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darth_helmet , 4 months ago to technology in Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros

They’re a public company, we’ll get sales figures and enough proxy numbers to have a good guess. Shareholders are going to want to know.

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to technology in Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros

So the quest pro? Foveated rendering only matters if you don’t have the graphics throughput to render it all, so I don’t totally buy that it’s key to a good vr headset so much as helps you get away with cheaper silicon. Maybe enough-lower tdp that it enables slimmer design.

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to technology in Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros

And here I am just thankful that I don’t have to hold the camera with one hand

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to games in Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo?

Path of exile charges for inventory QoL and with the ludicrous amount of different stuff that drops, it’s arguably kind of mandatory if you’re trying to complete seasonal objectives

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to games in Ending Dead Cells updates is a "marketing stunt" to "leave room" for Windblown, claims former lead designer

Well. You probably shouldn’t sell out if you want control of the game’s roadmap.

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to technology in Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire

Literally the wet dream of every gun owner.

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to technology in Apple employees outnumbered customers at Vision Pro launch in San Francisco's Union Square

Very real possibility

darth_helmet , 4 months ago to technology in Apple employees outnumbered customers at Vision Pro launch in San Francisco's Union Square

lol you’re dreaming if you think Apple is going to introduce a new computing platform and not wall its garden off so it can take a cut of all sales. That’s just how it is now, and every year they take a little freedom away from macOS. Mac users haven’t had true root for years.

darth_helmet , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to technology in It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription

Yeah, they have order minimums for some of their shipping options anyway. $25 for same day in my area, but once my membership lapses I bet I still end up getting shit in around the same time

darth_helmet , 5 months ago to technology in Elon Musk's Neuralink implants brain tech in human patient for the first time

There’s a market for this if the tech is good enough and the side effects and reversibility are reasonable. I don’t think it’s particularly likely that Musk is the person to make it happen, but Doc Ock my shit up when it’s ready.

darth_helmet , 5 months ago to games in Rocksteady pulls Suicide Squad an hour into early access after players’ games ‘auto completed’

Yeah I mean you had to buy the deluxe to be in the early access release

darth_helmet , 5 months ago to games in Rocksteady pulls Suicide Squad an hour into early access after players’ games ‘auto completed’

One of these days people will learn to not preorder games

darth_helmet , 5 months ago to world in "Korea Is the World's Most Depressing Country"…an honest travelogue of a famous American writer

Yeah, the genre of cyberpunk in general can be loosely summarized as “it’s the libertarian wet dream future and it sucks”

darth_helmet , 5 months ago to games in Report: Embracer cancels Eidos' unannounced Deus Ex project, lays off staff

Literally the only property of Eidos that I care about, and it was bad enough that the studio wasted so much time on that garbage avengers game rather than finish the deus ex story they left hanging.

darth_helmet , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to technology in Tesla Cybertruck Owners Who Drove 10,000 Miles Say Range Is 164 To 206 Miles

Yes it is a complete friggin coincidence! The meter is 1/10millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the equator (but just so slightly shorter than that due to measurement errors in 18th century France relating to difficulty in measuring how the earth is not-quite-a-sphere), but I’m still not sure why they landed on that ratio or that particular distance. I assume they were looking for a base unit of a size that would be really easy for everyone to estimate: if I asked you to demonstrate a meter, you could approximate it probably within 15% with your hands.