Avi Bar-Zeev

@avibarzeev
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#XR Pioneer 30+ years. Original tech and design for Apple, Echo Frames, Hololens, Second Life, Keyhole (became Google Earth), Disney, Niantic. He/Him

Consulting: https://www.realityprime.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avi-bar-zeev/
Writing: https://avibarzeev.medium.com
NonProfit: https://www.xrguild.org

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Former governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee:

“If these tactics end up working to keep Trump from winning or even running in 2024, it is going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets”

This is sedition

This man knows what he’s saying

Treat him the way he deserves to be treated.

they say autistic people take things literally but they're thinking of kleptomaniacs
One of my favourite, and one of the most insightful, awexr.com conference talks from last week was the XR industry legend @avibarzeev Highly recommend you watch this: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oliverw_awe-usa-2023-day-1-main-stage-hype-or-activity-7073053798063079425-oBhh #SpatialComputing #AugmentedReality
Oliver Weidlich on LinkedIn: AWE USA 2023 - Day 1 - Main Stage: Hype or Hero Separating Bullshit from…

One of my favourite, and one of the most insightful, awexr.com conference talks from last week was the XR industry legend Avi Bar-Zeev. Highly recommend you…

Have you ever reported #onlineabuse to social media platforms & felt like you were shouting into the void? So did the 20+ media professionals @PENAmerica & @meedan spoke to about their experiences. Learn more about how platforms must revamp reporting here: https://pen.org/report/shouting-into-the-void/
Shouting into the Void: Why Reporting Abuse to Social Media Platforms Is So Hard and How to Fix It

The technology companies that run social media platforms, where so much of online abuse plays out, are failing to protect and support their users.

PEN America
FTC Chair Khan and Officials from DOJ, CFPB and EEOC Release Joint Statement on AI

FTC Chair Lina M.

Federal Trade Commission

Read an article today about why Americans think alcohol has health benefits and it's apparently another "well the French are healthy and they do X so it's healthy to do X."

So here's your periodic reminder that France (and Italy, and Sweden, and Japan, and basically every country you've seen in a "this country is so healthy, what's their secret?" headline) has universal health care.

The secret is access to health care. It's always access to health care.

So for over a week now Elon Musk's circle of friends have been going on and on insisting that Bob Lee's killer was obviously an unhoused individual and blaming the city for not jailing more people.

Now, it turns out that the guy who killed him was another tech exec who knew him, and they were originally in a car together.

https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/bob-lee-killing-arrest-made-san-francisco/

Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee — tech exec’s alleged killer also worked in tech

Mission Local is told that San Francisco police this morning arrested a suspect, Nima Momeni, in the April 4 killing of tech exec Bob Lee.

Mission Local

"banning new business models or technologies undermines American values"

this is why i'm excited to announce that a16z will be leading the seed round in my new firm, Ransomware4Cheap PyramidCo. get in on the ground floor! refer all your friends!

Meta plans scary ad-tech for AR:

“We should be able to run a very good ads business,” [Himel] said. “I think it’s easy to imagine how ads would show up in space when you have AR glasses on. Our ability to track conversions, which is where there has been a lot of focus as a company, should also be close to 100 percent. If we’re hitting anything near projections, it will be a tremendous business,” he said. “A business unlike anything we’ve seen on mobile phones before.”'

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23619730/meta-vr-oculus-ar-glasses-smartwatch-plans

This is Meta’s AR / VR hardware roadmap for the next four years

During an internal presentation, Meta execs laid out plans for three new Quest headsets, AR glasses in 2027, and a ‘neural interface’ smartwatch.

The Verge

We're getting some more detail from LastPass about their two breaches last year that were from the same attacker.

There's a lot to unpack here, but this detail about targeting a LastPass DevOps employee on their home computer is somewhat sobering:

"Due to the security controls protecting and securing the on-premises data center installations of LastPass production, the threat actor targeted one of the four DevOps engineers who had access to the decryption keys needed to access the cloud storage service."

"This was accomplished by targeting the DevOps engineer’s home computer and exploiting a vulnerable third-party media software package, which enabled remote code execution capability and allowed the threat actor to implant keylogger malware. The threat actor was able to capture the employee’s master password as it was entered, after the employee authenticated with MFA, and gain access to the DevOps engineer’s LastPass corporate vault."'

https://support.lastpass.com/help/incident-2-additional-details-of-the-attack

Incident 2 – Additional details of the attack - LastPass Support

Despite high confidence in the outcomes of our investigation and actions taken in response to the first incident, the threat actor leveraged information stolen during the first incident, information available from a third-party data breach, and a vulnerability in a third-party media software package to launch a coordinated second attack.