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Re: Meta aims to make Quest 3's room scanning more automatic

andybak — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 11:10:31 -0000

This sounds great in theory what's actually going to happen is we will lose the ability to manually fix errors in the scan without sufficient compensating improvement in the scanning quality.

And as usual all testing will be done on spacious minimalist American homes and it will fail horribly with small cluttered British homes.

Re: Shiftall Reveals Quest ‘Expansion’ Controller, New SteamVR Controllers

andybak — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:06:37 -0000

at the estimated price of $299-$399.

Lol. Ok.

Re: How to Zip Files with the Python S3fs Library + Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

andybak — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 06:04:58 -0000

I think the two diagrams are incorrectly swapped?

Re: 25 Free Games & Apps Quest 3S Owners Should Download First

andybak — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 05:30:14 -0000

I'm getting deja vu all over again...

Re: Microsoft and Sony Join Other Industry Giants in Support of OpenUSD Standard

andybak — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 06:26:57 -0000

If you know anyway to use USD at runtime on Android then let me know. Until then it's a pipe-dream for XR dev.

Re: Microsoft and Sony Join Other Industry Giants in Support of OpenUSD Standard

andybak — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 06:26:18 -0000

What's horrible about GLTF?

Re: 25 Free Games & Apps Quest 3S Owners Should Download First

andybak — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 06:25:09 -0000

Still here. Still working on it for free for the community. It's still one of the best free apps out there.

Re: Global Hackathon for Vision Pro Development, Vision Hack, Kicks Off Next Month

andybak — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:41:52 -0000

This would be a good time for Unity to announce they no longer require a Unity Pro licence to use VisionOS specific features.

Surely that didn't go down well at Apple HQ?

Re: Google’s Early VR Modeling Tool ‘Blocks’ is Getting Revived as Open Source Software

andybak — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:36:22 -0000

You seem nice.

Re: Pros and Cons of Tilt Brush for Designers

andybak — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:35:51 -0000

Congratulations on what might be the worst review of Tilt Brush I've ever read. Bonus points for the crap stock art.

But I guess when the sole reason you're writing words is to game the search engines then it doesn't really matter in the end?

Re: Meta to Dissolve App Lab Next Month, Putting More Steam Behind Early Access Program

andybak — Tue, 14 May 2024 15:53:17 -0000

So - several days late with the news and with a very shallow and uncritical analysis?

Re: Meta is Removing a Host of Features from ‘Workrooms’, Requiring Users to Download Files Before June

andybak — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:23:28 -0000

Scott - don't want to be harsh but do a bit more journalism next time. This is a slightly reworded version of the official blog post.

Where's the analysis? Why does this matter? Does it matter?

Re: Live Action VR Series ‘The Faceless Lady’ Debuts in ‘Horizon Worlds’ Next Month

andybak — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 10:03:04 -0000

It's a 360 video. It's not VR unless it's 6DOF. And while I'm at it - Apple's Spatial Video isn't...

Re: Apple: Vision Pro Will Have 600+ Native Apps Ready at Launch

andybak — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:35:21 -0000

Want want to dial back that "fan boy" vibe a touch there, mate.

Re: 25 Free Games & Apps Quest 3S Owners Should Download First

andybak — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 16:01:11 -0000

Is there a reason you never include Open Brush? Not as if it's not a continuation of a multi award winning classic app or anything... That and the whole "community run, open source" thing... Hurumph...

Re: ‘LEGO Bricktales’ Quest Review – VR Brick-building Done Right

andybak — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 04:32:13 -0000

I think "n/a" would be more appropriate for some of the comfort settings. They are kinda geared towards first-person play styles and something more "table top" doesn't really have the same comfort requirements.

Re: Varjo XR-4 Will Get a SteamVR Tracking Variant and Sell Direct to Prosumers

andybak — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:17:13 -0000

How the hell does SteamVR tracking cost $1000 more than camera-based tracking? I would have expected it to be cheaper if anything. Are they including the price of the base stations?

Re: Vision Pro Isn’t Here Yet, But You Can Already Start Capturing Spatial Video on Your iPhone

andybak — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:31:51 -0000

Maybe he's never tried a 3D TV

Re: Vision Pro Isn’t Here Yet, But You Can Already Start Capturing Spatial Video on Your iPhone

andybak — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:30:43 -0000

That video clearly shows 6DOF video but everything I've read points to boring old stereoscopic 3D under a fancy new name. Which is it?

Re: Meta Avatars Finally Get Legs on Quest

andybak — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 15:15:04 -0000

No legs is better than bad legs. And I've never seen an IK implementation that wasn't firmly in the uncanny valley. I *like* the stylised floating torso thing. It works aesthetically and isn't as distracting as wonky IK.

Re: AI used photographer’s photos for training, then slapped him with an invoice

andybak — Thu, 04 May 2023 09:26:48 -0000

Sigh... There's more to this than the article implies: https://old.reddit.com/r/Me...

Re: The 300th XR Week Peek (2023.04.10): Meta innovates image segmentation, Chrome implements WebGPU, and more!

andybak — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 12:06:54 -0000

> According to a recent survey, only 4% of American teens use VR daily.
> We hoped for a bit more

What? That number is way higher than I would have expected. So much so that I'm curious about the methodology.

I wouldn't expect 4% of teens to own a headset, let alone use it daily.

What am I missing here?

Re: One of VR’s Most Veteran Studios Has Grown to 200 Employees While Continuing to Double-down on VR

andybak — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:15:53 -0000

Can you be "most veteran"?

Re: Meta Interaction SDK Gets Hand Tracking Teleport Gesture With Demo Game

andybak — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 06:26:48 -0000

>To point to where you teleport you turn your hand to the side and extend
your index finger and thumb while closing your other fingers to your
palm. To perform the teleport, just pinch your index finger to your
thumb.

Thank god for the video. I never would have understood it from this description. The main issue is "turn your hand to the side" - which side??

Re: NVIDIA Explains Why it Believes a Pixar-invented Protocol is the “HTML of the metaverse”

andybak — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:45:49 -0000

And no Android support thus making it useless on most VR/AR devices