BrbOmg

BrbOmg

@brbomg.bsky.social

XR UX Engineering & Audio Experience @Google, formerly @MagicLeap

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Happy clockquinox to those that celebrate. The 8 min period of sun/clock totality that happens twice every year. Specifically this clock, hyper localized to the living room.

This is Mango. He's just a lil guy whose nails have never been trimmed because he's new to indoor life. Unrelated, my hands appear to be covered in thin little razor cuts.

Today marks 10 years at my job. That's a pretty good run. A little bit ruined by getting the layoff email last week followed by the "congrats, the future looks great" automated anniversary email. But so it is I guess.

As an audio professional and gamer, I have feelings about "game key cards" or "dongles" or "license keys". Not a fan of online only license checks either like how NI runs an adb service in the background for some reason messing up any android dev by it enumerating as an emulator. Too many steps.

My fav modern internet format is edits of "if x game were made today" and it's literally footage of the original game just spamming voiceover hints and the main character announcing every action they do.

Take your game's audio to 11 with DLSS5. More shimmer in the music, more crunch in the footsteps, at least 40% more spatial. Also put surveillance cameras in your bedroom and bet on sports with crypto. We need your photo ID and social for age verification.

The warning sign was when they started putting LEDs on RAM. But now you can use AI to see what it would be like if you had LEDs on your RAM.

So I've been messing about with web audio, and I'm surprised how extensive it is. If one were to rig an interactive audio demo in web, it's also extremely accessible to anyone that you want to have check it out without needing them to install anything, you can host it and give someone a QR code.

User journey #62564992 : As a consumer of food, I want to be able to simply buy cheese without involving an account or an app and not have that transaction stored in a data center with my pii and used to deliver related ads to my push notifications.

I don't even do game audio anymore really. I've barely done audio at all this year. It's all Android development and infrastructure and UX and input telemetry all day. I'd consider pivoting back, but like, in this economy? 😬 Still, the soul is hungry.

Lead: "The task is to make this thing" Me: "Ok. Which of the 8 environments we work in should I make this? Certainly the one I've just spent two months struggling to learn?" Lead: "No. This other one you know nothing about, and the code has no comments" Me: 🫤😑😣😩😫🤮

Listening to a decades old hissy tape of daft punk homework copied who knows when or how on an 80s Magnavox just feels right for some reason. Even better that whoever did it bothered writing the track list.

Just put a comment in a setup script for a very specific kind of spatial audio source that says "I know this is counterintuitive, but trust me" And I feel the most engineer I have ever felt.

Got things mostly synced up, still messing with some of the routing. Subharmonicon continues to be an enigma. The Korg Triton really adds that early 2000s "millennium" flavor to the mix. Wonderful sounds coming out of everything though.

Computers on your face. Computers on your wrist. Computers in your pocket. Computers in the sky, watching you. Computers with microphones, everywhere. Computers in your brain. Computers in your heart. Computers in your breakfast cereal. Computers in your computers, recursively controlling computers.

I love when "it just works". Ableton with CV Tools, an ES-9 interface, and a couple DFAMs. Monitoring with izotope Insight all on a shiny new MacBook.

I am an adult. I work a job. That job pays me money so I can buy rare vinyl of the most obscure depressing music you've ever heard in your life included in a mystery bundle like a holographic Charizard.

Orcas wearing dead salmon hats stunned to learn they didn't invent the trend, their gen x parent orcas did, and they probably still have one rotting in their closet.

Spotify wrapped like : "your number one artist is the playlist for your alarm clock every day and therefore the default when you get in your car and it starts playing before you realize it's still your alarm clock playlist but you're already driving so might as well keep it rolling for $18/mo"

There was one album I liked that was only available on streaming services and has now vanished from the Internet. This has thrown me into a fit of digital radicalization that I'm sure Lars from Metallica is picking up on subconsciously. Stay tuned for updates...

Ok hear me out, what if every month were 28 days and always started on a Sunday. We would have 13 months (Smarch, obviously) and literally one extra day tagged on the end we can just call "new year's day" that doesn't count. And on leap years, the extra day is "new year's eve".