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by blensor 3y ago
We've been designing our VR fitness game [1] around hand tracking since Meta first came out with it 3 1/2 years ago. So far I can say that we did not regret it, but it definitely requires some workarounds around the accuracy and s
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by blensor 3y ago
I am not saying you should do grocery shopping like this guy https://youtu.be/H27InrF_eIs What I do think however is that our perspective why and when a car is needed has been heavily influenced by media. I just had a conve
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by blensor 3y ago
I know we are the minority (maybe not necessarily on HN) but if I could upvote it multiple times I would.
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by blensor 3y ago
Does that only work with white or with other colors in general? I would not have thought that QR codes could become a hot topic in 2023 but combining that with the new Stable Diffusion Controlnet generated QR codes [1] could actually be pre
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by blensor 3y ago
I have the same feeling. The features they packed into there is like if they had every engineer working on it write something down on a paper note and throw it into a hat and then build everything that was suggested into a single device. Th
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by blensor 3y ago
I may get down voted for this but it somehow reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fboNTcjJ8bo
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by blensor 3y ago
Austria is always lagging behind Germany. I'd say about 6-12 months. So I have no worry that Austria will go down to roughly the same level as in Germany. Gas prices have already dropped to a level where it is slowly getting in the ran
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by blensor 3y ago
Multiple reasons, here are my two cents: * ROS nodes usually do ( or did back when we used ) pretty resource intensive tasks so they are generally distributed over multiple machines * Individual nodes can have quite diverse library requirem
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by blensor 3y ago
Not exactly the same but going in the same direction: https://youtu.be/DeLgSDb-Bww And yes, it was a lot more fun than I should admit
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by blensor 3y ago
Mixed reality really can add value to the workout. I even prefer the open design of the Quest Pro over using it with the face guard
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by blensor 3y ago
same for me. Nearly daily for fitness. Although I do have a reason since we are developing our own game VRWorkout (hand tracking based full body exercises and mixed reality for safety), I still get a regular crowd of people joining me in ou
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by blensor 3y ago
Yes, it's definitely something that you (I) need to solve with the own carrier. I do still feel that there is something iffy about that, because Switzerland and Austria being direct neighbors it seems strange that they don't have
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by blensor 3y ago
What also helped me a lot is to deactivate notifications of every communication channel ( email, messenger even the phone ) If notifications are turned on, it feels like other people have control over my mental state, because if an incoming
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by blensor 3y ago
Tangentially, if you are from outside Switzerland make sure to know your roaming charges very very well. Swiss carriers have gigantic roaming charges. Every time. I fly through Zurich (from Austria) I blow through my roaming limit 60 second
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by blensor 3y ago
Does it count if you've built something for yourself that is now becoming an actual business? If yes, then I started building a hand tracking based VR workout app back in 2019 using GodotEngine to get myself a bit of extra motivation t
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by blensor 3y ago
This looks to be stable diffusion with controlnet. Since many of the original lines are kept it is probably Canny Edge or HED. That's why it looks so similar to the original room.
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by blensor 4y ago
mplayer user here as well. Every time I start a video from the commandline I use mplayer.
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by blensor 4y ago
That does not make me feel any safer. The problem is that ChatGPT et.al. can include that part of the creation process in their token space. So it's perfectly possible to have it eventually iterate back and forth with the client and no
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by blensor 4y ago
You might not like it but they are squeezing out an impressive amount of features out of the limited mobile chipset. Any kind of roomscale type of game or shared spaces type of game is going to be a nightmare being tethered. Something like
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by blensor 4y ago
from time to time yes. Ideally I would also have a jupyter notebook running at all times, but in the end it mostly comes down to vanilla python because that's installed on everything I am using
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by blensor 4y ago
I hate to admit that I very often start the python repl to just do some simple calculations. I always have multiple terminals open so instead of opening a calculator I just use python in one of the terminals.
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by blensor 4y ago
I tried it with their python library and that expects a list of dicts with role and content fields. And that seems to translate 1:1 to the API call where it's also expecting that and not chatml markup
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by blensor 4y ago
Well nobody forces you to use it. You can mix it with other languages, even more so in Godot 4 where languages can be GDExtensions. You can write one script in GDScript and another in C# if you want. I personally like to use it. It's n
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by blensor 4y ago
Not sure about their product but resistive touch screens can require quite a bit of pressure which is a separate step of training the pet to overcome this. Another product in that space was CleverPet, I backed that on Kickstarter and our do
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by blensor 4y ago
So it will come down to curation. Being a trusted source for recommendations may become an actual business, kind of an ad blocker for books.
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by blensor 4y ago
Oh for sure, no question about that. Where VR fitness does shine is the social aspect without the social anxiety. Doing an intense full body workout with people across the globe and seeing other express their movements without having to sh
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by blensor 4y ago
I don't believe this describes only software developers. Disclaimer: we are the devs behind VRWorkout In the fitness space there is a huge group of people who would like to go to the gym but don't because of social anxiety. And VR
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by blensor 4y ago
Restoring from a backup is of course something I would have resorted to if it would have been necessary, but the point I tried to make was that it was not necessary because there was a much quicker way to get back up to speed. Also not sure
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by blensor 4y ago
I can not speak about how it would work with an MBP but the SSD replacing is a huge factor if you need it. 4 weeks ago we had to deliver a build of our game to Meta and 2 days before the deadline my laptop died out of the blue. I scrambled
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by blensor 4y ago
It's not exactly what I was aiming for. Mocopi, SlimeVR, Haritora X, ROKOKO etc. are all IMU based body trackers. So they try to infer a skeleton from the individual trackers but they don't provide absolute positioning. What I am

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