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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon

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architect turned XR-chitect crafting virtual spaces and the spectacles within | CEO, Agile Lens: Immersive Design, XR strike force | Unreal Engine Authorized Instructor & Toolmaker | Theatre is cool

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · Jan 2

I'm excited for 2025.

We've always been a bootstrapped service company, but for me, 2025 will be about taking some of the hyper-custom solutions we've been building at @agilelens.bsky.social that have matured and now expanding and scaling them for a wide range of new audiences and users.

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 5h

haha

Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 6h

Just booked a Moohan demo way out in Long Island for Thursday the 23rd. A little frustrating that I can't just go to the Google Chelsea office a couple blocks from Agile Lens, but oh well 😅

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 1d

One aspect of being a freelancer I feel like no one talks about is how we basically also have to become paralegals. Because our livelihood is entirely in contracts, you have to get good at legal jargon FAST.

✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social · 1d

me reading contracts:
there are only so many times I can read the word heurender before I want to shoot myself in the face

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 1d

My Unreal Fest Orlando talk about the Collab Viewer Template is finally up! Just ahead of the debut of the newest version of our Star Wars VR experience too. #uetips
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The Best Template You're Not Using: Maximizing the Collab Viewer | Unreal Fest Orlando 2025

YouTube video by Unreal Engine

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 3d

Let me use Meta's Hyperscape Capture to walk around VR experiences and generate splats of entirely virtual spaces.

Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 4d

lol whoops it was 5 years ago

Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 4d

3 years ago today @agilelens.bsky.social with Fisher Dachs testing the sightlines of @lincolncenter.bsky.social’s David Geffen Hall with different railing and seating options.

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Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 6d

This is delusional. You can't support a hospital on only an ER - they're not the profit center of a hospital! ERs take enormous charity care losses due to EMTALA and have to be cross-subsidized by more profitable service areas.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

In Soviet America, Texas messes with *you*

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 6d

Hope to see you there !!

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Unreal NYC | October Event - Sponsored by Epic Games (APPROVAL REQ'D) Age 21+ | Communities

In-person Event - IMPORTANT:Epic Games is kindly sponsoring the event and hosting us at their NYC office, similar to our May event earlier...

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 6d

Are you in NYC ? Do you like Unreal Engine or other Epic Games products? Join us at the Unreal NYC meetup, October 22nd at the Epic Games office!

Speakers will be a killer one-two punch: Matt Workman and Woody Devs. There will also be some excellent demos, as well as food, drink, and swag.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7d

“In Cyberpunk 2077 universe, AI killed the Internet by propagating all over it, faster than humans could hope to stop it. This forced companies and people to abandon it and either use isolated small networks or reconnect in real life”

Me seeing AI in real life doing just that:

[Image of a person looking directly at the camera with a knowing, unimpressed, or weary expression]

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

Jeffries: This is the second time it's been shut down under Donald Trump, and he's nowhere to be found. He's got time to be on the golf course, but apparently doesn't have time to sit down with Democrats to reopen the government.

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 7d

What are you doing in Unity ?? 😜

Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 9d

100% same

Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 9d

I found a baby snapping turtle on my road !

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Russ Burlingame @russburlingame.com · 11d

These motherfuckers are going to kill us all

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 11d

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana, as big as 70 football fields, requiring more than twice as much electricity as the City of New Orleans.

Louisiana has had to greenlight $3 billion in new energy infrastructure to service Meta's facility.

New Meta Data Center Needs Twice as Much Energy as New Orleans

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

buff.ly

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 11d

More info:
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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 11d

Meta's fork of Unreal Engine gave you Application SpaceWarp (ASW), an excellent form of reprojection.

In UE 5.7, Epic introduces an OpenXR, headset-agnostic mobile reprojection method, and it's EXCELLENT.

Try it out:
r.Velocity.DirectlyRenderOpenXRMotionVectors=1 xr.OpenXRFrameSynthesis=1
#uetips

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 11d

oh man great catch

Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 12d

Thrilled to announce Epic Games is kindly hosting our Unreal NYC meetup once again at their Manhattan office on October 22.

Speakers will be a killer one-two punch of @mattworkmancine.bsky.social & @woodydevs.bsky.social

Approval required, 21+

Hope I see you there!
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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 12d

Omg it's just like THANK YOU FOR SMOKING where the Senator removes cigarettes from old movies.

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 12d

Company pays a ton of money for franchise about guy known for his gun and removes the gun. kotaku.com/james-bond-a...

Amazon Is Digitally Erasing Guns From James Bond Posters

Also: More news about the Halo remake, bad news about Payday 3's offline mode, and sad news about AOL's dial-up service

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Amy Young @ayoung.bsky.social · 14d

Who wants to call a Congress Member?
Want to call EVERY Congress Member?
the U.S. Capitol Switchboard is (202) 224-3121
Stuck in traffic? Call a Congress member.
Waiting in the school car line or for soccer practice to end?
Call them.

Don’t forget to remind them to release the Epstein files.

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Alex Coulombe 🔜 #HalcyCon @ibrews.bsky.social · 16d

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