What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overlord here? So James Jude Courtney who has been portraying the shape in has been in Halloween kills and Halloween 2018 he has Basically kind of more or less confirmed Because things could always change. I want to say this is just very a fluid thing that could change He has stated in a cameo that he did for a fan one of those little cameo videos that you can request from certain actors Who have this set up? He has disclosed that Halloween ends the concluding chapter in this new timeline that we all have been dealing with since 2018 This will start filming in the fall later this year presumably again out in Wilmington, North Carolina Where we know Halloween kills was shot and Halloween not Halloween 20, but um, I meant to say screen 5 So we know we're getting Halloween kills later this year But James Jude Courtney has made it clear that the plan I guess as of right now Well that we should expect Halloween ends to start filming is later this fall now I know that sometime last year reports were coming out about the film filming in a couple of months sometime in 2020 That of course was put on pause for things that we already aware of as to why so the fact that they're gonna try to Shoot the film later this fall and get it out in time by 2022 That's not something that's far fetched because I believe if I'm remembering correctly Halloween 2018 was shot and released in the same year Shot and released in the same year premiered at TIFF to an amazing response and Debuted at 100% on rotten tomatoes, even though that was like with a few small small Reviews at the time and then it went on to be a big success when it was released to the general public in October. So The fact that they're gonna film Halloween ends in the fall of this year and then release it by 2022 Next October they can do that. They can do that if nothing ends up coming in the way any more hurdles That's something that they can do. I'm really looking forward to seeing what happens. I hope production goes smoothly James you Courtney, we know he's the one that's been portrayed Michael Myers again as I mentioned in the last two installments Halloween kills and Halloween 2018 so With him being back as this character once again, he's doing he's been doing a phenomenal job So I can't wait to see how they wrap things up with how it ends when it starts shooting later this Fall in Wilmington now if I had to guess what month it would start filming. I'm going to just go out and say most likely October October I Mean why not I you can film it in October film it in October the month that Halloween kills is coming out I think I would just draw more attention to Halloween kills That could be like another little marketing tactic Like you know why we have our Halloween kills movie coming out in a couple of days We're also in the process of shooting in Wilmington for Halloween ends So that would be another thing to kind of the production of Halloween ends being used as a way to hype up Halloween kills pending release in October now Maybe they should also just wait until of course they have their red carpet premiere But again, you can you can start production and then put things on pause if necessary to go do the red carpet stuff But most likely after the film is released in October if they were to start filming in October That's when they would probably start filming Halloween ends. I mean they won't I don't think they'll start filming it and then put things on pause just to start up marketing for Halloween kills So that's what James you Courtney had to say about that now What do I think will happen in howling ends now? I've made this perfectly clear in a few other videos I think that Allison strolled will be the one who will have that final confrontation with Michael Myers the shape in the end of this I think she will be the one to pass have the torch passed to her to kind of be the thing that says You know what? I'm not gonna go through the same things that my mother and my grandmother went through I'm going to put it into this once and for all my generation and the generations after me are not going to be Suffering with the memory with the memory of a night like this we're gonna remember this in a We're gonna remember this night as the night that you died the night that I set my grandmother free from her trauma and I learned how to Stand on my own and let and let her see that I can stand on my own and that you should not have any control over her The way that you have had mentally because of her lack of lack of ability to move on from the trauma You caused her all those years ago in 1978 So I think that's what'll happen a lot of you think it should be Laurie strolled and I get it Michael Myers Laurie strolled That's kind of in the thing that we've been dealing with since the first film But honestly the way things have been told and the way things seem to be going. I don't really think It would make the most sense for Laurie strolled to be the one that ends this Laurie strolled is not the Youngest of these three strolled women the youngest here and the one who's been Positioned as a way to kind of parallel that character is her own granddaughter Allison strolled Allison should be the one That has the final say against Michael Myers. She should be the one that kills him, too And if it's Laurie, I won't be upset at that Jamie Lee Curtis is Amazing as this character and it would be Something that's still logical, but I just think the more logical thing to do here is to Have Laurie have some type of moment with Michael early on But that's not the last time Michael is put down Michael will then Possibly do something that puts Laurie out of action and then it's just Allison and the shape To a fight to the death Allison will run around at some random location presuming this will be Let's say it's the Myers house. Let's say the Myers house. Let's say the Myers house doesn't have anything Detrimental happen to it in Halloween kills it returns for Halloween ends everything involving what we have come to know and love about this current timeline starting all the way back to Halloween 1978 where it started it will end inside the Myers house and That would just be another fitting thing as well since it started with Michael Myers killing his Older sister in her bedroom after she got done making out with her boyfriend on Halloween night Presume, let's presume that Rob zombie was right.  We don't need to understand what's going on inside his head he's clearly someone who's deeply disturbed but You know, they've tried to give us answers in the past and the answers that they've given us they've not been satisfied at all They've tried to give us things related to cult stuff The whole sister angle and the whole cougar bloodline stuff that was not satisfied But let me know what you guys think about Halloween in starting production later this fall If you haven't I miss you subscribe turn on post notification at numbers of video in the description I have links on my social media accounts on my Facebook Twitter and Instagram you can message me there Of course, there's any movies news or reviews I've been cover in the future with other than my guys I will see you in the next video


How's it going guys and welcome back to another J-char review and today we're going to be looking at this really interesting little sushi pack And this is also made in Japan and by Iwako as well And as you know, I review a lot of Iwako erasers So I was excited to see one that's encased into something rather than them just being thrown into a bag So let's take a closer look at these guys and see how they come apart There we go Here's the case right here It's what the bottom looks like it almost looks like it has kind of a gold underlay interesting Then we just Remove the lid and let's see what these are And see how they come apart because these are way to oh, there's a little pig right there that they actually go into that's pretty cool So let's go ahead and focus in on these guys So it looks as though we have some fish eggs on top Similar design to the larger one. There's no rice underneath and they're fused at the bottom. It looks like With a little tiny leaf that goes right here some kind of a vegetable right there That's pretty cool. We have some more of these guys. I believe we've Reviewed them before it looks like it's coming out in multiple pieces though. Let's put them back. Here's this one I'm not sure what it is. Maybe it's a scrambled eggs on top of rice. It looks pretty good So this one is the salmon Nice rice bottom same texture as the other one and it can pop open like that And it has two pegs on this one unlike the other one. Some of them only had one There we go And then we have these guys right here if we can pull them out And I know you guys helped me in the comments below, but I totally forgot what these guys are again I'm pretty sure this is the one you guys helped me with too I'm not good at remembering stuff. Oh, yeah, some classic looks like salmon rolls right here we can pop that out and I'm not sure if these come apart though. There's multiple layers right there. Can you see that? It's like a little Kind of area for it to go in but I don't have the confidence to say that I could get this Yeah, it's a three piece. So the center is separated along with the edges I just don't have the confidence to like try to rip that out or probably rip the eraser into pieces Kind of put that back down in there And let's take a really nice kind of overview of it And this is what it looks like with everything in there and I noticed something a little bit ago This actually spins kind of like you could you know pretend it's a miniature revolving sushi bar But this also comes out as well So you can see where all of the little pigs are kind of inserted And then you could kind of have it on your own nice little golden platter Pretty cute stuff and I want to share something that a lot of people commented on Was the opening to my claw machine video and I want to show you guys how I achieved that I Actually bought a camera kind of a roller slash stabilizer It does live action shots and kind of smooth them out like a steady cam And it is basically a pair of robotic wheels Right here with a little attachment that mounts to a phone bracket that holds your phone in kind of a standard tripod screw mount and then in here we have The actual device which is resilient if I do say so myself And up here it even has these kind of little degrees of measurement for when you kind of go to use it And it starts rolling They're very sensitive. So you only really have to adjust it by a very slight degree and it will follow along that path This is the front wheel it actually turns so all you do is go ahead and turn it on And it comes with a little click remote that I have on the side right here And all you have to do is click play And it starts rotating and it has multiple different settings to make it go faster or slower Go ahead and pause that All right, so I put it back here So you guys can kind of get an idea of what it would look like the camera would normally be put right there But when you press play It does a really nice smooth