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KI-Brillen statt VR-Headsets: Meta Quest wird vom Flaggschiff zur Randfigur
Meta verabschiedet sich schleichend von der Quest als zentralem XR-Produkt – und überlässt die Bühne künftig anderen. Eine Analyse von Josef Erl.

Sources: Meta is prioritizing an ultralight Horizon OS headset with a compute puck, instead of a traditional Quest 4, to ship in 2026 (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-prioritizing-puffin-for-2026-pushing-out-quest-4-to-2…

Meta Prioritizing Ultra-Light Headset With Puck Over Traditional Quest 4
Meta is prioritizing shipping an ultralight Horizon OS headset with a tethered compute puck in 2026, and might not ship a new traditional form factor Quest until 2027.

Lab-grown sperm and eggs just a few years away, scientists say;
Quest to create viable human sex cells in lab progressing rapidly, with huge implications for reproduction
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/05/lab-grown-sperm-and-…

Beyond the Desktop: XR-Driven Segmentation with Meta Quest 3 and MX Ink
Lisle Faray de Paiva, Gijs Luijten, Ana Sofia Ferreira Santos, Moon Kim, Behrus Puladi, Jens Kleesiek, Jan Egger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04858

Beyond the Desktop: XR-Driven Segmentation with Meta Quest 3 and MX Ink
Medical imaging segmentation is essential in clinical settings for diagnosing diseases, planning surgeries, and other procedures. However, manual annotation is a cumbersome and effortful task. To mitigate these aspects, this study implements and evaluates the usability and clinical applicability of an extended reality (XR)-based segmentation tool for anatomical CT scans, using the Meta Quest 3 headset and Logitech MX Ink stylus. We develop an immersive interface enabling real-time interaction w…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22813 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

X-Factor: Quality Is a Dataset-Intrinsic Property
In the universal quest to optimize machine-learning classifiers, three factors -- model architecture, dataset size, and class balance -- have been shown to influence test-time performance but do not fully account for it. Previously, evidence was presented for an additional factor that can be referred to as dataset quality, but it was unclear whether this was actually a joint property of the dataset and the model architecture, or an intrinsic property of the dataset itself. If quality is truly d…

Trustworthiness Preservation by Copies of Machine Learning Systems
Leonardo Ceragioli, Giuseppe Primiero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05203 https://

Trustworthiness Preservation by Copies of Machine Learning Systems
A common practice of ML systems development concerns the training of the same model under different data sets, and the use of the same (training and test) sets for different learning models. The first case is a desirable practice for identifying high quality and unbiased training conditions. The latter case coincides with the search for optimal models under a common dataset for training. These differently obtained systems have been considered akin to copies. In the quest for responsible AI, a l…

from my link log —
“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas: the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending.
https://davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twelfth-night-till-candlemas-the-story…

“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas” – the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
The day before the Winter Solstice, 2024 This post is about finally finding a book from one’s youth forty years later – and after nearly thirty years of searching. It is also a tale about gob…

Meta Quest 3S: Limitierte Xbox Edition für Game Pass-Streaming vorgestellt
Meta und Microsoft bringen die Quest 3S Xbox Edition auf den Markt. Die limitierte Auflage mit Xbox-Gamepad erscheint vorerst allerdings nur in den USA und UK.

⏰ Inside a neuroscientist’s quest to cure coma
#brain

Inside a neuroscientist’s quest to cure coma
Thousands of Americans are trapped in disorders of consciousness. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is searching for a way out.

There’s a new museum on Naoshima Island! This NYT article also describes the many other museums and exhibits installed there.
This is the “art island” that Lynn and I visited a couple months ago. Looks like we’ll have to go back! This time we’ll know to book rooms way in advance (and to stay longer than two nights).
🎁 link

Japanese Islands’ 10th Tadao Ando Museum Caps a Billionaire’s Quest
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao Ando that caps the cultural quest of Soichiro Fukutake.

