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by ryandamm 11y ago
I think it's useful to draw a bright line around the 'value creation' that PG is referring to, also. It's not just creating chairs, it's aggregating great wealth by 'disrupting' traditional industries. T
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Digital Domain Bets $39M on Emmy Award Winning VR Content Company(uploadvr.com)
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Sony is building a Gear VR competitor(uploadvr.com)
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Scientist says huge clumps of dark matter may lie just beyond the Moon(arstechnica.com)
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Star Wars is officially coming to Virtual Reality(uploadvr.com)
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by ryandamm 11y ago
This dates back to 2005; headline should reflect this.
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Very different applications -- Lytro does use a lens array, but behind a traditional lens; the lens array is a microlens array covering the pixels on the sensor. This allows the recovery of the plenoptic function ( https://en.wik
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by ryandamm 11y ago
I've heard from a friend at fitbit that jawbone, Nike, and others all licensed their tech from some professor's company, whereas fitbit developed their own in house... And evidently the licensor didn't keep pace with tech, bu
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Weirdly enough, high school in Palo Alto sucks for the same reason recruiting is hard. Relevant anecdote: I had beers tonight with a friend who was going through some strange feelings about some acqui-hire interviewing with Google. (To be
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Favorite factoid: one (discontinued) power source for pacemakers is evidently Pu-238. http://osrp.lanl.gov/pacemakers.shtml
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Love Dart(en.wikipedia.org)
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The most important iPhone case ever built(uploadvr.com)
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by ryandamm 11y ago
No, stereo video content does not currently support that, unless it's animated in a game engine. Which is very rare.
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Because stereo 360 is optically very difficult, and there aren't many rigs that do a good job of it. It's a hard problem, honestly, though people are working on it (including me, frankly).
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by ryandamm 11y ago
I think this is a classic case of a leaky abstraction. The developer probably assumes some relatively benign behavior from GPS, and treats it as a 'true' record of the user's position in cartesian space. Throw some grade sc
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by ryandamm 11y ago
You're probably right, it's probably a low sampling rate. (Either dude was going fast or the app is really casual about taking measurements...!) Also a possibility: the phone is picking up a gps 'echo' reflecting off a w
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Complaints about journalistic standards failing in VR are just Luddism. Complaints that Google Cardboard is terribly inferior VR, on the other hand, are totally accurate. A point of view that was sadly missing from the short piece. I&#x27
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by ryandamm 11y ago
This is a really fantastic show, if you're just finding it. Started out as a five-minute slot on NPR, but now often runs 30-40 minutes as a podcast. I just finished listening to the back catalog yesterday, and I heartily recommend it.
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Facebook Brings in Microsoft Researchers for AR and VR R&D(uploadvr.com)
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by ryandamm 11y ago
If you want a dense, technical explanation, I wrote about this hypothetically back in April, for the same site: http://uploadvr.com/what-the-bleep-is-lytro-doing-in-vr/ The editor informs me that HN has crushed his sit
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Lytro announces light field VR video camera(uploadvr.com)
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Can I just say: as an American in the SF Bay Area... this article is extremely foreign to me. I don't mean the location or work, but the entire social-political background. Layoffs have some contractual basis for being paid, and even
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Infuse Booze with a Whipper (2010)(cookingissues.com)
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Kenji is awesome, and probably the best reason to read seriouseats. But for anyone who enjoys food science, you really have to start with Harold McGee's classic "On Food and Cooking": http://smile.amazon.com/F
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Light Fields Are Dead. Long Live Holography(uploadvr.com)
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Like all things perceptual, an exact answer is maddeningly difficult to pin down (individual to individual variation, subjective issues like ambient light, etc). Even at 10-bit you could in theory see banding if your color discrimination we
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by ryandamm 11y ago
I have to assume that's 128-bit precision in 3D rendering -- partly because it's Carmack, but largely because 64-bit color would be... well beyond human perceptual limits. This StackExchange post claims ~2.4 million colors for the
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by ryandamm 11y ago
In some ways, this is Apple pushing things forward... but in other ways, it's just them catching up. Until this update, there was no way to get 10-bit displays working with Apple products at all , even third-party monitors that were
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by ryandamm 11y ago
I wouldn't say there's a ton of market share to be grabbed: the global economy is suffering from a savings glut. Chinese manufacturing dominates entire industries, and already other countries in Asia are offering lower-cost alter
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by ryandamm 11y ago
No, savings == investment because they're two sides of the same thing, like corresponding entries in two ledgers. If one entity saves (that is, produces more than they consume + invest), those 'savings' are realized elsewher

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