I see a lot of folks on here complaining with the general tone of "The author should be as well-adjusted and capable as I am". Well they're not. Big whoop. Let's not whine and actually do something productive here.
1) I think the problem is getting worse. It used to just be email. Now it's email, phone, OS, websites and even my freakin' web browser itself that want to push notifications. 2) Yes, I'm well adjusted and adapted to this environment. I've spent the majority of my life interested in tech. It's no big surprise that other folks who merely use devices (instead of being passionate about devices) might get swamped by this.
Here are some helpful links: A great guide for turning off different types of iPhone notifications: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/t...
And for Chrome (Including turning off sites asking permission, which I hate almost as much as actual notifications) https://support.google.com/chr...
In tandem with all of this, I also recommend ad-blockers and paying for media services which eliminate advertisements (Pandora, Netflix, etc.). This helps provide a more distraction-free environment and helps maintain a low-distraction life.
I've set up a VR facility at the laboratory where I work (4 Rifts and 1 Vive), and it's been hugely popular. When you put an engineer in VR face-to-face with one of their CAD designs at human scale, they can't help but start having in-depth and meaningful conversations about their work. It's awesome to watch.
Compared to many other hobbies (gearheads working on cars, for example) computer gaming used to be an expensive hobby... But those days are long, long gone.
The MS headsets use Universal Windows Platform, which means it's additional work for a developer to port to that than between Vive/Rift. We'll see if the content gets there, but I can tell you first-hand that mixed reality development for UWP is a pain in the butt. The MS headsets will be $400 with hand controllers, which is exactly what Rift is selling their system at now. Coincidence? I think not.
Yep... I listen to ambient music when I'm coding (Though Pandora, not Spotify). That said, if it's good enough to code to, why should I care if it's an in-house label? So long as it's not pirated, why should I give a flying **** if the legal agreement behind the scenes is pay-per-play or lump-commission?
Part of what makes this interesting and challenging is how incredibly open the state-space is. With Chess/Go/Checkers/etc, much of the problem comes down to searching a finite state-space. In this case, the possible state-space is so open it's basically indistinguishable from infinitely open.
Sometimes I have to google a horrible thing, because I don't know what it is. I wish that were a large portion of this traffic. I suspect it's a very small part.
As a VR/AR researcher, I have to disagree. The two are similar technologies, but they have fundamentally different use cases. VR isn't "looking for a problem", the problems are all around. Any area where you want to do fully-immersive experiential training, for example (shock/trauma training on board a Navy vessel / Basic firearms training with any weapon and no risk of injury / cyber visualizations where traditional rules of distance don't always apply). In those cases, VR can often make more sense than AR (where sunlight, clutter, or room geometry may degrade the experience).
Is AR a superset of VR? From a technical standpoint, you could make that claim, but from a design standpoint, that's like saying a heads-up display is a superset of a television. Maybe true, but they're not really used for the same things.
The fact that AR is less likely to make someone motion sick is a great benefit to AR, but it also belies one of the underlying shortcomings as well: AR is not as fully as immersive as VR is right now (The degree of immersion in commodity hardware with a good room configuration is startling). It's unclear if AR ever will be, and if it is, will it just be because it blocks out the real-world?
Consider this: If you're locally piloting a robot, AR is often more convenient because you can be aware of the robot in the context of your current surroundings. However, when remotely piloting a robot, it's often preferable to get the increased situational awareness from the robot's perspective.
Humans can only pay attention to so many things. Ultimately, it comes down to the design and purpose of communication.
For some background: I lead an Augmented and Virtual Reality community of practice. As such, I've developed for the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Microsoft Hololens, and Google Cardboard (I haven't gotten to Daydream yet). I've used OSVR and PSVR, though I haven't developed for them. Here's my current breakdown:
HTC Vive is likely best-of-breed VR tech at this moment (more on this later). If you have a fairly large space (15+ square feet), it has a better tracking system, though it does at time have foibles. The cords can be a pain, though there are new products out to help deal with the cord issue, the price really starts to add up.
Oculus Rift is a very capable system, and is not to be ignored. For standing setups up to about 15 square feet or so, it's often my preference. The touch controllers are more ergonomic than the Vive wands. It seems to lose tracking more often than the Vive (especially in larger areas), though I haven't done extensive tests to fully characterize what conditions this is the case.
