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Magic Leap's Elusive Tech May Be Available for Developers to Try Soon(uploadvr.com)
1 points by ryandamm 10y ago|0 comments
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Good review of current practices, though I personally reserve the use of the term 'light field' to representations that are explicitly encoding light rays, not geometry. But that's a pretty minor quibble, it's a really g
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by ryandamm 10y ago
This is a good reminder of the various bubbles I live in -- geographic, racial... okay, those two. Appalling. I wish it were more unbelievable.
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Question for the field: what's the connection (if any) between late stage private valuations (Zenefits, Theranos, etc) and early-stage startup investing? Seems most popular discussions conflate the two, but it seems like they're w
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by ryandamm 10y ago
I dunno, that's a lot of causal links that aren't necessarily backed up by quantitative analysis. I don't think the scale of VC/PE in the tech sector is anywhere near large enough to have macro effects. (Zenefits and The
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by ryandamm 10y ago
Keep in mind that most prognostication re: the Trump campaign has failed. That's the trouble with inductive models; there's always the potential for some event that could happen that hasn't happened yet, and it breaks your mo
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by ryandamm 11y ago
You need multiple cameras seeing every image point so your CV algorithms can have a good depth reconstruction -- and so it doesn't break if one camera has a lens flare. >2 viewpoints also helps with reconstruction ambiguities, etc.
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by ryandamm 11y ago
The challenge, as you said, is the data compression. Well, that and optics; it's hard to grab all the photons someone might see if they moved around....
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by ryandamm 11y ago
I'm torn, because I don't really want to dignify this comment with a response... but here goes. Your 'concern' for trans* people is transparently false, or at least misguided. I don't see how allowing someone to liv
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Quick caveat, this is written by the same firm (Digi-Capital) that came out with a totally preposterous estimate (on the high side) for the market potential and uptake speed of VR. So, you know, grain of salt; the Digi-Capital numbers were
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by ryandamm 11y ago
No. Part of what you're paying for is access to the market; furthermore, without this logic, you have a race to the bottom for low corporate taxes (for any companies that deal in IP, which is eventually most nontrivial ones). The resul
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by ryandamm 11y ago
I think it's okay to be disgusted by the outcomes of homelessness -- that's a natural reaction, and I imagine it takes a lot of empathy for those who work with the homeless to be able to see past it, to the people they're try
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by ryandamm 11y ago
I think it's funny we're saying someone who can't afford $50k/year in rent is 'lower middle class.' If you keep your housing costs below 25% of gross income (a common recommendation), then anyone earning less t
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by ryandamm 11y ago
I've met Greg at Upload -- and yes, he's charismatic. Kind of an easy confidence, and friendly. I've known some very charismatic people in my day, and I'd say it's more a talent than a skill. The 10,000 hours thing
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by ryandamm 11y ago
I have a related quibble: a lot of companies are called 'tech companies' when, in fact, they're consumers of technology, not producers of them. If your primary innovation is business model, and all the interesting tech you en
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Facebook Responds to Oculus Privacy Concerns(uploadvr.com)
2 points by ryandamm 11y ago|0 comments
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by ryandamm 11y ago
No, there are resins that cure with visible light. They're just more 'spensive.
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Strong message, but I'm confused why it's broken up into ~26 subsections. It's almost like there's some arbitrary word limit imposed on it or something.
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Plus object tracking in the real world, and head tracking, so the ghost looks like it's embedded in space and you can move around it. Huge difference in how it feels to the user, but yes, pepper's ghost.
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by ryandamm 11y ago
So we just need a heavy dose of botox in our eye muscles. Problem solved.
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Let's cut through the nonsense, and say what we're really talking about explicitly, and out loud: Is homelessness our responsibility, or not? Some comments here use a lot of words to essentially say they don't feel any collec
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Steven Spielberg Working on a Project “Solely for VR”(uploadvr.com)
2 points by ryandamm 11y ago|0 comments
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Non WSJ-paywalled article by Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/uk-china-forex-hedgefunds-idU... Not the same article, FWIW.
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by ryandamm 11y ago
The main problem is a devalued currency stokes inflation, so consumer costs go up (so do producer costs, but that's offset by better export earnings). China is in the middle of a shift from an export-driven economy to a consumption-dri
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Apple is prototyping AR/VR headsets, report says(uploadvr.com)
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Will China’s new “supply-side” reforms help China?(blog.mpettis.com)
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by ryandamm 11y ago
This is probably what's called a 'video assist' in the film industry: when the film is being pulled through the gate, it's shielded from the light by a spinning mirror. In a fully-analog camera, that mirror reflects the
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by ryandamm 11y ago
The death of film has more to do with distribution than acquisition; the pervasive switch to digital projection completely killed the last bastion of demand for film stock. (A typical film might requires 100s to 1000s as much stock for del
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Hands on with the HTC Vive's second development kit(uploadvr.com)
2 points by ryandamm 11y ago|0 comments
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Don't push _me_. Read Piketty; the explicit goal (and solutions) are aimed at leveling wealth inequality. Yes, good governance is better than bad governance. But problems of inequality -- and reduced social mobility, and the role of h

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