technology like VR run by corporate clowns who don’t even care about the technology. I am saddened and disgusted.
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Turns out that requiring a Facebook account to use Oculus might be a bad idea. Who would have thought.
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Today we are announcing @VibeFitnessGame!. A fitness music game powered by AI. Running entirely on your phone. We are starting a private beta with newer iPhone and iPads. Sign up to get early access on our website. Let's go!!
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Day 25 human robot. I AM FRUIT (ROBOT) NINJA. He will be trained in the art of the blade.
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Returning to VR. With a Vengeance. Introducing Vi “virtual eye”. @ViHeadset and gloves designed specifically for fitness. Joining me are @mentarus who built a VR glove company "Plexus", and @marcusckane our "Jony Ive" of VR. LET'S GO ᯅ! Thread on how we gonna do it 🔽
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I’ve found the video of the viral robot going nuts SIM training. The way it moved in the SIM was very similar to how the policy ran in real life. So yea, they probably did this intentionally, watch how it moves.
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Today we announce @REKverse going a *slightly* different direction (with the same end goal)!. Mixed Reality Fitness!. Imagine Superhot meets Supernatural in Mixed Reality. @oivanmotta did some amazing work here!. Joining us next is @RJdoesVR, and of course @BartronPolygon!. 🧵1/
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@ID_AA_Carmack I can say as a developer when you were still there. You were the only one in upper management that actually listened to us. The rest of management would “listen to the data” and treat us like trash. You leaving made a lot of good devs leave VR.
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Someone needs to make a game engine specially for XR. Unreal treats XR devs as second class citizens. Unity is like duct taping together a bunch of barely fitting car parts and then debugging it by turning it on and guessing why it set itself on fire.
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Niantic announced their outdoor headset yesterday!. SO AMPED for how this moves forward virtual sports. @NianticLabs is using XR to connect people in real life, and outside. A similar vision we have at REK. More info 👇
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@nikitabier You literally called me stupid 2 weeks ago just for asking you a question. “Compared to what” in regard to Zuck being president. Calling the kettle black my friend.
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Robots are this funny thing where it’s easier to design a killer robot than one that washes dishes.
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@boztank @PalmerLuckey @Anticleric @ID_AA_Carmack @hmltn How does it feel Boz? That your CTO of Meta and the public (and most your own employees) think you’re a joke?. Perhaps this should take a moment of self reflection.
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She absolutely hated me.
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Tomorrow I’m voting for the orange man. I have been a hard blue voter my entire adult life (18 years) but I’m over it. “Progressive” policies destroyed SF (and California proper) and I refuse to see it destroy the entire US. I don’t even really like Trump, he reminds me of an.
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A little caveat my cousin thought the song about him surfing was cool. The rest things people didn't really care. I think we may be a little reactionary about AI because we are so locked in. Normies don't get it or really care yet.
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Day 2 of human robot setup. I have awaken the steel prince I will now figure out how to get him to move. I had to setup an entire pulley system to operate him.
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Meta copied my app from 2020, destroyed it with firmware, then tried to poach my engineering team. Just to sunset their copy 5 years later. Reality labs is ran by absolute clowns and they deserve to lose the VR race.
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VR Breaking news 🚨🚨🚨. I was joking with my homies that it would be hilarious if someone started a VR porn company called “Cockulus”. I looked it up as a joke. Meta (Facebook) 👏.OWNS 👏.Cockulus .com 👏. Absolutely hilarious. Check yourself.
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The person who does branding at Meta needs to be fired. The Quest headset.made by Meta.running HorizonOS.with Facebook accounts.playing Horizon Worlds.developed by "Oculus" devs and publishing. What in the hell guys.
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Real time virtual twin of humanoids to make Real Steel irl. LETS GO. Raising our first funding round now (pre-seed). DM if interested. It's going to be a wild ride!
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So, Meta Connect is tomorrow. Let me make some hypotheses of the future of XR in the next few years. Not making friends with this thread. Let's start with @Apple:. The "puck" is not an accident. They are preparing us for a headset that will connect to our phone by 2026. 👇
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The ORION compute puck has depth cameras on it. While sitting on a table, it is likely designed for full body tracking. I'm ahead of the game again. L O L
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Meta considers VR a failure if Horizon Worlds isn’t successful. This is really bad. There is no way that dumpster fire of a platform is going to work. No matter how hard they force it on people. So after the Quest platform dies, who picks up the pieces? Valve?.
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REK Update: We shut down @REKfitness. We refunded 80%+ of all invested capital. TLDR: It was too early, the timing was off. Let me tell the story of why 👇. It started exciting! Semi viral on our first video!. People wanted it! We had a bunch of locations asking for it!
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Apple is thinking they are too cool for controllers. This won’t last. Games suck on the Vision Pro without them. If I were a betting man: they will get the Sony PSVR2 controllers to work with the headset. They fit the aesthetic and Sony <> Apple have a great relationship.
