Mbourgon
@Mbourgon@lemmy.world
Instead of a “renaissance man”, I’m a “renaissance nerd”. Pinball? Sure. Sci-fi? Of course. video games? Natch. 70’s Italian Prog-rock? A raison d’etre.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 4 weeks ago:
waveguide here’s a good article on it: theverge.com/…/stanford-ai-holographic-ar-glasses…
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 4 weeks ago:
Several others, though a couple seem to be about a POC.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 4 weeks ago:
Some reasons.
- Apple needs new products - even something like this gives headlines, reminds people about the cool product, so maybe they choose a different one. Even if it doesn’t make money it keeps Apple as “new and innovative” and helps recruitment.
- Gets it out there for developers to try out, come up with use cases and killer apps.
- People (prosumers) come up with uses that Apple and Devs may not have thought of.
- Allows people from #4 to bring them to work - after all, that’s how Apple got big in the first place… People bringing their Apple ][ & visicalc, since their IT wasn’t responsive enough or people hated working on mainframes. It wouldn’t surprise me if one of the doctors brought it in himself thinking it might be useful.
- Allows Apple to come up with justification for the R&D money for the GUI, UX, hand gestures, etc that they’re going to need later. Gotta keep shareholders happy.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 4 weeks ago:
Here’s a good article about this specific waveguide: theverge.com/…/stanford-ai-holographic-ar-glasses…
TLDR - they need special materials to allow small/thin glasses for XR goggles. This looks like it could be huge.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ve seen where doctors are using it for surgery and I see all sorts of parallels to the portable computing movement of the 90s, which were about having tablets instead of a ton of manuals, and some of the AR/MR where it shows them where everything goes while looking at the part in question.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 4 weeks ago:
I went and did the Apple demo. I was there for something else at the time, and they had an opening, so I jumped on it. I highly recommend doing the demo, it’s honestly really freaking impressive. I’m not positive what the killer app is for it yet, or if this is just a step in long term AR/MR, but what they’ve done is really impressive. Yes, it’s expensive as hell, and my suspicion is that long term the displays will be replaced with a waveguide (Stanford’s looks pretty good at this point), so it won’t need the external-facing display, but they’ve got the head and hand-tracking in a good spot, as well as the gestures needed for it.
Maybe, the killer app will be the overlay itself, where it uses a camera/location/audio to see what’s going on and present more context. Looking at a menu? Okay, I’ve had this and this and liked it, but their X I’m not a fan of. I need Y from the grocery store, where is it on the shelves… more than anything, I think that they saw what Google glass could become capable of, and thought that the phone as it is now (screen, etc) was going to become obsolete at some point, and they were terrified of losing that race.
- Comment on Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework 2 months ago:
I think he’s talking about the LLMs, which…yeah. AI and LLMs are lumped together (which makes sense, but classification makes a huge difference here)
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 2 months ago:
Not all of this, you have some points in here (smart TVs are worth mentioning), but a lot of this is elsewhere, too, though. And was done before AI. A LOT of things are in public records, for instance. Yes AI and interconnectedness it makes it easier, but this is nothing knew. And the fact that they’re still this bad at targeted ads means there’s still hope.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
“Ted Kennedy killed more people than Three Mile Island” - Bumper sticker.
That’s said, I facepalm at Fukushima. And desperately want more modern systems
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 2 months ago:
This happened a couple of months ago…
theconversation.com/scientists-have-figured-out-h…
“This discovery could be revolutionary. Imagine being able to monitor organ function without invasive procedures, or see precisely where a vein is to draw blood. It could also pave the way for breakthroughs in understanding how diseases affect the body at a microscopic level.”
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 2 months ago:
Fringe is probably all of those.
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 2 months ago:
Gotcha, I was just wondering what specific “slightly bad shit“ paper, and ethical dilemma, they had run across
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 2 months ago:
What question? What paper? Inquiring minds want to know!
- Comment on GORILLA GORILLA 2 months ago:
You are the wind beneath my wings and the annoyance to my wife. Buffalo^7 is a glorious phrase
- Comment on GORILLA GORILLA 2 months ago:
But its name IS Bison Bison Bison!
- Comment on Spoopy Science Costumes 2 months ago:
I think I’ll have to do a modified version of that, Imposter Syndrome where half of you is in a suit and the other half is sweats and a t-shirt. “Hi my name is” “how others see you”/“how you see yourself”
- Comment on The Beginning of the End 3 months ago:
Hey, where’d you find that photo? That’s crazy-interesting composition
- Comment on The Beginning of the End 3 months ago:
Yeah, it was. I’m astonished at how much light the photographer was able to capture.
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 3 months ago:
Yeah, Sanderson earned the cred on the original trilogy. It’s a fantasy series, but the magicians are basically Jedi. Great stuff!
- Comment on Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home 3 months ago:
You can set a background as an image. And if you’re worried about it not being convincing enough, you can use a greenscreen
- Comment on Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home 3 months ago:
Except since there’s no actual GPS tracker, it uses your IP address. Microsoft thinks I live in either Virginia or North Dakota or Florida, depending on which part of the company’s VPN I connect to.
- Comment on The Mozilla Graveyard 4 months ago:
I’ll be honest, when I first heard that Mozilla had come out with an AI I figured it was on the back of them trying a couple different ad scenarios, and assumed the worst. Pleasantly surprised by Orbit.
- Comment on The Mozilla Graveyard 4 months ago:
Actually, their new AI thing is actually useful: stays on-device, and summarizes web pages and videos.
But yes, they could stand to spend more money on the browser, and less on their CEO and other non-browser things.
- Comment on Arthur Is A Piece Of Shit 4 months ago:
“I love to be unhappy
I live to be a pain
When days are full of sunshine
I’m lookin’ for the rain” - Gilda Radner - Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 4 months ago:
Yeah, no kidding. I just bought tickets for a $15 show that has multiple bands and included a overseas band. I should’ve upped the prices to $20.
Also: Sturgeon‘s law still applies: “90% of everything is crap“. Music is so amazingly easy to make these days you can do it on your phone (and I believe a Grammy nominated/winning album did so). Which means that there are literally thousands of albums every year, And so there will be a lot of crap. But between Bandcamp and Spotify, this is the freaking plutonium age if you like new music. There is literally so much that you can’t possibly keep up with it, even in sub genres. And there are some amazing gems coming out daily
- Comment on WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources 4 months ago:
WillPeoplenoticethecashgrab
- Comment on 4 months ago:
*for values of Dan Levy
- Comment on Because mosts music tastes stagnate after your teens, you are actually admitting your parents music is better - because they are the ones making it. 4 months ago:
Anytime, always happy to talk prog++
- Comment on Because mosts music tastes stagnate after your teens, you are actually admitting your parents music is better - because they are the ones making it. 4 months ago:
Night Verses, Cloudkicker, The Algorithm -Brute Force, Sgaile, Wintersun, and then to mix it up a bit: Standards, and Lantlös
- Comment on Because mosts music tastes stagnate after your teens, you are actually admitting your parents music is better - because they are the ones making it. 4 months ago:
Which prog bands?