pan. It's on a very minor curve right now So it's gonna go over here and then it's gonna start to curve back to that side Yep, and there it goes and then you can pause it as well This thing is very useful for getting like more high quality objects or maybe even you know Different things that are just special to you. You can get it really nice kind of pan-on look on them And it just gives this polish to your videos and surprisingly this was only $60 A lot of these other ones that I have seen that are on a rail system. Well, by the way, this is compatible with a rail system They're like a minimum of 250 There's some cheaper ones, but the reviews are kind of mixed, but this one right here It goes both directions You can even make it spin in a complete 360 circles So I think that the value for this one is insane and like I said, you can just move over here put this on here like that and Then just mount your phone bracket to it and then boom you can just go ahead and have that full rotation You could even put a DSLR on here probably. But yeah, kind of a quick video on this really nice little camera stabilizer slash slider and I'm really excited to continue making videos with this I have a video planned in the future of Something kind of a retro and I'm really excited to show you guys But what do you guys think? Let me know in the comments below Is this something that you'd want to get for your YouTube setup or maybe even just filming? You know things that you're interested in. Let me know Today we're going to be looking at the iCharge pro cable Reversatility is key now this was sent to me by iCharge And I'm actually pretty excited because this doesn't just have one but it has three different connectors You can do micro USB USB type-c and lightning bolt as well This is also a 2.4 amp. So that is fast to charging I believe Let's go ahead and turn it around and let's zoom in It says right here. It has 360 degrees of rotation 180 degrees of bending it's magnetic and it has a nylon braided cable, which is pretty cool It says one-handed operation great to use for people who have disabilities or multi-taskers Has a secure connection. So the magnetic force is strong enough to hold your phone tight If you accidentally have it falling when you're charging It has a free spin of 180 degrees Ultra-durable LED indicator and Compatibility for almost any device. That's pretty cool really like the ability to have like multiple chargers So let's go ahead open this up and see what it's all about There we go Comes in a little kind of sliding tray Here we go has a little kind of thing right here to hold your little charging pieces Set that down take a closer look at it And then this is the cable itself. Let's go ahead and focus in on it.  Let's see what that looks like So I believe this is where the LED indicator would be and it has these little tiny kind of copper pieces that I'm assuming magnetic to the Whatever piece you want to put on there for charging and it has some directions that it can turn it and go up like this So if you want to like kind of hold your phone and you don't want the wire to be sticking straight downward You can have it to the side and then you also can move at the opposite direction as well. So that's pretty cool Let's go ahead and undo it real quick Link feels nice wire feels like it's a Pretty sturdy with that nylon on the outside. So I don't think that that's gonna be breaking anytime soon Let's go ahead and try out the pieces that we got right here though and see how well they connect and how well they work Let's go ahead and zoom in on it All right, so we have the USB-C right here the lightning bolt and then the micro USB They come with this little tiny kind of Plastic holder. Let's see if we can just like grab the first one right here just by Putting it right there So pull out of the it does There we go. Look at that Just kind of attaches itself. Yeah, that's actually pretty cool and Quite a bit of force to pull it off Yeah, just attaches right there. Oh I see how it works Let's go ahead and zoom in on that. So as you can see it has a multiple different rings right here and what happens is These little tiny copper pieces Kind of move along with this little circley area and they're all separated So it's able to do the the voltage and all of that kind of stuff on two separate rings That's actually really smart because that means you can rotate like 360 So if you had it on here, you can rotate all the way around like that Okay, and then it can move, you know this way and that way So that's actually super cool and super convenient and you're gonna get a charge of 360 degrees and That also means that this isn't going to break on you as well Pretty cool. And of course the other ones have the same thing. You just click it on there pretty cool And then the micro USB Pretty easy to do All right, and now let's go ahead and grab some devices and see how it works while it's charging The first thing I have right over here. We zoom in on the back is my iPad So we can go ahead and plug it in So I'm assuming we can just throw this directly in here. We don't even have to like Boom, it's just kind of inside. All right, so I went ahead and plug this into the wall Let's just go ahead and attach it now. Look at that. We got charge Pretty cool. I like that a lot my LG v60 came with something like this on the case, but I like how this one is just I Don't know it it works better in a way So you can move this direction and then that direction and as you can see It's actually not coming off the problem with my LG v60 kind of charging case that has the magnetic Is it stiff and the magnetic like if this was stiff it would just pop right off like that But since it has that swivel any direction, you don't have to worry about it It actually stays on there pretty well, and I like that a lot So let's go ahead and move on to the next thing that we can charge with this so many of you probably Are on your Nintendo switches lately due to animal crossing and This is my switch. That's a little dirty right now, but it's my switch light and if we go ahead and Focus in on the port. All we have to do is add this USB C Grab it and plug it in there we go and All we have to do is add this wire and click and it is charging Pretty cool. I actually can just leave this on here And then whenever I want I just throw this here and let's say I'm gaming and it would be like normally sticking out I could do something like that so I can hold it closer to my lap or to closer to the When you know, whatever surface that I have it next to and Yeah, it still spins still moves around and it doesn't come off Pretty cool stuff So I don't have many things that work with micro USB anymore, but I found these headphones of mine that do Let's go ahead and plug that last one into here. There we go and Then just a patch There we go headphones are charging right there Pretty cool stuff, but yeah, what do you guys think? I think these connectors are pretty cool cables good quality and can work for multiple different things too Let me know what you think in the comments below. Thank you so much for sending this out to me And if you guys are interested, I'll have this linked in the description below and as always Today we're going to be looking at a mechanical keyboard. This is the geek GK 61 RGB keyboard This is a USB C keyboard and it was sent to me by Banggood And I'll have an affiliate link in the description below where you can go to buy this and also Help support the channel So this was sent to me for free and I'm really happy to open it up because it looked really cool on the listing and Yeah, so let's go ahead and open the box and check it out. Oh Look at that Push it down a little bit And it comes kind of encased in this little cardboard area so it's safe when it travels Pull it out of here Now these are brown switches So they're mechanical switches Let's go ahead and focus in on it This one doesn't come with a number pad. It is a 61 key. It's kind of a smaller one as you can see the size of my hand compared to the keyboard It's kind of nice and compact. I can actually set this next to a laptop It'd probably be really nice as well So let's go ahead and open it up There we go one ahead and peel that off And let's just go ahead and slide this guy out. Wow, this feels really nice in the hands. I'm not gonna lie kind of feels Like has a nice weight to it kind of premium feeling and I'm gonna be honest I was not expecting that with kind of cheaper keyboard like this, but it actually feels really nice Let's go ahead and set that down Let's type my name Works pretty good everyone This is JHR reviews Enter Yeah, it feels really nice and it's supposed to be RGB as well So we're gonna go ahead and get this turned on so it said that it's supposed to come with a USB-C I believe I didn't see it in the box, but it might be under the flap. So let's take a look And here it is it did come with a USB-C. It was underneath the other portion So let's go ahead and open this up It comes with a nice little velcro strap for it and a braided cord which is very nice feeling Keep in mind. This is an honest review. I know I'm saying positive things about it But I would be telling you if there's anything wrong with it Even if I am doing this through an affiliate link. I'm always honest about my products I review So let's go ahead and continue on I'm gonna plug that in to the Port on the back, which is the USB-C port And then we can just plug this into my computer off to the side All right, I went ahead and plugged it in warning for anybody who has photo sensitivity Some of these lights will probably flash. I'm unsure if it will trigger anything But just to be safe. I'm putting this warning right now Let's go ahead and get started. So the first setting that I'm on is the Kind of touch setting where if you click a specific key, it will light up. There we go You control with fn and then press again So now when you press it kind of gives off a interesting little uh kind of flash of light almost like a lightning bolt or something fn again and now we have a Kind of wave That kind of disperses wherever you press Which is really cool fn again Actually with this wave thing. I didn't notice it actually reacts to sound which is insane So if you're gaming, it'll actually react if you're playing on speaker. So look at this How cool is that let's go ahead and check out the other settings too And then back again to the original position And you can also press fn as well right here to adjust the brightness.  