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by thenomad 9y ago
The percentage used to be larger, but has diminished over time. There are still some of us here, though. Also, do bear in mind the crowd effect. If it was a post where an pro-entrepreneurship attitude would have been heavily attacked/c
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by thenomad 9y ago
Sorry, my bad - I thought that was actually its formal name, as that's what I'm used to seeing it called by the person who created it.
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by thenomad 9y ago
There's actually a Blender addition that allows you to use it in VR. Haven't tried it, so don't know how good it is, but: https://blendervr.limsi.fr/doku.php
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by thenomad 9y ago
MMVR too, which is, iirc, basically an attempt to create a full-scale modeling tool in VR.
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by thenomad 9y ago
I've been testing this tool this afternoon. It's surprisingly powerful. The scale-shifting means it's very easy to work on something at toy soldier scale, and then shift it to be an epic hall or similar. And being able to imm
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by thenomad 9y ago
I completely understand from their point of view - but unfortunately from my point of view that doesn't really reassure me much.
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by thenomad 9y ago
99% of the time, yes, I'd say. Having time/date wrong on your device - particularly a phone, which a lot of people use instead of a watch - is sufficiently annoying that it usually gets fixed.
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by thenomad 9y ago
They're using NetVerify by Jumio for identity verification. I still don't trust any service asking me to scan and send a copy of my passport, and I've yet to hear/read anyone saying "it's OK, you can trust Jumi
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by thenomad 9y ago
One thing I've definitely learned about musculoskeletal problems is that you shouldn't discount apparently unscientific treatments if they seem to work. There's a lot we don't know about how that particular system functi
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by thenomad 9y ago
Quick note here: an Android app would go a long way to encouraging takeup in the HN crowd, I suspect. I'm already a big fan of mobilisation exercises, so my thought process went "sounds great - where do I download?"..."i
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by thenomad 9y ago
Just released the latest update which, I think, may make Left-Hand Path the longest single-player dedicated VR experience out there.
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Show HN: My VR horror/RPG hits 15 hr play-time as dedicated VR experience(steamcommunity.com)
1 points by thenomad 9y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Is AirBnb / Jumio's ID Verification Trustworthy?
1 points by thenomad 9y ago|2 comments
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by thenomad 9y ago
Do you mean aside from games? I run a company focused on VR games, but I'm not sure if you're excluding that use case.
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by thenomad 9y ago
Makes perfect sense, yes. And that's what I use Python for 99% of the time. I just thought it was interesting quite how hard it turned out to be! As someone who's usually on the games/VR side of things, I may have taken some
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by thenomad 9y ago
Ah, interesting. I did think of using a VM but my understanding was that Mac OS VMs were an absolute pain in the ass to set up ;)
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by thenomad 9y ago
20+ years of working in the tech industry and adjacent, so not so much, no. But my work has, until this year, rarely involved compiling software for other people to use. So that may be the noobness you're detecting.
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by thenomad 9y ago
I AM a Python beginner, and I was amazed recently to discover that there was no way for me to assemble an executable for an OS I'm not on that didn't involve buying a computer running said OS. I'm on Win10, and pyinstaller ma
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by thenomad 9y ago
What we need now is a text-to-speech engine programmed with The Mary Whitehouse Experience's "Man With A Sarcastic Tone Of Voice".
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by thenomad 9y ago
For those who want to read her exact words, full transcript: http://time.com/4804640/london-attack-theresa-may-speech-tra... Quote: > We need to work with allied democratic governments to reach international agreeme
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by thenomad 9y ago
I don't feel like this argument holds up as soon as he goes into examples. AirBnB: this might be a Euro vs US thing, but my Airbnb experiences have involved a lot more human interaction than I'd expect at a hotel, as my hosts sh
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by thenomad 9y ago
I really hope so.
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by thenomad 9y ago
On the upside, this is great news for them - congratulations! On the downside, I fear it means that their Mixed Reality plugin for Unity (which looks awesome, and I've been waiting impatiently for) will be a long time coming now :(
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by thenomad 9y ago
I'd argue that an excellent price point to target is just below the point where you have to switch to enterprise or Rolls Royce-style sales models.
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by thenomad 9y ago
This is absolutely true, and equally applies to other artforms as well - films, games, etc. Copying is an excellent way to get started. You're very unlikely to end up with a copy at the end.
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by thenomad 9y ago
I'm a filmmaker who moved into developing VR experiences, and I couldn't agree more. Film and VR are vastly different media.
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by thenomad 9y ago
Sleep No More is one of my usual touchstones when talking about narrative in VR. (Speaking as a VR dev here.) In general, narrative in VR has to be approached VERY differently to film. It's not just that the viewpoint's moving or
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by thenomad 9y ago
Ditto. I've not had problems with my glasses in any of the VR headsets, really, from the DK1 onward.
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by thenomad 9y ago
One note on this: some elements of the extreme left-wing have in the past had tendencies toward antisemitism, which obviously fits into 2) and potentially 1). So that's one issue.
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by thenomad 9y ago
Oh, absolutely - I'm not talking about the comments debating the level of evidence in the article. Those seem like absolutely fair comments, and the author of the article is responding to them well.

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