Readit Newsdmarcos commented on Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset blog.google/products/andr... · Posted by u/thelastgallon
I feel like this tech always misses real life usecases. I mean yes sure we do watch movies... But are you really going to sit in the headset for 2 hours straight. It's physically... Biologically(?) Uncomfortable.
Then when they say - explore Google Maps - ok. Fun. But for what? 10 minutes? How prominent is that need/activity in our life?
All usecases that Apple and now Google/Samsung showcase are "imaginary", wishful thinking usecases. They don't stick. They are more like "party-tricks" than something that can integrate into our lives and fill in a certain gap.
I’ve been in XR for a decade and there’s a big gap between people that make the headsets and those that use them. The actual use cases are too niche for the big companies to care long term so they have to invent narratives that don’t manifest. IMO, Valve focusing a headset in the best possible gaming experience is the only one well positioned for an honest play in the space.
How does this page not immediately address what I assume is everyone's first question?
Is this browser built on Chromium, or is it a completely fresh creation?
I have to assume that because they AREN'T highlighting it that it IS built on Chromium.
99.9% is based on Chromium. Would have taken ages to ship otherwise. It's great to see how much Chromium has lowered the bar for people to be able to ship new browsers.
dmarcos commented on NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy github.com/karpathy/nanoc... · Posted by u/huseyinkeles
the shakespeare code tuned a little with different training data does a good job of generating Magic The Gathering commander decks
I like the idea of specific-purpose toy models. How did you tune the code and what dataset you used?
Limited access beta preview
dmarcos commented on Meta announces Oakley smart glasses theverge.com/news/690133/... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
> I have a harder time seeing a world where people ditch phones and start voluntarily wearing glasses which is often uncomfortable and inconvenient
I see this world all the time at the beach; lots of people wear sunglasses there.
To be able to see and remove them as soon as they can. And even in those scenarios not everybody wear them. Run my own little study at beaches, concerts and other outdoor activities and noticed less people wear glasses than I was expecting in ideal conditions to do so (<50%)
This is immensely useful tech for blocking out consistent scenes, eg. for video generation.
Beyond entertainment, this is going to be huge in the field of robotics.
I wish you could see what I see.