This is actually programmable from what it says you could actually program specific keys to light up So how cool is that? Looks as though we have some other settings right here So this is if it just wanted to be static So that's a static green Now this is the wave Side to side up and down Just really cool looking Back to static. I'm not sure what that one does Oh, this is the brightness adjustment. I believe Yeah, look at that so you can hold it and bring it all the way to maximum It's pretty bright very cool And then I'm unsure How we do this one's all the effects I'm unsure how we currently change the color itself That's just to turn it off and on it looks like But I'll figure that out later Anyways, green is one of my favorite colors. So I'm not complaining and I already know we can change the colors based on what lights up So that is super cool and it sounds nice too So, um, I taught myself how to type when I was a kid So if you notice me typing with only a few fingers, that's kind of how I do it I kind of taught myself how to type myself Uh, interesting little story. I won't go on about it, but Basically online chat groups taught me how to type so Hello, what's up dude? This keyboard is cool very nice And I actually have it plugged in my pc. So my pc is probably freaking out right now But yeah, so that's actually pretty cool I like that a lot and it says it's bluetooth as well So I'm assuming there's a built-in battery. So I'm wondering if I unplug it if it'll stay on It did not I wonder if there is something else that you need to do or maybe this isn't the bluetooth version because, um Up here on the top of this it has a multitude Of different keyboards that are listed right here. So this might not be the bluetooth version I'm not sure how I would test that out Given the fact that the power is actually not on Unless it's plugged in but maybe if you plug it into a power supply Then the bluetooth would be able to be activated Unsure about that aspect, but I'll keep you up to date in the comments If there is any change with the bluetooth setting in here But this keyboard is really nice and the keys are very nice and clicky and feel Kind of smooth when you touch them, you know, like when the keys go in and out Unlike my razor keyboard these feel a lot more like Bouncy if that makes any sense for anybody who has gaming keyboards So as I said, the affiliate link will be in the description below And before we end the video, let's go ahead and see what this last little thing in this box is Oh, that's really nice So before we end the video, I'm going to tell you guys what this is These are key removers So you can actually just stick these in between here And pull the keys out so that you can clean them and or replace them with different keys How cool is that there's actually a way you can 3d print keys and actually make your own keys to I might make a video on that in the future But yeah What do you guys think about this keyboard? I think it's really cool and I'm really happy I was sent this out because I needed another keyboard too from my other pc. So this works out Pokemon a worldwide smash hit in the 90s and even still today So let's take a look at this gold-plated piece of pokemon history and take a trip down memory lane How's it going guys and welcome back to another J Charview and today as you saw from the intro, I have a limited edition Charizard gold-plated card. This is a 23 carat gold-plated trading card and these came out Pretty long time ago at Burger King and I actually had a few of these but they got lost over the years I found one that was still in the box a little damaged The box not the actual card And I thought to myself How can I pass up this opportunity because there's not a lot of these going around anymore? So let's go to move this out of the way Well, let's go ahead and slide this guy back into focus So this is it. This is the pokeball that contains The Charizard card and I'm really excited to see this again because it has been In years since I've actually seen one of these guys. So let's go ahead and open this up And there we go We have the pokeball Very nice and shiny Has a three little pigs at the bottom for it to stand And let's press the button. Oh boy Look at that. Let's go ahead and pull this out Wow, that's insane Number six Charizard certificate of authenticity. Let's pull that out too We're gonna move this to the side And let's go ahead and focus in on here Look at this guys Man, it has been a long time since I've seen one of these guys This is so cool This is probably one of the coolest thing I've ever seen Burger King release.  How cool is that? Flame Pokemon Uh something It's kind of hard to read it Let's go ahead and turn it around again. Give a nice kind of Look to it Now this is gold-plated like it says on the front But the best practice is to not take it out of its case because you can discolor these I've seen other ones that have been pretty discolored due to them being handled a lot as kids But uh Yeah, this is really pretty. I'm super happy with it because honestly I was really sad when I realized that my uh, I think it was um Poly world But yeah guys, isn't this so cool? It's like a It's like a piece of time right here. Let me know in the comments below if you've ever got one of these I am uh just enamored with being able to hold one physically again and uh I don't know uh pieces and nostalgia to me are really special Let's go ahead and set this down real quick and look at this little certificate. We got right here Certificate of authenticity Pokemon special edition 23 karat gold plated trading card number six charizard Officially licensed by nintendo And it even has the signature from the chairman of nintendo america. Let's go ahead and turn this around it says This pokemon special edition 23 gold plated trading card has been produced to the highest standards for nintendo of america It is made from the highest quality alloy to ensure a long lasting life um in value And also beauty We suggest that it remain in the clear cover which it was delivered fingerprints and exposure to weather will cause The superb finish to tarnish Exactly what I was saying Earlier in the video. So let's get this and slide it back into its nice little uh Thing in the back because we don't want to lose that here we go Let's go ahead and focus in on that just let it back inside of its little kind of holder And then let's take one more really good look at this guy Zoom out a little bit focus in It looks as though it was handled with care all this time, which is really awesome A lot of the time you see these and they've been exposed to quite the number of elements So getting one that's in this nice a condition is insane Really happy with this really happy. I got my hands on it And it's going to be really nice. I mean I could even pass this down Because this is going to last a really long time What do you guys think is this something that you would buy is it something that You had as a kid Do you still have them is the real question because I found these things uh They disappeared a lot for me Like a lot of my pokemon stuff disappeared probably my mom getting rid of it because she thought I was too old but Jokes on you i'm 26 and I got it back There we go a huge shout out to my patreons. Thank you guys so much for your support You guys are awesome If you enjoy this video, don't forget to comment rate and subscribe and as always I'll see you In the next video Today, we're going to be looking at the x12 5.1 inch 1000 games console right here. This was sent to me by banggood And i'm going to have some affiliate links in the description below if you guys want to check that out Let's go ahead and look at this box though On the side right here if we focus in You can see that this is the white version And is the x12 version. I believe that's a little bit better than the 9x version And then on the side we have some more depictions of The console It says 5.1 inch Handheld game console supports a maximum of a 32 gig tf card and that's an additional purchase So it looks as though we can put some Brahms on here, which is pretty cool If we look at the top Focus in it says It can play games music film audio and record audio as well. So that's pretty cool Let's go ahead and open it up and see what it's all about Has a bit of a clamshell design On the box If we turn it down a little bit you can see that it comes in a protective cardboard sleeve and has some documentation Let's go ahead and slide that out Set the console to the side for now. So right here is the little accessory booklet And then it looks as though we have some cords in here. So we have one that's in a little plastic bag Let's open that up So it comes with some standard looking headphones and then it also comes with A usb charging cable. It's the old style kind of ps3 one Go ahead and slide this out of the sleeve And you know what this reminds me exactly Of a psp kind of like a psp But also a ps vita as well kind of like a mixture of both Let's go ahead and slide this out of its little sleeve. Let's go ahead and focus in Has a decent weight to it.  It doesn't feel cheap And if we focus in down here, you can see that it has a usb A tv out port headphone jack This is where you can put your micro sd or as they call that tf card Yeah, they reset button And then on the top right here We have the volume button The microphone And the on and off switch We rotated it towards the back It says portable multimedia player and it looks as though we have some speaker grills on the back side Along with a small what looks to be camera And then the screen itself actually looks pretty nice has a nice little kind of Mat feel to it might have a screen protector on it already. I'm not too sure It says escape Start and select And then we have some joysticks that feel exactly like the playstation portable Not gonna lie like the original psp. It feels like Which actually was a pretty big fan of that. So yeah, let's go ahead and turn it on and see if there's any charge All right, so here we are in the menus and the screen actually looks pretty nice. I'm gonna be honest Um, I'm not sure how to change it to English But uh, not really an issue given the fact that the thumbnails are pretty self-exclamatory We have um the Featured games up here. It looks like and then if we go here We have a list of uh Kind of folders and categories of different games that are inside of here And then we have some video on here as well So we can select that Seems to play the video pretty well Let's go to the audio next and I don't want to get copy-striked, but it seems to play audio fine as well Let's go back And then we also have the camera Which I'm sure is probably not great, but uh, let's go ahead and see it actually works pretty good I mean for you know a handheld console. I'd probably say this is about as good as like the 3ds Yeah, it's actually not too bad.  