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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 LeifCarrotson »

nighthawk454 wrote: post #6

Post content: In almost all of the public VR critiques I have made, I comment about aliasing. Aliasing is the technical term for when a signal is under sampled, and it shows up in many ways across graphics (and audio), but in VR this is seen most characteristically as "shimmering" imagery when you move your head around, even slightly. This doesn't need to happen! When you do everything right, the world feels rock sol…

Thank you! Reading the title, I was interested. Then I saw the domain and thought "ugh". Then I remembered that Carmack is with Oculus, and Facebook bought Oculus, making it a natural place for him to post, and was conflicted. Conflict resolved!

Re: John Carmack: Steps to Avoid Aliasing in VR

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Post by taneq »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #51
nighthawk454 wrote: post #6

Post content: In almost all of the public VR critiques I have made, I comment about aliasing. Aliasing is the technical term for when a signal is under sampled, and it shows up in many ways across graphics (and audio), but in VR this is seen most characteristically as "shimmering" imagery when you move your head around, even slightly. This doesn't need to happen! When you do everything right, the world feels rock sol…

Thank you! Reading the title, I was interested. Then I saw the domain and thought "ugh". Then I remembered that Carmack is with Oculus, and Facebook bought Oculus, making it a natural place for him to post, and was conflicted. Conflict resolved!

It's not a natural place for him to post. He was bought. From what I've seen of the guy, the natural place for him to post would be in a .plan file somewhere.

Re: John Carmack: Steps to Avoid Aliasing in VR

#54

Post by 8note »

FlailFast wrote: post #46
qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #42

New project: A script that extracts public posts from Facebook for a given user, and formats them for consumption via RSS, or generates content/markdown to be served by Jekyll/Lektor. I should get on that...

Might I humbly suggest a project name? FFSS. For F(acebook|uck)'s Sake Syndication. :)

You just wrote Facebook Fuck's Sake Syndication with 1 extra character, and with more reading difficulty!

Re: John Carmack: Steps to Avoid Aliasing in VR

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Post by tomphoolery »

taneq wrote: post #53
LeifCarrotson wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! Reading the title, I was interested. Then I saw the domain and thought "ugh". Then I remembered that Carmack is with Oculus, and Facebook bought Oculus, making it a natural place for him to post, and was conflicted. Conflict resolved!

It's not a natural place for him to post. He was bought. From what I've seen of the guy, the natural place for him to post would be in a .plan file somewhere.

There's nothing wrong with posting a technical article on Facebook, especially if you're too busy being a graphical programming genius to set up your own blog somewhere. I don't see it as any different than posting on Medium...besides making a choice as to which company you're going to support? But seriously, who cares?

Re: John Carmack: Steps to Avoid Aliasing in VR

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Post by nine_k »

plaguuuuuu wrote: post #48
jimjimjim wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whenever i find a site with a popup window over the content I just go to firefox's view menu and select No Page Style. If you are mostly reading text this can be amazingly useful: No popups/covers. Text to the width of the page. No low-contrast colors (just stark black white). I wonder, is there a way to configure it automatically for a list of domains?

Right click -> Inspect element -> Delete the offending div

Nuke Anything automates this.

Re: John Carmack: Steps to Avoid Aliasing in VR

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Post by CamperBob2 »

pyronite wrote: post #50
Raticide wrote: post #19

Could Facebook make the page narrower please?

The character count of a random sentence ("Don't try to do accurate dynamic shadows on GearVR. Dynamic shadows") puts it at 68 characters. The Rules of Typographical Style suggests 66 characters is considered ideal: http://webtypography.net/2.1.2 . This is possibly why their textual content is narrow. It's designed to make it more readable.

Not everyone agrees with the Rules of Typographical Style.

Re: John Carmack: Steps to Avoid Aliasing in VR

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Post by andrepd »

tomphoolery wrote: post #57
taneq wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not a natural place for him to post. He was bought. From what I've seen of the guy, the natural place for him to post would be in a .plan file somewhere.

There's nothing wrong with posting a technical article on Facebook, especially if you're too busy being a graphical programming genius to set up your own blog somewhere. I don't see it as any different than posting on Medium...besides making a choice as to which company you're going to support? But seriously, who cares?

That I know of, Medium doesn't have as it's core business the mining and sale of user data with major intrusion and breach of privacy, much less a self-hosted, or even non-self-hosted blog.
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