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Day 4 human robot. Homie wanted to pillow fight to train for what he said was. “Prepare for the showdown with Sam Altman”
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I don’t think anyone is going to be having tall metal robots in their house. I think robots like @clonerobotics are the only realistic solution for human robots for home use. Optimus could fall over and kill your kid or dog. Need to redesigned with soft materials for home use.
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Day 7 human robot. I AM ROBOT!. LETS GO. Arms are now working for VR interpretation, need to get fingers and eye camera to work properly next. When the dude goes “live” you gotta add smoothing otherwise he could punch a hole through you
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Passthrough API coming to Quest. SO MANY OF YOU OWE ME AN APOLOGY. I’m looking at you @Heaney555
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Day 8 human robot. The fingers are now working!. My boy is learning sign language 🥹. I’m so proud of him, so close to being able to go to preschool. Next up getting proper camera feeds working so I can do… stuff.
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The Quest 2 is the most updated consumer hardware I have ever seen since it’s launch. This thing has had more software updates than any device I have ever seen in 2.5 years. Gotta respect that.
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I want to speak about the "Open" nature of the Quest. I would call this framing dishonest at best and doublespeak at worst. Zuck, Boz, and Yann are factually incorrect. Let me break down the reality:. 1) Connectivity: No other VR controller is allowed on the Quest, in fact the.
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If you work in a VR startup and wonder why investors don’t want to talk to you. You can thank this data.
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Called this, new Apple Vision headset likely to be tethered to a phone. Making it much cheaper and lighter. This would be a big inflection point in VR. Possibly the biggest one in our history.
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Early in @LIV we had ideas that someday, avatars would replace real people in game content. It would take full body tracking and proper avatars. We aren't quite there yet, but this example of @RitualNeo pushing that future w/ dynamic virtual cameras. This is a real person.
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I hate to say this. But AR WILL be bigger than VR. Why?. Social dynamics, safety, and mobility. I can travel while using AR, see friends, see threats, I can multitask. VR will always be stuck at home. BUT! They will eventually be the same device so it won't matter.
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“Main camera access” for visionOS. Apple is now more open than “Open Platform” Meta. Lol.
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Day 61 human robot. Homie getting FAST. Removing safety checks, increasing velocity, and significant work on reducing latency.
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The exact same thing he is complaining about in regards to Apple and Google is exactly (if not worse) what he is doing in VR. Corporate double-speak is so weird.
Mark Zuckerberg doesn't want AI to end up like mobile apps, where gatekeepers like Apple and Google tell you what you're allowed to build
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The BOM (Bill of Materials) for the Apple Headset leaked online in Chinese. I translated it for the english people below. It's a long post:👇. "Recently, Apple announced that it will hold the WWDC from June 6th to 10th, and may release the first-generation MR headset. We held an.
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When a “tech journalist” says they think “AR is going to be big, but VR is dead”. What they really mean is:. “I want a sunglass form factor that is impossible to make and I am incapable of understanding that modern headsets do both AR and VR.”.
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“World is on fire. On the verge of world war. Millions are dying of a pandemic. What are you solving?”. Silicon Valley:.“We selling jpegs for millions, using energy of a country to make a virtual currency, and covering our eyes with a VR headset.”. “But… that doe…”. “Metaverse”.
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Just to be clear "Spatial Reality" or "Spatial Computing" is just another made up term. The Vision Pro using conventional lingo is a VR headset with passthrough. Using "Spatial" terminology instead of AR/VR/MR/XR allows Apple to win SEO + re-invent semantics. again.
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Everyone is thinking this is the new console wars with Apple vs Meta. I disagree, it’s bigger than that. AR/VR devices will replace everything. Consoles, TVs, monitors, desktops (final boss is phones). This will make the console wars look like a pre game. Strap in.
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2/ Companies copied JUST from the last @FBRealityLabs convention. Oculus Move = @yur_fit .Oculus Horizon = @recroom .Oculus Venues = @BigscreenVR .Oculus "Virtual Desktop" = @VRDesktop .Oculus Developer Hub = @SideQuestVR . They try to kill companies on their OWN platform.
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Supposedly Vision Pro can now do hand tracking at 90Hz. This is a big deal. Why?. The original hand tracking was 30Hz, this was hugely problematic for gaming. The display was running at 90Hz and the hand tracking made it look like the game was lagging. Quest is 60Hz.
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OK I have never posted any AI generated art yet. But @midjourney v4 is insanely good. This was first prompt for simply "augmented reality sport headsets". My god these are truly amazing.
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Ok team. I’m eFamous for being a tech bro now. All hail the new generation of Glassholes.
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"I’m Finally Excited About VR Again!" - @LinusTech . I've said it over and over again. VR is magical, but a hardware problem. A time will come when the right hardware comes, and all us crazy people XR will be right. Very excited to get my @BigscreenVR. CC @DShankar
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