Sunday, 27 April 2025
quote [ "It's so incredibly 2020s coded that Pokémon Go is being used to build an AI system which will almost inevitably end up being used by automated weapons systems to kill people," tweeted Elise Thomas, OSINT analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in the UK. ]
From last november .. the article links to more reporting plus the actual Achieve Spatial Intelligence article from Niantic itself. Also, last month they split off the spatial tech part and sold the games division?
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Monday, 13 May 2024
quote [ A new course at University of Hawaii at Manoa rethinks historic preservation, having enrollees design digital twins of notable structures so that people can experience them virtually ]
The historic building is overgrown with ivy
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Wednesday, 26 July 2023
quote [ This is the last episode of the Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality headset build. Doing a recap of all the steps it took to get here, test out the headset and create an augmented reality digital User Interface. ]
Pretty sweet. Ever since the Big Screen hmd has been teased I've been wanting to build myself a face fitted interface. He does a whole video on his process, so may be one day I'll finally get my own.
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Tuesday, 4 April 2023
quote [ Programmer Jessica Card has hooked up OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to a stripped-down Furby. And the results are just as hair-raising as you'd expect.
So there we have it. Is this truly the end of days as we know it? The little critters are clearly capable of some pretty horrible stuff. Remember when they were banned by the NSA back in the 90s? ] For someone ignoring the subject/field.
What makes GTP-4 better then a glorified early 2000's Chat Bot that's been prettied up and give access to multithreads and computation power?
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Monday, 3 April 2023
quote [ Using different combinations of tongue-maneuvering on the shaft, the Gagwriter taps out letters like a real keyboard. ]
I'm up to 48 words a minute!
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Friday, 16 September 2022
quote [ Half Life 2: VR Mod is a third-party mod for the 2004 PC gaming classic by Valve Software. It allows players to experience the world of Half Life 2 in virtual reality. ]
The HL2 VR mod releases today on steam. Looking forward to trying it one of these days. Haven't been able to do much VR lately.
HL2 VR Mod on steam Someone made a mod for the mod that kinda gives it a Borderlands feel. HL2 VR - Comic Book Mod Released - link available in description - YouTube Also somebody made a DIY haptic gun that works with Half Life Alyx.
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Thursday, 8 September 2022
quote [ Adult Haptics Ecosystem with Kyle Machulis, better known as qDot, founder and CEO of Nonpolynomail.
Fantastic conversation spanning from the tremendous growth of the adult haptics ecosystem, the challenges of defining your target technology map, and the impacts of remote agency on your personal space. A must listen. ] This is the guy from Buttplug.io, I've posted about a few times. Great watch. Sadly, my own recent development work with The Handy has found the API to be lacking the response time needed for fine control of remote teledildonics. Your partner can control stroke speed, but any sort of one to one movement (which you would want in VR control) just doesn't work yet. But I've got ideas.
For my mookies. ?
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Wednesday, 10 August 2022
quote [ We've been rather busy in your absence, Mister Freeman. The wait is nearly over, and the Half-Life 2: VR public beta is launching in September. And yes, we do mean this year! :) ]
Honestly, can't remember if I played Half Life 2 or not, but definitely looking forward to this.
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quote [ KAT Walk C 2 is now LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! ]
I really, really want to play with one of these. But I'll probably just end up doing a cheap DIY one.?
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Wednesday, 11 May 2022
quote [ Appearing like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, this giant humanoid robot can lift up special equipment and carry out maintenance work on out-of-reach railway contact lines in Japan. ]
Lol pretty sure I mentioned a setup like this a few years ago while talking about how VR is going to advance automation through training neural networks.
Also I wish America was a real country with an up to date rail infrastructure. ?
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