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One of the coolest days I've had at work was when we hit a nasty deadlock deep in the bowels of gstreamer on one of our shared "immersion room" computers. We p
by tomjakubowski 10y ago
One of the coolest days I've had at work was when we hit a nasty deadlock deep in the bowels of gstreamer on one of our shared "immersion room" computers. We pinged our resident gstreamer expert and I convinced him to run his gdb session (from a core dump, over ssh, halfway around the world) inside tmux so we could watch him as he debugged.
There's nothing quite like watching someone who's an expert both in gdb and the problem domain as they do their thing.
- fapjacks 10y ago"Immersion room" computers? What do you do for a living?
- tomjakubowski 10y agoWe develop interactive 3D applications at "room scale". http://www.oblong.com/solutions/ http://www.oblong.com/solutions/ The top photo is of our immersion room staging environment. The versions deployed to production (at a handful of sites worldwide) have a little more polish :-)
- fapjacks 10y agoThanks, and sorry, this is totally off-topic... I am reading this as saying that there is some kind of data (or multiple kinds of data) which are worth viewing in multiple dimensions in giant holodeck-like rooms. I'm assuming remote conferencing is one of those, but I am interested in hearing more about the other kinds of data. Do you have some links to something a little more concrete than what's on the site you linked?
- kjs3 10y agoGeophysics data, for things like oil exploration, benefits from this sort of display. Being able to see 3D views of subsurface features that will effect how a borehole is ultimately drilled is very useful.
- syngrog66 10y agonormally on HN I don't like humble-bragging and therefore discount it. this comment is one of the few cases where I think it was done so well and massively worth it on the net. +1