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by modeless 11mo ago
Danijar Hafner just left DeepMind. He's behind the Dreamer series of models which are IMO the most promising direction for world models anyone has come up with yet. I'm wondering where he's headed. Maybe he could end up at Le
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by modeless 11mo ago
Roblox still exempt, blatant favoritism continues
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by modeless 11mo ago
PebbleOS is open source now, so there are no roadblocks preventing anything that is technically feasible.
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by modeless 11mo ago
Connecting to a laptop isn't supported AFAIK. Personally I don't have any important notifications on my computer that don't come to my phone already. What would you use it for?
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by modeless 11mo ago
They sold the whole production run of Pebble 2 Duos, and they are keeping the company small to be sustainable this time. I think they have a chance. The Pebble software is second to none in nailing the basics. I'll definitely continue
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by modeless 11mo ago
It will be more expensive than Quest 3s and so is unlikely to grow the VR market significantly beyond what Meta has achieved so far IMO. I'd love to be wrong.
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by modeless 11mo ago
Seems like that's already in the market with the Xbox Adaptive Controller
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by modeless 11mo ago
According to LTT the VR controllers have two stage triggers. Is the controller confirmed to not have them? Would be odd. PS5's triggers are the most advanced though, would be cool to have those. I'll reserve judgement on the new t
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by modeless 11mo ago
The headsets that have AR cameras don't use them for tracking AFAIK. They all have monochrome cameras for that. The AR cameras are an additional cost that is only used for AR.
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by modeless 11mo ago
I don't think it would be too bad. Cameras are tiny. The processing would still happen on the PC, and you could delete the lighthouse tracking sensors. I guess the hardest part would be sending that much camera data back to the PC over
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by modeless 11mo ago
You can get a Beyond if that's what you want. It's an amazing device, and will be far more comfortable and higher resolution than this one. Valve has supported Bigscreen in integrating Lighthouse tracking, and I hope that they con
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by modeless 11mo ago
It has a USB wireless dongle that doubles as a charging dock with magnets and pogo pins
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by modeless 11mo ago
Valve is focused on making a device that works well with their existing game catalog. It's a Steam device first, and it needs to be inexpensive to compete with Quest (which is subsidized by Meta), so they need to prioritize which featu
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by modeless 11mo ago
Seems strictly better than the old one, what's not to like?
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by modeless 11mo ago
They prioritized cost, so they omitted eye tracking hardware. They've also bet more on standalone apps rather than streaming from a PC. These are reasonable tradeoffs. The next Quest may add eye tracking, who knows. Quest Pro had it bu
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by modeless 11mo ago
Not only would it be a chore to constantly lean in closer to different parts of your monitor to see full detail, but looking at close-up objects in VR exacerbates the vergence-accommodation mismatch issue, which causes eye strain. You would
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by modeless 11mo ago
Foveated streaming should be much easier to implement than foveated rendering. Just encode two streams, a low res one and a high res one, and move the high res one around.
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by modeless 11mo ago
Foveated streaming! That's a great idea. Foveated rendering is complicated to implement with current rendering APIs in a way that actually improves performance, but foveated streaming seems like a much easier win that applies to all co
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by modeless 11mo ago
Nice, there's already a button in the app to get on the waitlist for freeways. I'm curious to see how much it would cost to commute with Waymo.
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by modeless 11mo ago
I read a lot that uber drivers don't actually make money on net after accounting for all the costs of running their cars. It's a common narrative that uber is just exploiting their drivers, and if you believe that, then this would
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by modeless 11mo ago
The best world model research I know of today is Dreamer 4: https://danijar.com/project/dreamer4/ . Here is an interesting interview with the author: https://www.talkrl.com/episodes/danijar-haf
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by modeless 11mo ago
He is 65, and certainly rich enough to retire many times over. He's not doing this to scam money out of VCs. He wants to prove his ideas work.
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by modeless 11mo ago
"High light levels" makes it sound like you could just replace 50 watt bulbs with 100 watt bulbs indoors to fix the problem. It's not like that at all. Sunlight is dramatically brighter than indoor lighting, far more than p
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by modeless 11mo ago
Also a built in AI summary feature, if you subscribe to Gemini I guess
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by modeless 1y ago
Obviously, genetics also plays a role in individual cases. We're talking about the population level here, and genetics doesn't explain the myopia epidemic, because population-level genetics hasn't changed rapidly. Time outdoo
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by modeless 1y ago
This article is written in a way that will propagate the myth that screens are bad for your eyes. Screens are not uniquely bad. The myopia epidemic is not caused by screens per se, but by a lack of time outdoors during childhood. What is it
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by modeless 1y ago
I wouldn't be surprised to see new products from OpenAI targeted specifically at doctors and/or lawyers. Forbidding them from using the regular ChatGPT with legal terms would be a good way to do price discrimination.
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by modeless 1y ago
Now that Google has agreed to better support third party stores worldwide in the Epic settlement, the writing is on the wall. It's only a matter of time before Apple is forced to support third party stores in the US and I predict they
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by modeless 1y ago
It says no fee for downloads, but I don't think that excludes a one time fee for developer "registration", unfortunately.
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by modeless 1y ago
> Update 2: even correcting for the fake views, traffic to Substack links from X is up substantially. (full post reads, signups, etc. also track.) Real traffic is estimated at 3-4x higher than before, after correcting for the preloading.

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