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Microsoft’s hololens2 is $3.5k available now for developers.
We've had ours on back order for 18 months and counting. It is technically out there, but hard to get for companies.
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performance of javascript cannot match c++. Wasm helps. you also need state of the art decoders. And really, full GPU compute access. streaming will be a problem for awhile to come. youll want to download in advance, something that the web is not yet set up for. It’s doable, certainly. But the web will make most things harder. When smartphones came about h264 was already quite far along in adoption (released in 2003)…
Numerous site serve up VR video, including porn sites. That already established.
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performance of javascript cannot match c++. Wasm helps. you also need state of the art decoders. And really, full GPU compute access. streaming will be a problem for awhile to come. youll want to download in advance, something that the web is not yet set up for. It’s doable, certainly. But the web will make most things harder. When smartphones came about h264 was already quite far along in adoption (released in 2003)…
WASM doesn't just help, it and PWA (progressive web apps) will be exactly what you're looking for - for this and numerous other things. Google/Android is on board, Microsoft is making Outlook a PWA, so they're on board. All up to Apple to enjoy some pressure and get with the times.
Bear in mind that the iPad was rumored to cost >$1000 but then launched at $499. On the other hand it might sense to launch this as a pro-workstation for the usual kinds of task: architects, designers and engineers being able to visualize and interact with models directly in space. If they can make that affordable and usable for pro designers at every level, (which $3500 clearly would be), they will have a hit. A con…
Having done a fair bit of AR/VR work in medical and industrial settings, I've always thought the 'killer app' of VR is not in gaming. It's this very weekend: The Super Bowl. Well, not the Super Bowl precisely, but in experiences like sports or other time/space limited events. Sitting ring-side for the next big match. Or at the 50-yard line at the Super Bowl. Or at the finish line of the 100-m dash. All for, I dunno,…
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> they will have a hit. This right here is Appleism. And why wouldn't Occulus, HTC, Magic leap or big boy Microsoft have a hit?
Why is the AirPod product line a near-Fortune 500 company sized hit on its own? Why did no other company do this? Why is the Apple Watch dominating it's segment? Why have Android tablet sales fallen flat compared to Apple's? Why did the iPhone destroy the prospects of Windows Phone and Blackberry and force Android to completely revamp it's UI prior to release? Why is the long in the tooth Macintosh line having a sale…
People are buying the luxury brand, like peopke who buy a Mercedes or Ferrari, not the functional qualities of a product. Airpods are good, my Bose headphones are phenominal. At work I use an iMac which is great but my own PC is a beast.
Appleism is the cult of brand.
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I’ve also never watched American football, so forgive me. This sounds incredibly dull. Can someone ELI5? What is going on for the rest of the game? Why do people watch?
To anyone else confused: ELI5 means "Explain (it) Like I'm Five (years old)." Now I'll try. Caveats: I don't watch American football on TV, but I watched it some when I was a teenager. I mostly remember how to play, and while I don't think it'd be safe to do it at my age, I do like to play catch with an American football whenever I get the chance. I wouldn't mind watching a game now, but only live and very close to t…
I've heard the term "it's chess but played with fridges" before and I think that fits.
Besides that: great explanation.
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Again, you can simply take them off. Perhaps scarier to contemplate is a future humanity that just couldn't cope with real, unfiltered pixels.
You’re driving 60 miles per hour. In traffic. You suddenly can’t see. How long can you be blind before a crash happens? You’re in an in-danger state. That’s why I said “fail deadly”
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Again, you can simply take them off. Perhaps scarier to contemplate is a future humanity that just couldn't cope with real, unfiltered pixels.
You’re driving 60 miles per hour. In traffic. You suddenly can’t see. How long can you be blind before a crash happens? You’re in an in-danger state. That’s why I said “fail deadly”
https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-is-the-f-35s-third-ge...
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A field of view about 180 degrees wide, 135 degrees high, 1 arc minute in maximum pixel size, and updated 100 times per second… twice, to account for full stereography, and using 48 bits of color. 180 * 135 * 60 * 60 * 100 * 48 = 419904000000, 420 billion bits per second, without compression.
In the future there may be an integrated display technology that physically cannot display an arbitrary combination of pixels at high speed, but can only do so for the space of "images which humans are likely to see" which I suspect is an unimaginably smaller possibility space. I suppose something like a neural representation of a scene that is directly rendered on the underlying hardware, without first being convert…
In our modern future display, we would similarly blast data to only where it is needed at an instant in time.
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They've been trying to do this but they always put the 360 camera somewhere really dumb, like next to the goal (this is soccer I've tried it with) and just normal head height, so you can't actually see the game at all. I agree if they put the camera somewhere cool, like right above the pitch kind of like god-view, that would be awesome. Not sure I'd pay 3,500 for it though....
> they always put the 360 camera somewhere really dumb, like next to the goal Human stereo vision doesn't work at long distances, because of the geometry - the exact distance depends on how good your eyesight is, but somewhere around 18 feet [1] the brain starts using other cues because the difference between what your left and right eyes see is so minuscule. This all happens unconsciously so you don't notice - but w…
Also I’ve tried some experiments with VR looking down over a race track with virtual race going on and it’s totally awesome- but that was in full 3D so more exciting I guess.