Both have good "starter" catalogs of content. Not many exclusives (and sometimes you can break through the exclusivity with tools such as ReVive).
PSVR is a nice starter, but isn't as full featured as the PC VR headsets.
OSVR has some promise. There's certainly industry interest... Thus far everything looks a bit rough around the edges though. There are games on Steam that will run on OSVR, so it's not a total open-source wasteland. They seem to be off to a good start, but are trailing the "big" players right now. This is for those who want to tinker / experiment, or have open-source running through their veins.
For Augmented Reality, everyone is months, if not years, behind the Microsoft Hololens. That is, however, a VERY expensive device, and isn't really for entertainment like the other systems. Look into it, but don't buy unless you're really sure that's what you want.
What's coming up????
Microsoft is positioning themselves to make some big announcements about Windows Holographic sometime soon. They've already partnered with companies such as Dell and Lenovo to build new VR headsets. Looks like they're structuring things much like how Google does Android: Some first-party hardware, but open so third parties can build too.
Apple looks to be going toward Augmented Reality. I know they've been hiring some high-power counterparts at other organizations (they just made a hire from the Jet Propulsion Lab).
I'm with you... I pay for Pandora, which gets rid of those ads. I don't watch much TV, so Netflix provides more content than I'll be able to watch... And frankly, any time I turn on the radio or tune into a major sporting event on TV, I find the ads awful and grating. That $12 / month for those two services, versus the $150+ / month for cable? My life is better without commercials. Oh, and when my children spend an extended period of time at my house, and so they're not asking for the XYZ they saw advertised at their mom's? It's awesome.
Yes, I do a lot of VR / AR development. Mostly in Unity, for the Microsoft HoloLens and the Oculus Rift, though I also have a Vive and have a lot of hands-on experience with it. If you have questions, I'll be happy to answer them.
There are HUNDREDS of good games out for Linux. Many of the games I have on Steam I can also run on my Linux laptop. It's worth investigating. And hey, if you have a Windows game that you MUST play, you can run it on a VM in many cases.
So, you've kind of hit on the answer to your own quandary:
The reasons they don't sue all of these artists is because a) Lawyers are expensive, and b) these artists have little/no money. You can sue, but it's lose/lose proposition because you can't collect.
Malware is software I don't want it on my machine and cannot uninstall easily.
"Easily", in this case, being using the mechanism appropriate for that particular OS. Uninstall a program dialog / apt-get uninstall / whatever.
That's it. Crap I don't want, and can't get rid of easily. Yes, that means I may call IE is malware (it increases surface attack area on my machine, and I cannot remove it), while someone else does not.
I could see busses going away almost entirely... Or I could also see the car taking me to a park & ride, drop me off, have the bus pick me up, and again on the other side... and as you said, the last mile is solved. I could see the car loading itself onto a car carrier, and that carrier going somewhere. I could see automatic carpooling services, where if we were going to the same concert, and you were near my route to the venue, that it'd automatically pick you up along the way. There are so many possibilities there's no way I can really form through conjecture.
The handicapped, elderly, and young who are currently limited in terms of autonomy will have much better access to the world outside their home. Every car could become an ambulance Car ownership will take on looser terms: If I'm going to bed now, and won't need the car until morning, why can't it act as a taxi? If many people have idle cars acting as taxis, why do I need a car? What effect with this have on mass transit?
Try not to do anything that gets yourself killed or maimed Think twice before doing anything that could get you imprisoned or pregnant Everything else is fair game
Do what makes you happy, even if it's just on the weekends Forgive yourself Stay curious Give a shit Take a risk Fail early, fail often, learn constantly Participate Don't be afraid to ask the stupid question Abandon perfection Shut up and listen Experiment Take breaks Reject assholes Pay attention Tinker Omit unnecessary words Accept criticism only after analyzing it critically Be wrong Use your vacation time Once you have food, water, and shelter, more money will not make you happier Time is the only resource we have, make the most of it
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I see a lot of folks on here complaining with the general tone of "The author should be as well-adjusted and capable as I am". Well they're not. Big whoop. Let's not whine and actually do something productive here.
1) I think the problem is getting worse. It used to just be email. Now it's email, phone, OS, websites and even my freakin' web browser itself that want to push notifications.
2) Yes, I'm well adjusted and adapted to this environment. I've spent the majority of my life interested in tech. It's no big surprise that other folks who merely use devices (instead of being passionate about devices) might get swamped by this.