Microsoft and Meta unveil the $399 Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition, offering few updates to the $299 Meta Quest 3S, available in "extremely limited" quantities (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/meta-q…

After a year of waiting, Microsoft's Meta Quest 3S "Xbox Edition" is here — our hands-on review of this (very) limited edition partnership
Last year, Microsoft revealed it was working on an Xbox edition Quest VR headset with Meta of Facebook fame. Why it took over a year to materialize is anyone's guess, but was it worth the wait?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
A Tribe Called Quest:
🎵 Award Tour
#ATribeCalledQuest
https://magnetikmoments.bandcamp.com/track/a-tribe-called-quest-award-tour
https://open.spotify.com/track/5YTM7OgQDt9EJAYcfHLniJ

BASIL: Best-Action Symbolic Interpretable Learning for Evolving Compact RL Policies
Kourosh Shahnazari, Seyed Moein Ayyoubzadeh, Mohammadali Keshtparvar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00328

BASIL: Best-Action Symbolic Interpretable Learning for Evolving Compact RL Policies
The quest for interpretable reinforcement learning is a grand challenge for the deployment of autonomous decision-making systems in safety-critical applications. Modern deep reinforcement learning approaches, while powerful, tend to produce opaque policies that compromise verification, reduce transparency, and impede human oversight. To address this, we introduce BASIL (Best-Action Symbolic Interpretable Learning), a systematic approach for generating symbolic, rule-based policies via online ev…

"Cave Crave" ausprobiert: Klaustrophobisches Höhlenkriechen in Virtual Reality
"Cave Crave" bietet VR-Fans auf der Meta Quest 3 enge Höhlen, fordernde Kletterpassagen und eine emotionale Vater-Sohn-Geschichte – optional auch mit Horror.

2025 Eagles game-by-game predictions: Repeating won't come easy for the champs https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/predicting-eagles-2025-season-game-by-game

2025 Eagles game-by-game predictions: Repeating won't come easy for the champs https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/predicting-eagles-2025-season-game-by-game

If you’ve ever tried putting butter in your coffee, you have Dave Asprey to thank.
(Sure, it was your annoying coworker who finally convinced you,
but that’s where your annoying coworker got the idea.)
Asprey is arguably the man who popularized the brew of smart drugs, supplements, and self-experimentation
we now know as biohacking.
As part of his multi-million-dollar empire
—which also involves the company Bulletproof Labs
and dressing increasingl…

Snake Venom, Urine, and a Quest to Live Forever: Inside a Biohacking Conference Emboldened by MAHA
WIRED attended a biohacking conference filled with unorthodox and often unproven anti-aging treatments. Adherents revealed how the Make America Healthy Again movement has given them a renewed fervor.

Zum Greifen nah: KI-generierte 3D-Umgebungen in VR
World Labs entwickelt eine KI, die interaktive 3D-Umgebungen aus Prompts oder Bildern erzeugt. Mit Geräten wie Meta Quest 3 kann man diese jetzt in 3D erleben.

Cognitive Load-Driven VR Memory Palaces: Personalizing Focus and Recall Enhancement
Zhengyang Li, Hailin Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02700 https://

Cognitive Load-Driven VR Memory Palaces: Personalizing Focus and Recall Enhancement
Cognitive load, which varies across individuals, can significantly affect focus and memory performance.This study explores the integration of Virtual Reality (VR) with memory palace techniques, aiming to optimize VR environments tailored to individual cognitive load levels to improve focus and memory. We utilized EEG devices, specifically the Oculus Quest 2, to monitor Beta wave activity in 10 participants.By modeling their cognitive load profiles through polynomial regression, we dynamically a…

Currently running the ultimate queer-autistic mental math: do I get up now for a Coke, or do I turn on my PC first and then embark on the sacred quest for caffeine?
Welcome to my rainbow-brained world, where every decision involves calculating the exact number of steps, seconds, and spoons required. 🏳️‍🌈🤓✨
#ActuallyAutistic

Lions' Dan Campbell excited to be 'scarred up' at end of tough 2025 schedule: 'It's the right kind of brutal' https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-dan-campbell-excited-to-be-scarred-up-at-…

Google Earth VR auf Meta Quest: Die 3 besten Apps im Vergleich
Google Earth VR ist nach wie vor eine der eindrucksvollsten VR-Erfahrungen. Wir haben drei Alternativen für Meta Quest getestet und miteinander verglichen.

Virtual Reality im Studium: Uni Weimar stattet Erstsemester mit Meta Quest 3 aus
Informatik-Erstsemester in Weimar bekommen zum Studienstart eine VR-Brille. Ziel ist mehr Praxisnähe im Umgang mit immersiven Technologien.

A short history of my mom's work laptops:
1. VGA HDMI.
2. HDMI DP. I had to buy her a DP cable.
3. DP VGA. I had to go on a quest to beat the spiderwebs and find the old VGA cable. It turned out it doesn't work…
That is, the image is fuzzy. Now I'm wondering if the cable's damaged, or just VGA is too old for the modern world.

