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John Carmack: Steps to Avoid Aliasing in VR

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Re: John Carmack: Steps to Avoid Aliasing in VR

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Post by bertil »

Alupis wrote: post #11
sintaxi wrote: post #8

In an ideal world this article would not be posted on Facebook.

> In an ideal world this article would not be posted on Facebook. I'm certain we can expect a lot more of this as Facebook cozies up closer and closer to Oculus and gang.

> as Facebook cozies up closer and closer to Oculus and gang.

My understanding is that Facebook has “geared up” Oculus: added a lot of staff. I would assume that a majority of engineers who are working on VR were originally Facebook hires; it’s certainly the case for things like back-end / scaling.

It’s not the most visible part of the company, but when Mark says publicly that a project is a priority, that means that the team can have a lot of engineers if they need to.

Re: John Carmack: Steps to Avoid Aliasing in VR

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Post by swang »

bertil wrote: post #17
sintaxi wrote: post #8

In an ideal world this article would not be posted on Facebook.

That article is shared to 'Public': it should be visible to non-logged-in users. Not sure what changed — could be an issue with excessive crawlers… I’ve very convinced that Facebook is very comfortable to let the minority who are not comfortable having an account read a public post -- especially when it’s about engineering. Those are usually on the company blog (without log-in block); Carmack probably was just using…

i can read it logged out of facebook

unfortunately there is an annoying box covering up 1/3 of the page asking you to login or signup. it does not "block" any content in that you can still read all of it. but it is highly annoying (and i assume purposely so).

Re: John Carmack: Steps to Avoid Aliasing in VR

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Post by munchbunny »

pipio21 wrote: post #14

Carmack: Some times you read HN. If you are reading this, please consider writing on a blog or something neutral. It is extremely disgusting for your readers to have to log in or else...half of your screen is occupied with spam. There is people out there that prefer not to report everything they read, when, where, how, how long to a big multinational associated to the US secret services.

"Extremely disgusting" sounds like an overreaction. "Not ideal" maybe, or "not helpful to those of us who don't want to read things in Facebook for privacy or security reasons". But "extremely disgusting" is over-exaggerating the importance of the choice of medium for a text post.

Re: John Carmack: Steps to Avoid Aliasing in VR

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Post by drcross »

bertil wrote: post #21
Alupis wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In an ideal world this article would not be posted on Facebook. I'm certain we can expect a lot more of this as Facebook cozies up closer and closer to Oculus and gang.

> as Facebook cozies up closer and closer to Oculus and gang. My understanding is that Facebook has “geared up” Oculus: added a lot of staff. I would assume that a majority of engineers who are working on VR were originally Facebook hires; it’s certainly the case for things like back-end / scaling. It’s not the most visible part of the company, but when Mark says publicly that a project is a priority, that means that…

Oculus job specs are published on the facebook website.

Re: John Carmack: Steps to Avoid Aliasing in VR

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Post by amasad »

pipio21 wrote: post #14

Carmack: Some times you read HN. If you are reading this, please consider writing on a blog or something neutral. It is extremely disgusting for your readers to have to log in or else...half of your screen is occupied with spam. There is people out there that prefer not to report everything they read, when, where, how, how long to a big multinational associated to the US secret services.

I know it's not an either or situation -- but in my opinion this is a step up from Twitter. Technical discussions on twitter is super frustrating to follow along. And almost impossible to have intelligent conversations in 140 chars.

Re: John Carmack: Steps to Avoid Aliasing in VR

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Post by adventured »

z3phyr wrote: post #20
cmelbye wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think selling his company to Facebook has far wider reaching implications for privacy than where he hosts his blog, unfortunately.

His company? It's not his company.

It is a funny way to phrase that. If you own a meaningful stake in a business, do you call it your company? I think most people would have referred to it as Palmer's company. However, Carmack did have an ownership stake in Oculus.

Re: John Carmack: Steps to Avoid Aliasing in VR

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Post by Alupis »

bertil wrote: post #21
Alupis wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In an ideal world this article would not be posted on Facebook. I'm certain we can expect a lot more of this as Facebook cozies up closer and closer to Oculus and gang.

> as Facebook cozies up closer and closer to Oculus and gang. My understanding is that Facebook has “geared up” Oculus: added a lot of staff. I would assume that a majority of engineers who are working on VR were originally Facebook hires; it’s certainly the case for things like back-end / scaling. It’s not the most visible part of the company, but when Mark says publicly that a project is a priority, that means that…

I was referencing blog posts that ought to be on a blog, not in a Facebook post.

Just because someone has worked for Facebook, or currently works for Facebook, doesn't make posting these sorts of articles on Facebook ideal.

Even Facebook knows this... which presumably is why they chose to use a traditional blog style site for their... blog posts[1].

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/blog/

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