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by theschwa 10y ago
There seems to be a lot of comments asking about the quality of this piece. I read through this the last time it was posted to HN, and I just have to say that this is the perfect balance of having enough detail to understand how things wo
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by theschwa 10y ago
I believe that's to support HDR.
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by theschwa 10y ago
Invision is great for prototyping a general work flow, how the user moves from screen to screen, but it's not designed around building individual interactions. You upload a bunch of screenshots and create clickable areas that link to a
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by theschwa 10y ago
I've generally seen tools like Balsamiq and Invision used for the app flow and tools like Framer and Origami used for micro-interactions. I would, however, like to see something that blends the two well, but maybe that just doesn'
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by theschwa 10y ago
That's fantastic. I can't imagine how much work has gone into this project. I'm excited to see what this does for the adoption of Origami. Are there any personal stories from the process you're able to share?
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by theschwa 10y ago
I'm really curious how this was built. Quartz Composer got a lot of things right, but it's showing it's age. Was this rebuilt from the ground up?
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Oculus Will Bring VR to the Web with React VR and Carmel VR Browser(techcrunch.com)
1 points by theschwa 10y ago|0 comments
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by theschwa 10y ago
To be fair, the new phones are supposed to have MUCH higher accuracy in tracking which is necessary to make it feel like you're actually THERE (what's generally referred to in VR as "presence"). The Samsung phones work a
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by theschwa 10y ago
> Among milliennials and those coming of age behind them, the race is on to see who can be more righteous and aggrieved — who can replace the boring old civil rights generation with a spikier brand. > When I was growing up in the ’6
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by theschwa 10y ago
Just for some clarification on the VR side, the Vive is a partnership product between them and HTC. Valve did the R&D, and HTC did the manufacturing, adnd Valve helped Oculus get things off the ground as well. I'm not a gamer, so I
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by theschwa 10y ago
Why is this emulator so well organized and polished compared to some other emulator projects? They do such great technical write ups, but I'd love to see one about how they manage the project.
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by theschwa 10y ago
How does this compare with Google's places autocomplete?
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by theschwa 11y ago
First off, I want to reiterate that I'm most excited about the lighthouse tracking system, it fits well with projects where I'd like to apply tracking, but my main objection is to your comment that it's an objectively superio
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by theschwa 11y ago
First off, I'm a huge fan of the lighthouse tracking system, and I'm looking forward to them opening it so I can use it in other projects. I do think it has some elegance to it. That being said, it's not necessarily "sup
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by theschwa 11y ago
There seem to be a lot of questions on what a light field is. Lytro just put up a great blog post that gives a good introduction to them http://blog.lytro.com/post/132599659620/what-is-light-field
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by theschwa 11y ago
You're spot on. Holograms, as in the images like on a credit card, do actually record light fields.
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by theschwa 11y ago
Actually, he was right with his first guess. This isn't about capturing film with a heightmap like RGBd cameras do, it's about capturing all light that goes through a volume of space from all angles. If you can fulyl capture all l
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by theschwa 11y ago
I had a beautiful spacious apartment in midtown for $800 with all utilities included. I now rent a two story three bedroom house in midtown for $1300 not including utilities. Overall, it's extremely affordable, and there are single bed
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by theschwa 11y ago
I hope this is a joke, but just in case anyone thinks this is a good idea, remember that this violates one of the ten principles: Decommodification In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environment
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by theschwa 11y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by this comment. This is pretty much the definition of hacking something together.
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by theschwa 11y ago
Not only is this based on "early versions of the tech", but no one has even released a consumer product yet. These are are all developer prototypes. Even the Samsung Gear VR is still an "innovator edition".
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Connected-Car Startup Vinli Raises $6.5M from Samsung, Cox Automotive, and More(techcrunch.com)
1 points by theschwa 11y ago|0 comments
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by theschwa 11y ago
My understanding is that technical Illusions tracking system is tied to the retro-reflective mat. The glasses see some LEDs on the mat and use that to determine their position and orientation. So the tracking is limited to the glasses being
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by theschwa 11y ago
Sunrise is one of the most popular calendar apps, and it was recently purchased by Microsoft. I use it, and it's the best calendar app I've found so far on iOS.
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Vavle's Lighthouse – The 'USB' of Virtual Reality 3D Input(engadget.com)
2 points by theschwa 12y ago|0 comments
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by theschwa 12y ago
It may be set up like this mock up http://i.imgur.com/wD9b189.png The OLED display facing away from the eyes, bouncing back from a secondary surface.
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by theschwa 12y ago
Is there a good data structure to represent Ordinal Data? I frequently see pairwise count matrices used [1], but they don't seem to completely capture all of the information. For example, the number of times a choice was first, second,
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by theschwa 12y ago
Is there any place to view Hinton's lectures? I've been waiting for that Coursera course to open again since I barely missed out on the first one, but I haven't seen it run since.
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by theschwa 13y ago
I wish there was more discussion of the core concepts in Angular instead of just the implementation. Custom Elements + Two-way Data Binding + Services seems to be a pretty powerful combination.
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by theschwa 13y ago
I find it interesting that this is essentially a web app front end, made with backbone.js, for the node module peerflix, but peerflix hasn't received any heat. It seems to me their only "fault" was making things too convenien

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