Here are some helpful links:
A great guide for turning off different types of iPhone notifications:
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/t...
Another guide for both Android and iOS:
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
A guide for Windows 10:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/...
And for Chrome (Including turning off sites asking permission, which I hate almost as much as actual notifications)
https://support.google.com/chr...
In tandem with all of this, I also recommend ad-blockers and paying for media services which eliminate advertisements (Pandora, Netflix, etc.). This helps provide a more distraction-free environment and helps maintain a low-distraction life.
I've set up a VR facility at the laboratory where I work (4 Rifts and 1 Vive), and it's been hugely popular. When you put an engineer in VR face-to-face with one of their CAD designs at human scale, they can't help but start having in-depth and meaningful conversations about their work. It's awesome to watch.
Compared to many other hobbies (gearheads working on cars, for example) computer gaming used to be an expensive hobby... But those days are long, long gone.
The MS headsets use Universal Windows Platform, which means it's additional work for a developer to port to that than between Vive/Rift. We'll see if the content gets there, but I can tell you first-hand that mixed reality development for UWP is a pain in the butt. The MS headsets will be $400 with hand controllers, which is exactly what Rift is selling their system at now. Coincidence? I think not.
Yep... I listen to ambient music when I'm coding (Though Pandora, not Spotify). That said, if it's good enough to code to, why should I care if it's an in-house label? So long as it's not pirated, why should I give a flying **** if the legal agreement behind the scenes is pay-per-play or lump-commission?
Part of what makes this interesting and challenging is how incredibly open the state-space is. With Chess/Go/Checkers/etc, much of the problem comes down to searching a finite state-space. In this case, the possible state-space is so open it's basically indistinguishable from infinitely open.
Sometimes I have to google a horrible thing, because I don't know what it is. I wish that were a large portion of this traffic. I suspect it's a very small part.
... but how about starting with the adjectives "functional, useful, reasonable"?
Over time, though, the cost almost always comes down unless there's a reliance on highly valuable raw materials (such as gold).
As a VR/AR researcher, I have to disagree. The two are similar technologies, but they have fundamentally different use cases. VR isn't "looking for a problem", the problems are all around. Any area where you want to do fully-immersive experiential training, for example (shock/trauma training on board a Navy vessel / Basic firearms training with any weapon and no risk of injury / cyber visualizations where traditional rules of distance don't always apply). In those cases, VR can often make more sense than AR (where sunlight, clutter, or room geometry may degrade the experience).
Is AR a superset of VR? From a technical standpoint, you could make that claim, but from a design standpoint, that's like saying a heads-up display is a superset of a television. Maybe true, but they're not really used for the same things.
The fact that AR is less likely to make someone motion sick is a great benefit to AR, but it also belies one of the underlying shortcomings as well: AR is not as fully as immersive as VR is right now (The degree of immersion in commodity hardware with a good room configuration is startling). It's unclear if AR ever will be, and if it is, will it just be because it blocks out the real-world?
Consider this:
If you're locally piloting a robot, AR is often more convenient because you can be aware of the robot in the context of your current surroundings. However, when remotely piloting a robot, it's often preferable to get the increased situational awareness from the robot's perspective.
Humans can only pay attention to so many things. Ultimately, it comes down to the design and purpose of communication.
For some background:
I lead an Augmented and Virtual Reality community of practice. As such, I've developed for the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Microsoft Hololens, and Google Cardboard (I haven't gotten to Daydream yet). I've used OSVR and PSVR, though I haven't developed for them. Here's my current breakdown:
HTC Vive is likely best-of-breed VR tech at this moment (more on this later). If you have a fairly large space (15+ square feet), it has a better tracking system, though it does at time have foibles. The cords can be a pain, though there are new products out to help deal with the cord issue, the price really starts to add up.
Oculus Rift is a very capable system, and is not to be ignored. For standing setups up to about 15 square feet or so, it's often my preference. The touch controllers are more ergonomic than the Vive wands. It seems to lose tracking more often than the Vive (especially in larger areas), though I haven't done extensive tests to fully characterize what conditions this is the case.
Both have good "starter" catalogs of content. Not many exclusives (and sometimes you can break through the exclusivity with tools such as ReVive).
PSVR is a nice starter, but isn't as full featured as the PC VR headsets.