QUEST: Quality-aware Semi-supervised Table Extraction for Business Documents
Eliott Thomas, Mickael Coustaty, Aurelie Joseph, Gaspar Deloin, Elodie Carel, Vincent Poulain D'Andecy, Jean-Marc Ogier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14568

QUEST: Quality-aware Semi-supervised Table Extraction for Business Documents
Automating table extraction (TE) from business documents is critical for industrial workflows but remains challenging due to sparse annotations and error-prone multi-stage pipelines. While semi-supervised learning (SSL) can leverage unlabeled data, existing methods rely on confidence scores that poorly reflect extraction quality. We propose QUEST, a Quality-aware Semi-supervised Table extraction framework designed for business documents. QUEST introduces a novel quality assessment model that ev…

Single-Cell Proteomic Technologies: Tools in the quest for principles
Nikolai Slavov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18198 https://arxiv.o…

Single-Cell Proteomic Technologies: Tools in the quest for principles
Over the last decade, proteomic analysis of single cells by mass spectrometry transitioned from an uncertain possibility to a set of robust and rapidly advancing technologies supporting the accurate quantification of thousands of proteins. We review the major drivers of this progress, from establishing feasibility to powerful and increasingly scalable methods. We focus on the tradeoffs and synergies of different technological solutions within a coherent conceptual framework, which projects cons…

Transmutation of $^{16}$O and $^{20}$Ne at the Large Hadron Collider
Govert Nijs, Wilke van der Schee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01659 https://

Transmutation of $^{16}$O and $^{20}$Ne at the Large Hadron Collider
In July 2025 the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will collide $^{16}$O$^{16}$O and $^{20}$Ne$^{20}$Ne isotopes in a quest to understand the physics of ultrarelativistic light ion collisions. One particular feature is that there are many smaller isotopes with the exact same charge over mass ratio that potentially can be produced and contaminate the beam composition. Using the Trajectum framework together with the GEMINI code we provide an estimate of the production cross-section and its consequences…

The QUEST Database of Highly-Accurate Excitation Energies
Pierre-Fran\c{c}ois Loos, Martial Boggio-Pasqua, Aymeric Blondel, Filippo Lipparini, Denis Jacquemin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11590

The QUEST Database of Highly-Accurate Excitation Energies
We report theoretical best estimates of vertical transition energies (VTEs) for a large number of excited states and molecules: the \textsc{quest} database. This database includes 1489 \emph{aug}-cc-pVTZ VTEs (731 singlets, 233 doublets, 461 triplets, and 64 quartets) for both valence and Rydberg transitions occurring in molecules containing from 1 to 16 non-hydrogen atoms. \textsc{Quest} also includes a significant list of VTEs for states characterized by a partial or genuine double-excitation…

A fern I saw last week in Shindagin Hollow; I took a lot of pictures this weekend in town and at Monkey Run but didn't do much developing because I was busy fixing a busted webcrawler (and playing some Death End Re:Quest)
#photo #photography

H-QuEST: Accelerating Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection with Hierarchical Indexing
Akanksha Singh, Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Vipul Arora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16751

H-QuEST: Accelerating Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection with Hierarchical Indexing
Query-by-example spoken term detection (QbE-STD) searches for matching words or phrases in an audio dataset using a sample spoken query. When annotated data is limited or unavailable, QbE-STD is often done using template matching methods like dynamic time warping (DTW), which are computationally expensive and do not scale well. To address this, we propose H-QuEST (Hierarchical Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection), a novel framework that accelerates spoken term retrieval by utilizing Term Fre…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
A Tribe Called Quest:
🎵 Enough!!
#NowPlaying #ATribeCalledQuest
https://open.spotify.com/track/1WvGWCDuj0dfRpuBuYecXp

James Cameron: Headsets Solve The Problems Of 3D Cinema in deal for #Meta #Quest
Meanwhile, still short of 3D movies unlike Vision Pro.

James Cameron: VR Headsets Solve The Problems Of 3D Cinema
James Cameron, who recently announced a partnership with Meta, waxed lyrical about how XR headsets solve the problems of traditional 3D glasses.

