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Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by MildlySerious »

jostylr wrote: post #39

Textblade: https://waytools.com/ Single row keyboard that has minimal finger movement. It was to be delivered March 2015 or so, but it has yet to be released. They have testers who rave about it and it looks incredible, but it is perpetually around the corner. Originally designed as an ultra-portable phone keyboard, those who have used it tend to use it for all their machines. It has jump slots to quickly switch from…

I have been using Minuum on my phone for about three years now, which seems to be a digital version of a similar concept.

Couldn't be happier.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by gordon_freeman »

allpratik wrote: post #83

ARKit. Apple has solved few real world AR problems, which were usually hard for an average app developer to get started with. But with ARKit, apple, is "trying" to do the heavy lifting in terms of plane and object recognition etc. Another thing is the platform of distribution. People will use AR apps, which will hit the app store after September like crazy. And these same people, will be primary audience for Apple he…

Does anyone know is there something similar to this in Android OS? How Google's plans are to explore the AR space?

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by goatlover »

sigjuice wrote: post #103
mirekrusin wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, can't wait for Crystal 1.0 release, awesome language.

From crystal-lang.org, Crystal is a compiled language I never understood the phrase compiled language .

A compiled language uses a compiler to create a executable binary as opposed to a runtime that interprets or just-in-time compiles the language as it runs. Ruby is interpreted, C is compiled. Generally speaking, compiled languages are more performant but lack some of the flexibility of having a runtime available.

Crystal sacrifices some of Ruby's metaprogramming capabilities for performance and static type assurances.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by sah2ed »

hacker_9 wrote: post #96
allpratik wrote: post #83

ARKit. Apple has solved few real world AR problems, which were usually hard for an average app developer to get started with. But with ARKit, apple, is "trying" to do the heavy lifting in terms of plane and object recognition etc. Another thing is the platform of distribution. People will use AR apps, which will hit the app store after September like crazy. And these same people, will be primary audience for Apple he…

I knew nothing of ARKit until a few days ago when it started popping up on my twitter feed like mad. I have to say the tech literally sells itself because of the eye candy [1]. It finally feels like we are living in the future. [1] https://twitter.com/madewithARKit

Really cool demos of ARKit there! Makes me pumped for the kind of clever apps that will be built for iOS and optimized for the upcoming iPhone. I especially liked the kitchen measurement demo.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by Stanleyc23 »

lern_too_spel wrote: post #91
miheermunjal wrote: post #17

ARkit finally pushing AR to the masses. From a developer perspective, having an SDK that simplifies "environment detection/reasoning" is huge. Previously required pretty deep hardware requirements and now is turning into an AI/ML/software problem. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/building_a_b...

A usable AR SDK has been available from Qualcomm/Vuforia for years on more devices than ARKit supports. The only thing that came out of it was marketing gimmicks.

I thought vuforia was mostly just a marker based AR, which never really took off in the US market. ARKit is markerless and their VIO system is actually pretty good.

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Post by arnioxux »

gordon_freeman wrote: post #112
allpratik wrote: post #83

ARKit. Apple has solved few real world AR problems, which were usually hard for an average app developer to get started with. But with ARKit, apple, is "trying" to do the heavy lifting in terms of plane and object recognition etc. Another thing is the platform of distribution. People will use AR apps, which will hit the app store after September like crazy. And these same people, will be primary audience for Apple he…

Does anyone know is there something similar to this in Android OS? How Google's plans are to explore the AR space?

Wasn't google tango their solution? (but requires custom android hardware for depth sensor)

https://get.google.com/tango/

I haven't heard anything about them for a few years now.

Visual-inertial SLAM has been working for a few years on mobile phones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7bjsIqlbS0 So there should be plenty of third-party libraries you can use.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by scottmf »

na85 wrote: post #87

Well I'd sure love to read about it, but some stupid fucking javascript "engineer" decided to write a script that only allows whitelisted browsers to visit. I put "engineer" in quotes because I browsed there with Firefox and was promptly rejected with a message saying "Please use Chrome, Firefox, or Safari". This site is full of JavaScript apologists: who wants to try to tell me that this site's JavaScript is enhanci…

I agree it seems like a silly thing to do (block browsers without a valid reason, of which there are very few), but to blame JavaScript or modern web development in general is ridiculous.

The user agent string is not a JavaScript concept.

There may be some legitimate concerns about the modern state of web development (though I'd argue it's a positive thing on balance) but you've certainly added nothing new or worthwhile to that discussion.

Your attitude is incredibly counterproductive, toxic even. And you're not doing yourself nor anyone else any favors.

Put simply you need to get over yourself.

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Post by evolve2k »

tjbiddle wrote: post #109
jostylr wrote: post #39

Textblade: https://waytools.com/ Single row keyboard that has minimal finger movement. It was to be delivered March 2015 or so, but it has yet to be released. They have testers who rave about it and it looks incredible, but it is perpetually around the corner. Originally designed as an ultra-portable phone keyboard, those who have used it tend to use it for all their machines. It has jump slots to quickly switch from…

Not available? I didn't go through the full check-out process; but what happens when you go to buy it? I don't see any reference that it's unavailable.

I just tested it; eventually you get to the end of the shopping cart that asks for credit card details. The submit button says "Pre-order Now".

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Post by williamscales »

goatlover wrote: post #71
kmicklas wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know if this is the solution, but I agree improvements in human-computer-interaction is one of the big things holding back tech for a lot of problems. Obviously a non-invasive brain interface would be the holy grail.

Do you really want to hook your brain directly up to the internet? I'd have serious reservations about that.

I wouldn't necessarily hook it up to the internet but I'd consider hooking it up to a non-network connected computer.
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