Let's go back again Now let's go ahead and check out some of the games that they offer on here. So this looks like street fighter Go ahead and start it up Or it's called the king of fighters All right. Now we're loading in Yeah, I'm not doing too well at this. I've never really uh Played any games like this before But it seems to play them pretty well not having any issues kind of going in there And uh, I lost So there we go Not too bad. I'm going to be honest and uh, the screen is actually pretty nice The build quality actually feels pretty decent as well Um, I wish there was an easier option to change it to english All right, just a quick little interjection in the middle of the video This actually can be set to english. You just have to scroll over to the side, which I didn't realize you could do Go to settings All the way down to system and it will be the first option that allows you to set it to english So yeah, this can be used in english the rest of the video I am going to be going through the ui in chinese But uh, I still was able to show everything that this device is about Let's go ahead and continue to the rest of the video But I do think since you can put in your own card for probably uh emulation This is a great device to kind of mess around with stuff like that I'm going to try that out later and I'll give you guys some updates whether or not it ended up working, but uh It feels good in the hands and uh does what it says it does and I think that's all that matters I'm going to go ahead and put this in the link in the description below Feel free to check it out. If you download the banggood app, you can get 10 off coupon, I believe So yeah Today we're going to be looking at these pokemon wafer cookies and I don't just have one I got two of these guys Because there are some stickers inside of here and I wanted to see if I could get different ones Let's take a quick look at this packaging before we kind of dig into tasting this So this is by latte or lote And it says pocket monsters With a nice depiction of Charizard Blastoise and Venusaur in the front A little bit of flames on the side right there The side has some information on it in japanese And then in the back right here, let's go ahead and focus in It says that there is six grams of carbohydrates in one and a half pieces So half of this is six carbs Not too bad go ahead and zoom in right there So this is a wafer bar and it looks as though It is made with wheat Do you want to pause right there and kind of look at the ingredients right there? You can Going to move it away I really like the shiny kind of vibrant packaging on here It's probably one of the main reasons I saw these is because the packaging is just so nice Kind of has that retro pokemon feel to it with all these starters right here Let's go ahead and open this up. See what sticker we got and then give it a bit of a try And then we'll also open this guy up over here And see if we got a different sticker Let's do it. This is what the inside looks like Just slide it out Looks like it comes on some kind of little tray See what, uh Sticker we got nice I really like this pokemon. I can't quite remember the name of it though. I can't believe I can't remember the name It's one of my fiancee's favorite ones. So she'll be really happy that we got it And this is what the back looks like But I want to take a closer look at this because the glitter on here is just really really cool Kind of holographic That looks good It has some stars in the background and when you move it really slow you kind of get that nice Kind of shiny holographic effect It says number 20 And pocket monsters Nintendo And of course the back you saw before has a Blast always on it, but I'm not sure the name of that one I can't remember is it does not typhlosion. No, that's that's wrong. I can't remember the name of this one You know, I was really into pokemon as a kid, but man, I feel like my brain just dumped all the names out of my head sometimes There we go And here is the wafer Let's go ahead and focus in right there Looks like we have a very thick chocolatey center All the way around and it kind of has that uh waffly cone kind of look to it Let's go ahead and try it out Now it's good But it's a lot less rich than I thought it would be And it's interesting Because there's actually these little kind of chasms in here These little tiny little nooks and crannies hold these larger pieces of chocolate It's not like a thin evenly distributed kind of layer They're all kind of like wedged in between here. So I was kind of surprised to feel that in my mouth But it's really good. Let's break it apart and see if we can't show you a little closer So as you can see right there if we zoom in Focus in You can see it takes the shape of the inside right here Kind of like little diamonds Pretty cool stuff I'd rate this for me personally. Let's get this a lot of the way Probably around a 7 out of 10 For flavor I like really light tasting things as well as rich tasting things I think that this would be really good paired with coffee or tea Let's go ahead and open this one up And I'm not going to be eating this one So we're just going to slide the sticker out and see if we got a different one. All right Come on Get out of there all the crumbs you're making at slippery. I'll slip that to the side I'll give that to my fiance. I'm sure she'll enjoy it a pokemon. I can actually remember the name for Pikachu I'm joking. I'm joking. Don't cringe too hard Evie Very cute expression Oh, wow I didn't realize it changed that much So when you move it down, it almost looks like the who's that pokemon thing behind them That's really cool And the stars kind of pop out How cool is that? Let's see if the other one does that too It does how cool is that? They both kind of have that effect going on So these are the two stickers that I got and I'm going to give them both to my fiance And I think the kind of cookie wafer Is like I said about a 7 out of 10 definitely needs to be paired with something not something I'd buy just to eat by itself But yeah I hope you guys enjoyed this video as much as I enjoyed making it and uh Today we're going to be looking at these dragon ball super chocolates that I got from tokyo central If we uh zoom in on the packaging real quick. This is kind of why it uh Caught my eyes because the popping colors on the package It's kind of look like crayola crowns to me though. I'm kind of Wondering their design choice, but I'm hoping that chocolate's going to be really good as you can see We have uh Ultra instinct goku here on the front and then super saiyan blue vegeta Let's go ahead and turn this around If we go ahead and focus It says right here that we got With eight grams of carbs and there's two servings per container We have 25 milligrams of sodium And then eight grams of sugar has uh pretty much equalling out the carb amount We have a little bit of a diagram of what's inside And then we have this official kind of I don't know if you can see that. Let's focus in Kind of a shiny toy animation seal of approval, I guess And then this is what the side looks like Has all the same kind of uh logos Let's go ahead and zoom out And yeah, I think that this is a really nice packaging And uh, I'm really excited to try this out. So without any further delay, let's go ahead and open this and taste us these guys Just kind of go ahead and Put some scissors in here There we go. And then we're just going to slide this little tray out of here and There we go Let's go ahead and bring this in and focus in on it So right here we have piccolo Goku, we have two different hearts kind of reminds me of valentine's day Then we have vegeta and gohan So we're going to go ahead and try the piccolo one and see what it's about I'm not sure if these are different flavors or not or there's something different in them But we're going to go ahead and uh try it out. Oh, they're flat You know for some reason Let's focus in on it For some reason, I thought that these guys were going to be Like circular like a crown like on both sides But for some reason They are flat I don't know. Maybe it's just because I thought it looked like a crown This is dragon ball super on the side The art wraps around the back a little bit And has a nice depiction of uh piccolo looks like he's going to be using his uh What was it cannon attack or something like that? It's going to open this up Special beam cannon. That's what it was. Here we go. Looks to be a milk chocolate Let's go ahead and try it out Now I would say that this is more on the lower quality end But I'd still say that it's better tasting than like a standard Hershey's bar if that makes any sense Let's go ahead and open up the Goku one Let's focus in on it. I like the depiction of uh Ultra instinct Goku Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I feel like Maybe when they introduced ultra instinct like if there's going to be I think there's a continuation that they're going to be doing um, I feel like they should introduce this at the end because like Spoilers if you haven't you know seen it, but this is pretty OP um And I'm thinking that maybe they should have saved like his super op form for like later because like How can you really ascend to be onto that though? I guess you could really say when he hits super sand three What could you do after that too? Looks as though we just got more milk chocolate in here So we're not going to go ahead and try that because it's going to be the same thing I'm going to grab the heart real quick and bring it into focus So we have the heart right here I'm assuming it's the same chocolate, but we're going to undo it just to see Looks as though it is the same chocolate and then I'm assuming these guys are too But I just want to kind of take a look at the packaging on these guys real quick Versus actually opening them up because I'll save them for later So has a nice depiction right here of Vegeta Which is interesting because you know you'll look at this and you see Vegeta But like if you look at the old dragon ball z art, they were like even the farthest back at the beginning of dragon ball z and then mid you know boo saga or You know the self saga I mean It's just the difference in like the way he's drawn is so dramatic Some people don't like the way that he's drawn in super, but yeah, I don't mind Then we got gohan right there And gohan's all right not my favorite character, but not my least favorite I heard that originally um, they were thinking about trying to make gohan The main character and kind of like snuffing out goku But fans didn't like that and either did um The creator as well now that just might be an article I read But uh, that's why goku came back and why gohan was so prominent in the boo saga And then he kind of ended up not being at least that's what I think But yeah A little bit of nerdy dragon ball Super slash dragon balls the information for you guys But yeah, what do you guys think is this something that you could see yourself buying for yourself or Maybe for a friend or maybe even for the holidays. Let me know in the comments below And today we're going to be looking at something I haven't looked at in a long time and that is cat gotchas Now a while ago. I reviewed a ymi sushi cat Which is a really cute concept where they put cats kind of like in a meme kind of way on different food items So let's go ahead and zoom in on the packaging real quick So we have the kind of similar thing by the way, this is by clever idiots And I got this from tokyo central in gardena california Says why am I sushi? says number two And then it shows like a little kind of tear drop right there If we move it to the side And focus in It says that it comes with a key ring And if you want to pause you can check out all of their official kind of information on the side right there It says collect them all and then it has a depiction of all of the different ones that you can get Very nice Some warning information if you'd like to look at that primarily for choking And for the age range of this And then we move to this side So you can get any of these guys that are in here And out of