I believe something related is already being done on the Oculus and probably the Vive as well - in that each frame, after being rendered, is geometrically manipulated to approximate the changes that should be seen due to head motion since rendering began.
You're referring to Oculus Asynchronous Timewarp, which maps the viewport into a tessellated grid whose polygons get deformed in accordance with motion data.
I'd be more than happy to accommodate extra traffic through my neighborhood, if the NYC commuters would stop blasting through my streets at 50 mph in a 25 mph residential zone. There are plenty of kids, pets, and elderly residents to worry about, and our streets don't have great visibility.
Every morning, commuters hop off the turnpike, take a "shortcut" through my neighborhood at ridiculous speeds, and hop back on the turnpike, just to save 4 minutes. It's not worth the risk to our residents, and that's NOT what our streets were designed for.
I don't get why accuracy is such an afterthought in these devices.
Accuracy is an afterthought because the company is selling a lifestyle product, not a scientific measurement instrument.
After all, their advertisements don't feature people intelligently tracking health metrics as a small component of an overall health strategy. Instead, the ads show people engaging in athletic activities as a lifestyle choice. These are people who Just Do It.
And it is actually kind of disheartening to see someone you respect, or are close with, start to spout off some totally disrespectable, small-minded bigotry / arrogance / fallacious / hateful / stereotypical / closed-minded spew of garbage.
Makes ya realize that all those social rules that inhibit us from flapping our yaps all the time are actually kind of preferred over the "let me just share MY opinion" that online communication tends to engender.
I'll admit to being pretty excited if Samsung can actually make this work. Samsung's excellence in product manufacturing has long been hampered by poor product vision, scattershot branding and marketing strategies, and a general lack of being on the same wavelength when it comes to anticipating what features consumers will actually want and use.
If acting like a startup can help them shed these shortcomings, we can expect to see some exciting products coming out of Samsung in the next six to twelve years. That should be just in time for when Apple comes down off the revenue bubble presently sustained by its perpetual, but largely uninteresting, product updates.
If you really need to use a scripting language server-side, use Lua, or Python, or even goddamn Tcl. All three of them are better than JavaScript in every way.
Wow, I must be using a different version of Lua than you. The version of Lua that I'm using (5.3.2) is like JavaScript, except that it uses meta-table chaining for object-oriented programming, instead of JavaScript's prototype chaining.
Oh, didn't you know, Lua doesn't have "real OO" (which seems to be one of your gripes against JavaScript.) That's right, YOU HAVE TO IMPLEMENT YOUR OWN OO STRATEGY IN LUA.
You aren't a developer just because you say you are any more than you are astronaut or a plumber or the like.... When you talk about professions, there is the idea that you do it, well, professionally.
Thanks for clarifying that only "professional developers" are developers. Slashdot folk always make things so much clearer for simpletons like me.
Next thing you know, people who are not "professional drivers" will actually be taking their cars onto the roads! Oy, what a world we live in!
Basic empathy, and ability to conceptualize people with dramatically different skills and perspectives than you, is not difficult. If you can't handle it, you are dumb, even if that doesn't please you. End of the story.
You are dumb, and that's a problem. You're not going to solve the problem by bending reality and saying basic empathy and conceptualization is difficult and that you are not dumb. You are just ignoring the problem, which may (will) have unintended consequences in the future. Actually, if you want to solve the problem, you should invest more energy in self-help books, group therapy sessions, and volunteer work at homeless shelters. There could be a lot more hours of you concluding that you are not the perfectly desirable prototypical human to which all others should aspire. Otherwise, you are just promoting your own race to the bottom.
You're right, we should definitely not engage with any technology or solution whose availability isn't guaranteed to exist until the end of time, and offer us 150% of the features we need. After all, if I'm building sandcastles in the sky, I can't let my dreams of creating a game that makes me a billionaire be threatened by even the most unlikely of hypothetical scenarios.
You are completely incorrect. Only Webkit or JavaScriptCore components may execute dynamically-retrieved, remote code.
Per Apple's iOS Developer Program Agreement:
3.3.2 An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded. The only exception to the foregoing is scripts and code downloaded and run by Apple's built-in WebKit framework or JavascriptCore, provided that such scripts and code do not change the primary purpose of the Application by providing features or functionality that are inconsistent with the intended and advertised purpose of the Application as submitted to the App Store.
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I believe something related is already being done on the Oculus and probably the Vive as well - in that each frame, after being rendered, is geometrically manipulated to approximate the changes that should be seen due to head motion since rendering began.
You're referring to Oculus Asynchronous Timewarp, which maps the viewport into a tessellated grid whose polygons get deformed in accordance with motion data.
Oh, look, node.js is mentioned. Quick, let's start talking about how JavaScript is a terrible language.
Or, they'll just update their operating system to dynamically inject telemetry into every executable that runs.
Ooops, I hope I didn't just give Microsoft a new idea. Wait, they're probably already thought of it, and more.
