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The future victims when the imagery stops being enough.

Total return to the investor doesn’t require constant income growth. I don’t know if this is a particularly surprising chart.

They also acquired 250 people who they are now laying off and Weta is rehiring. Seems like a disaster of a deal by Unity. Weta just got free money for a snapshot of their code.

That’s fine, but it’s okay to call out the author’s bias. They contributed wonderful tests of the limitations of the headset. But the headset is only a failure for the authors use …

That is a valid problem, but with MR pass through there is also a compute issue. The cameras are not in the same location as the users eyes. They have a wider parallax than the use…

This is the same person who did comics at Google. Their work was a highlight during my time there. Google even used their comics for basic employee training. I’m surprised folks sa…

I believe you can shatter then with vice grips in an emergency.

"Linear Algebra Done Right" https://linear.axler.net/ There's a compact and free form on the book on that page.

https://pluspool.org/pool/design/ Seems like it is a giant strainer. The walls are permeable and the river is supposed to push the water through the pool/filter to produce clean wa…

Also helps the consumer. My ISP doesn't offer unlimited bandwidth. Covid-19 has me hitting caps from being home so much.

Isn't that what VecLib is for? Also there are other math libraries to use on ARM. I think we use EigenBLAS in our products.

This article opens up with a mistake? It's 7 yuan per dollar. Not the other way around.

Yes

Relevant Lemon Demon song "Redefine your Logo" which appears to be about the Pepsi Logo. https://youtu.be/qImHuiYnVQ0

Does Navlab not predate this work? It started in 1984. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navlab

Can't they just use an accelerometer?

I think your 1.3 kW number assumes being near Earth.

Yeah, but not in the first release.

This likely won't work too well because the Pixel and S8 are the only ones they have camera and imu calibration for. If you do hack it to get it working, you should at expect degra…

Is this what you're looking for? https://developers.google.com/ar/develop/web/getting-started

I've been looking for something like this. Massif makes it look like my code is reasonably healthy. HeapTrack shows I'm doing absurd number of small heap allocations.

I believe this is the correct link for this paper the last time it showed up on Hacker News. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12396595 Nothing new here I believe.

Here's some more information from the company blog: https://www.blog.google/products/google-vr/daydream-bringing...