Call me an idiot, but if programming something that needs to be secure in PHP, you simply don't rely on the default equality comparator. It's there for simpler noncritical issues where it's behaviour is expected. So yeah, working around the "fundamental language defects" is something unfortunately most (all?) programmers need to do regardless of language. Adding better tools can only help.
Anything that convinces the console players to give it up or at least get a keyboard and mouse for their, err, computing device is a good thing.
Well of course, best would be to give all console users keyboard and mouse so they can play better, but that would require console manufacturers to all get coordinated, and make future development of all console games need to accommodate multiple input systems. More likely to get verification of controllers for consoles than full keyboard and mouse support, but we can hope:)
(Also, I am somewhat biased, always been a PC gamer, purely because consoles don't have mouse and keyboard)
So you'd have him remove the benefits set for console players due to assumed controller use, and assume they all have a mouse and keyboard and tune play for this?....Then all the regular console players - the vast majority - will have a degraded gameplay experience... which means many will play something else.
He's saying that consoles either need to make it possible to know what inputs are being used (fair enough) so that keyboard+mouse can be detected and handled properly, or removed, so it doesn't need to be worried about, or everyone needs access to the same.
The whole idea behind console gaming is that the hardware is fixed. You build a game for PS4 you know the exact hardware specs. You build a game for PC that's a different story, and thus there's no aim assist stuff on PC, as it's PC users all have access to keyboard+mouse.
Now I know you're ignore this post, or argue with it, but you are also clearly one of those console owners who are terrible at overwatch and want to buy an advantage (via better hardware controllers). I'd say if you want a rewarding game, get a PC if you prefer mouse+keyboard. If you can't play without your unfair advantage, stick to console with k+m.
Thoroughly-debunked urban legend? Then why zero attribution or links to any debunking at all? Cause unless you provide that, you're simply having an unsupported opinion, which we'll all ignore. Saying something doesn't make it so, 'specially on the interwebs. (Also, please don't reply to this with american data - we're discussing australia here)
We're talking about Australia here. Having lived in both the USA and Australia for over a decade each, let me assure you, the healthcare systems and government approaches are nothing at all alike. Citing statistics from the US health care system has zero relevance here.
What will happen? People addicted to nicotiene who can't afford it will cut costs on other things so they can: First any luxuries, then social outings, then children. All around them suffer.
Perhaps an approach might be investigating a way to address the addiction, etc, rather than just saying "That chemical you're addicted to is bad for you, and while you can't function without it, we'll jack the prices up to ridiculous amounts, rather than work on the problem.
This does help prevent as many new smokers from starting, but isn't 100% there either, and it ensures all those who do smoke are suffering twice as much, and their families also.
I vape now, have been for about a decade. Can't get off the nicotiene, but I can avoid 99% of the health and lifestyle issues. How about focusing on medicine and technology to solve the problem rather than just taxing it harder and harder.
I thought the problem was that teh cases didn't allow enough space for the batteries.... The batteries were never the problem, they just didn't have enough space to operate in. So not sure how this will help them....
I'm just going to rant about journalists stating how we "consume content". While you could argue that
"This particular use of the term doesn't need to remove the thing being consumed", The term "consume" does indicate that what is consumed is no longer available, and, well, it is still available. It's not consumed, it's right there!. Perhaps try saying just about any other more accurate term such as "go through content" or "experience content".../rant
Some of us have been following this for a while, and know it's got some very smart minds behind it's publicly deep pockets.
Lots of people on this thread who are just scanning the article and reacting, without doing their own research, so those of us who have are happy to share some of it here.
This is slashdot though, so we'll still get the uneducated making authoritative statements and assumptions, and the rest of slashdot trying to push what real discussion that can be had.
Well we already have light blocking tech, from LCD wristwatches through to active shutter glasses, however they probably have a trade-off between how much they can block vs the relevant component size/power. So they can probably block a percentage of light, meaning if you comb through the demos you will still be able to see through such areas to a degree. How much impact this has on the experience I won't hazard a guess, however. I know that there's a ton of different visual tricks and techniques with our current rendering systems that can make many otherwise glaring issues negligible.
