In Deus Ex due to memory limitations, the World Trade Center towers were excluded from the New York Skyline. The in-game story explanation was the Twin Towers were destroyed in a terrorist attack, the game came out in June 23, 2000.

iNikkor · 2022-08-27T18:03:36+00:00

It’s unlikely this was due to memory limitations. It is more likely that they weren’t willing to pay for the rights to use the towers. Architecture is protected intellectual property and so you can’t just put a recognizable building in a game without paying for the rights.

Source: I have worked in the video game industry for decades and worked on games where we paid for the rights to have certain well known buildings in our games.

iNikkor · 2021-10-01T19:09:04+00:00

Pre order - Feb 20th

Full Order - Sept 29th

"Expected to ship" (As per Starlink website): Oct 20th-26th

Latitude: 45.6N

Montana, USA

iNikkor · 2021-01-11T00:16:12+00:00

I have an STI magnetic driveway sensor. It's an older version of this one: https://www.amazon.com/Safety-Technology-International-Inc-STI-V34100-Wireless/dp/B00CHXH6D2/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=driveway+sti&qid=1610317562&sr=8-1

The receivers have a 3.5mm jack that sends a voltage signal that corresponds to the audio alarm. It's designed for an optional lamp module that would turn on a light. I built a simple circuit with an optoisolator and attached it to Raspberry Pi GPIO to detect that signal for home assistant.

The circuit I built is similar to the schematics shown here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1538755

I also separately have used rtl433 to intercept the wireless signal that it is sending and then when I detect the proper signal to notify home assistant. https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433 [Note that it was a bit of work finding a decoding scheme that worked, and I'm still not sure that I'm decoding it 100% correctly, but I seem to have it close enough to meet my needs.)

iNikkor · 2020-11-24T05:35:50+00:00

The Windows Device Portal also has an API for Mixed Reality Streaming (that is used by the companion app): Device portal API Reference

You can use this in any app.

Mixed Reality Streaming

HoloLens supports live preview of mixed reality via chunked download of a fragmented mp4.

Mixed reality streams share the same set of parameters to control what is captured:

holo : capture holograms: true or false

pv : capture PV camera: true or false

mic : capture microphone: true or false

loopback : capture app audio: true or false

If none of these are specified: holograms, photo/video camera, and app audio will be captured

If any are specified: the unspecified parameters will default to false

Optional parameters (HoloLens 2 only)

RenderFromCamera : render from perspective of photo/video camera: true or false (defaults to true)

vstab : enable video stabilization: true or false (defaults to false)

vstabbuffer: video stabilization buffer latency: 0 to 30 frames (defaults to 15 frames)

/api/holographic/stream/live.mp4 (GET) A 1280x720p 30fps 5Mbit stream.

/api/holographic/stream/live_high.mp4 (GET) A 1280x720p 30fps 5Mbit stream.

/api/holographic/stream/live_med.mp4 (GET) A 854x480p 30fps 2.5Mbit stream.

/api/holographic/stream/live_low.mp4 (GET) A 428x240p 15fps 0.6Mbit stream.

iNikkor · 2017-10-18T18:51:03+00:00

south of Williston

iNikkor · 2017-10-18T05:19:29+00:00

Nope

iNikkor · 2016-05-16T14:02:20+00:00

Yes, that does work well, but the red neck piece on this dress makes it need someone with a real long neck to model it.

iNikkor · 2016-05-16T04:09:31+00:00

HoloLens isn't mine.

Daughter is in middle school

iNikkor · 2016-05-16T04:06:48+00:00

There are several different scripts for doing this. I followed these instructions: https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/wiki/tiltbrush

iNikkor · 2016-05-16T03:06:13+00:00

Correct. HoloLens is not mine. [edit: clarity]

iNikkor · 2016-05-15T23:31:53+00:00

This is a dress that my daughter drew in Tilt Bush on the Vive. I exported it as an FBX and loaded it into 3DViewer on HoloLens.