Non-Hermitian Nested Hopf-Links and Conjoint Open-Arcs in Synthetic Non-Abelian Gauge Photonic Lattices
Samit Kumar Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21986 …

Non-Hermitian Nested Hopf-Links and Conjoint Open-Arcs in Synthetic Non-Abelian Gauge Photonic Lattices
Non-Hermitian physics enriches the topological attributes of non-Abelian systems. Non-Abelian systems characterized by noncommutative braid patterns are associated with intriguing physical features and applications. Non-Abelian braiding of the non-Hermitian bands and anomalous skin mode localization may emerge due to a host of competing physical effects. The quest for the generality of their physical origin and the associated new phenomena, therefore, constitutes a pertinent question to conside…

Scalable quantum interference in integrated lithium niobate nanophotonics
Tristan Kuttner, Alessandra Sabatti, Jost Kellner, Rachel Grange, Robert J. Chapman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20519

Scalable quantum interference in integrated lithium niobate nanophotonics
Photonics has emerged as one of the leading platforms for the implementation of real-world-applicable quantum technologies, enabling secure communication, enhanced sensing capabilities, as well as resolving previously intractable computational challenges. However, to harness the full potential of the photonics platform, several engineering feats need to be accomplished, among those is the quest for a scalable source of pure single photons. While single photon sources can be implemented in a var…

LIVE NOW on Twitch! 🚀 We're continuing our quest for more Conquest points in SWTOR tonight, all from my Linux PC! Join the grind and help us dominate the galaxy! #SWTOR

We'll kick off this year's edition of #bbuzz with our keynote speaker @…!
Read our blogpost to learn more and join us this June in Berlin or online!

this is the first time since 2020 i've been okay with dailying linux on my desktop with at least 90% of my stuff working, and also the first time i've felt like VR on linux on my quest 3 is nearly as usable as it is on windows. most of the online multiplayer games i've been playing don't block linux too, shoutout splitgate 1/2, the finals and RIP xdefiant

I think he's calling for help
Season 9 Episode 4 "Dolphin Quest"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch

Here's my latest Boles Bells article!
https://bolesbells.com/blog/2025/6/9/the-iron-ballast-kettlebells-national-identity-and-the-russian-mythos-of-strength

The Iron Ballast: Kettlebells, National Identity, and the Russian Mythos of Strength — David Boles Bells
The trajectory of Russia over the past century is a story deeply etched with societal upheavals, ideological fervor, and an unyielding quest for national assertion on the global stage. Knotted into this complex tapestry is the seemingly modest history of the kettlebell, or girya . This unassuming i

This book is so cool. 650 pages with amazing screen shots and descriptions of each game.
#books #videogames #jrpg

from my link log —
The sorry state of Java deserialization.
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_110_java_io/
saved 2024-09-22 https://

Aha, #gold. Sollte man weiter verfolgen https://home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
A Tribe Called Quest:
🎵 Oh My God (feat. Busta Rhymes)
#ATribeCalledQuest
https://odweeyne.bandcamp.com/track/a-tribe-called-quest-oh-my-god-remix-1993
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZSFJb8xXAfcNa9uZIdOqg

Lamar on quest for 'vengeance' after loss to Bills https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45533365/ravens-lamar-jackson-haunted-deep-felt-loss-bills

A non-commutative algorithm for multiplying 4x4 matrices using 48 non-complex multiplications
Jean-Guillaume Dumas (UGA, LJK, CASC), Cl\'ement Pernet, Alexandre Sedoglavic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13242

A non-commutative algorithm for multiplying 4x4 matrices using 48 non-complex multiplications
The quest for non-commutative matrix multiplication algorithms in small dimensions has seen a lot of recent improvements recently. In particular, the number of scalar multiplications required to multiply two $4\times4$ matrices was first reduced in \cite{Fawzi:2022aa} from 49 (two recursion levels of Strassen's algorithm) to 47 but only in characteristic 2 or more recently to 48 in\cite{alphaevolve} but over complex numbers. We propose an algorithm in 48 multiplications with only rational coeff…

Unraveling Freeze-in Dark matter through the echoes of gravitational waves
Partha Konar, Sudipta Show
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08106 https://

Unraveling Freeze-in Dark matter through the echoes of gravitational waves
In the quest to unravel the dark sector, feebly interacting freeze-in dark matter presents an intriguing possibility, plausibly explaining the consistent null results from various dark matter experiments. We propose a unique imprint in the form of gravitational waves generated during the freeze-in production of dark matter from heavy particle decay in the early universe. This characteristic gravitational wave signature can serve as a powerful probe for freeze-in dark matter. Our study indicates…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15412 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

STE-QUEST -- Space Time Explorer and QUantum Equivalence principle Space Test: The 2022 medium-class mission concept
Space-borne quantum technologies, particularly those based on atom interferometry, are heralding a new era of strategic and robust space exploration. The unique conditions of space, characterized by low noise and low gravity environments, open up diverse possibilities for applications ranging from precise time and frequency transfer to Earth Observation and the search of new Physics. In this paper, we summarise the M-class mission proposal in response to the 2022 call in ESA's science program: …