This.
Yeah, they've given no public demos.
They have given demos however, to very reputable people in the industry.
It's a different approach to other companies that are trying to get funding, but certainly seems to be working well for them.
Of course, we won't know for sure till we actually try it ourselves, but that's true of just about any product.
It seems to me that any further information they provided wouldn't mean much to their target consumers, and would both shorten their lead in whatever tech they're developing, and open the avenue on further speculation as to what they should be providing (as opposed to what they are working on actually providing) and other criticism that they don't need (assuming they got in their own NDA'd specialists for such criticism already, which is a given)
However they've promised nothing specific, and none of us (I assume) have given them any money, so I can't see anything to criticise. Meanwhile, trusted people in the industry have said it's awesome (and not professional reviewers trying to get ad revenue), and that's enough for me until I get to try it myself.
That's not so tricky. You blind a person by putting too much energy (via light/radiation) into their retinal cells. Staring at the sun and lasers can do this. Ensuring your projection device doesn't have enough power to do this isn't too difficult.
There could potentially be "long term use damage" but this kind of damage is a temporary type that heals over time (though can take over a year for bad cases) And this is most likely something the user would notice as it occurred, with plenty of time to rectify.
tldr; No point worrying about it blinding you unless you're a pre-certification product tester.
I tend to agree, I only wear sunnies because of the sun, not to look good. I buy the cheap ones:)
But I do wear them because they do something for me: polarise and block out that nasty Aussie sunlight.
I don't think the HTC Vive is remotely sexy. It's also not terribly comfortable. The image quality has plenty of room for improvement. You're tethered by an invisible cable to an invisible computer, it's a pain in the arse, but I wear that too, when I want to lose myself in tilt brush, or shoot some zombies in my house, or whatever.
Consumers may have been conditioned by corporations to consider glasses core "fashion accessories" But that has absolutely zero relevance to this discussion. We're talking here about functional devices. And glasses as functional devices we don't have any superior methods for even in concept as far as I know.
So yeah, eyes are beautiful, don't cover them if you want to look your best. On that note, lose your clothing also for the same reason.
However.... Magic Leap (and related products) aren't about fashion, they're about function.
People say this a lot, but I still wear sunglasses whenever I'm outside, and I see a lot of other people doing the same. None of us afaik are raging against it, although irises that have dynamic built in polarization and light filtering would be nice.
Glasses are the most accepted method of modifying your vision, be it sun, near/far sighted or night vision.
To people posting comments like the above, feel free to complete your assertion by letting us know what vision products should be if not worn over your eyes..... or just stfu, you're not adding anything at all.
Previous "glasses" have failed, such as google glass. Many concept products fail, regardless of if they are glasses. Many glasses products succeed, such as, well, this'll be a long list that goes from HTC Vive through to Oakleys, and probably further. Claiming Google Glasses failed because they were glasses is borderline imbecilic - there's a whole hell of a lot more to it than that. Google "google glass failure" you'll learn a little bit.
Perhaps you're right though, the global eyewear market isn't that big: https://www.statista.com/stati...
(excerpt: In 2013, the market value of the global eyewear market amounted to 90.3 billion U.S. dollars.)
Just realised I'm replying to an AC, usually wouldn't bother, but now I've written it....
I totally expect one of the first "unofficial" apps for it will be just that: Naked Mode: Everyone around you appears naked. Over time as the big data set gets more and more complete and invasive, it'll be smart enough to figure out what someone would actually look like nekkid also, which will probably be a downgrade, so that line of development ended.
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Call me an idiot, but if programming something that needs to be secure in PHP, you simply don't rely on the default equality comparator. It's there for simpler noncritical issues where it's behaviour is expected. So yeah, working around the "fundamental language defects" is something unfortunately most (all?) programmers need to do regardless of language. Adding better tools can only help.
Anything that convinces the console players to give it up or at least get a keyboard and mouse for their, err, computing device is a good thing.
