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fsiefken
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2 questions: > The repeated encounters lead to a random walk that eventually causes close encounters with other terrestrial planets and the Sun. What are terrestrial planets? I thought there was only one terrestrial planet; earth. Or is
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You can use the Leap Motion in AltspaceVR and Bigscreen already, I hope the Tabletop Simulator developers will support it natively with intuitive gestures one day.
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9y ago
I had the Wicked3D H3D voodoo glasses, 3D on 20 inch monitor gave me > 100 FOV when I put my nose near the screen.
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9y ago
Or a CGI generated face with googly eyes. Make the robot head transparent and spherical, with a one way screen for the stereoscopic camera, and holographically project your avatar (with googly eyes) inside the sphere looking in the same dir
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I wonder if it would give more 'presence' by using it from within VR and a stereoscopic 360 cam. You would need a way for the double to present in what direction you are looking at, so perhaps make a cylindrical screen (not sure i
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9y ago
Coincidentally came across this while looking up a board game: "The hidden costs of QUIC and TOU" https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2016-12-01-quic-tou/
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thanks for the succinct explanation, I also found these two bits: https://ac.els-cdn.com/S1877050915016853/1-s2.0-S18770509150... https://www.callstats.io/2017/02/03/web-protocols-http2-q
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9y ago
How do QUIC features and capabilities overlap with those of HTTP/2? For example would using them both defeat the purpose of using one in the area of encryption or transfer speed?
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if the display can handle 10 fps (the VR headsets are), there is no issue. That said, I found it easier to navigate, cycle and walk with no visual distraction and switch to high speed audio and leave the occasional map, graph, wikipedia ent
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Hi slc! I walked around with a monocular hmd for a while in the first decade (until the cable broke), reading was a problem as the text was going up and down in a sinus wave - not really suitable for following the lines. I thought about tw
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text to speech or use a hmd with low transparancy
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9y ago
DAG (Directed acyclic graph) based currencies don't need a blockchain; Byteball/Dagcoin, IOTA, Rayblocks (Nano) and others.
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Yes, was just explaining this to a colleague this morning. I tried to learn some Lojban.. was a good experience. I like that sentences start with a dot and capitals are thrown out. I even registered a lojban word domain name. Some noteworth
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Rupert Sheldrake explains his wild theory on where memories could be are stored in this interview series with scientists ('A Glorious Accident'): https://youtu.be/RtofjlCkUno?t=2912 Or maybe it has something to do
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You haven't heard about the controversial theories of morphogenetic fields and morphic resonance? Rupert Sheldrake explains his idea on where memory is stored: https://youtu.be/RtofjlCkUno?t=2912
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9y ago
Integrating cryptocurrency within an easy to use chat environment has added value. Gitlab and Github have chatops, irc had chatops for ages, there were bots for twitter... chatops for payment solutions/providers/oracles is just au
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While the geekery is really really cool I also wonder if this method can be beaten with the best in video comepression. Extremely low bandwidth encoding perhaps provides better results (if you put cpu/gpu load aside), for example see t
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On the linkability of Zcash transactions - Jeffrey Quesnelle Zcash is a fork of Bitcoin with optional anonymity features. While transparent transactions are fully linkable, shielded transactions use zero-knowledge proofs to obscure the part
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DAG based coins don't have a blockchain to download. Byteball offers Blackbytes for privacy right now over Tor http://freebe.byte-ball.com/
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would be nice to use it in combination with fortune or if I could use it as login greeting. Load it up with the best quotes from the stoics, psalms, jesus sirach, the gospels, pauls letters and ecclesiastes and all the existing library. Put
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32 = with 5 finger chording or gestures you can get every symbol, should be enough for everybody
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9y ago
the Pimax 8K X might well be good enough for working inside a virtual office with virtual screens - https://www.pimaxvr.com/en
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9y ago
NEO, XRB and Byteball scale
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Some say NEM https://steemit.com/altcoins/@vincent4384/is-nem-really-the-...
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Perhaps someone can come up with a WebVR / A-frame variant.
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What about NEO? it supports writing smart contracts in Java, Kotlin and C#
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I'm playing Tabletop Simulator in VR, it's pretty close to the real life board game experience... and you can resize yourself so you can walk around the pieces on the board
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You could also get the Pimax 8k VR headset and position your virtual screens.
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9y ago
it can sync with a directory, you can autocommit from there
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some people use an org-mode file as issue list, but then non-developers cannot easily view or add issues to the list unless you set them up with an easy to use org-mode (web?) editor/viewer.
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