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by georgewsinger 4y ago
The Quest Pro has a better design than the Quest 2 (as well as many other benefits), but in terms of pixel density it only offers 10% higher PPD than the Quest 2 (which was already pretty low).[1] (Disclaimer: I'm affiliated with Simul
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
We're still in preorder phase, aiming to ship most headsets in ~Q2 of 2023. This is our first foray into hardware, but we already developed a stable Linux VR Desktop ( https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula ) from 2017-
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
Yep, you can try out our software at https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula on the HTC Vive and Valve Index platforms. If you don't have one of those headsets, there are some videos of people (whom we have no affiliat
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
The Simula One ( https://simulavr.com ) was designed specifically for this use case (disclaimer: I'm a cofounder of the project). TLDR: it's a 100% office dedicated headset with bleeding edge pixel density that runs Linu
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
But we've also been openly declaring these claims to not have any teeth, for almost a year now: https://simulavr.com/blog/we-dont-want-the-metaverse/ TLDR: That post is from 2021, and we basically said that M
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
Yes, thank you for catching. We just pushed the fix. The original table was copied over from an old post (when we were still using 11th Gen Intel), and I somehow missed updating it.
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
Just to clarify: we produced no documents or testimony to Meta at all. We basically negotiated on some very pedantic things (deadline extensions and so forth), and they ended up dropping the subpoena altogether. In Meta's defense, we f
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
https://simulavr.com/blog/first-glimpse-of-review-units/
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
Yes, for sure; however, the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 and 12GB of RAM on the Quest Pro isn't that. We're also fundamentally a Linux Desktop platform, which ARM is finnicky with. We wanted to give people an experience that was truly
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
3.1 and 3.3 are talking about the Quest Pro's VR Desktop capabilities. We just added extra clarification to make this clear. We don't dispute that the Quest Pro can run its own native VR apps without WiFi streaming.
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
The title of our blog post ("Meta's Subpoena Dropped; Simula One vs. Quest Pro") is different than the HN title: I think HN might discourage dual titles? (We weren't the original submitter of this post to HN, so didn&#x2
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
We acknowledge you can use native Meta apps in a standalone way (we discuss this in section 5). The problem is that there aren't many native productivity apps running on Meta.
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Our intention is to offer constructive criticism of Meta's product vision, not a sour attitude. Meta is marketing the Quest Pro as a productivity device, but to us it doesn't seem to have much teeth: it ca
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
Just want to clarify that I would never characterize Zuckerberg or Meta as "incompetent". Quite the contrary. I would instead more characterize the situation as Paul Graham did in one of his essays[1]: > A lot of startups wor
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
We're working on camera boards now for our AR Mode (it will likely be featured in our an engineering update next week). After our boards are finished (~2-4 weeks), we'll be able to integrate them into our review units for our firs
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
I haven't read. Will check it out!
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
A bit, but not much. Our tethered option is for people who want to connect to beefier hosts because they need the extra GPU power (or want to use our headset's high pixel density for gaming purposes). We've sold very few of them t
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
I totally disagree with this. Early gaming consoles (~70s) took off roughly a decade before early PCs (~80s). Yet many of the people who bought the latter had little interest in the former. They were two completely distinct markets (with so
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
What you're seeing: a Meta headset tethered to a laptop over WiFi running Immersed. What you're not seeing: a standalone VR headset running a VR Desktop OS natively with bleeding edge pixel density (i.e., like the Simula One). We
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
I agree, and just want to reiterate what was written in the article: we genuinely feel no animosity towards Meta and its gaming headsets. We don't even feel animosity that they have leveraged their economies of scale to provide them ve
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
We understand Meta sometimes future projects that their devices will have broad office applications, but we're skeptical it has any teeth. Consider that Atari tried to compete with office PCs in the early 80s with their 8-bit family, a
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
Though I'm not a lawyer, I believe defendants in court cases are entitled to command witnesses (signed off by a judge) to provide evidence that could be used in their defense. It makes sense in the abstract: e.g. imagine you're ac
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
Just want to clarify: we're not ignoring this subpoena and intend to comply with the law. We're in contact with a lawyer and are discussing our options with them.
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
Just to clarify: we're seeking legal counsel and intend to comply with the law. Many other larger companies have fought these subpoenas (Snap, etc) and, as far as we can tell, still had to hand over items.
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
Does this support converting new keys into new modifiers? IIRC AHK allows you to do things like: - If CapsLock is pressed, treat it as a new modifier. - If CapsLock is released, send "ESCAPE". If so, that would be swell.
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
Interestingly, the Newton was pretty cheap for its time: released for $900 ($1,844.29 in inflation-adjusted terms). IIRC the original price was supposed to be much higher, but at the last second it was cut lower. Most first-in-kind technolo
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
It's amazing how gestures like this can have such positive impact people years later. I know I've had moments where people have made unnaturally kind gestures towards me, and I still remember years later.
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
Really love the detailed specs, schematics, and board shots. Open hardware projects have an aesthetic all to their own, and understanding how hardware is built and works together somehow makes these products more enjoyable (at least this is
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
This reminds me that Alan Kay really hates Linux: https://youtu.be/rmsIZUuBoQs This stings since I really like Alan Kay and have been influenced by his ideas, but am also working on a Linux-based VR headset as a thinking to
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by georgewsinger 4y ago
Over the past few years people have presented a lot of (seemingly credible, IMO) red flags that Tether could be something resembling a scam, and on the verge of a sudden "bankrun" at any moment. The consensus opinion, at least 6 m

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