OSVR has some promise. There's certainly industry interest... Thus far everything looks a bit rough around the edges though. There are games on Steam that will run on OSVR, so it's not a total open-source wasteland. They seem to be off to a good start, but are trailing the "big" players right now. This is for those who want to tinker / experiment, or have open-source running through their veins.
For Augmented Reality, everyone is months, if not years, behind the Microsoft Hololens. That is, however, a VERY expensive device, and isn't really for entertainment like the other systems. Look into it, but don't buy unless you're really sure that's what you want.
What's coming up????
Microsoft is positioning themselves to make some big announcements about Windows Holographic sometime soon. They've already partnered with companies such as Dell and Lenovo to build new VR headsets. Looks like they're structuring things much like how Google does Android: Some first-party hardware, but open so third parties can build too.
Apple looks to be going toward Augmented Reality. I know they've been hiring some high-power counterparts at other organizations (they just made a hire from the Jet Propulsion Lab).
I'm with you... I pay for Pandora, which gets rid of those ads. I don't watch much TV, so Netflix provides more content than I'll be able to watch... And frankly, any time I turn on the radio or tune into a major sporting event on TV, I find the ads awful and grating. That $12 / month for those two services, versus the $150+ / month for cable? My life is better without commercials. Oh, and when my children spend an extended period of time at my house, and so they're not asking for the XYZ they saw advertised at their mom's? It's awesome.
Yes, I do a lot of VR / AR development. Mostly in Unity, for the Microsoft HoloLens and the Oculus Rift, though I also have a Vive and have a lot of hands-on experience with it. If you have questions, I'll be happy to answer them.
There are HUNDREDS of good games out for Linux. Many of the games I have on Steam I can also run on my Linux laptop. It's worth investigating. And hey, if you have a Windows game that you MUST play, you can run it on a VM in many cases.
~D
You forgot Cheap/Convenient redundant ultra-high-bandwidth, which tends to push things to be more urban.
So, you've kind of hit on the answer to your own quandary:
The reasons they don't sue all of these artists is because a) Lawyers are expensive, and b) these artists have little/no money. You can sue, but it's lose/lose proposition because you can't collect.
~D
Malware is software I don't want it on my machine and cannot uninstall easily.
"Easily", in this case, being using the mechanism appropriate for that particular OS. Uninstall a program dialog / apt-get uninstall / whatever.
That's it. Crap I don't want, and can't get rid of easily. Yes, that means I may call IE is malware (it increases surface attack area on my machine, and I cannot remove it), while someone else does not.
~D
So... There are 10^38 IPv6 addresses. How many is that?
The Earth is about 10^24 kg in mass. That means you could assign 100 IPv6 address to each nanogram of Earth.
I think we'll be OK.
Speak for your own life, mine continues to improve, even as I approach my 40s.
Actually, the design of the plant IS to use direct-air capturing.
I could see busses going away almost entirely... Or I could also see the car taking me to a park & ride, drop me off, have the bus pick me up, and again on the other side... and as you said, the last mile is solved. I could see the car loading itself onto a car carrier, and that carrier going somewhere. I could see automatic carpooling services, where if we were going to the same concert, and you were near my route to the venue, that it'd automatically pick you up along the way. There are so many possibilities there's no way I can really form through conjecture.
The handicapped, elderly, and young who are currently limited in terms of autonomy will have much better access to the world outside their home.
Every car could become an ambulance
Car ownership will take on looser terms: If I'm going to bed now, and won't need the car until morning, why can't it act as a taxi? If many people have idle cars acting as taxis, why do I need a car?
What effect with this have on mass transit?
Try not to do anything that gets yourself killed or maimed
Think twice before doing anything that could get you imprisoned or pregnant
Everything else is fair game
Do what makes you happy, even if it's just on the weekends
Forgive yourself
Stay curious
Give a shit
Take a risk
Fail early, fail often, learn constantly
Participate
Don't be afraid to ask the stupid question
Abandon perfection
Shut up and listen
Experiment
Take breaks
Reject assholes
Pay attention
Tinker
Omit unnecessary words
Accept criticism only after analyzing it critically
Be wrong
Use your vacation time
Once you have food, water, and shelter, more money will not make you happier
Time is the only resource we have, make the most of it
Last year there were a zillion April 1st stories, and so much so there was backlash. They may be taking it easy this year.