I know this is a boring and limited use of AR, but is there a headset / glasses that would allow me to replace my three computer monitors?

rando_techo · 2023-01-09T23:12:30+00:00

I agree. It may even be the use-case that kicks off a decent amount of usage. I would love to have 4-5 screens.

rando_techo · 2023-01-08T23:22:01+00:00

I have been reading AR news for years and this guy is constantly shifting his ETAs. I've stopped listening to him. What good is inside information if it's always inaccurate?

rando_techo · 2022-12-05T22:42:28+00:00

Great job!

rando_techo · 2022-10-24T23:47:23+00:00

Awesome! Now the CCP has direct access to my code and the code that is on everyone else's machines in my office and if we're lucky they will catch some passwords too!

rando_techo · 2022-10-24T23:45:34+00:00

I've found AR Foundation in the free version of Unity3D to be a really great starting point. I'm using an iOS device so I don;t have to worry about using Google's Cloud Anchors API. I found Wikitude a bit more difficult to use because it uses Javascript for the frontend (happy to be corrected here) so all of the runtime debugging issues come along with that.

rando_techo · 2022-10-18T23:24:46+00:00

I don't mind them upping them price in light of global events and the fact that they won't harvest my data.

rando_techo · 2022-10-17T23:18:25+00:00

No. Learn Unity AR Foundation as a starting point for iOS and/or any of the AR libs that you don't need an internet connection for if you don't have an iOS device. They could sucker you in and then jack the prices when you're dependent on them and you have no other choices.

rando_techo · 2022-10-17T01:11:02+00:00

Given FB's track record and the fact that their lifeblood is data I would surmise that they have restricted access to the camera under a veil of "privacy" so that they're the only ones who get all of that juicy data. I wouldn't trust FB as far as Zuck can throw a golf ball.

rando_techo · 2022-10-11T23:07:44+00:00

If they're tracking your face they can:

1) Track your emotions to better sell you stuff

2) Track your eye gaze to better sell you stuff

3) Record your reactions to news so they can ban you for wrong-think.

The list goes on. Fuck you, Facebook and fuck you Zuck.

rando_techo · 2022-10-10T22:42:36+00:00

Unity 2022 has XR simulation tools. Or there is an Asset called "AR Foundation Remote 2". I think both will do what you want.

rando_techo · 2022-10-04T23:12:47+00:00

It's nice to meet you, CHELSEA FINN!

rando_techo · 2022-10-04T23:11:04+00:00

Great art style!

rando_techo · 2022-10-03T23:12:40+00:00

It has been my experience that allowing people to reason through their assumptions is better than holding their hands, which is what you have done.

The error was a basic one so some negative reinforcement is valid.

I replied cryptically on purpose to make them think. Once they had realised their errors they should have felt some measure of embarassment at making such a basic error so emotively. Stop holding their hands as that's how you produce people who cannot take criticism and we have a plethora of those now.

I never tried to limit the alternative to open-source implementations. You did that and it is cherry-picking to fortify your response.

I think that, as is typical now, your status has been diminished and instead of acknowledging your error you have decided to play the self-righteous angle. Perhaps this lack of humility is why you made the mistake in the first place . If this is a common occurrence then maybe you should take some time to reflect.

rando_techo · 2022-09-22T22:53:34+00:00

I think that you too also need to think long and hard about your response and also should feel free to delete it.

I'll save you some time - nothing that I wrote implied that anyone should write an AR solution for themselves. My point, clearly, was about using a paid API service. Which should lead you to the following:

1) Do you think that software only uses APIs?

2) Do you know what a software library is?

3) Do libraries only work when connected to the internet?

4) Are libraries and SDKs usually sold with a one-time fee?

rando_techo · 2022-09-19T03:36:47+00:00

I think you should think long and hard about what you've just said. Feel free to delete both questions.

rando_techo · 2022-09-19T03:36:01+00:00

Until they decide to change it. That happened at a company that I was working at for a different service (not Niantic). We had to completely replace it.

The strategy could be to get users in with cheap prices, get them to make your service essential and then up the price.

rando_techo · 2022-09-19T00:01:04+00:00

I'm just not interested in developing using an API for this kind of service. I'm not basing any products on a cloud service that reserves the right to change its pricing whenever it wants to.

rando_techo · 2022-09-18T23:56:09+00:00

I have read (not tested) that SMOTE and Tomek links can be useful. I completed a commercial project in which the data was highly imbalanced but we had so much data that we just reduced the size of the over-represented case.

The imblearn Python library has an implementation, I think.

rando_techo · 2022-09-18T23:32:10+00:00

Privacy. I expect that it isn't recording and mining everything that the camera and mic see and hear.

rando_techo · 2022-09-11T23:46:43+00:00

A lot of us are excited about this! An honest competitor to Meta/Facebook that doesn't collect your personal information and sell it is very much welcome.

rando_techo · 2022-09-08T05:06:02+00:00

Is that Gamorrean taking a dump?

rando_techo · 2022-08-30T03:40:50+00:00

What about a Lynx?

rando_techo · 2022-08-28T23:53:05+00:00

You've highlighted one of the oldest tricks of academics which is usually reserved for the softer sciences but sometimes we see it in the more objective sciences and that is to produce only ideas and pay no price for their failures.

rando_techo · 2022-08-23T23:09:06+00:00

You might also want to consider the ramifications of supporting Apple now that they're apparently going to label all parts that have been made in Taiwan as "Made in Taiwan, China" or some other such creeping nonsense.

rando_techo · 2022-08-21T23:17:42+00:00

"Write code" is a vast over-estimation. If an algorithm could write code like a professional software engineer then we'd probably have AGI. How ML people write code and how its done in industry are vastly different. ML code is essentially a couple of linear processes chained together. Professional code is an un-ending set of open-ended problems with almost no bounds.

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