these ones I think I would want to get Maggie Maggie's pretty cute. I like the cat's face on that Though there's also miss lily which looks like the cat that is on the Front of the box And then the bottom just has the information again So let's go ahead and open this up and see which one I got Peel that back and then focus in It has some kind of thing that it says right here. Let's see if we can read it before opening it up Actually, we'll read it after we see which one we got right Or actually, you might be able to It says your state of mind is the key to finding sushi cats There will be there will be a world of sushi cats waiting for you beyond this gap. That's really cute And we got Da da We ended up getting Let's focus in on it. First one. I believe that was on the box. Let's bring the box back in here Yeah, we ended up getting that guy right there the ibu ibenosuke one If I said that right and it is really cute actually let's go ahead and open this guy up real quick These scissors aren't that great anymore. There we go and then slide him out of here And here we go. Let's focus in on the face So I believe some of these I'm not sure if it's this one or not our hand painted actually I don't think it's this brand that is but some of the other cat gotchas that I got our hand painted So its facial features are very well done Even got the reflectivity in the eye Which is pretty crazy Has a bit of an elastic band right here So I'm wondering, you know, if that comes off, but I'm not gonna push it And then on the back It looks as though we have a pair of socks That's interesting Maybe that's not socks. I actually know that looks like socks So we have some socks right there And then we have the rice which is always really well done You can kind of see the shininess of it There's some kind of symbol right there. I'm not sure what it means. It says A B Kind of looks like a lobster And then at the bottom It says Made in China C1 Non-p d1801 2018 And then of course you get the little kind of thing right here so you can put it on your keychain What do you guys think about this? I think this one's really cute I really liked the one I reviewed before that had the cucumbers on top Though the socks are really cute too And then I think this might actually be a fan like one of those uh expandable fans that you could fan yourself with But yeah, this is the why am I sushi cat that I ended up getting And uh, let me know what you think of the comments below Would you like to see more cat gotchas in the future? I would very much like to know your opinion And today we're going to be looking at these really interesting chocolate shapes That you can kind of form into different patterns and even stack on top of each other it looks like As you can see from the depiction right here. It's in kind of a construction looking area This is by crazy and I got this at tokyo central and gardena california I thought it'd be really nice to kind of see what we could do with these little chocolate pieces And see what they taste like I really like how colorful the packaging is But without further ado, let's flip it around and see the nutritional information and then open these guys up Let's focus in on the back It says we have a total of 16 carbohydrates and about 0.81 ounces And then right here it shows everything that is inside of here If you want to go ahead and pause that so you can see what is inside of it go ahead There we go And we're going to just flip this around and open this up So it probably has like a pull tap on here somewhere. Let's see It says open right here. So let's go ahead and open it up There we go And now let's go ahead and focus in on the inside Look at all the little shapes in there. Let's go ahead and dump these out on the table and see what we got There we go And it seems like the colors aren't as vibrant as they were on the packaging Which is a little disappointing, but it's not really a big deal So if we go ahead and zoom in on the chocolate You can see what that looks like It seems like the chocolate has A little bit of a layer of kind of like almost an older look to it Like that powdery look that chocolate gets when it gets old Kind of concerning. I'm not saying these are bad, but they don't look as appetizing as they did on the front of the package Let's go ahead and set that down Grab one of these other guys So this is what these guys look like Part of my fingers I have kind of gone deep into working with glue the last hour So I got them out as much off as I could Kind of shiny. I thought they'd be coated in some kind of like Sugar shell, but they're not Let's go ahead and focus up on this I wonder if this is strawberry flavor We're gonna try all of these different ones out I think the last one I didn't show was either the yellow or green one But they all kind of look the same. They're not covered in anything specific Like a sugar coated shell like I thought originally Let's see about stacking them because that's what the Point I believe of this was So if we look at the depiction it gives We should be able to Stack one like this And like this And then yeah, they're actually stacking pretty well I'm surprised Because my table is not the Sturdiest that's about as much as I probably can go So they do stack, but it's definitely not as premium Looking or feeling as you know, the depiction would give but this is for kids So I mean I give it a solid pass. Let's see if this chocolate tastes good or old I'm going to start off with these kind of wider looking pieces Hmm I'm gonna be honest these kind of taste old. They kind of taste like they're Past their expiration date. Not that it would hurt you or anything with chocolate. I don't think but um It definitely doesn't taste fresh and it's kind of Gritty a little bit. Let's go ahead and try this one out. I think that one has a flavor to it for sure I'm not sure what I'll start the pink one pink definitely has kind of a strawberry flavor to it And then the green Let me honestly all kind of taste the same to me outside of the regular chocolate ones You know, I don't usually give things a bad review unless they're You know bad But I I don't like these very much. They're very dry and old tasting um You would think from the packaging with how reflective the Outer layer of these are that they would be you know, like a chocolate shell, which I think is a little misleading Um, there's no solid shapes like that. Oh actually never mind. I lied. There is a single one in here This is the only actual solid Uh shape all the rest of them are the little tiny other pieces So it's a little disappointing um I think this would be really good If it didn't taste so old And I'm not sure why Because it says 2020 08 Um, and it's not past that yet. So it's not expired Maybe it just wasn't stored in the correct temperatures Uh, or what not or maybe this is just how this kind of chocolate is But I I'd say It's flavor profile outside of its consistency is a solid six Because I love the taste of strawberry kind of japanese chocolate But uh the consistency is definitely like a one The very gritty and old tasting But I'll probably still end up finishing these off or punning them off to my fiance so but yeah I think that uh This little adventure was still worth it kind of seeing how interesting these guys are and they do stack so That's something A huge shout out to my patreons. 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It's hard to believe, but malaria still claims over a million lives around the globe every year. In fact, more than half the world's population lives in areas with active malaria transmission, and with no vaccine, the problem is getting worse. The disease is spread by certain types of mosquitoes known in the scientific world as anopheles. Rice fields, of which there are over 500,000 acres in California's Sacramento Valley, serve as ideal breeding grounds for these insects. Although malaria is not prevalent here, the mosquitoes are, so it's a good study site. Using scanners aboard satellites and aircraft such as the U-2, scientists like Byron Wood at NASA's Ames Research Center are producing and analyzing imagery of the valley, which might help make malaria control more manageable.  By looking at how the rice shown in red develops in these fields, Wood and his colleagues predict which are likely to produce the most mosquitoes. Information like this would help organizations such as the Sutter Yuba Mosquito Control District, whose job it is to limit populations of the insects. They now have to trudge through thousands of acres of flooded rice fields every year, looking for mosquito larvae. Counting the tiny, squiggly larvae makes it possible to spray only in fields where it's absolutely necessary, an important concern economically and environmentally. But the counting process is so labor-intensive it's virtually impossible in parts of the world with far more rice fields, and wouldn't have to be done at all if mosquito concentrations could be determined from a single image. Under Dr. Bob Waschino's direction, scientists from the University of California, Davis, work with the Sutter Yuba District to check the accuracy of NASA's imagery. In addition to counting larvae, they determine the ages of adult mosquitoes in the area by removing and examining female ovaries. There should be very few young adults where low larvae counts were predicted, and so far NASA researchers have been right 80% of the time. UC Davis researchers are also working on a fungus as an alternative to chemicals currently used in mosquito control. This fungus produces spores that attack only mosquito larvae. Nothing else in the environment is affected, and since it continues to work in the fields, months, and possibly years after a single application, it could prove more cost-effective as well. The task now is to get the fungus and imaging techniques to countries that need them most. Malaria control, bringing NASA technology, university expertise, and public agency experience to bear on a serious world health problem.


For black female students, the only housing was miles away, accessible by foot in the most undesirable parts of West Lafayette. My sister and I came to Purdue in 1946, and we could not live on the campus. Frida's father Fred Parker sent a letter to President Havde seeking on-campus housing for his daughters. Havde denied their admission to the dormitory. Disheartened, Mr. Parker then sought out Fabron de France, Secretary of the Colored Branch of the Senate Avenue YMCA in Indianapolis, and a black power broker. On behalf of the Parker girls, he assembled a motley crew of concerned citizens to pay a visit to an old friend, Indiana Governor Ralph Gates, who in turn pressured Purdue. We received a letter from the Dean of Women who did everything she could to discourage us from coming and living on the campus, short of telling us how unhappy we would be and how the people wouldn't speak to us and you know the same old thing all the time. We didn't believe him anyway, so we were admitted to the dormitory. The spring semester of 1947 marked the end of housing discrimination at Purdue, along with the four newest colored residents of Bunker Hill were the Parker girls.


