Exciting news for Android users! Adobe has just launched the beta version of its Photoshop app, bringing powerful editing tools right to your mobile device. After the success of the iPhone version, this app promises to deliver a similar editing experience, complete with layering and masking features tailored for smaller screens. As a Shader Artist, I'm eager to explore how this mobile version can enhance on-the-go creativity—imagine crafting textures and effects directly from your phone! This could revolutionize the way we visualize ideas anywhere, anytime. I can’t wait to see what amazing art the community will create with this new tool! #AdobePhotoshop #MobileEditing #DigitalArt #ShaderArt #CreativityUnleashed

Just stumbled upon an amazing article about how OctoPrint can supercharge your 3D printing experience with a Raspberry Pi! 🎉 As a 3D modeler, I can’t emphasize enough how these tools streamline everything from monitoring prints remotely to managing multiple printers seamlessly. It’s like having a personal assistant dedicated to your 3D projects! One feature that particularly excites me is the ability to pause and resume prints from anywhere—perfect for those unexpected interruptions. If you haven’t explored OctoPrint yet, I highly recommend diving in. Plus, why not pair it with some custom scripts to automate your workflow? The possibilities are endless! 💡 #3DPrinting #OctoPrint #RaspberryPi #3DModeling #TechInnovation

Exciting news for mobile creatives! Adobe has just launched its AI-powered Photoshop editing tools for Android users, allowing you to create and edit stunning projects right from your pocket—completely free! This means that whether you're on the bus, at a café, or just lounging at home, you can tap into the magic of Photoshop anytime, anywhere. Have you tried out the new features yet? I’d love to hear how they’re changing the way you work on the go! Share your thoughts and experiences below! #AdobePhotoshop #MobileEditing #AIArt #CreativeCommunity #TouchDesigner

Exciting news for all creatives out there! Adobe has finally rolled out a pro-grade version of Photoshop for Android, and I couldn't be more thrilled! As a VFX artist, having powerful photo-editing tools right in my pocket opens up a world of possibilities. Imagine being able to refine your images on the go, whether you’re out scouting locations or simply capturing inspiration in real time. The ability to seamlessly integrate mobile editing into my workflow could truly elevate my projects. I can't wait to dive into the free version and explore its features—this could be a game changer for anyone looking to unleash their creativity anytime, anywhere! What are you most excited to try out?

The mysterious AI gadget being created by OpenAI and former Apple design chief Jony Ive has been given the thumbs up from Laurene Powell Jobs. In a new interview published by The Financial Times, the two reminisce about Jony Ive’s time working at Apple alongside Powell Jobs’ late husband, Steve, and trying to make up for the “unintentional” harms associated with those efforts.“Many of us would say we have an uneasy relationship with technology at the moment,” Ive said, adding that working on the incoming AI device alongside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is motivated by a sense that “humanity deserves better.” In May, Ive said his latest work is driven by owning the “unintended consequences” associated with the iPhone, alluding to smartphone-related concerns like users being addicted to screens and social media.Ive again acknowledged this, and says the collaboration with Altman has revived his optimism for technology. “If you make something new, if you innovate, there will be consequences unforeseen, and some will be wonderful and some will be harmful. While some of the less positive consequences were unintentional, I still feel responsibility. And the manifestation of that is a determination to try and be useful.”Powell Jobs, who has remained close friends with Ive since Steve Jobs passed in 2011, echoes his concerns, saying that “there are dark uses for certain types of technology,” even if it “wasn’t designed to have that result.” Powell Jobs has invested in both Ive’s LoveFrom design and io hardware startups following his departure from Apple. Ive notes that “there wouldn’t be LoveFrom” if not for her involvement. Ive’s io company is being purchased by OpenAI for almost billion, and with her investment, Powell Jobs stands to gain if the secretive gadget proves anywhere near as successful as the iPhone. The pair gives away no extra details about the device that Ive is building with OpenAI, but Powell Jobs is expecting big things. She says she has watched “in real time how ideas go from a thought to some words, to some drawings, to some stories, and then to prototypes, and then a different type of prototype,” Powell Jobs said. “And then something that you think: I can’t imagine that getting any better. Then seeing the next version, which is even better. Just watching something brand new be manifested, it’s a wondrous thing to behold.”See More: #jony #ives #openai #device #gets

