Having used Oculus for a while, I think everyone who has not is missing something important. One of the best use cases is watching Netflix and other video privately. While these devices are sold for their VR capabilities, they are really head mounted displays.
Key applications for these head mounted displays have no motion sickness issues.
VR and AR are very much related. The Oculus Gear VR, that lets me use my Samsung Note Phone for the display, has a Pass Through Mode where you see the real world through the phones camera. Its not crazy useful, but is a glimpse of what is coming.
As soon as they get lighter and have higher resolution, head mounted displays will clearly be a "Next Big Thing"
He's probably noticed there's not much to read because most of his favorite sources of information have been outed as bot farm propaganda and filtered.
Its truly frightening that the (former) leader of the free world dictates U.S. foreign policy based upon fake news instead of trusted advisers, career diplomats and seasoned security professionals.
Thanks for the reminder on that - I'd forgotten about it. Sometimes leaders do the right thing for the wrong reason.
In any case, he did start the countdown to a successful audacious project that nearly all can agree paid off great dividends for the entire world. Many useful new technologies that were perfected to achieve that goal were invented.
I would have agreed with you completely before I actually started wearing them (because my wife pretty much insisted). Having had a very advanced pair now for a year, I can only partially agree with you.
Since they are considered medical devices, they are swept up in this system of perverse incentives that is healthcare in the US. Insurance companies are happy with exorbitant price gouging because they simply increase rates and get their slice of a bigger pie.
That said, audiologist testing performs a carefully analysis of what frequencies are impaired so the frequency response of each device can be optimally adjusted for each ear. Also, everyone's ears are shaped differently and there is a bewildering number of options so they fit comfortably.
These devices automatically adjust the directionality of the microphones to automatically amplify people speaking with you in noisy areas like restaurants
They are now integrated with smartphones, so they act hands free for phone conversations as well as bluetooth headphones.
My Signia hearing aids cost about $5000 and that is certainly outrageous. $100 is also outrageously low. I'd say if they were more mass market they should cost somewhere in the $800 range with another $400 or so for audiologist fitting.
Just like star wars in the 1980's, this whole thing is a ruse. If the U.S. military is doing something in space, what makes anybody think it wouldn't be a well guarded secret? The US is either goading them into wasting money on something that doesn't matter, or creating an enemy to justify increased military spending, and probably both.
A quick internet search indicates that the US "black budget" for the military is more than $50 Billion US dollars annually. The entire Russian Federation military budget is much less than $100 Billion - probably closer to $70 bilion. Additionally, there's the $600 billion the US spends in its public military budget numbers.
I like be able to glance quickly at my watch when I get a text message, instead of taking my phone out of my pocket. Same goes for time and date. I know you can do all these things with a phone, but its very convenient and efficient to have it on your wrist.
I use the timer app all the time; it helps remind me when stuff is done - e.g. cooking, laundry, etc...
I like having my activity level and heart rate measured. It encourages me to be less sedentary.
I like having my Weber Bluetooth grilling thermometer on my watch. Its super handy when I'm entertaining guests and grilling.
I'm very into technology, but I really don't obsesce the watch technology much. I wore an Apple Watch for more than three years and now I'm wearing a Samsung Gear watch. I like them both, but mostly prefer the gear because it looks like a nice watch. Charging has never been an issue; it easily lasts an entire day and I charge it on my nightstand while sleeping.
I think a lot of people criticize smartwatches when they have never tried one. It's not for everybody, but don't knock it until you've tried it.
My impression is that the security community is scraping the bottom of the barrel if an obscure old chip from a minor bit player is the biggest hypestorm on the horizon.
he said he had secured financing for going private
he hasn't
What makes you think he has not? There are a lot of powerful people who want to help and hurt Tesla. Its a lot of money, but I have no doubt that there are people eager to get in on a potential bonanza of a privately held successful Tesla.
He was already facing SEC action, but I'm confident he'll be exonerated.
Investors like to trumpet the importance of the liquidity they bring to the market. Its a hard to explain with a straight face what benefit short selling offers to society.
I suppose you could say it encourages investment by people who are betting on a company's rising stock, but in reality its really just high stakes gambling where the odds can be skewed by leaks and false information.
The antics of these people damages companies and the benefit to society is far outweighed by the horrible consequences.
The problem with Moviepass now: you go to see a movie you would normally not pay for, only to find out that you can't use Moviepass. Standing at the theater you decide to pay full price for a crummy movie not worth paying for.
The next time you are thinking about going to a movie, you decide its not worth the risk, and the next time you need to renew Moviepass, you decide its not worth the risk.