Ich war Gast bei Gianni Ventrella's Quest Office Podcast zu Tabletop Rollenspielen.
Wir sprechen neben allerlei Anderem über das Mixen von Spielsystemen: meine Erfahrungen damit, mit unterschiedlichsten Charakterbögen in einem ganz anderen System zu spielen, waren ziemlich positiv bisher.
#pnpde #ttrpg #indierpg #questoffice #storygames #rpg #dsa

How Pete Carroll is Delivering Stability to the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-antonio-pierce-josh-mcdaniels-new-england-patriots

Mit "Deadpool VR" und "Reach" erscheinen 2025 zwei echte VR-Blockbuster
Meta kündigt mit "Deadpool VR" den nächsten Exklusivtitel für die Quest 3 an, während nDreams mit "Reach" eine VR-Großproduktion für alle VR-Plattformen zeigt.

Combinatorial quantization of 4d 2-Chern-Simons theory II: Quantum invariants of higher ribbons in $D^4$
Hank Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05785 https:/…

Combinatorial quantization of 4d 2-Chern-Simons theory II: Quantum invariants of higher ribbons in $D^4$
This is a continuation of the first paper (arXiv:2501.06486) of this series, where the framework for the combinatorial quantization of the 4d 2-Chern-Simons theory with an underlying compact structure Lie 2-group $\mathbb{G}$ was laid out. In this paper, we continue our quest and characterize additive module *-functors $ω:\mathfrak{C}_q(\mathbb{G}^{Γ^2})\rightarrow\mathsf{Hilb}$, which serve as a categorification of linear *-functionals (ie. a state) on a $C^*$-algebra. These allow us to cons…

Optimized Gutzwiller Projected States for Doped Antiferromagnets in Fermi-Hubbard Simulators
Christian Reinmoser, Muqing Xu, Lev Haldar Kendrick, Anant Kale, Youqi Gang, Martin Lebrat, Markus Greiner, Fabian Grusdt, Annabelle Bohrdt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11227

Optimized Gutzwiller Projected States for Doped Antiferromagnets in Fermi-Hubbard Simulators
In quantum many-body physics, one aims to understand emergent phenomena and effects of strong interactions, ideally by developing a simple theoretical picture. Recently, progress in quantum simulators has enabled the measurement of site resolved snapshots of Fermi-Hubbard systems at finite doping on square as well as triangular lattice geometries. These experimental advances pose the quest for theorists to analyze the ensuing data in order to gain insights into these prototypical, strongly corr…

What we learned from Jim Harbaugh's second offseason with the Chargers https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45441551/los-angeles-chargers-mandatory-minicamp-2025-jim-harbaugh-justin-herbert

Multimodal "Puppeteer": An Exploration of Robot Teleoperation Via Virtual Counterpart with LLM-Driven Voice and Gesture Interaction in Augmented Reality
Yuchong Zhang, Bastian Orthmann, Shichen Ji, Michael Welle, Jonne Van Haastregt, Danica Kragic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13189…

Multimodal "Puppeteer": An Exploration of Robot Teleoperation Via Virtual Counterpart with LLM-Driven Voice and Gesture Interaction in Augmented Reality
The integration of robotics and augmented reality (AR) holds transformative potential for advancing human-robot interaction (HRI), offering enhancements in usability, intuitiveness, accessibility, and collaborative task performance. This paper introduces and evaluates a novel multimodal AR-based robot puppeteer framework that enables intuitive teleoperation via virtual counterpart through large language model (LLM)-driven voice commands and hand gesture interactions. Utilizing the Meta Quest 3,…

John Spytek makes surprising admission about Raiders' quarterback search https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/john-spytek-surprising-admission-raiders-quarterback-se…

Overall #California officially tallies over 30,000 total job losses in first 4 months of year as #DJT admin economic policies took effect. Steepest #federal #employment

Bay Area hit hard by federal job cuts
The U.S. government’s quest to slash the federal workforce has jolted the job markets in California and the Bay Area.

📝 Haudenosaunee’s quest: Lacrosse will make the 2028 LA Olympics. Will the game’s creators? - syracuse.com https://www.syracuse.com/news/2025/06/will-there-be-lacrosse-in-the-2028-la-olympics-without-its-creators.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=syracuse_nf