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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
Shameless plug (my apologies it's my second this week ) - but we recently released our $80 headset. It's a plastic headset, with two bluetooth controllers, that you put your phone into 'Google Cardboard style'. We'v
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
Ha yeah there's surprising value to the 'over the shoulder' feature :-D Thank you!
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
Those are very kind words - thank you! It's been a labour of love for us over the last few years but we're at a point where this product really works now and so it's great to see the positive response. That's a really in
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
Thank you! The headset is supported on iPhone 11 and later - it's just the capture of spatial video that's only supported on the iPhone 15 Pro/Max. In case that helps with your purchasing decision ;-D
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
Thank you! We do correct for this in the app - it's quite a complicated process because we only have a single 'monocular' camera image which we have to compose with 3D content. We use some tricks to render the camera in a way
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
The app we provide allows you to view video (including spatial video) from your Photos library, but any app with a 'Google Cardboard' mode (showing left eye content on the left of the screen and right on the right) should work. We
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
Ha I can promise it's a real product - designed with <3 in London!
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
Yeah we've been thinking about a headset-only version too :-) The advantage of the controllers is they have 'Quest compatible' inputs - so content built for Quest can be ported with minimal fuss. That said there's many u
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
Thanks :-D Yes - our Gen 2 model ships internationally and our site hasn't quite been updated yet. If you drop us a message at support@zappar.com we can get one to you.
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
Just a 'full disclosure' that I work for the company that makes one of the products features in this video. Very happy to answer any questions - there are a ton of interesting (at least to me!) technical solves necessary to make i
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Watch Spatial Video in Mixed Reality on iPhone or Meta Quest 3(youtube.com)
1 points by macguillicuddy 3y ago|1 comments
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
Shameless plug - we recently released our $80 headset with support for spatial videos. It's a plastic headset, with two bluetooth controllers, that you put your phone into 'Google Cardboard style'. No need to wait for Vision
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
Hi! We're aiming for early next year for general support for Zapbox content on Android, although for a variety of technical reasons it's a real challenge. We are very much committed to Android support though! Support for spatial v
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Apple's Spatial Video on an $80 headset(zappar.com)
2 points by macguillicuddy 3y ago|3 comments
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
Full disclosure: I work at the maker of this headset, Zappar. Very keen to get feedback and questions :-)
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Possible S3 upload outage?
4 points by macguillicuddy 3y ago|0 comments
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
It reminds me of that bit in Back To The Future 3 where someone in the 1800s is astonished that people run for fun in the future.
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
I think part of the challenge is that no ground is knowably stable. Since very few of us are shipping products that we've built from the atoms up we do have to rely on platforms provided by others. Everywhere you look there's unce
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
For the most part (although there are important exceptions), IFR flights are always in radar contact with a controller. The flight plan is tool allows ATC and the plane to agree a route so that they don't have to be constantly communic
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
Yeah of course, but success/failure is also not binary. There are degrees of failure, including low-consequence availability issues, high-consequence availability issues, loss of operational safety, 'never events' (e.g. signi
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
For me it's important to consider the 'ATC system' as the whole. The system as a whole did not fail - no planes crashed, flights still flew - but it was in a degraded state with lower than usual throughput. One component of t
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
I'm just speculating as to what points are actually added but typically the flight plan includes 'airways' in addition to waypoints. Here's an example of a plan for London Gatwick (EGKK) to Edinburgh (EGPH): ``` EGKK&#x2
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
Perhaps the place I use it most is that try/catch is how you deal with rejected promises that you've `await`ed in an `async` function.
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by macguillicuddy 4y ago
We encountered a relatively major regression during the iOS 16.4 beta which unfortunately went live with the release version of 16.4. Requesting an 'environment-facing' camera using getUserMedia now provides the ultra-wide camera
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by macguillicuddy 4y ago
My original point, which I perhaps haven't articulated well, is this. 1. The human brain has outputs (e.g. creative works, or even just movements of limbs etc) 2. The human brain has inputs (e.g. the light landing on retinas, the DNA a
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by macguillicuddy 4y ago
Perhaps we should avoid trying to understand the world around us in simple terms since we know we've got it wrong in the past? Or maybe it's better for us to discuss the arguments and metaphors themselves? Perhaps you could give a
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by macguillicuddy 4y ago
I don't mean that the brain is materially a computer in the sense we're used to computers in our day-to-day. That would be demonstrably false. Just as we can show humans are not formed from clay we can show humans are not formed o
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by macguillicuddy 4y ago
While we can make such a quality distinction between human and artifical generation at the moment, it seems plausible that there's a future where such a distinction is either not meaningful, or perhaps even skewed against humanity. The
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by macguillicuddy 4y ago
This reminds me of that episode of Star Trek TNG, 'Elementary, Dear Data' where the characters ask the computer to come up with a novel Sherlock Holmes story (for the Holodeck) using the prompt 'capable of defeating [crewmemb
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by macguillicuddy 4y ago
This is a good point :-) I suppose if we gradually evolve language over time then we amortise and reduce any cost. I don't think we necessarily need to go around rewriting any books for most issues - but if this blog author (and others

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