I'd be more than happy to accommodate extra traffic through my neighborhood, if the NYC commuters would stop blasting through my streets at 50 mph in a 25 mph residential zone. There are plenty of kids, pets, and elderly residents to worry about, and our streets don't have great visibility.
Every morning, commuters hop off the turnpike, take a "shortcut" through my neighborhood at ridiculous speeds, and hop back on the turnpike, just to save 4 minutes. It's not worth the risk to our residents, and that's NOT what our streets were designed for.
I don't get why accuracy is such an afterthought in these devices.
Accuracy is an afterthought because the company is selling a lifestyle product, not a scientific measurement instrument.
After all, their advertisements don't feature people intelligently tracking health metrics as a small component of an overall health strategy. Instead, the ads show people engaging in athletic activities as a lifestyle choice. These are people who Just Do It.
Wa wai wait... Are you suggesting Commodore partners with Nokia to release a Commodore phone?
GENIUS!
I would consider such a phone, even though S7 is currently my favorite.
True, but it took him what, all of two weeks?
Don't be stupid. Apple would never obsolete their own product.
Your point is mute.
Stop insulting my point! I prefer to refer to him as "volumically challenged."
That's how Apple do.
Considering your name is an anagram of "moon exams", I believe it.
And it is actually kind of disheartening to see someone you respect, or are close with, start to spout off some totally disrespectable, small-minded bigotry / arrogance / fallacious / hateful / stereotypical / closed-minded spew of garbage.
Makes ya realize that all those social rules that inhibit us from flapping our yaps all the time are actually kind of preferred over the "let me just share MY opinion" that online communication tends to engender.
I'll admit to being pretty excited if Samsung can actually make this work. Samsung's excellence in product manufacturing has long been hampered by poor product vision, scattershot branding and marketing strategies, and a general lack of being on the same wavelength when it comes to anticipating what features consumers will actually want and use.
If acting like a startup can help them shed these shortcomings, we can expect to see some exciting products coming out of Samsung in the next six to twelve years. That should be just in time for when Apple comes down off the revenue bubble presently sustained by its perpetual, but largely uninteresting, product updates.
Thanks for paraphrasing, "The Innovator's Dilemma".
Let me take a guess as to the state of security regarding your 3.5 year old Android tablet.
If you really need to use a scripting language server-side, use Lua, or Python, or even goddamn Tcl. All three of them are better than JavaScript in every way.
Wow, I must be using a different version of Lua than you. The version of Lua that I'm using (5.3.2) is like JavaScript, except that it uses meta-table chaining for object-oriented programming, instead of JavaScript's prototype chaining.
Oh, didn't you know, Lua doesn't have "real OO" (which seems to be one of your gripes against JavaScript.) That's right, YOU HAVE TO IMPLEMENT YOUR OWN OO STRATEGY IN LUA.
Dork.
You aren't a developer just because you say you are any more than you are astronaut or a plumber or the like. ... When you talk about professions, there is the idea that you do it, well, professionally.
Thanks for clarifying that only "professional developers" are developers. Slashdot folk always make things so much clearer for simpletons like me.
Next thing you know, people who are not "professional drivers" will actually be taking their cars onto the roads! Oy, what a world we live in!
Basic empathy, and ability to conceptualize people with dramatically different skills and perspectives than you, is not difficult. If you can't handle it, you are dumb, even if that doesn't please you. End of the story.
You are dumb, and that's a problem. You're not going to solve the problem by bending reality and saying basic empathy and conceptualization is difficult and that you are not dumb. You are just ignoring the problem, which may (will) have unintended consequences in the future. Actually, if you want to solve the problem, you should invest more energy in self-help books, group therapy sessions, and volunteer work at homeless shelters. There could be a lot more hours of you concluding that you are not the perfectly desirable prototypical human to which all others should aspire. Otherwise, you are just promoting your own race to the bottom.
You are obviously off your meds. Can you tell us what kind of meds you use, so we can chip in and buy you some?
You're right, we should definitely not engage with any technology or solution whose availability isn't guaranteed to exist until the end of time, and offer us 150% of the features we need. After all, if I'm building sandcastles in the sky, I can't let my dreams of creating a game that makes me a billionaire be threatened by even the most unlikely of hypothetical scenarios.
You are completely incorrect. Only Webkit or JavaScriptCore components may execute dynamically-retrieved, remote code.
Per Apple's iOS Developer Program Agreement:
3.3.2 An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded. The only exception to the foregoing is scripts and code downloaded and run by Apple's built-in WebKit framework or JavascriptCore, provided that such scripts and code do not change the primary purpose of the Application by providing features or functionality that are inconsistent with the intended and advertised purpose of the Application as submitted to the App Store.
You mean GNU/Linux. You have to be careful, Stallman's just around the corner.
You can drag tabs from one window to another. So any "per-window" statefulness that you propose will just be terribly confusing and inconsistent.