Sometimes it's easier to draw lines. Sometimes it's easier to sketch. Needs to be dynamic. You want to be able to make an adjustment to your decision, because rarely are people placing incorrectly immediately every time. Want it to be fast enough that you're not sitting there waiting. And that's supposed to be border precise. And what I mean is where you draw the line is where the boundary is. So you're not limited by the topology underneath. Predictable and stable, meaning what you see in your visualization is what you get when you actually get the result and stable and doesn't crash. So I made this little chart of how I consider all these. And our custom solution, I think, ended up being pretty well, except that it's all in Python. And so its stability is dependent on the intelligence of its developer. So that's fair. Everything else, I have some videos that we don't need to watch. But that outlines some of the difficulties in each of these. So those are there for your reference. But the short version of those can be summarized here. And why I decided to invest so much time and effort into just one step is because there's so many requirements not handled by the built-in Blender tools. However, with one exception. So the sculpt mode limitations are good enough that it's still extremely valuable to leverage sculpt masking for segmentation. And this was solved with add-ons before. And I've got some references in the notes of the slide that you can check. But this is becoming built into trunk, especially in the 2.8 sculpt branch where you can paint a region and then split it off. And so I'm really excited about the direction that that's headed. In this example, we're using a custom modal operator to leverage Blender's sculpt masking tool to segment pieces of a mesh. So it's great in that it's very quick. I believe this is also graphics card optimized. The brush behavior. We're going to skip this because of time. Short story, you paint it and you get that region out. We'll watch this on mute. And I'm hoping we can fast forward a little bit. So I already demonstrated. And this is freely available on my GitHub account. This is the base operator that I then skin and add the UI to to use in our prescribed workflows. But this is kind of my prototype of a segmentation module and how I'd like it to work where you can sketch, you can draw, you can paint. And the big thing, which if I had a toolbar here, I would, by the time I get there, it's just going to be there, where you can paint your regions. And then after that region is painted, the border is interpolated. And you can move freely between painting and sketching and boundary marking. So in that case, we're boundary marking. Well, we're committed now. So I'm wondering if it's actually streaming slowly. Or if that's just how slow I work. I think we're definitely having a. OK, we're going to have to, we'll cover that at the end if there's any more questions about that. And then the second thing I wanted to talk about was offset surfaces.  And the main ways you can do that, you can manually extrude your geometry. You can use the solidify modifier or the displace modifier. And that's kind of what's built in. And then the big problem with it is self-intersecting geometry. And occasionally you get little edge artifacts. So in this situation, this is the solidify modifier. And anywhere you have convex and concave geometry close to each other, you get these self-intersections, which make the mesh virtually unusable in 3D printing or Boolean operations. And so we solved that by using a volumetric approach, which you can't create self-intersections. And we use Metaballs. And I know I've got some Metaball fans in here. So that link right there is a link to Alex's presentation about the basics of how they work, because he has a great introduction. So we can skip this video. That's kind of about Metaballs and jump right to the results that we get and kind of how we did it. So on the left is our solidify modifier. And on the right is our Metaball-generated offset surface. And it's great that we don't have any self-intersections. But beyond that, we have some things that we really have to wrangle to make them behave. So the offset surface, kind of the thickness of it depends on how closely you pack the Metaballs together. So if you're trying to get a precise offset, you can't just add the same radius of Metaball, or you won't get what you expect. It's a little bit non-uniform, because we're just jamming a whole lot of spheres all over the surface. And so we do some smoothing and some raycasting and correction to try to get it as uniform as possible. But most of our applications, we don't need extreme precision on being exactly a certain distance offset from the anatomy. You'd like to get it within a 10th of a millimeter, but beyond that, in this case, it's not necessary to go beyond that. And the other thing is that the borders are a little bit rounded. So the Metaballs here, it's hard to create a very stiff squared off. Result, which for my application is fine. That's actually a bonus, but if you're just characterizing it, that could be non-desirable. So how do we scatter these Metaballs? In a way that gives us a result that we want is I take the mesh patch that you create with your segmentation, and then I use the dynamic topology detail flood fill operator to evenly distribute points. And generally that works pretty well. And the way I control that is if you plot one over your Dyntopo resolution versus the average edge length, so I just took some models and made a little scatter plot. And it looked pretty linear, so I stopped there. And so I use this little equation to pick my Dyntopo resolution based on my target edge length. And then the target edge length is your target spacing between Metaballs. Okay, so then I've repeated the same process, but with the offset surface based on the edge length. And so then I can kind of, I've got two little equations that I can play with and get approximately even offset surfaces. So I've been doing, I first started with that in 2016, and then just been slowly improving that. And I would have presented it earlier, but I wasn't able to get to the conference, so. Because the punchline at the end of this is that all this work's about to be completely made irrelevant by 2.81, which I love. So it's great that we did it. It got us three years of doing something that wasn't possible otherwise. So we use this to hollow 3D printed models. So you save, and this stuff is a couple of dollars per milliliter. So you save a lot of costs by hollowing these out. We use MetaBalls to create these print rafts. So like this raft back here allows you to stack a lot of models on the build platform and print them in a different way. So we use it, we really abuse MetaBalls, and I love them, but soon they won't be as necessary. Okay, I'm gonna pause here. It's 4.30, and if anyone's going to, I think there's another talk in the theater, I was gonna pause and let anybody out who's had enough. And yeah, thank you. All right, so I've got a few more slides for the people who want to stay. MetaBalls doesn't guarantee that you don't have something to say. Okay, it makes it highly unlikely. I mean, we have this with different kinds, because we have different kinds of data for what we are producing is being emissions, and it depends on the resolution. So if we really try to nail every single little aspect in your data, you are going to get agreed, okay. That's fine. For completeness, that's true. So the comment is that if you try hard enough, you can get self-intersections with MetaBalls. And that's, okay, so at this conference who I'm watching is listed there, so check that out if it's interesting. Some of the areas where I think 2.8 and 2.8 with add-ons, I mean, offset surfaces are gonna get extremely easy with the open VDB remesh modifier. So offset, sorry, solidify modifier plus VDB remesh, done. So it's gonna be fast, it's gonna be built-in, very scriptable, so all my MetaBalls, but the thing it can't do, to my knowledge, is if you make a hollow object, so it has thickness, but it's got an interior void, VDB will keep it solid. So our hollowing of 3D printed models is still gonna require MetaBalls. Okay, and jumping back to my goals when I set out. We're definitely accomplishing number one, the feedback has been good. We're less than a tenth, sometimes a 20th of the cost of some of the same softwares that can do these night guard designs. We've supported the Blender Foundation, and I wanna talk a little bit about the other things that we've made that we've released. So it was a super, super honor to have my logo up there on the screen in the keynote this morning next to a lot of big names, and what we do is we contribute 10% of our off-the-top sales. So before costs anything, 10% goes straight to the Blender Foundation, and I think that's pretty significant considering the amount of work it takes. So the question is, is it gonna be sustainable? I don't know. The first two years are it's enough to continue the hobby, and once you reach a steady state, we'll see if we can actually keep people paid, keep developing, and at the moment it's been completely rewarding from the project point of view, and we'll find out. So that's the only question mark on the goals. And now let's show some cool stuff, so let me... So these are some of the add-ons that we've developed that are freely available, and who I worked with, and when we did it. So I think I'd like to show the MetaBall sculpting, the particle sculpting, and then maybe Polytrim and the segmentation, or what y'all wanna see, or if we wanna, so we've got 12 minutes before we probably need to clear out for the next presenter, maybe 15 if we're depending on how eager they are. So I'll pause and ask, is there anything that from what I showed particularly interests you? Or do you wanna leave it up to me? Okay, here we go. Yes, so my users are predominantly dentists and dental lab technicians. Many who have zero 3D experience sometimes, sometimes a little if they came from a commercial package. Okay, so the question was how hard is it to convince dentists? I don't really don't do any marketing, so most of my convincing is done, it's pre-filtered, people who come to me have already convinced themselves, so I don't know. My big struggle is someone who really wants to, is training them and getting them to where it is user friendly and where the effort is worth, becomes worth it in the time savings. The reason we wanna design these appliances like this is the traditional method. There's so many places for error, model, plaster, a polymerization of the acrylics that shrinks, so it's a real bear of a procedure even though it's very simple. It's time consuming and it shouldn't be that expensive of an appliance, it's a piece of plastic, so with 3D printing, we've made it a lot more predictable. The fits are better, so we're getting there. They're not as durable, so usually the convincing happens ahead of time, so by the time they get to me, I'm not trying to tell someone why or how, why they should be doing something. I'm saying if you want to do this, here is one way how, so that's it. One more time? No idea. We have about 400 customers and I don't know how, I know about, we have probably 20 hardcore users using it frequently in a production environment. Another group of people who use it occasionally and another group of people who purchased it, maybe tried it, forgot about it, their printer broke, they didn't like it. It depends on your interpretation, so right now I have a flag where it's not for clinical use, but what a doctor does in their own practice is unregulated. Now for an occlusal, a bruxism appliance is, they have a code, but it's not classified, like a class one, class two, or a class three device, so if you were to try to use these devices to treat sleep apnea or do anything where you jump into that class two, then yes, definitely. Right now the area is gray, so we say, not for clinical use, what you do with it is up to you, you'll notice there were no clinical pictures. It's an academic and modeling application. Yeah, it's impossible to validate. Oh, and we need, y'all need to see what I'm seeing. So here we have an offset surface and then 3D teeth, and we want to blend those together in some way that looks kind of like something natural. So the first thing I'll show is our particle sculpting tool.  