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That's a generalization.

THAT'S THE JOKE.

Joe Lauzon was a network admin. He decided that being punched in the face was a better job.


I burst out laughing when I saw the size of VR screen is the same size as the screen on the chair in front of him.


If you kept reading to understand the context of that image, you'd realize that it could be any size, but that you need to enable "partial virtual environment." That was the entire point of that chapter/image, to showcase the three different modes (full virtual, partial, and full pass-through with collision).

I'm no fan of the AVP, but it is inane to post a comment on a picture from the article without taking the time to read the text surrounding it to understand the context. The blog went to great pains to set out the pros/cons, limits/advantages, just to have people half-read it or just look at the pictures...


I've never seen anyone claim that you could maximize content to truly full-screen on these things. Can you?


Sure you can. Just increase the size of a virtual window to fill the entire avaiable field of view (110 degrees or so). It's basically the same effect as sitting in a close-to-the-front row of a theater.

There are VR headsets with wider FoV, but they're pretty bulky as of yet because of the limits of current costs-less-than-literally-$10,000-a-unit optics.


OK, thanks for the info.


I used to wonder how people watch movies on their iPhone then realized many people sit so far from their living room TV screen that if they held up their iPhone it would be the same apparent size.

By contrast, you can readily set the apparent screen size in the AVP to 40+ degree angle:

× 1.2 (corresponding to 40-degree viewing angle)

THX recommends that the "best seat-to-screen distance" is one where the view angle approximates 40 degrees,[26] (the actual angle is 40.04 degrees). Their recommendation was originally presented at the 2006 CES show, and was stated as being the theoretical maximum horizontal view angle, based on average human vision. In the opinion of THX, the location where the display is viewed at a 40-degree view angle provides the most "immersive cinematic experience", all else being equal. For consumer application of their recommendations, THX recommends ... multiplying the diagonal measurement by about 1.2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum_HDTV_viewing_distance


It can be any size that you’d like.

In fact, the virtual display is higher resolution/high scaled than 13 inch MacBook (source: https://azadux.blog/2024/10/08/traveling-with-apple-vision-p...)


Sort of. Headsets have limited FOV per eye. You can blow up the screen to be huge, but you'd only be able to see part of it at a time. But yeah, 110 degrees FOV can accommodate a very big screen.


The field of view is deceptive in 2d photos. With the VR headset your focal point is at infinity, and in practice it feels more like sitting in front of a big 60" TV on your couch.


Yes and for some reason I would probably find it weird watching a moving with a weird landscape being shown around the "virtual screen" instead of...reality.


That provided no context at all, lol (I legit laughed out loud). Like that's so far out of the common framework that any context provided is lost on most people (including me.)

I'm someone who often debates religion and appreciates someone who finds a philosophy that works for them, so this is no slight against your beliefs. I just find it funny that it was used to provide 'context'.


The context I was trying to provide was that I have a particular philosophical viewpoint that could predispose me towards negative association for traditional religious concepts.

Or, put another way, people like me often hate religion, especially monotheistic religion.


I googled it and found it.


I don't believe you, since you didn't bother to actually post what you found, when you directly responded to someone asking for a citation. Your comment is less than useful, and completely untrustworthy.


You don't have to believe me.

I didn't post it because he (and you) can search for yourselves. Literally first result for "uk illegal meme".


… and you didn’t see a need to share it here?


No. I was showing the person who claims it's not real that I can search for it.

Teach a man to fish and all that.


Except you’ve not nor achieved your goal of proving it’s not real


Who said that was my goal? Literally explained my goal in the second sentence of my reply to you.


I googled and didn't. So citation needed.


it would have been efficient to share what you found! please do, if you find time to spare.


Where did you read that it was very difficult to access?


Surplus panels from old technology. Absolutely amazing if you're not a consumerist moron who needs the newest technology because of FOMO.


I hate it.

"Doesn't stand out in your home" - The chromecast wasn't even visible, so this is a clear downgrade. Why would they even bring it up.

I wanted to love Google Home. I don't have Apple products, and the Alexa app was horrible. But alas, it was Googled. It became such a clusterfuck of convolution that it's not even usable for me anymore. I was using it on my Google Apps email, which I switched from to a regular gmail (because youtube premium wasn't available on Google Apps, neither was Google Home integration with my calendar), and now I can't move my devices to my new account.

All of this, on top of the fact, that Google has proven to be the least trust worthy company when it comes to managing users' data (arguably tied with Meta). I can't wait until my house starts shouting ads at me, or 24/7 listening 'to improve ad quality' becomes standard.

Take me back to IRC and phpbb.


"Find us an AI use case that we can then turn around and market without compensating you for it you researching piece of shit.

Sincerely, Activision"


Player movement data can be used to build aimbot with undetectable lifelike movement. Thanks Activision!


This is not even necessary since current cheaters seemingly can't be detected anyway.


I wonder if the data includes information about which players were banned for cheating? That could open the door to new research into cheat detection.


Nice overall. But I hate with all my heart:

Those funky looking people in the stock photos (looksmaxxers).

The new logo. The letter weights is way off. The L looks anemic.

The logo can be saved with few tweaks. Those people in the photos need to go back to the Abercrombie website. (what should you use instead? Tux, obviously.)


Yes - the logo does need a little work. Maybe the font is the wrong choice? And the L perhaps needs something. It almost looks as though they're leaving room for another L to make an LLM logo.

I like most of the styling, though.


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