ChicagoBoy11

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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Have had several VR headsets, ranging from a Vuzix way back in the day to the Valve Index and Q3. This is the first one where I have actively OPTED to use for something other than gaming. The one thing I’ll knock is that other devices I’ve
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I am. It has essentially become my favorite computer for general "puttering" -- watching content, light browsing, messaging. Whereas before maybe I'd curl up with my mac in my lap in bed, or doom scroll on my phone, I now use
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I just wish I could really have been in the room when the facial interface was discussed. So much of the discussion of the AVP has been dominated by folks talking about the lightseals, and I wonder the impact that has had on the return perc
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I'm guessing he means it falls short of "reality". The adds convey the idea as if you are purely looking at the real world around you, but the quality is very much that of a camera -- and he concedes there are some limits to
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
One of the challenges is that a lot of his complaints are things that you can EASILY see being addressed -- most other VR headsets benefit from 3rd party straps that make a hugely significant difference in comfort, the app ecosystem hasn&#x
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
For the AR/VR space, I'm curious about YCs thinking about the addressable market and the possibility to have a unicorn-scale company developing solely for VR/AR in the foreseeable future (that isn't a device manufacturer
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I'll get downvoted to oblivion, but I think people underestimate the impact that their productization of the GPT in the chat format really led to a virality that likely is not entirely justified just by the underlying product alone. LL
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Did you ask to see which questions you supposedly got wrong?
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
$3500 buys you quite a few rounds for folks at a bar... bound to instantly make you some friend hehehe.
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
It won't. At the store I had no qualms about comfort, but of course taking it home I started to see what many of the reviewers were saying. I think the demo experience will very nicely showcase the major selling points of the device, a
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Apple's policy specifically states that you have a 14 day return policy if you are not satisfied with your product. I think if you genuinely think that, if the product reaches some realistic expectation of yours, you'd happily con
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
As a (so far happy) Vision Pro owner, I completely agree with you. However, I remember when they launched the AirPods how just so immediately repulsed I was by that thing, how I truly felt like it looked like a tampon coming out of someone&
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
It does, provided the headset isn't completely powered down. It is designed sort of with that in mind -- there's no off button, you just take it off and that's it, sort of like the Max headphones. But, if it is completely shu
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Not totally what you are looking for, but I'd highlghly recommend "Apollo" by Murray and Cox. It focuses on the engineering history of the Apollo program, and it is a superbly well written and researched worked and so many of
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
this is exactly as I remember it as well... it was quite mem'ed on that dimension alone, as to why would you need a giant one of the thing they already had.
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Surely the author should now buy ismyplanea737max9.com, no?
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
For sure -- and I'd further emphasize that its a particular environment where the "downsides" of this approach would be strengths. For instance, a nearby school had a dozen quests for sporadic activities, but the fact that yo
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I know this is a joke, but I remember when I was learning LISP I was SOO WORRIED about that and couldn't possibly fathom how I was going to actually be productive with it. I don't remember now, but it wasn't AT ALL the big is
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
What's also fascinating is that they are going with, in VERY BROAD strokes, the concept that was Von Braun's preferred method to achieve this back in the day too, but it was abandoned in favor of the lunar orbit rendesvouz. For a
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Insane. simple, elegant, succinctly explained, def. has a niche in the market, and affordable. kudos to you. Just annoyed I didn't think of it of and had the capacity to execute on something like this. P.S.: If support for unity AR dev
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I suspect this comment will be severely underrated, but it conveys such a deep insight into the right way to think about this. This is the variable we really care about!
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
It is, thank you!!!!!
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I mean, surely the answer has to be: "because it's a pain point and there's a market for it", no? In the sense that, I think your skepticism is (rightly) warranted, but only because of the outcome that you've seen s
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Ask HN: Channel-Specific YouTube Player?
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Given schoolwork is now done so ubiquitously on a computer/online, and especially after the pandemic, a lot of districts/schools have had to present solutions for connectivity for families, because of financial need and otherwise.
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I was always under the impression the significant majority of PMs of companies like that were either also software engineers themselves or at least knew enough about it to capably pretend to be one on a good day. Is that not the case?
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
On a Friday afternoon after a very long week, this gave me a really nice chuckle to end the week on. Thanks!
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Ha - I love this!
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
... and in the book hilariously laments how, for something so momentous, he should've thought of something more profound to say haha.
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
But it doesn't sound even good on paper, though! People under you ~= cost of whatever it is you are providing. Equating that to some sort of "value" you create is an insane proposition; the only thing that communicates, at fi

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