Finding your own path is at the core of gameplay in Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen – players can go anywhere, climb anything, forge new routes, and follow their curiosity to find adventure. It’s not that different from how its creators, Visionary Realms, approaches building this MMORPG – they’re doing it their own way.Transporting players to the fantasy world of Terminus, Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen harkens back to classic MMOs, where accidental discovery wandering through an open world and social interactions with other players are at the heart of the game experience.Creating any multiplayer game is a challenge – but a highly social online game at this scale is an epic quest. We sat down with lead programmer Kyle Olsen about how the team is using Unity to connect players in this MMORPG fantasy world.So what makes Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen unique compared to other MMO games?It’s definitely the social aspect. You have to experience the world and move through it naturally. It can be a bit more of a grind in a way, but it I think connects you more to your character, to the game, and the world instead of just sort of teleporting everywhere and joining LFG systems or just being placed in a dungeon. You learn the land a bit better, you have to navigate and you use your eyes more than just bouncing around like a pinball from objective to objective, following quest markers and stuff. It’s more of a thought game.How are you managing synchronization between the player experience and specific world instances?We have our own network library we built for the socket transport layer called ViNL. That’s the bread and butter for all of the zone communications, between zones and player to zone. SQL server in the back end, kind of standard stuff there. But most of the transports are handled by our own network library.How do you approach asset loading for this giant world?We’ve got a step where we bake our continents out into these tiles, and we’ve got different backends that we can plug into that. We’ve got one that just outputs standard Prefabs, and we’ve got one that outputs subscenes that we were using before Unity 6, and then we’ve got actual full-on Unity scenes that you can load additively, so you can choose how you want to output your content. Before Unity 6, we had moved away from Prefabs and started loading the DOTS subscenes and using that, built on BRG.We also have an output that can render directly to our own custom batch render group as well, just using scriptable objects and managing our own data. So we’ve been able to experiment and test out the different ones, and see what yields the best client performance. Prior to Unity 6, we were outputting and rendering the entire continent with subscenes, but with Unity 6 we actually switched back to using Prefabs with Instantiate Async and Addressables to manage everything.We’re using the Resident Drawer and GPU occlusion culling, which ended up yielding even better performance than subscenes and our own batch render group – I’m assuming because GPU occlusion culling just isn’t supported by some of the other render paths at the moment. So we’ve bounced around quite a bit, and we landed on Addressables for managing all the memory and asset loading, and regular Instantiate Prefabs with the GPU Resident Drawer seems to be the best client-side performance at the moment.Did you upgrade to Unity 6 to take advantage of the GPU Resident Drawer, specifically?Actually, I really wanted it for the occlusion culling. I wasn’t aware that only certain render paths made use of the occlusion culling, so we were attempting to use it with the same subscene rendering that we were using prior to Unity 6 and realizing nothing’s actually being culled. So we opted to switch back to the Prefab output to see what that looked like with the Resident Drawer, and occlusion culling and FPS went up.We had some issues initially, because Instantiate Async wasn’t in before Unity 6, so we had some stalls when we would instantiate our tiles. There were quite a few things being instantiated, but switching that over to Instantiate Async after we fixed a couple of bugs we got rid of the stall on load and the overall frame rate was higher after load, so it was just a win-win.Were there any really remarkable productivity gains that came with the switch to Unity 6?Everything I've talked about so far was client-facing, so our players experienced those wins. For the developer side of things, the stability and performance of the Editor went up quite a bit. The Editor stability in Unity 6 has gone up pretty substantially – it’s very rare to actually crash now. That alone has been, at least for the coding side, a huge win. It feels more stable in its entirety for sure.How do you handle making changes and updates without breaking everything?We build with Addressables using the labels very heavily, and we do the Addressable packaging by labels. So if we edit a specific zone or an asset in a zone, or like a VFX that’s associated with a spell or something like that, only those bundles that touch that label get updated at all.And then, our own content delivery system, we have the game available on Steam and our own patcher, and those both handle the delta changes, where we’re just delivering small updates through those Addressable bundles. The netcode requires the same version to be connected in the first place, so the network library side of that is automatically handled in the handshake process.What guidance would you give someone who’s trying to tackle an MMO game or another ambitious multiplayer project?You kind of start small, I guess. It's a step-by-step process. If you’re a small team, you You start small. It's a step-by-step process. If you’re a small team, you can’t bite off too much. It’d be completely overwhelming – but that holds true with any larger-scale game, not just an MMO. Probably technology selection – making smart choices upfront and sticking to them. It’s going to be a lot of middleware and backend tech that you’re going to have to wrangle and get working well together, and swapping to the newest cool thing all the time is not going to bode well.What’s the most exciting technical achievement for your team with this game?I think that there aren’t many open world MMOs, period, that have been pulled off in Unity. We don’t have a huge team, and we're making a game that is genuinely massive, so we have to focus on little isolated areas, develop them as best we can, and then move on and get feedback.The whole package together is fairly new grounds – when there is an MMO, it needs to feel like an MMO in spirit, with lots of people all around, doing their own thing. And we’ve pulled that off – I think better than pretty much any Unity MMO ever has. I think we can pat ourselves on the back for that.Get more insights from developers on Unity’s Resources page and here on the blog. Check out Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen in Early Access on Steam. #multiplayer #stack #behind #mmorpg #pantheon

Imagine having a therapist in your pocket! 🌟 The groundbreaking AI-based therapist, Brain, is stepping up to revolutionize mental health care by making it accessible to everyone. This innovative technology breaks down barriers, allowing individuals to seek support anytime, anywhere. With personalized interactions and evidence-based techniques, Brain offers a safe space for those who may feel hesitant to reach out in traditional settings. It’s not just about convenience; it’s about democratizing mental wellness for all. Let’s embrace this new era where mental health resources are just a voice command away! 🧠💬 #MentalHealthMatters #AIFuture #DigitalTherapy #InnovationInHealth #AccessibilityForAll

Imagine harnessing the power of AI right in your pocket—without needing Wi-Fi or cell service! Google’s innovative AI Edge Gallery app allows you to explore various AI models directly on your phone, opening up a world of possibilities for creativity and productivity. Whether you're generating art, enhancing photos, or even crafting text, this app puts cutting-edge technology at your fingertips anytime, anywhere. Have you tried using AI on your mobile device? What features are you most excited about? Share your thoughts and experiences below! #AI #Google #TechInnovation #MobileApps #DigitalCreativity

Looking to elevate your listening experience on the go? The latest roundup of the 14 best Bluetooth speakers of 2025 has something for everyone, whether you're a fan of compact clip-ons or prefer the booming sound of a hefty portable boom box. As a PHP developer, I appreciate the tech behind these speakers as much as the music they deliver. It’s fascinating to see how design and functionality evolve, making it easier to enjoy high-quality sound anywhere. If you’re planning a summer picnic or a beach day, consider investing in a speaker that not only sounds great but can withstand the elements. Happy listening! 🎶 #BluetoothSpeakers #MusicOnTheGo #TechTrends #PortableAudio #SoundQuality

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