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by rektide 3y ago
Apple has really masterminded a new era in personal & interpersonal computing here. There's a couple tactics backing this overarching strategy, that all reinforce each other well. They have really pushed communications technology m
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by rektide 3y ago
There are circular magnetically attached lens inserts. Kind of hard to get started but looks like it could have really good optical performance, much more so than the glasses-capable devices we have today. It will be very interesting to s
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by rektide 3y ago
I liked your first drift but where I see the real hangups happening is with software control. People put up with a lot of fussy uneven software they can't really tweak or adjust or make comfortable. Prescripted everything is endurable.
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by rektide 3y ago
The battery has to be comfortable wear, so I'm hoping it's closer to 40Wh/10Ah than the airline maximum 100Wh/27Ah bricks the laptop class is used to. Two hours seems fine to me, if the battery is indeed reasonable size.
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by rektide 3y ago
The demos were verryyy minimal. I think one of the biggest risks is overselling the product, is creating expectations they can't live up to. They probably could have gotten some AR iOS apps ported & being neat. But are those things
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by rektide 3y ago
I hope this actually turns out to be a win. The idea, in my mind, being that comfort is a priority & swapping batteries should be low effort. I didn't see real info on the battery (no surprise), but I'm hoping it's like a
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by rektide 3y ago
Haskell & Godot engine. Wildly interesting effort, wishing them well. Currently pretty sparse choices for open source XR computing spaces!
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by rektide 3y ago
Agreed. Huge opportunity. Computing always has been about information spaces, and making those implicit informatics explicit & visible is highly interesting. Apple notably didn't show a single collaborative capability, to my eye, t
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by rektide 3y ago
I'd heard mostly rumors it was going to be north of $5000.
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by rektide 3y ago
Minority Report (2002) had a nice immersive space too. I've long long long been a fan of wearable & ubiquitous computing. Having great gesture detection to do physical computing with would really be epic.
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by rektide 3y ago
Extra stunning because iOS already has some quite fine AR capabilities. This was such a freakish ommission. At my most charitable, maybe they didn't want to take the risk. They don't know what they would do with those capabilities
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by rektide 3y ago
The Mac private social networking was on mad display this WWDC. IMessaging has really upped the game on what a group chat is, mainly via emoji creation tools that will really add personality & flavor & build repetoir over time; touc
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by rektide 3y ago
It should have DisplayPort out so you can use it as a computer too. (There's probably some garbage patent already for using a VR computer as a computer, mercy patents are just such trash.)
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by rektide 3y ago
Not an iPhone user but I have yet to see a panoramic camera app that gets anything remotely high red for output. The panoramic mode felt cool, but I can't imagine they actually have the data there to make it look good. (Short of copiou
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by rektide 3y ago
Notably there doesn't seem to be any tech present to share virtual spaces at all. All these smiling people staring at their virtual screens couldnt even share their experiences if they wanted to & everyone else had a Vision Pro too
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by rektide 3y ago
I have a hard time imagining either company creating a good ecosystem here. There will be some stunning experiences on both, absolutely (Disney/Marvel has entered the chat) but they'll be narrow niches. Neither company WI be anywh
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by rektide 3y ago
I was watching the WWDC today thinking something near but different... How long will we be dialing in to Cupertino Saucer? How is Apple going to maintain a liveness, keep this elegant home from feeling somewhat imprisoning? I feel like they
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by rektide 3y ago
I'd love to be able to bring more of my regular tools with me. Run a small prometheus instance, a small samba instance, a postgres database. On a 128MB wifi router this all & a lot of other small utils fits okay ish, runs fine, whi
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by rektide 3y ago
What do you think? Why? I think I stated my reasoning here throughout. Two major themes, platform control & shared computing/social spaces, seem evident to me, we're such strong & rich themes. Doesn't seem to be worki
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by rektide 3y ago
Apple blew me away with what they are doing for personal communication. Everything else felt like a refinement or new product trial balloon. But what Apple is doing to make mini-creators out of people here is jaw dropping. I'd go so fa
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by rektide 3y ago
And easily one of the most enjoyable computing experiences out there. Very physical. And cooperative multi-player by nature. Many great things here. I wish Web NFC had a publish mode where we could web hack something like this.
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by rektide 3y ago
Anyone else look at the motherboard & think, wow, heck yeah? It was barren. Flat, hugely unpopulated, painted black. Seeing such a stark & severely empty slab of pcb is something I've been looking forward to. With more and more
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by rektide 3y ago
Aside from shuttle launches, first sonic boom I've ever felt. I couldn't guess what would rock this whole row house like that! The F-16 is a pretty small jet, comparatively. I wonder how different other jets would be.
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by rektide 3y ago
Somewhat important look into the industry & whats afoot. Cautioun tbough, can be even handed, but also let's through a significant sprinkling of personal affinities the author seemingly has too (in favor of the Tech Right, for exam
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QNAP QSW-M7308r switch – 4x 100GBe and 8x 25GBe(servethehome.com)
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by rektide 3y ago
Heard the sonic boom! There had been someone racing on the street a couple seconds before, and I associated the sounds. But had a hard time imagining what could have made the whole house shake like that!
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by rektide 3y ago
Mazda is supposedly making a MX-30 R-EV, which has a extending rotary engine in it. At 74HP though the rotary probably can act as a full-series generator. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42485033/mazda-mx-30-r-e
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by rektide 3y ago
Almost twice the bandwidth of the rx580, from April 2017. About the same msrp. It'll be interesting to see how this holds up versus Intel, whose been doing pretty ok at this price point. Intel's initial launch was pretty rocky but
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by rektide 3y ago
Hopefully he can go somewhere where he can keep doing good public work, and not have to disappear into the void.
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by rektide 3y ago
There's a bunch of nice chips with onboard ram now. This is yet another one with 64MB. Ideally I'd love to have at least 512MB of ram. I realize that's overkill for a lot of applications, but it'd give me confidence it c

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