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This sort of aggressive argument obscures the meaning and intent of the actual article in favor of some kind of editorial flavoring issue.
This behavior is warranted at times but here it just argumentative for no purpose.
The hair splitting meme around "monopoly" and effective monopoly power (and the common meaning of these terms) is just ugly.
edit - btw I just noticed
"Sartù di Riso: A baked rice dish that can include ingredients like meat, peas, and cheese, often bound together with eggs. It’s more commonly associated with Naples but has variations in Sicily."
Was one of the 4 dishes in the question I submitted.
So... was it contradictory actually?
I took part of your blog post (which you clear were willing to put a few more tokens into) -
"My mother remembers growing up with a sicilian dish that was primarily rice baked in an egg mixture. Roughly a "rice frittata". What are some distinctly Sicilian dishes that this could be referring to?"
Notice there is not much extra context that you've offered any of us, either the LLM or us. You didn't even tell us what the recipe was...
How was the dish served, what did it look like?
What are you expecting of the LLM here? It not a psychic AGI.
Click latency is not too useful vs swipe latency.
Bluetooth has a pretty low polling rate iirc and that kills the swipe latency.
More generally and responsive to what we were talking about, proprietary radios are not bluetooth and they are not WiFi which is the latency we are actually talking about (which is usable but not for me to play elden ring by direct experience).
From what I can discern its missing important bits of the controller and doesn't have any steaminput profile etc so it's clunky still.
Worth poking at though.
edit - to clarify, ideally steaminput would be tricked on the host to think that it "was" a steamdeck so all the mapping features would be available. I don't really need another usb game controller its more the steamdeck touchpad etc.
Even a bluetooth mouse has too much latency for many games.
redirecting my steamdeck control via usb to my linux gaming rig and expose it as a usb device(s) for steaminput.
It seems like a natural and perhaps even "straightforward" hack but I've seen no evidence of one so far, perhaps there is something in usb that limits the ability to proxy it correctly.
https://www.youtube.com/@OlliHuttunen78
edit - I just realized you want a mesh :) for which Gaussian splatting is not there yet! BUT there are multiple papers which are exploring adding gaussians to a mesh thats progressively refined, I think its inevitable based on what's needed for editing and usecases just like yours.
You could start exploring and compiling footage and testing and maybe it will work out but ...
Here is a news site focused on the field -
"where are my keys?"
It should be able to respond -
"Here on the dining room table" with an astar path drawn to them in the headset.
It's a stream of tokens that you can almost just reverse search on to find the last instance of "keys" in it (thats a simplification but...).
Looks pretty useable to me...
The semantic understanding of the objects around you (without upload to a server).
A detailed set of actual meshes of the objects in your living and working spaces.
So much can be built on this key building block, to actually help people with their daily lives, low vision people are only one group that will see massive benefits.
I also think this technique could and should be extended generally into computer vision applications, understanding semantic meaning, volumes and masses via the often highly structured environments around us.
Starting from a principled position of meaning, volumes and meshes and then training to assign gaussian splats to those meshes seems like something clever people could solve a lot of problems with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylactic_acid#Degradation
No mention of its actual life cycle as it turns into a microplastic ie so it should be presumed dangerous in the same ways.
First google has been asleep and not contributing much to XR for several very important years.
Second meta's version of android (the vr shell is my focus) is an awkward pile of jank and fail. It doesn't feel well done in practical terms.
I like android and what facebook has done is just... bad android.
That said they've been helping moving forward in positive ways with openxr/webxr standards implementations work.
I look forward to a large pile of opensource being contributed to the larger XR community by things getting mainlined into android.
We'll see what google can manage these days with their samsung headset incoming.
Seems pretty straightforward as a start.
I love it when someone smarter and more diligent than me does the work :)
That big span of numbers should be fairly revealing of its display capabilities, with all the lines and columns.
How is the fringing and aliasing as you look at different angles?
Is a large pdf filled with math and tables comfortable to spend a few hours with taking notes?
Buildkit doesn't look too useful(?) with podman as some of its better features are built in to podman.
Great work.
It's an almost straight port of normal android into the headset which is at least familiar but they've really not made any progress in making it more VR and comfortable over time. Lots of small tweaking of whats probably not a great overall fit for VR.
For a direct example look at the room boundary system and setup.
Even with the new depth sensor and the color passthrough, it fails to figure out whether a table is a surface or a pillow of polygons, it fails to set reasonable wall boundaries (and then the ui is awful for addressing that) and then it nags and irritates people with those failures and misunderstandings.
Last I checked, the room software still only stores one room in your house. If you go to your kitchen for your coffee... remake the room boundary over again.
This is very fundamental for any AR to be built on and its terrible and unreliable.
Edit- also, last I checked, if you turn off boundary nagging with the devtools you cannot use the passthrough mode whatsoever.
For those paying attention, the technical VR "stuff that works" is basically written by Qualcomm.
The user side Android system is, really badly done and irritating for people using it as people like Carmack have pointed out.
This is possible the biggest software development blunder in history, they seem to have spent 10-20 billion dollars on... Qualcomm making a good vr headset for them and them failing to deliver a good experience with it.
Rust implementation of the matrix server stack