That’s a good point!
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The fact we basically lost OLED for 6+ years is such a bummer.
Maybe it’s aspirational.
You know how they say right wing voters are just embarrassed future millionaires?
I’m curious how well it handles lighting from unseen light sources that otherwise didn’t contribute as much to the scene as they should have. Same thing goes from reflections.
I expect a lot of nonsense being hallucinated in those areas.
And Nvidia claims it will release without the need for a second 50 series card this year.
Lots of bullshit being laid out by Nvidia here.
It’s like green washing.
Google does it with Android too.
So the bullshit can then be blamed on the user? I doubt it. They will still blame the AI when mistakes are made.
Cognitive atrophy will continue.
Rifftrax is a legally distinct different product produced years after MST3K ended. Their product was selling you audio tracks of their riffs/jokes that you then played synced up with a dvd. They also put out videos for some movies, especially shorts, where they could legally distribute the original video too. So they rarely, if ever licensed movies for Rifftrax. But for MST3K they always licensed the movies.
In recent years, Rifftrax has gotten more licenses in order and they started putting their content on YouTube free. But again, only stuff that is public domain or stuff they could license.
Also, Rifftrax was always audio only. No puppets, no interstitial segments, no silhouettes at the bottom of the screen like in MST3K.
This new project involves getting new movies, lots of the old production people, the puppets, a set, etc. together to make a few new proper MST3K episodes.
Joel was not involved with Rifftrax afaik. He ws involved in something called cinematic titanic. That was much closer to MST3K in style and production (they had silhouettes). I get the impression Rifftrax was the more successful venture.
The Netflix stuff was associated with Joel too. Not Mike.
I don’t really know all the Joel / Mike stuff and where and why different groups of people associated with MST3K went in their own directions doing similar MST3K style projects post season 10 of MST3K. It seems like everyone involved in the original show never really moved on to anything else in some ways. But I’m probally being rude and ignorant saying that. Rifftrax, Cinematic Titanic, the Netflix MST3K continuation, and now the Rifftrax MST3K continuation are all basically the same riffing thing.
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Claiming something is still in progress and that major change can happen before release is a classic tech industry public relations game, and too many “influencers” take it at face value.
cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/37907
Some readers may recall the Lynx-R1 headset — it was conceived as an Android virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) headset with built-in hand tracking, designed to be open where others were closed, allowing developers and users access to inner workings in defiance of walled gardens. It looked very promising, with features rivaling (or surpassing) those of its contemporaries.
Founder [Stan Larroque] recently announced that Lynx’s 6DoF SLAM (simultaneous location and mapping) solution has been released as open source. ORB-SLAM3 (GitHub repository) takes in camera images and outputs a 6DoF pose, and does so effectively in real-time. The repository contains some added details as well as a demo application that can run on the Lynx-R1 headset.
The unusual optics are memorable. (Hands-on Lynx-R1 by Antony Vitillo)
As a headset the Lynx-R1 had a number of intriguing elements. The unusual optics, the flip-up design, and built-in hand tracking were impressive for its time, as was the high-quality mixed reality pass-through. That last feature refers to the headset using its external cameras as inputs to let the user see the real world, but with the ability to have virtual elements displayed and apparently anchored to real-world locations. Doing this depends heavily on the headset being able to track its position in the real world with both high accuracy and low latency, and this is what ORB-SLAM3 provides.
A successful crowdfunding campaign for the Lynx-R1 in 2021 showed that a significant number of people were on board with what Lynx was offering, but developing brand new consumer hardware is a challenging road for many reasons unrelated to developing the actual thing. There was a hands-on at a trade show in 2021 and units were originally intended to ship out in 2022, but sadly that didn’t happen. Units still occasionally trickle out to backers and pre-orders according to the unofficial Discord, but it’s safe to say things didn’t really go as planned for the R1.
It remains a genuinely noteworthy piece of hardware, especially considering it was not a product of one of the tech giants. If we manage to get our hands on one of them, we’ll certainly give you a good look at it.
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I guess they should verify the age of the gamblers…