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by ozten 3y ago
> So far, the whole thing has remained standing, but that doesn’t mean it will continue to do so. What is the bar for “still standing”? For my use cases, It is no longer there.
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by ozten 3y ago
> Asking strangers to borrow their phone > > In a pinch you might need to borrow a phone from someone. Try to exhaust all your other options first. Ya, nope.
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by ozten 3y ago
ADU metrics are hurt by Facebook’s execution of OS software updates and UX issues that make it a tedious dance. Many releases where create a situation where it is put into a drawer.
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by ozten 3y ago
The Varjo VR headset is the leader in Enterprise training and design. The headset cost more than $6,000 per unit plus it has an annual subscription fee more than $1500. The Vision Pro is a direct competitor to the Varjo. Early reports are t
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by ozten 3y ago
I don't think MixedReality will ever go mainstream, but I think it will have a long tail of niches that it is extremely successful in (Training, 3D Design, Gaming, exercise, etc). For general productivity, I feel that the laptop and ex
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by ozten 3y ago
Steve Ballmer laughing at the iPhone as "the world's most expensive phone" type of moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
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by ozten 3y ago
Human eyes need to focus at 4 - 6 feet away, is how some popular headsets work today.
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by ozten 3y ago
Maybe. They told an easy to understand story in 10 seconds. Apple is amazing at educating the customer.
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by ozten 3y ago
Sharing: I'm not going to pull out and put in my prescription lenses even if they are magnetically attached.
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by ozten 3y ago
Apollo App is a popular UI for Reddit because their App and website are famously terrible (and Apollo is slick and awesome). Reddit told Apollo dev they would soon be charged $20 million per year. https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by ozten 3y ago
Clients will ignore high estimates and take the unrealistic one.
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by ozten 3y ago
There are a very large list of foundational capabilities so that it’s not practical to respond with a concise answer. One example is automatically closing resources on behalf of the caller thanks to lifetimes. Another example is the best co
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by ozten 3y ago
This is very interesting given the upcoming * Apple headset launch * Samsung Google Qualcomm alliance to launch an Apple competator "VR 2.0" headset
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Samsung Display to acquire OLED microdisplay developer eMagin for $218M(oled-info.com)
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by ozten 3y ago
Oculus Quest proved out the exercise use case. A solid niche of people pay a monthly subscription for the at-home motivation and gamified workout.
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by ozten 3y ago
Using eye-gaze as cursor is something I've wanted on my desktop computing experience. It is so annoying when window management fails, but if it used the input form my webcam it could do the right thing. Using Overlays, Immersed, etc fo
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by ozten 3y ago
I don’t consider buying premium Electronics from Google. I look to them for free and cheap products and services. I can’t imagine these working in 2 years nor would I want to deal with their customer service.
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by ozten 3y ago
One of the biggest problems for "apps" and entrepreneurs is distribution. Everything this article is talking about was true when HTML5 launched (2010 era) and so many mobile device APIs became web standards. What the App store has
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by ozten 3y ago
This video [1] explains how LoRA and Hypernetworks work. This is one way to change the output of the model without retraining the entire model. 9:55 LoRA 14:45 Hypernetworks [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVjMiJsuR5o
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by ozten 3y ago
I am a VR enthusiast. I totally agree! I feel like I am scuba diving or snorkeling. The discomfort drains you. Just thinking about the extra work your brain is doing to process VR visuals Universal issues: * flat, everything in focus render
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by ozten 3y ago
In a retirement home $50 a month is a bargain to be able to walk through and relive all of your life. It will be an MMO fine-tuned on your cloud data such as videos and photos. Surviving family members across the country and co-prescense wi
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by ozten 3y ago
Search results have been mostly empty for me for last 30 minutes. https://imgur.com/a/AKIkO7p
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by ozten 4y ago
The strartup up Chroma is working on solving attribution. https://www.stableattribution.com/
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by ozten 4y ago
There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again.
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by ozten 4y ago
My bet is that they try to solve the "VR headset creepiness factor" by having eye tracking and an external display that allows others to "see inside the goggles", so they can make "eye contact". These can be re
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by ozten 4y ago
Humans are constantly moving the goal posts for what constitutes AGI. Based on GPT 4's performance on standardized tests and my anecdotal evidence of utility I'm getting out of ChatGPT, I feel that weak AGI arrived with GPT-4.
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by ozten 4y ago
Async is really painful and a "not finished yet" thing. However, in practice, if you use Tokio you should be fine. And usually this decision will be made for you with the framework you pick. My #1 tip is to decide on exactly what
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by ozten 4y ago
If Einstein creates some 3D graphs or plays a simulation to make his point, it will be more convenient to already be in that world.
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by ozten 4y ago
This is very impressive. Don't miss clicking the first link[1] This video feels like a tortured digital twin. Very unnerving action with the mouth. So creepy. But... if you did 5 seconds of full screen and then minimized down into a sm
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by ozten 4y ago
All day today Twitter is redirecting to the homepage for any @Username URL that I try. Anyone else? (I am signed in, web) Workaround: Incognito requests routed correctly.

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