You would simply waste money suing a bankrupt company. Now if the SEC can prove the people running the company knew it would fail, then they could be looking at serious jail time.
All of your concerns are solvable. The solutions simply are a little more costly than burning natural gas and coal.
For all its benefits, pure unbridled capitalism and greed are the ultimate root causes of this problem. When we are willing to spend $1,000 of our great grandchildrens' birthright to get a $1 today, everyone on this planet needs to ask themselves why we do it. If we as a species really don't care, maybe natural selection and mass extinction will be the unpleasant answer.
You are absolutely right, and they do the opposite. They engineer the phones to be fragile. Apple refuses to touch a phone with a third party installed battery and refuses to supply repair parts rendering many phones unrepairable.
Its a great business model if consumers will go along.
I bet that this allows them to have more cameras. 2000 fps for one camera could be 250fps for 8 cameras. it could also be used for much higher resolution cameras that have fisheye or insect like lenses.
I'll present the contrary opinion that they were not uniformly poor. My wife and I got MoviePass in February, and have seen 21 movies for less than $100 each. I actually thought a lot of them were pretty good. so I suppose its a matter of opinion. I can confirm that the theaters are empty.
On my scale of one to 5, less than 3 is something I'm glad I didn't pay full price for. No movie I saw this year was a waste of my time and worth what I paid for.
On my scale of 1 to 5 stars:
Mamma Mia! - Good singing - 3
Incredibles2 - Great animation - 4
Jurassic World - Fantastic Effects - 3
Oceans 8 - It was OK - 3
Adrift - Great story, very gripping - 3
Solo - I'm a sucker for Star Wars and this was much better than the last one - 4
RBG - Ruth Bader Ginsburg is awesome - 4
Book Club - My wife wanted to see it, If she's happy, I'm happy - 2.5
Rampage - Great fun and I'm in Chicago - 3
Life of the party - It was better than sitting at home bored - 2.5
Overboard - Pretty funny story - 2.5
Avengers Infinity Stone - This was really good and I'm glad I saw it on the big screen - 4.75
Blockers - It was fun to watch - 2.5
Beirut - Lots of suspense, cool scenes - 3.5
Isle of Dogs - Interesting movie and I like dogs - 3.75
The Greatest Showman - It wasn't horrible - 2
Ready Player One - Kinda reminded me of Tron - 3.5
Paul - It was OK - 2
Wrinkle In Time - Good family fun - 3
Black Panther - Great Movie, but a bit overrated IMHO - 4.5
Game Night - made me laugh - 2.5
Now that Moviepass is not including "Premium" movies - e.g. Mission Impossible I'd say it was good while it lasted and no longer the great deal it was.
Let's say you just had a battery replaced in your iPhone, and then a part with a know manufacturing defect that only can be obtained from Apple fails. Does Apple have the right to refuse repair of the phone or supply the parts?
I know there would be an outcry if Ford refused repair of a car just out of warranty because you had the oil changed somewhere besides a Ford dealer, and yet this is Apple policy.
This just happened to me. I've retired my Apple Watch and iPhone in Favor of a Galaxy Note and Gear Frontier watch.
A guaranteed but not compulsory part time job with a livable wage hands down beats a free hand out. But first a guaranteed free education including secondary and trade schools, healthcare and child care.
IMHO, we should rename the "Unemployment Office" to the "Employment Office". It should be run locally like school districts and there should be standardized criteria for measuring productivity. Will is be perfect? No. Will their be corruption? Probably some.
Any system we devise will have bugs because we cannot perfect human nature.
While it may not be what lazy people want, its what they need.
They patched all the products. Yes, there was a problem and it got fixed at no charge to its customers automatically.
I decided to give this stuff a try and its very convenient. I don't use it to control locks, and in fact you can't even use Alexa to control locks and garage doors because its designed so conservatively. How can "Alexa, close the garage door" be a problem?
Using a voice command to turn off all the lights is nice. Having small sensors on our keychains to turn the alarm on and off automatically is nice.
With all the furor and FUD over privacy, I think a lot of people are quick to throw the baby out with the bath water.
If you're worried about privacy, look at one of the many open source alternatives to Alexa or Google Home devices and contribute.
Slashdot Mirror
shoot the messenger.
Having used Oculus for a while, I think everyone who has not is missing something important. One of the best use cases is watching Netflix and other video privately. While these devices are sold for their VR capabilities, they are really head mounted displays.
Key applications for these head mounted displays have no motion sickness issues.