And this is my favorite one. So we have a paint brush, and if you see those little particles in there, that will allow you to just paint offset surface onto whatever's underlying. We can fuse that and then come back and continue to paint on top of it. As we change the radius of the brush, particles are filled in, and those particles are evenly spaced, so that solves the packing problem. And we can, if we change the particle size and make it really small, there we go. Now we've got a super dense packing, although that might be overwhelming the, there we go. So overwhelming the solver. And then you can play with the resolution and everything. But now we've got kind of a nice interactive, and if we come back and turn this up, we can delete. So this is kind of my prototype for how I envision a volumetric sculpting application. So I use this to add wax around the teeth and use this to, so if we come back and we want it to simulate the gingiva, the gums around this tooth, we would do something like this, kind of paint here, and then that starts to look kind of like gum tissue. And if you actually, I plan to customize this where you can paint these meta balls onto the individual teeth ahead of time and then rearrange the teeth and the meta balls follow it, so you get these dynamic volume calculated, almost parametric gingiva. All right, so that's that. So can you heal bad meshes? So yes, I have a, yes, with an asterisk. So I have a meta ball remesh kind of thing where you just scatter it, you take the mesh result and then you snap it back. So that really just becomes, so open VDB remesh handled. You can use, open VDB does not close meshes actually very well. So you should use the traditional remesh which will close holes, but will not create good topology for self intersections and then VDB remesh it and then you're good to go. You have to do it at high res to keep the detail. So sometimes some decimation afterwards. Segmentation of what? Gotcha. So the pink is a, the pink is an offset surface from an optical scan of an arch with no teeth. So some, and the teeth are 3D scans of existing plastic teeth that are then processed into dentures. So another difficult task is arranging these teeth. If these teeth represent real objects that you're then going to snap into a 3D printed base, you can't have collisions between your teeth and your arrangement. And so you either have to go and check manually or in our case. And this add-on is also available from the Blender Market. My colleague Chris Gearhart, he worked with me for me for a summer. That's kind of part of our model is I am hiring people to create assets that I want to use selfishly for my corporate business. But then we release the assets to be used for other things. So the segmentation module, this physics module, the wax, everything I've shown outside of the workflow is available for at least for examination and it's not really supported, but I'll answer emails but you can get the code and play with it. And so that's part of the sustaining the ecosystem. Okay, we gotta show this. So what we've got right here is an animated loop with the physics engine running. And so when I grab and move these teeth, they are going to prevent self-intersections. And this is an older version so there's a little bit of stuttering. But what this ultimately will allow for is, imagine my curves, my splines that I was drawing earlier, you can get a proposal of where you want your teeth and then use the physics solver to make sure that your digital proposal is reproducible with real objects. So I'm pretty excited about that because the same thing happens for an orthodontic modeling. If you're trying to move teeth, you can't move a tooth through itself. So we can imagine a system where you're planning the rearrangement of the teeth and you're solving the physics collisions along the way so that you don't create an impossible trajectory for the tooth in your treatment. Again, that's something I can't touch because you're definitely in a regulatory space if you're trying to sell a product. But from a research point of view, it's have at it. Okay, I think those are probably the two biggest ones I wanted to show. And I guess if we hide everything, I can show at 1044, we probably need to let the next presenter come in unless there's something burning that you saw from before that you wanna know more about. Oh yeah, okay, I have to return for a wedding. So I'm leaving early tomorrow morning. So if you wanna talk to me in person tonight, tonight. But email all my information's on the Blender Conference presentation page. Thanks John.


to meet Alice. Alice is tech savvy and what the kids call extremely online. Alice has accounts on just about every platform you can think of from social media to streaming services and she utilizes her trusty email address as a universal identifier. Unfortunately, one day Alice loses access to her email. Oh no, right? All of her two-factor authentications and app verifications are tied to that email address. So now, every app and service that collectively form her online identity is now suddenly out of reach. Her photos are trapped in one application, her playlists in another, her personal notes in yet another, and despite being the rightful owner, Alice cannot retrieve her content without access to that email. This unfortunate incident is a wake-up call, not just for Alice but for all of us. It highlights the vulnerability of the current web and our inability to own our identity and control our data. But wasn't the web meant to be decentralized? Indeed, it was from the very beginning actually. However, it's missing a key element that enables it, an identity layer. So applications that require user accounts have to collect our information in order to persist it with our content. And this model has made it very difficult for us to have agency over our information, if not impossible. What if we could own our identity and our data across the web? This is possible with Web 5. So Web 5 embraces the convenience of the account model of Web 2, but it restores control back to the users and ethos of Web 3. The combination of these two views is what we're calling Web 5. And this platform enables developers to build decentralized applications while abstracting away the complexity of doing so. So Web 5 is comprised of three core pillars, all of which are based on open web standards. We have decentralized identifiers, also known as DIDs or DIDs, verifiable credentials, and decentralized web nodes. And I'll go through each one of these in more detail. So the identifiers that we know and use today are controlled by some intermediary, whether that be the government or a company or an organization. For example, my email address is an identifier that's associated with me. Much like Alice, I use my email address across the web to authenticate and identify myself, but I don't own that email address. My provider does. My Twitter handle, also an identifier that's associated with me. I've built a following and created a brand around this lovely handle right there. But what we've seen, even very recently, with the rebrand of Twitter, did y'all see the stories where some of the handles were basically repossessed? Someone had the cool handle X. How cool is that? Snatched right from them. Someone had ad music. 16 years, they built a brand around that handle and overnight it was taken from them because it was never theirs to begin with. So before we can realize, truly decentralized applications, we first need decentralized identifiers that we own and control.  And they're basically this long string of text that's comprised of three parts. The first part is the scheme that's always going to be DID. It's letting us know this is a decentralized identifier. The next part is a dead method. So dead methods, there's various of these dead methods, and they basically describe how an identifier will be created, resolved, and managed.  By dead subject, I mean the person, the place, or the thing that is being identified. So it's not limited to just people. Decentralized identifiers are the only parts of Web 5 that optionally touch a blockchain, and it's just the string. So because they have this standardized format, it can be used on any blockchain or no blockchain at all. For example, this first one is an identifier that is anchored on the Bitcoin blockchain. The second one is anchored on Ethereum, and the last one doesn't use blockchain. He uses the Web. Now, because that string is anchored somewhere, and it's standing by itself, it works as a URI that points to more information about the dead subject. That information is stored in what's called a DID document. And that document lives in some decentralized storage system, such as IPFS. The document itself is a JSON file, and it describes how to engage with the dead subject. So it'll contain the dead subject's identifier, the dead itself, of course, and then it'll also contain the public keys as well as authentication and verification methods. So that's decentralized identifiers. The next pillar of Web 5 is verifiable credentials. Verifiable credentials are also a W3C standard, and they work hand in hand with decentralized identifiers to enable trustless interactions, meaning two parties don't need to know or trust one another in order to engage. I have an example. Let's say Alice is applying for a loan, but the lender needs to verify a proof of income. Y'all with me? All right. So Alice's employer, Acme, will issue a verifiable credential to Alice, which she then keeps with her. She can store this in something like a digital wallet, for example. Let's double click inside of that credential to see what's there. So we have the issuer, who is Acme, and then we have the subject, who is Alice. More specifically, we have their decentralized identifiers here, right? And then we have claims that the issuer is making about the subject. So Acme is saying, hey, the person who has the decentralized identifier did example Alice. Her real name is Alice Smith, and her salary is $120,000. And then Acme has cryptographically signed this verifiable credential. So Alice keeps that in her little digital wallet. And then when the lender asks her for proof of income, she can present this verifiable credential to them. She cryptographically signs it as well. And now the lender can continue on with the loan application. Now, remember, this lender doesn't know or trust Alice, doesn't have to. It considers Acme a trustworthy entity. They know that it's Acme that the decentralized identifier was there, cryptographically signed. Therefore, Acme has extended trust to Alice. The last pillar of Web 5 is decentralized web nodes. So today, centralized entities act as our data stores. All of our content, our preferences, are stored in these apps, servers. The centralized web nodes changes this by enabling us to decouple our data from the applications that we use, and instead host our data with us. And we can reuse that data across the web in various applications. Blue Sky is a good example of this. Anybody on Blue Sky? Somebody got really excited about that. Okay. So Blue Sky for all intents and purposes is a decentralized version of Twitter, right? But instead of things like your connections and your tweets being stored with the app, it's stored with you in your own personal data store. What this means is if decentralized Instagram or decentralized TikTok pop up, I can take my connections. I can take my data in all of this and go to