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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 scottmf »

wott wrote: post #186
scottmf wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 worthwh…

> but to blame JavaScript or modern web development in general is ridiculous. This is what I call toxicity: 6000 lines (up to 1.3 million characters long) 170,000 words 2.4 MB

Great, some meaningless numbers without context.

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

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Post by erikpukinskis »

amelius wrote: post #136
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…

Why do you think AR will become a "thing"? Do people really want to run around wearing glasses/headsets all the time? If you'd ask me, this idea could just as well end the same way as 3D TV.

I actually think ARkit will be big precisely because it's not a headset. You can just hold it in your hand.

Imagine the Metaverse exists, fully fledged, and there are two products which can access it:

1) A headset that you strap on your head, and you're "inside"

2) A picture frame that you can hold up and look through, and the Metaverse appears on the other side. You can reach behind the frame with your other hand, and it's then inside, and can touch stuff inside

Which will be more popular?

Now, I know a lot of VR enthusiasts are going say #1, but I suspect a lot of people will prefer #2. It has several benefits:

- No nausea

- If freaky shit starts happening, you can just look away or put the device down

- You can keep talking with real world people

- You can look back and forth between the Metaverse and the real world without taking your headset off or performing any kind of switch

- You can still make eye contact with people in the real world

- A bajillion people already have an iPhone

- There's nothing really to learn, the Metaverse is just a new app on your phone, not a whole new interaction paradigm

The downsides are two:

- Less immersive

- One of your hands is taken up

I can see the uses for both devices, but I predict the picture frame gets at least 50% of Metaverse interactions over the next decade, maybe more.

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

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Post by scottmf »

lolive wrote: post #135
scottmf wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> AFAIK GraphQL is not good at querying recursive datastructure, it's better at "neighborhood" kind of query, so you can traverse Foreign Keys, but not "indefinitely". That isn't true. You can request data in any shape you want and could theoretically traverse through child nodes indefinitely. We have many queries which go 5-6 levels deep.

How do you deal with IDs misalignment between data sources?

Could you clarify what you mean? Got an example?

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

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Post by andybak »

bradneuberg wrote: post #53
econnors wrote: post #28

VR Gaming. We're a few years away from some incredible experiences in the space.

Amazing VR gaming experiences have already arrived. The last two months have seen a flood of incredible VR gaming experiences for the Oculus Rift. I highly suggest you give the current generation of consumer VR another try: * Lone Echo - Amazing space story line, one of the highest ranked PC games on Metacritic right now: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/lone-echo * Echo Arena - Basically the Enders Game zero-g aren…

Agreed. Owned a Vive since last October and still have a "wow!" moment at least once a week.

And that's even without the continual joy of demoing to people who've never tried proper VR. It's genuinely rewarding every time you pop a headset on someone new.

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

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Post by bitwize »

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…

Agreed. AR, like so many other computing technologies, didn't properly exist until Apple invented it for us.

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

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Post by erikpukinskis »

gaius wrote: post #78
subhrm wrote: post #23

I am excited about both WebGL & Web assembly. Although both of these have been around for a few years, we are yet to see a general adaptation of these. (might be due to inconsistent browser support). Now with the rise of VR, 3d Printing, powerful GPUs these two technologies are bound to open new avenues of an immersive browsing experience. I imagine that in next few years we would have 1- Webs stores, that show a vir…

We were excited about VRML in the 90s...

Two things have changed since the 90s:

- hardware acceleration is everywhere, we all have an SGI Onyx in our pocket

- good positional tracking give us a natural 3D input technique

Without those, the tech doesn't work.

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

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Post by sctb »

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…

Violating the guidelines like this will get your account banned. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14930928 and marked it off-topic.

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

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Post by daxfohl »

chaosbutters314 wrote: post #177

Affordable triple digit core desktop computers. The cloud is fine but until I'm getting Google fiber in every city, this'll need to suffice. The application is HTC applications in industry design

A core for every browser tab!
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