VR and AR are very much related. The Oculus Gear VR, that lets me use my Samsung Note Phone for the display, has a Pass Through Mode where you see the real world through the phones camera. Its not crazy useful, but is a glimpse of what is coming.
As soon as they get lighter and have higher resolution, head mounted displays will clearly be a "Next Big Thing"
It's hard to imagine a more ridiculous waste of energy. There is an energy business conspiracy theory lurking here somewhere.
He's probably noticed there's not much to read because most of his favorite sources of information have been outed as bot farm propaganda and filtered.
Its truly frightening that the (former) leader of the free world dictates U.S. foreign policy based upon fake news instead of trusted advisers, career diplomats and seasoned security professionals.
Thanks for the reminder on that - I'd forgotten about it. Sometimes leaders do the right thing for the wrong reason.
In any case, he did start the countdown to a successful audacious project that nearly all can agree paid off great dividends for the entire world. Many useful new technologies that were perfected to achieve that goal were invented.
That could have been said when President Kennedy set the goal to go to the moon.
I wonder if FPGAs are low power enough nowadays for this application. Maybe something like Intel/Altera Max 10 / Nios II
Do you think there is hope for this class of hearing aid to come down to less than $1k?
I would have agreed with you completely before I actually started wearing them (because my wife pretty much insisted). Having had a very advanced pair now for a year, I can only partially agree with you.
Since they are considered medical devices, they are swept up in this system of perverse incentives that is healthcare in the US. Insurance companies are happy with exorbitant price gouging because they simply increase rates and get their slice of a bigger pie.
That said, audiologist testing performs a carefully analysis of what frequencies are impaired so the frequency response of each device can be optimally adjusted for each ear. Also, everyone's ears are shaped differently and there is a bewildering number of options so they fit comfortably.
These devices automatically adjust the directionality of the microphones to automatically amplify people speaking with you in noisy areas like restaurants
They are now integrated with smartphones, so they act hands free for phone conversations as well as bluetooth headphones.
My Signia hearing aids cost about $5000 and that is certainly outrageous. $100 is also outrageously low. I'd say if they were more mass market they should cost somewhere in the $800 range with another $400 or so for audiologist fitting.
Just like star wars in the 1980's, this whole thing is a ruse. If the U.S. military is doing something in space, what makes anybody think it wouldn't be a well guarded secret? The US is either goading them into wasting money on something that doesn't matter, or creating an enemy to justify increased military spending, and probably both.
A quick internet search indicates that the US "black budget" for the military is more than $50 Billion US dollars annually. The entire Russian Federation military budget is much less than $100 Billion - probably closer to $70 bilion. Additionally, there's the $600 billion the US spends in its public military budget numbers.
Arms race - LOL.
So, just to be clear. The solution to climate change is to encourage invasive species?
I like be able to glance quickly at my watch when I get a text message, instead of taking my phone out of my pocket. Same goes for time and date. I know you can do all these things with a phone, but its very convenient and efficient to have it on your wrist.
I use the timer app all the time; it helps remind me when stuff is done - e.g. cooking, laundry, etc...
I like having my activity level and heart rate measured. It encourages me to be less sedentary.
I like having my Weber Bluetooth grilling thermometer on my watch. Its super handy when I'm entertaining guests and grilling.
I'm very into technology, but I really don't obsesce the watch technology much. I wore an Apple Watch for more than three years and now I'm wearing a Samsung Gear watch. I like them both, but mostly prefer the gear because it looks like a nice watch. Charging has never been an issue; it easily lasts an entire day and I charge it on my nightstand while sleeping.
I think a lot of people criticize smartwatches when they have never tried one. It's not for everybody, but don't knock it until you've tried it.
My impression is that the security community is scraping the bottom of the barrel if an obscure old chip from a minor bit player is the biggest hypestorm on the horizon.
he said he had secured financing for going private
he hasn't
What makes you think he has not? There are a lot of powerful people who want to help and hurt Tesla. Its a lot of money, but I have no doubt that there are people eager to get in on a potential bonanza of a privately held successful Tesla.
He was already facing SEC action, but I'm confident he'll be exonerated.
Investors like to trumpet the importance of the liquidity they bring to the market. Its a hard to explain with a straight face what benefit short selling offers to society.
I suppose you could say it encourages investment by people who are betting on a company's rising stock, but in reality its really just high stakes gambling where the odds can be skewed by leaks and false information.
The antics of these people damages companies and the benefit to society is far outweighed by the horrible consequences.
... to pay Space-X to refuel it?