Well of course, best would be to give all console users keyboard and mouse so they can play better, but that would require console manufacturers to all get coordinated, and make future development of all console games need to accommodate multiple input systems. More likely to get verification of controllers for consoles than full keyboard and mouse support, but we can hope :)
(Also, I am somewhat biased, always been a PC gamer, purely because consoles don't have mouse and keyboard)
So you'd have him remove the benefits set for console players due to assumed controller use, and assume they all have a mouse and keyboard and tune play for this? ....Then all the regular console players - the vast majority - will have a degraded gameplay experience... which means many will play something else.
He's saying that consoles either need to make it possible to know what inputs are being used (fair enough) so that keyboard+mouse can be detected and handled properly, or removed, so it doesn't need to be worried about, or everyone needs access to the same.
The whole idea behind console gaming is that the hardware is fixed. You build a game for PS4 you know the exact hardware specs. You build a game for PC that's a different story, and thus there's no aim assist stuff on PC, as it's PC users all have access to keyboard+mouse.
Now I know you're ignore this post, or argue with it, but you are also clearly one of those console owners who are terrible at overwatch and want to buy an advantage (via better hardware controllers). I'd say if you want a rewarding game, get a PC if you prefer mouse+keyboard. If you can't play without your unfair advantage, stick to console with k+m.
My mate Engelbart thinks you might be onto something...
Holy crap! don't tell everyone, or you'll make addiction problems a thing of the past! Nobel prize is clearly in your future.
Thoroughly-debunked urban legend? Then why zero attribution or links to any debunking at all? Cause unless you provide that, you're simply having an unsupported opinion, which we'll all ignore. Saying something doesn't make it so, 'specially on the interwebs. (Also, please don't reply to this with american data - we're discussing australia here)
We're talking about Australia here. Having lived in both the USA and Australia for over a decade each, let me assure you, the healthcare systems and government approaches are nothing at all alike. Citing statistics from the US health care system has zero relevance here.
What will happen? People addicted to nicotiene who can't afford it will cut costs on other things so they can: First any luxuries, then social outings, then children. All around them suffer. Perhaps an approach might be investigating a way to address the addiction, etc, rather than just saying "That chemical you're addicted to is bad for you, and while you can't function without it, we'll jack the prices up to ridiculous amounts, rather than work on the problem. This does help prevent as many new smokers from starting, but isn't 100% there either, and it ensures all those who do smoke are suffering twice as much, and their families also. I vape now, have been for about a decade. Can't get off the nicotiene, but I can avoid 99% of the health and lifestyle issues. How about focusing on medicine and technology to solve the problem rather than just taxing it harder and harder.
I thought the problem was that teh cases didn't allow enough space for the batteries.... The batteries were never the problem, they just didn't have enough space to operate in. So not sure how this will help them....
I wonder what the next 5 sites will be. And the 5 after that...
Slipperly slopes are slippery.
The next 5 sites will be 4 of the exact same sites, on their new ip's, and a clothing retailer, because... oops.
I'm just going to rant about journalists stating how we "consume content". While you could argue that "This particular use of the term doesn't need to remove the thing being consumed", The term "consume" does indicate that what is consumed is no longer available, and, well, it is still available. It's not consumed, it's right there!. Perhaps try saying just about any other more accurate term such as "go through content" or "experience content"... /rant
Hmm... https://www.microsoft.com/micr... Sure, it's 3 grand, but people have it and are developing on it already: https://forums.hololens.com/
Yeah, except that all of the investors got a demo. It's just us public (people who haven't put money into it) that don't know.
Define "proper" then wait for someone to make it, or make it yourself, and the answer might be "yes"?
No, that'd mean they're keeping an open mind. This is clearly the wrong place for that :)
Some of us have been following this for a while, and know it's got some very smart minds behind it's publicly deep pockets.
Lots of people on this thread who are just scanning the article and reacting, without doing their own research, so those of us who have are happy to share some of it here.
This is slashdot though, so we'll still get the uneducated making authoritative statements and assumptions, and the rest of slashdot trying to push what real discussion that can be had.
