VisionOS SDK first look 🥳

Having a good time checking out all the possibilities that the VisionOS has to offer. There is so much packed into the first SDK! First thing first, starting off with checking out bringing existing apps into VisionOS, then try to make some new ones solely for VisionOS. OK, let’s gooo! 🥹🎉

https://developer.apple.com/visionos/

Game updates

Been busy working on updates and adding new functionality for new games and the games already in the iOS store. This week is the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco and hopefully we will see more social media posts from there to see what’s the latest news and trends. Let’s have some fun!

Insights into game development from Masahiro Sakurai now on YouTube! 🥰🤩🌟

Amazing news! Masahiro Sakurai, director of several Kirby series and the Super Smash Bros. series, started a new Youtube channel dedicated to offering his insight and advice on game development. His mentions that his videos are meant to be general advice and won’t be going into any coding details. This of course makes sense, since there are so many different platforms to develop on. His first video “Stop for Big Moments!" is the first gem and it’s about stopping or slowing action in gameplay for important moments such as defeating an enemy or being destroyed. I can’t wait to see what he has in store for us and I will be implementing many of the techniques he’s going to share with us all. 🌟

Here’s the link to his YouTube video: Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games

Adding on a Deep Learning Adventure Blog! 🚀🌟

In addition to the myriad of projects I have going on, I found it necessary to start deep learning adventure blog. I did this for several reasons. First of all it helps me understand the material better when I write it out. I also like the idea of having it online so I can access it from anywhere. Hopefully, someone else who reads it may find it useful and helps them out if they are starting out also. My main focus on this blog is to journal my adventures through Practical Deep Learning for Coders by Fast.ai.

I am using Fast.ai’s FastPages to make this blog since it supports Jupyter Notebooks and will be periodically linking back to this blog.

Here’s the link to this adventure! 🚀:

https://jorgebriones.github.io/Deep-Learning-Blog/

Learning the Metal API--🌟

Started learning about Metal for game & machine learning development. It was clear to me that I would have to pick it up sooner or later. I’ve been using SpriteKit for game development for some time now and have been carefully watching to see if it gets updated by Apple, but nothing so far. As for ML, it’s every where in Apple’s APIs so it’s essential to learn about it. What’s underneath both of them? Metal. So far I’ve gone through 8 chapters of Metal by Tutorials by Caroline Begbie & Marius Horga and it’s been really fun to understand it. Let’s have some fun! 🚀

WWDC22 Next Week!

Excited to see what WWDC22 has in store for us next week! 🎉 I’m wondering and excited about all the media speculation about “Reality OS” and the hardware. Maybe they made a new game engine to go along with it or more along the lines of the APIs they currently have for AR/VR/SceneKit? I love that they once again have digital lounges available for us to chat online with others and Apple folks. It’s going to be a fun week!

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc22/