The problem with Moviepass now: you go to see a movie you would normally not pay for, only to find out that you can't use Moviepass. Standing at the theater you decide to pay full price for a crummy movie not worth paying for.
The next time you are thinking about going to a movie, you decide its not worth the risk, and the next time you need to renew Moviepass, you decide its not worth the risk.
You would simply waste money suing a bankrupt company. Now if the SEC can prove the people running the company knew it would fail, then they could be looking at serious jail time.
All of your concerns are solvable. The solutions simply are a little more costly than burning natural gas and coal.
For all its benefits, pure unbridled capitalism and greed are the ultimate root causes of this problem. When we are willing to spend $1,000 of our great grandchildrens' birthright to get a $1 today, everyone on this planet needs to ask themselves why we do it. If we as a species really don't care, maybe natural selection and mass extinction will be the unpleasant answer.
You are absolutely right, and they do the opposite. They engineer the phones to be fragile. Apple refuses to touch a phone with a third party installed battery and refuses to supply repair parts rendering many phones unrepairable.
Its a great business model if consumers will go along.
I bet that this allows them to have more cameras. 2000 fps for one camera could be 250fps for 8 cameras. it could also be used for much higher resolution cameras that have fisheye or insect like lenses.
AMC Stubs Premier is a good deal if you want to see a lot of movies.You don't have to pay full price.
I'll present the contrary opinion that they were not uniformly poor. My wife and I got MoviePass in February, and have seen 21 movies for less than $100 each. I actually thought a lot of them were pretty good. so I suppose its a matter of opinion. I can confirm that the theaters are empty.
On my scale of one to 5, less than 3 is something I'm glad I didn't pay full price for. No movie I saw this year was a waste of my time and worth what I paid for.
On my scale of 1 to 5 stars:
Mamma Mia! - Good singing - 3
Incredibles2 - Great animation - 4
Jurassic World - Fantastic Effects - 3
Oceans 8 - It was OK - 3
Adrift - Great story, very gripping - 3
Solo - I'm a sucker for Star Wars and this was much better than the last one - 4
RBG - Ruth Bader Ginsburg is awesome - 4
Book Club - My wife wanted to see it, If she's happy, I'm happy - 2.5
Rampage - Great fun and I'm in Chicago - 3
Life of the party - It was better than sitting at home bored - 2.5
Overboard - Pretty funny story - 2.5
Avengers Infinity Stone - This was really good and I'm glad I saw it on the big screen - 4.75
Blockers - It was fun to watch - 2.5
Beirut - Lots of suspense, cool scenes - 3.5
Isle of Dogs - Interesting movie and I like dogs - 3.75
The Greatest Showman - It wasn't horrible - 2
Ready Player One - Kinda reminded me of Tron - 3.5
Paul - It was OK - 2
Wrinkle In Time - Good family fun - 3
Black Panther - Great Movie, but a bit overrated IMHO - 4.5
Game Night - made me laugh - 2.5
Now that Moviepass is not including "Premium" movies - e.g. Mission Impossible I'd say it was good while it lasted and no longer the great deal it was.
Let's say you just had a battery replaced in your iPhone, and then a part with a know manufacturing defect that only can be obtained from Apple fails. Does Apple have the right to refuse repair of the phone or supply the parts?
I know there would be an outcry if Ford refused repair of a car just out of warranty because you had the oil changed somewhere besides a Ford dealer, and yet this is Apple policy.
This just happened to me. I've retired my Apple Watch and iPhone in Favor of a Galaxy Note and Gear Frontier watch.
A guaranteed but not compulsory part time job with a livable wage hands down beats a free hand out. But first a guaranteed free education including secondary and trade schools, healthcare and child care.
IMHO, we should rename the "Unemployment Office" to the "Employment Office". It should be run locally like school districts and there should be standardized criteria for measuring productivity. Will is be perfect? No. Will their be corruption? Probably some.
Any system we devise will have bugs because we cannot perfect human nature.
While it may not be what lazy people want, its what they need.
They patched all the products. Yes, there was a problem and it got fixed at no charge to its customers automatically.
I decided to give this stuff a try and its very convenient. I don't use it to control locks, and in fact you can't even use Alexa to control locks and garage doors because its designed so conservatively. How can "Alexa, close the garage door" be a problem?
Using a voice command to turn off all the lights is nice. Having small sensors on our keychains to turn the alarm on and off automatically is nice.
With all the furor and FUD over privacy, I think a lot of people are quick to throw the baby out with the bath water.
If you're worried about privacy, look at one of the many open source alternatives to Alexa or Google Home devices and contribute.