Well we already have light blocking tech, from LCD wristwatches through to active shutter glasses, however they probably have a trade-off between how much they can block vs the relevant component size/power. So they can probably block a percentage of light, meaning if you comb through the demos you will still be able to see through such areas to a degree. How much impact this has on the experience I won't hazard a guess, however. I know that there's a ton of different visual tricks and techniques with our current rendering systems that can make many otherwise glaring issues negligible.
This.
Yeah, they've given no public demos.
They have given demos however, to very reputable people in the industry.
It's a different approach to other companies that are trying to get funding, but certainly seems to be working well for them.
Of course, we won't know for sure till we actually try it ourselves, but that's true of just about any product.
It seems to me that any further information they provided wouldn't mean much to their target consumers, and would both shorten their lead in whatever tech they're developing, and open the avenue on further speculation as to what they should be providing (as opposed to what they are working on actually providing) and other criticism that they don't need (assuming they got in their own NDA'd specialists for such criticism already, which is a given)
However they've promised nothing specific, and none of us (I assume) have given them any money, so I can't see anything to criticise. Meanwhile, trusted people in the industry have said it's awesome (and not professional reviewers trying to get ad revenue), and that's enough for me until I get to try it myself.
That's not so tricky. You blind a person by putting too much energy (via light/radiation) into their retinal cells. Staring at the sun and lasers can do this. Ensuring your projection device doesn't have enough power to do this isn't too difficult.
There could potentially be "long term use damage" but this kind of damage is a temporary type that heals over time (though can take over a year for bad cases) And this is most likely something the user would notice as it occurred, with plenty of time to rectify.
tldr; No point worrying about it blinding you unless you're a pre-certification product tester.
Except you can mod your clippy to be dressed only in revealing underwear......
So how do the hardcore VR geeks find out which county they need to break the law in?
I tend to agree, I only wear sunnies because of the sun, not to look good. I buy the cheap ones :)
But I do wear them because they do something for me: polarise and block out that nasty Aussie sunlight.
I don't think the HTC Vive is remotely sexy. It's also not terribly comfortable. The image quality has plenty of room for improvement. You're tethered by an invisible cable to an invisible computer, it's a pain in the arse, but I wear that too, when I want to lose myself in tilt brush, or shoot some zombies in my house, or whatever.
Consumers may have been conditioned by corporations to consider glasses core "fashion accessories" But that has absolutely zero relevance to this discussion. We're talking here about functional devices. And glasses as functional devices we don't have any superior methods for even in concept as far as I know.
So yeah, eyes are beautiful, don't cover them if you want to look your best. On that note, lose your clothing also for the same reason.
However.... Magic Leap (and related products) aren't about fashion, they're about function.
People say this a lot, but I still wear sunglasses whenever I'm outside, and I see a lot of other people doing the same. None of us afaik are raging against it, although irises that have dynamic built in polarization and light filtering would be nice.
Glasses are the most accepted method of modifying your vision, be it sun, near/far sighted or night vision.
To people posting comments like the above, feel free to complete your assertion by letting us know what vision products should be if not worn over your eyes..... or just stfu, you're not adding anything at all.
Previous "glasses" have failed, such as google glass. Many concept products fail, regardless of if they are glasses. Many glasses products succeed, such as, well, this'll be a long list that goes from HTC Vive through to Oakleys, and probably further. Claiming Google Glasses failed because they were glasses is borderline imbecilic - there's a whole hell of a lot more to it than that. Google "google glass failure" you'll learn a little bit.
Perhaps you're right though, the global eyewear market isn't that big: https://www.statista.com/stati... (excerpt: In 2013, the market value of the global eyewear market amounted to 90.3 billion U.S. dollars.)
Just realised I'm replying to an AC, usually wouldn't bother, but now I've written it....
But if you keep the lights on how will you be protected from the terrible secret of space?
I totally expect one of the first "unofficial" apps for it will be just that: Naked Mode: Everyone around you appears naked. Over time as the big data set gets more and more complete and invasive, it'll be smart enough to figure out what someone would actually look like nekkid also, which will probably be a downgrade, so that line of development ended.