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by trafficante 3y ago
Yeah, the power consumption on panels bright enough for pancake optics aren’t good news for AR form factors. Even in a dedicated HMD like the Pro, they had to redesign the SoC to move the memory so they could fit a chonkier active cooling s
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by trafficante 3y ago
> Meta Quest Pro is slightly better than 1080p? The Pro is sort of an aberration. Pixels per degree are actually higher than the Quest 2, but the panel resolution itself is slightly less (and the MiniLED tech is far superior to the regul
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by trafficante 3y ago
The latest Quest firmware has an “update before shut down” option that should help a bit, but it’s mostly a band-aid. The Quest Pro comes with a dock and just stays silently updated and charged, which seems the best way to go. As far as the
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by trafficante 3y ago
> Or, not at all - we’re on year, what, 8 of that? There isn’t anyone reputable who thinks there’s a short term breakthrough coming, especially after Metas $$$$ swings at it and Apple failed to. Pancake optics just recently became a thin
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by trafficante 3y ago
This is how Meta does it: With supported keyboards (basically Apple and Logitech’s offerings atm), they load up a tracked 3D model of the keyboard and then pull in an overlaid video feed of your real hands. With non-supported keyboards, the
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by trafficante 3y ago
First off, THANK YOU to you and the rest of the Earth VR team. You’ve brought literal joy to many people through your work. I brought my Quest Pro and a gaming laptop with me to visit a nursing home a few months back and took some of the re
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by trafficante 3y ago
This already exists (at least for piano) on Quest. One of the few cases where I think the Quest Pro’s color passthrough really shines. https://youtube.com/shorts/eeMte5UbFJ4?feature=share
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by trafficante 3y ago
The character writing in Forbidden West is largely of the same quality as Zero Dawn: serviceable with a few outstanding characters (none of whom are the MC, unfortunately). I feel like the reason it’s suddenly become an issue is that the qu
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by trafficante 3y ago
I can see why news organizations don’t want to publicize “your old phone cable is a skeleton key for Kia/Hyundai ignitions” - but it’s kind of a critical piece of information that does push this issue into the realm of manufacturer neg
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by trafficante 3y ago
Upthread there’s a comment from “uvnq” that seemed unnecessarily hyperbolic, with phrasing like: > They believe hate speech is violence. Not that it merely is bad, but that it actually equates to violence. In fact, certain forms of hate
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by trafficante 3y ago
> You'd just stumble over these non-trivial quest locations, and for me that's something I've not really felt in other games. Almost all just confine you to the narrow path. It seems to be a casualty of the ever increasing
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by trafficante 3y ago
I run into this line of thinking quite often and it truly perplexes me. Harvard’s incoming freshman class is a good example of the utter failure of mandating “reflective diversity” in higher education (or above). In nominal terms, 18% of th
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by trafficante 3y ago
Real-time convincing-sounding TTS is extremely close - I’d be surprised if we don’t get an elevenlabs equivalent to gpt-turbo before the end of summer. I spent an hour or three over the weekend messing around in Skyrim VR with a mod that do
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by trafficante 3y ago
Portland Police Bureau are in good company, it seems. The only reason to file a police report for a stolen vehicle these days (in Portland) is documentation for insurance. I very rarely hear about people getting their cars back via PPB with
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by trafficante 3y ago
Indeed. It seems to be somewhat independent of political ideology as well. There’s a couple screenshots floating around of some old Twitter threads: “what would your role be in a Communist society?” - where virtually every single reply was
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by trafficante 3y ago
Politics ruins everything. You can not be a fan of Musk the person and still appreciate stuff like this.
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by trafficante 3y ago
There’s certainly some room for improvement along the “cultural assimilation” lines you mentioned - but in historical context, I’m not too worried as the second generation seems thoroughly “Americanized”, for better or for worse. Canada is
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by trafficante 3y ago
It’s not just Google. Yesterday night I was trying to recall the name of a particular SCOTUS case that I had (semi-incorrectly) thought was connected to the 14th Amendment. Bombed out on the SERPs two or three times, so I started looking fo
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by trafficante 3y ago
Interestingly, Google themselves seem to be at least somewhat aware of this - though it may just be an accidental side effect of trying to drive user engagement on YouTube. I’ve been noticing an occasional “Show me something new to me” prom
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by trafficante 3y ago
It’s wild (and scary) how many plot points from Accelerando have recently leapt into the realm of plausibility.
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by trafficante 4y ago
> I meant native as in compiled to fast/minimal native machine code, the other games are all Unity/Unreal potato VM games, all 263/266 of them... with GC = sickness. The Climbs are Cryengine which might not have GC but sti
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by trafficante 4y ago
> Maybe left wing ideology is just more accurate and holds up better under academic scrutiny Paraphrasing a Colbert quote (“reality has a well-known liberal bias”) is oddly apropos, given the thread topic. The Colbert Report actively sou
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by trafficante 4y ago
Just want to note that US life expectancy is all over the place; much like with nearly every other national comparison statistic, the US average is largely a useless thing to compare to other countries. For example: here in the Pacific Nort
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by trafficante 4y ago
The modern atomized “far left” are the new Bible thumpers, except far more useful to the elite as their religious texts are fluid and ever-changing. They serve as arbiters of morality to keep the “normal” liberals in line and make certain t
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by trafficante 4y ago
I wish someone would meme the concept of Chesterton’s Fence into the public consciousness. Whole lot of “I don’t know why this fence is here, but it’s gotta go” behavior ripping apart thousands of years of collective/cultural moral dev
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by trafficante 4y ago
I fundamentally agree with all this. Scandinavian style social democracy has been the apple of my eye since I first graduated high school straight into the War on Terra. My concern (which I hesitate to fully express, lest my Hispanic ass be
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by trafficante 4y ago
As far as real world examples, there does seem to be evidence of an unfortunate “safe city” axis requiring either racial/cultural homogeneity or extremely heavy handed authoritarianism. Ironically, America in the 90s and early 2000s se
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by trafficante 4y ago
Nah, the far right are quite happy to point to Tokyo as an example of the superiority of an ethnically/culturally homogenous society. Singapore is a better example, but requires a form of authoritarianism to pull off that would be unac
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by trafficante 4y ago
Plus the city cops are “quiet quitting”, which is a huge and rarely-discussed dysfunction that heavily contributes to demoralized citizenry failing to report crimes - maybe it’s uniquely a Portland thing? Are SF/Seattle people having t
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by trafficante 4y ago
I used to think this way. I’d happily get into legalization/decriminalization arguments, secure in my knowledge of statistics from other countries and the trump card of “muh Portugal” ready to be tossed out at a moment’s notice. Then c

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