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by thenomad 10y ago
I love this. Fantastic app. I'm going to be using it for the design process on the next part of my VR game, by the looks of things. Major complaint so far - it's a bit laggy on FF.
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by thenomad 10y ago
There are other uses for notes besides todo lists. Currently I'm designing a large VR environment for a game. Without notes of what needs to go where and when, that would be going... less well.
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by thenomad 10y ago
From reading diet boards, a lot of people find that their weight loss efforts are more successful with a compositional approach than just Eating Less. "Eat less" might be a simple rule, but implementing it is not so simple. Compsi
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by thenomad 10y ago
As an additional data point, I moderate a forum that's coincidentally mostly male (a function of the industry it serves), and they too are (at least on the forum in question) pleasant, friendly and supportive, with only a very few exce
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by thenomad 10y ago
Yup. Was filmmaker, now VR dev, as of approximately 9 months ago.
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by thenomad 10y ago
My field's VR, so... all of it. In particular, wireless transmitters for roomscale are really exciting - seriously, I cannot wait to get rid of the wire-to-head era - as is roomscale for mobile devices. The Vive getting additional trac
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by thenomad 10y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but have you actually tried doing that? It's considerably harder than it looks. The Facebook audience won't necessarily convert or translate off-site. They may well not join email lists, add you to an R
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by thenomad 10y ago
Second thought on this: outrage fatigue, empathy fatigue, and activism fatigue are all real things. Having places that aren't politicised may be very important in keeping up resistance to horrible politics and policies beyond a month
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by thenomad 10y ago
I sort of agree - but on the other hand, the level of politics around right now is overwhelming, and it's nice, going on necessary, to have somewhere that isn't all Trump, all the time. So I wouldn't be particularly happy wit
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by thenomad 10y ago
They care far more than you'd expect. Almost everyone watching a movie has seen hundreds if not thousands of movies. They're experts on movies. They might not be able to explain their expertise, or turn it into creation, but the
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by thenomad 10y ago
Yup. Works rather well, I'm told. (I'm big on VR and less so on 3D movies so I've not tried it.)
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by thenomad 10y ago
There seem to be a few of these "learn deep learning without heavy math" courses popping up, for which I'm profoundly grateful. Have people found any of them to be particularly outstanding? I'd be interested - and I susp
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by thenomad 10y ago
Having created a rather large project for VR that's currently doing quite well ( http://store.steampowered.com/app/488760 - horror/RPG for the Vive) - Unity all the way. Unreal's a lot heavier-weight and
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by thenomad 10y ago
From past experience, and the reason I browse with some fairly aggressive security settings (not the OP): I'm worried I could acquire a nasty rootkit-level virus. I'm worried about that because I used to browse with no Noscript&#x
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by thenomad 10y ago
VR dev here. 8 hours with a headset on is way too long, but an hour or two is very doable. (HTC Vive, properly adjusted. Adjustment is key to comfortable wear on the Vive - it's the difference between 15 minutes before discomfort and
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by thenomad 10y ago
Yes, speaking as a VR developer, that's absolutely huge. Good luck trying to fake out the monsters in my game, Left-Hand Path, with tiny wrist motions - it's move or get dismembered time :)
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by thenomad 10y ago
Me too. It's a real pity the thing never caught on. (My personal theory on that one is that the input lag really hurt the platform. Plus, when looking for Kinect developers, you're looking for people who are good game developers A
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by thenomad 10y ago
Is there a way to re-share these videos on YouTube or other video sites? This looks like a neat tool, but it would definitely need that functionality to be of much use to me!
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by thenomad 10y ago
There were polls before and after the event on exactly this question, as well as considerable discussion of the Leave options from Leave campaigners and the press. So I conclude what I originally said from those data points.
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by thenomad 10y ago
I couldn't agree more, and I wonder why you're being downvoted so hard. Particularly given that 52% of the voters voted for Leave, not for a hard Brexit. Those are two very different propositions and a significant chunk of the 5
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by thenomad 10y ago
Home treadmills are a billion-dollar market in the US alone. And a VR headset is considerably more interesting, convenient, and flexible than a treadmill.
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by thenomad 10y ago
Biggest lifehack I've discovered for ameliorating this problem: close your eyes before putting on or taking off the headset. Really helps.
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by thenomad 10y ago
I completely agree on the "sharing headsets" issue. The economics work out fine at one headset per dev who needs to collaborate off-site.
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by thenomad 10y ago
I don't know - quite a few people go running or play football (soccer) and both of those activities require physical exercise! Soccer, for example, has 270 million active players. That's quite a few people who don't mind phys
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by thenomad 10y ago
Yeah, that sort of thing's a semi-regular occurrence if you're pushing the limits on VR dev a bit. No fun.
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by thenomad 10y ago
Having muscled through VR sickness exactly once back in the DK1 days, I heartily agree with the second half of this statement. In the language of my people, dinnae dae that. Incidentally, if you're thinking of becoming a VR dev, that&#
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by thenomad 10y ago
The N-state of every leisure activity is as low physical effort as possible. As someone whose leisure activities have in the past included Muay Thai and Spanish knife duelling (with blunted knives and fencing armour; I'm not crazy) I
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by thenomad 10y ago
I Tweet a fair bit currently, and I've written about my VR work a fair bit over at strangecompany.org over the years. I'm actually about to start doing more writing or videos on the topic of VR development and my experiences in it
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by thenomad 10y ago
By "competitive" in that context I meant "won't get stomped at 1.5k MMR". Which is still, frankly, a pretty high bar compared to most games. But yes. If you want to be actually competitive at a tournament level, you

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