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by gfodor 5y ago
The solution is you use a keyboard and mouse. No need to reinvent the wheel. It can be brought in via passthrough camera tracking.
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by gfodor 5y ago
There is no one problem (nice strawman), but when the CDC makes bold claims in a chaotic, dynamic environment that are unjustified based on the science, which they have done endlessly, it erodes trust to the point where people presume they
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by gfodor 5y ago
Sure, the argument made by crypto people is that is a transitional condition and in a few decades society at large will in general consider information on blockchains (or their descendants) as authoritative in many situations.
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by gfodor 5y ago
The ultimate scarcity is human attention and creativity - so in the limit that will always be a thing that is a form of wealth. The ownership of digital assets (NFTs or not) is fundamentally an output of a system where someone chooses to ex
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by gfodor 5y ago
I think if another tech hits face to face social presence scores then yes things get a lot more interesting. I don’t know if google has run a study.
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by gfodor 5y ago
I would agree a centralized authority like Facebook basically “owning” what gets blessed is a world where the promise of these technologies has not been met. The hope is that we can have a more egalitarian outcome where there are a variety
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by gfodor 5y ago
You can also fake it. My app jel.app has avatars that have a lot of facial animation and it’s either random or just driven off voice, and conveys a lot imo. There is a limit and a point where this can make things worse, but if it approximat
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by gfodor 5y ago
Here is a talk I gave a few years ago - I haven’t kept up tho so there may be better sources now. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_5w8xbeCc2Q
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by gfodor 5y ago
The value is that the blockchains (or analogous tech) maximize durability and odds of societal consensus across time and space. For example, I would put higher odds on the Ethereum blockchain still existing and being citable in a century or
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by gfodor 5y ago
I agree Facebook is kinda taking their eye off the prize by focusing on the metaverse concepts. But they’re not dumb, they understand what I wrote above, so there might be a reason this is being done towards that end.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Yeah the headsets are a distraction, the way to think about this is there are three distinct tech tracks: - full photonic override (HMDs -> passthrough visors (lynx-r is a half step) -> passthrough swim goggles -> contact lenses) -
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by gfodor 5y ago
The people who decide which NFTs matter are the communities and cultures you participate in, and entities who have sovereignty over you. Which is no different than anything else.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Yep this is part of the goals of one of the projects I worked on, Mozilla Hubs: ensuring that there is always a self hosted privacy preserving open source option for this basic use case of VR avatar based communication.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Not really, I’d imagine if you ran the same trial today with face and eye tracking HMDs you would match f2f social presence scores. Wouldn’t surprise me if the study has already been done. You’re confusing graphics quality and realism with
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by gfodor 5y ago
I agree I’ve been working in and out of VR for the last 8 years or so and it was the first thing I saw that made me question the assumption that VR was the only possible solution to this problem.
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by gfodor 5y ago
These trends are converging but the most valuable contribution of HMDs imo is remote social presence. It’s not their only contribution, and the economic revolution of web3 would have happened without HMDs imo.
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by gfodor 5y ago
What you’re posting here is “common knowledge”, but it is actually in conflict with social presence research. VR beats video conferencing even without any facial tracking, and the abject failure of video conferencing in the pandemic to repl
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by gfodor 5y ago
The point is she was being hyper critical of her past schema to make a larger point.
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by gfodor 5y ago
No, there is a study that was done on PC rift hardware that showed it was already competitive with f2f on most measures of social presence except for facial expressions (which makes sense, given the lack of facial tracking.) The bottleneck
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by gfodor 5y ago
Bill Gates on the vaccines: “ “You know, we didn’t have vaccines that block transmission. We got vaccines that help you with your health, but they only slightly reduced transmission,” Now go read my original post and tell me who sounds more
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by gfodor 5y ago
It’s simple really, and most commenters don’t “get” what is going on with all this. Remote communication tools like video conferencing fail to deliver what academics call “social presence”, which is the feeling of being together in unmediat
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by gfodor 5y ago
The vaccines reduce transmission but saying they are “very good” at this conflicts with basic logic, since that descriptor can’t be applied to both the efficacy in March (when it was very good) and the efficacy today, which we know is far l
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by gfodor 5y ago
Wolfram himself is working on physics and fulfilling a life long dream. (He was just on Lex’s podcast.) Say what you will about his contributions but it is hard to argue he hasn’t been enormously successful at achieving his goals of develop
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by gfodor 5y ago
What was your experience at WR? I’m curious what the sentiment is towards the new physics work by those who work there, do you stay in touch?
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by gfodor 5y ago
It’s fairly obvious that a mandate connected to taxpayer funded schools is a totally different thing than one governing all employers in the US. That’s not to defend the former so much as to point out that the set of arguments justifying it
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by gfodor 5y ago
It’s also very obvious now that it’s debatable if a 20 something kid who hasn’t taken the vaccine but is healthy and has good vitamin D levels presents more risk to others and is at more risk from COVID as a fully vaccinated 60 year old obe
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by gfodor 5y ago
Given the vaccine is not very good at this point at halting transmission, if we wanted a mandate focused on reducing transmission, it would be entirely about testing requirements. As a bonus, that would remove the major issue with coercing
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by gfodor 5y ago
Mandating all Americans get a extremely new vaccine or else they are unable to be employed is pure madness with few exceptions, such as a plague that stands to kill off a large % of the species. Not all mandates are equal, not all vaccines
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by gfodor 5y ago
It’s unjustified because that is one of two variables: difficulty, and funding. Once funding dried up it became a determining variable. As we now see, progress has resumed as funding has returned. The “it’s always 30 years away” trope is ba
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by gfodor 5y ago
Here's the problem with those stats. First, if this has a mechanism which is damaging heart tissue, the diagnosed cases may just be the ones which are manifesting severely enough to the point of getting to through the entire funnel of

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