those apps with it intact. I don't have to start from zero because the data is stored with me. Okay. Now, decentralized web nodes is capable of hosting both public data as well as private data. So in the case of something like a Blue Sky, you will want stuff like your connections and your tweets to be public, meaning any application can query and read this data. And then things like your DMs, right? You want to be private, yes? So that'll be private and encrypted, and only applications that you explicitly give permission to can read that information. Now, the web nodes are also not hosted on a blockchain. They're hosted with you on your local device. It could be on your phone. You could have another one on your laptop. You could have some in the cloud. And what's beautiful is all of the data across them will be synced automatically. While this does offer a paradigm shift in the way that we exchange information, it's not a total overhaul of the web that we already know. Works kind of like a progressive web app where if you had a decentralized web app, you would add a Web 5 SDK in the flow, and then the app is free to truly go serverless because it doesn't have to host that data itself, right to the user's node. Now, remember the did document I told you about earlier, right? And we said that did document has things like the public keys and the authentication and verification methods. It also has another section in there for service endpoints, meaning how do I communicate with this did subject? Where does their data live, right? And in that part of the did document would be you arise to a did subject, the centralized web nodes. So given an application has my did, I authenticated with my did. It's able to resolve that did, see the did document, it sees where my web nodes are. It can send HTTP requests to those web nodes for information. This snippet is a query that is asking for all of the objects in the web node that follow a social media posting schema, right? So the data that's in the web node follows some semantic type, and that's what makes it interoperable across applications. So any of my data that was public that followed that schema would be automatically returned, and then if it was private, they would, I would have to give access to that app. Now, of course, all of this is pretty complicated, especially for non-technical users. So as I often remind builders in the space, the centralization is not a feature that your users are requesting, right? It should be an implementation detail. And so we are also building identity wallet that will allow users to manage this in a really, you know, user friendly way where they can manage multiple identifiers, right? I don't want just one. I want an identifier for maybe my personal life, one for my work life and have different web nodes associated with those. So I need to be able to manage all of that, my verifiable credentials, and things like that. So Web 5 enables developers to build decentralized web apps. And it sits on top of this Web 5 stack. These three yellow things, again, are open web standards, meaning they don't belong to any one company. What my team at TBD has done is implemented each one of these standards, aggregated them together to make this web platform. Given this, it's all open source, you're free to use it, but you don't have to worry about the implementation details of making your app decentralized. That's taken care of. You can focus your attention on what you truly care about, which is your app, right? So the sky is the limit in what you can build. I do have a couple of examples just to give you some ideas of what's possible. So let's say that Alice uses Spotify and she wants to try out Tidal because she heard, you know, they pay their artists more on the streams. But the thought of, like, recreating her playlist and stuff like that all over again, it's just too much. Enough to make her not give it a try. With Web 5, how this will work is instead of Spotify writing her playlist to their app service, they would write that to her decentralized web node, right? Let's say she's given Spotify write access to do that. Then when she wants to try out Tidal, she gives them read access and they can read all of those music playlist objects that have been written to her web node, no matter which app it came from and they are able to play her stuff. This resonated with me just last week when I got an email from Google saying that Google podcast was going to be discontinued. Y'all got that email? Well, that's my jam. I use Google podcast. And so I just started thinking, my goodness, I have, I'm subscribed to dozens of podcasts. I've listened to hundreds of episodes. Some I've started and not finished, but I promise I'm going to go back and finish them all. You know, I have a queue of episodes in the order that I want to hear them whenever I feel like listening to podcasts.  I want to take that with me. That's mine. That's my stuff. I want to take that to whatever new podcast service I go to and be able to pick up right where I left off. Medical records. It's another one that's dear to me. I have moved states three times in the last five years, which means every time I move, I have to get a new set of doctors. So here, you see Alice, she has a primary care physician. She has a gynecologist. She has a dentist. Now when she moves, you don't want to call these doctors' offices and plead with them to fax the information over to this other one and pray that they actually do it. Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don't. But I just don't want to manage all of that, right? With this, she's given each of her doctors reading right access to the patient records in her decentralized Web Note so they can write those records there. Now remember, they're all using decentralized identifiers, so any of these doctors can see who has written that record and be able to verify that, yes, that is a reputable source. That's a real doctor, not just Angie playing around in her Web Note. All right? So I want to show you Web 5.js, which is a library that we've developed. It isn't tech preview. Say with me tech preview. Yes, that means that we're not done. This is pre-alpha, okay? So don't build your production apps, put them in an app store and then call me when it breaks, right? This is a preview. You can play around with it and kind of get some ideas. And I want to show you what you can do with this. So because it's a JavaScript library, NPM install works just fine, so I've already done that part. And then I'm just going to import Web 5 from Web 5 API, yes. Okay?  And this connect function is going to look on the user's device to determine do they already have a decentralized Web Note that's local to this device and a decentralized identifier. If so, it'll just automatically connect to that. If not, it'll create the decentralized Web Note as well as the identifier for them. Okay? And what this is going to return is, let's say const, it's going to return us an instance of Web 5 so that we can do further actions. And it's also going to return us the decentralized identifier for this user, either the one they already had or the one that it just created for them. Okay? So now we have a little identifier. We know who we're working with. And that's it. No username, no password, anything like that. Now let's say we want to start writing to this user's decentralized Web Note. So the objects in there are called records, so we can say create a record. And we'll say const record equals await. And we're going to use that Web 5 instance. From there, notice here, I have an agent that's kind of like the wallet, right? I have a did. And these are like properties, right? So I have the did thing, so then I can start doing things with the did, like resolving it. Maybe I want to resolve that did so I can get their did document and determine what their authentication, verification methods, and I can make sure this is who they say they are. Or I can resolve that did and get the did document and get the Web Note, the remote ones, as well as the local one and stuff like that. And then there's DWN, that's for the Web Notes in BC for the verifiable credentials. So we're going to say DWN records.create. And when I create a record, I need to pass in two things. One is the actual payload. So that's from data. From here, I can write text records. We'll say, hey Octane, right? I can do images, JSON, blob streams, files, all of that. And then the other property here is a message. So this is where I put metadata about that payload. So I can do stuff like maybe say the data format is plain text. I can say the schema, for example, remember I told you about the interoperability between applications. So if this is following a certain schema, I would want to put that there. Let's just say schema.org slash text or something. I don't know if that's a real thing, but you can put that so that if another application wanted to query for records that match that schema, you have that there. I can put by default, the data that is written to the Web Note is private. So if I wanted this to be a public record, I would publish it. So I can say publish equals true. And that makes that data publicly available. And then this is writing to this user's Web Note. But let's say this is an application that's facilitating communication between multiple people. Maybe DMs or a chat app or something like that. I can write to somebody else's Web Note on their behalf. So I would say recipient and then put another did here. Maybe Bob's did. Okay. There's multiple things you can do there, but that will create a record. It will write that to the decentralized Web Note. All right. And then let's say I want a query for some records. To do that, I would say const records, wait, and then I'm going to use Web 5 DWN again and we'll say records.query. And from here I can specify what sort of message I want. And I can give it a filter. So I can say something like give me all of the records that match that schema, right? This one. And that'll give me this record as well as any other records that match that schema. Or I can say give me records that match a certain data format. So maybe I want all images if I'm a gallery app or something like that. Okay. And that'll give you an array of records back. And then I can update. Let's say read. We're going to read a record. So if I wanted the data, let's say text, I could say that record that I got. Record.data. And then I can specify the type of data I'm trying to read from that record. So is this a blob? Is it JSON? Is it stream? Is it text? And I can get that information. And then I can also, what else, update. So let's say wait.record.update. And then I would just specify, you know, whatever it is I'm trying to update. Hey, again, octane. And I need a little weight right here. Okay. And then last thing is delete. How would I delete based on this? Any devs in the room? Come on, y'all already know how to use Web 5. Await record.delete. Easy peasy. That's right. So this is Web 5 in action. As you can see, we've kind of abstracted away a lot of those details. It's not hard to use. You don't have to think about cryptographic keys and like how to do all of this stuff. All that is done in the background. When I've written and updated and deleted these records, it'll happen on their local web node, but then sync is done in the background on an interval. So it'll resolve their did. Look at all of their remote web nodes and make sure that all of that stuff is synced up together on a schedule. Okay. So that is Web 5 in a nutshell. Like I said, it's all open source, so you're welcome to use it. Don't publish your web app just yet until I tell you that it's ready to go. It's production ready. But you can play around with it. You can also contribute to it and help us make the web that we all deserve one where we own our identity and control our data. Thank you so much.


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