Step counters use the phone accelerometers which the phone also uses to notice its own orientation. They measure longer distances with GPS. I haven’t yet seen a phone that can detect your heart rate by itself. Some wristwatches/fitness bands do it using an electrical sensor (electromyograph) on your wrist, and send the info to your phone by Bluetooth.
I think one of the Pixels or one of the old nexus devices could read heart rate through the camera somehow, but you had to put a big fingerprint on the lense so it was useless to most people.
Samsung phones used to be able to measure heart rate along with blood oxygenation. Not sure when they stopped, but I know one of my old galaxy's had it, either the 5 or 8.
I haven’t actually tried myself; but I’ve read many DRMs can be defeated by simply running the service in a VM, then screen recording the VM from the host.
Try to directly screen capture Netflix for example, and the webpage will appear as a solid black box in the recording; but not if the capture is done from outside the VM.
Got thru the first 3 images, that’s all I need to see. Why the fuck does anyone care when or whether someone else is getting married. Just mind your own fucking life.
Played Yakuza 0 and loved it. Yakuza 1’s substories and mini games aren’t nearly as interesting as 0’s and definitely didn’t pull me in as deeply but I’m still invested enough to finish it I think
Yakuza 0 is such a high point in the series, 1 just can’t compare even with a remake. That damn sad substory music from 0 still plays in my head everytime I see a villain in media who was sad, once.
It has three sensors that notice if it is changing speed up/down, left/right or back/forth.
A step will result in a speed increase up (foot go from still to up), followed by a sharp speed increase down (foot go from up to down), then “up” again (foot go from down to stop).
Going up a stair causes the same but different timing between the speed changes.
If you are on Android, the Physics Toolbox Suite can let you look at the exact values it is measuring.
Well how about that. I’ve debated making my own pedometer app. I’m assuming there are tutorials online how to do that, but this might be fun to just play with for a bit.
In addition to that, it uses GPS, WiFi, and Bluetooth signals to pinpoint your location very precisely, and can use that to calculate the distances you travel and the number of steps it takes you to get there.
It can also put all of these data points together to tell things like your height and weight. It can only guesstimate things like your heart rate based on your age and BMI, but smartwatches these days have actual heart rate monitors, and pulse and oxygen meters built-in and can share that data with your phone.
in the quest to fill an outer wilds-shaped hole in my life I have picked up and am currently playing The Witness, Fez, and The Talos Principle. Also I’ve been slowly working my way through Chips Challenge and The Baba is You since like 2020.
Those are some nice games and while nothing could yet fill the Outer Wild shaped hole for me (except the DLC, play that one if you haven’t yet) I can also recommend the following games which are in one way or another similar (but again: only in certain parts, nothing is like OW yet):
Heaven’s Vault (very multi-branching/non-linear adventure where you learn to decipher a fictional language while traveling through space with your robot companion, great writing & world building)
Eastshade (relaxing open world with great atmosphere & without combat where you solve quests by painting pictures)
Return of the Obra Dinn (nice logic game where I really felt like a detective and also wanted to figure the story out)
Disco Elysium (contender with OW for Best Game Ever in my mind. Wonderful, life like characters and the writing plays your emotions like an instrument from laughing to crying and back. Pirate it however, since the original developers got duped out of their studio)
Also: play the Talos Principle DLC if you like the atmosphere and style of the main game. I really enjoyed the forum/community board feeling from the imprisoned robots in the DLC as somebody who lived through the 2000’s internet era.
Max Payne, first time playing since I bought the game nearly 15 years ago believe it or not. I plan on playing Max Payne 2 (which I’ve never completed) next.
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