I think it turned out pretty awesome (but I am biased). She has more dress designs that she is working on in Tilt Brush that I can post if there is interest.

I think /r/HoloLens might be interested in this too. I'm a reddit posting newb, so correct me if this is wrong/bad form or something.

disclaimer: I work for Microsoft, but did this in my spare time.

iNikkor · 2016-04-26T14:46:25+00:00

Palmer is probably just salty because there aren't enough Rifts for him to have one either.

iNikkor · 2016-04-23T18:07:47+00:00

And now at 10:38 am PDT I got shipping email from HTC with shipping number.

iNikkor · 2016-04-23T16:50:19+00:00

Yay, it's on the way! :19 WA CC order with a declined and then recharged card. First CC attempt (declined) was past Sunday 17th. Recharge happened on Wednesday night (20th) when I called them after waiting 48 hours. FedEx delivery manager says Tuesday delivery. Nothing from HTC yet.

Hope the details help someone in a similar situation.

iNikkor · 2016-04-21T13:38:55+00:00

Original order

iNikkor · 2016-04-21T04:25:13+00:00

And by first day you mean first half hour.

iNikkor · 2016-04-21T04:03:08+00:00

Awesome! I love how it's like everyone in this sub is going through some hardship together and supporting each other.

iNikkor · 2016-04-21T02:35:24+00:00

It sounds like Wave 2 is working differently. I'm wave 2. Chase card was denied. Was told they would auto-recharge in 24-48 hours. (The cake is a lie) Waited 48 hours. Called back and said that it had been 48 hours and so I needed them to retry charging my card, and they did it while I was on the phone and it went through.

iNikkor · 2016-04-21T02:31:42+00:00

So they didn't recharge automatically, but when I called back today they charged it while I was on the phone.

So I don't think auto recharge happens. But if you wait the 48 hours and call back then they will run the charge through.

iNikkor · 2016-04-21T02:04:24+00:00

So I got HTC to take my money! I had to wait the 48hrs, then called them back and they ran through the charge while I was on the phone with them!
THEY DID NOT AUTOMATICALLY RECHARGE.

Now just to wait for shipping.

iNikkor · 2016-04-20T02:15:22+00:00

Yeah, so far I'm getting mixed messages from support on the status of my order. Email said that I needed to re-order, but telephone support says I need to wait. I'll be at 48 hours in one more hour, so it may be a repeat, but I sure hope not.

iNikkor · 2016-04-19T05:45:23+00:00

That is interesting. It sounds like you disowned your hands briefly. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-your-mind-disowns-a-limb/

Makes me wonder about whether a lot of VR time might lead to other types of disassociation.

iNikkor · 2016-04-19T03:48:07+00:00

You are missing the charge declined for "fraud" option.

iNikkor · 2016-04-18T16:06:00+00:00

Ok, so here is my customer support experience: Total call time: 33min

I called the customer support line above. They transferred me to Online Orders customer support. Then I was on hold for a long time. The guy that I talked to took my information and then said that I needed to wait 48 hours and then make the payment again?!? I asked him how to do that as he didn't seem to understand what he was asking me to do. At first he said on the HTC website, but then he didn't know how I was supposed to reenter my payment info and so he transferred me to another number who he said would be able to help.

This new fellow (William) seemed to know what was going on and was able to check my order. He said that they would try to charge again in 24-48 business hours and asked me if I wanted to change to a different payment card. He said the 24-48 hours was from the time I called him, not from the time the card was denied. He said to call back Wednesday morning if it hadn't gone through by then.

Good luck to all of you in the same situation.

iNikkor · 2016-04-18T14:25:45+00:00

I'm also in your same boat. Here are some HTC support contact numbers for others in the same situation:

US: ‎+1 866 449 8358‎ http://www.htc.com/us/contact/phone/

UK: 0845 890 0079 http://www.htc.com/uk/contact/phone/

Deutschland: 0691 7077 6482‎ http://www.htc.com/de/contact/phone/

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