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Very much agree; this is what we're doing at http://stirlinglabs.com for large-scale engineering.

There are haptic capabilities to give some feedback... and the software can place the whiteboard where there is a physical wall for you to press against if you wanted it to, it doesn't have to be "writing in air".

It doesn't have to be "as good as there" to be significantly useful, especially if you're not there just to talk.

AR is really only useful when the object or information you're visualising is smaller than the room you're currently in. That includes a lot of things and works for a lot of situations but most of the world doesn't fit inside a room.

The opposition had a list of changes that they were requiring for passage of the bill but caved at the last minute to pass the bill before the end of the year and announce that they would be changing it in the first sitting session next year.

Passage of this bill seems to have been all about the government attempting to create short-term political opportunities and the opposition attempting to minimise their short-term political risk. With effective lobbying, it seems reasonable to assume that the ongoing legal part of this mess can be fixed. Hopefully the reputational damage won't be too severe.

If you are writing a web app maybe, if you’re writing a VR app, it’s definitely not that easy.

If the sensors are giving the software false altitude readings, how would your heuristics help?

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So the accounting practices that MSFT got in trouble for (as I recall, pulling and pushing sales into different quarters to smooth growth and suit projections) was the stock price taking care of itself?

We are implementing a similar concept using VR. To us http://stirlinglabs.com the choice between AR & VR is simply if the object of the discussion fits into the room or not. For our customers creating massive structures such as ships, hospitals or airports, a tiny scale model sitting on a desk using AR isn’t particularly useful or interesting. They are more interested in switching their existing room for a space in their new structure.

I don’t recall the specific numbers anymore but the amount of metal that Apple machines, transports and sells each year is similar to a smaller car company. Why should those pieces of metal only be small?

Have you looked at the press release that yazr linked to? It sounds like this is a new design for Terrapower that is similar to the concept that you prefer. It would be great for someone that is familiar with the design issues to confim if this is the case.

Does Ultralight provide a pixel buffer or just on-screen rendering?

If they are still on the other side of the roundabout (and there are no other cars), can't you safely enter the roundabout anyway?

My understanding is that the goal behind a roundabout is to create an intersection where any vehicles that enter are traveling in a similar direction, improving the capability of people to avoid crashing and reducing the seriousness of crashes that do occur between vehicles.

As I understand, fan boost allows the selected car to use more energy for a small amount of time. However, it doesn’t increase the amount of energy the car has available. The driver will still need to account for that somewhere else in that lap or another. also, it’s one-time per race. It might allow a single pass but it’s not going to make a huge change to the results.

Is this a Qualcomm PR effort?

It's not plateaued, both manufacturers are simply trying to establish a solid platform for content to be targeted at. Think of it like game consoles; the idea is to make content easier and more profitable to create, in order to provide more value for consumers, creating a virtuous cycle. Fragmenting the market further by announcing marginally better hardware is not helpful for that goal.

Both HTC & Oculus have already shipped improvements to their existing hardware and I expect that to continue until the next generation of hardware is announced. Specifically:

- HTC has upgraded the tether, audio & head strap, revamped the packaging twice, are about to release trackers, are likely gearing up to release upgraded hand controllers and also new laser tracking hardware.

- Oculus have shipped their hand controllers, plus now support room-scale configurations with multiple cameras.

The list of software improvements on both platforms is much longer, so I won't bother but real-use performance continues to improve with the same hardware.

Source: VR Dev.

Like many here, I appreciate the design and feel of the product.

It looks like you're experimenting with a desktop app (although you don't mention which platforms) is there any work on mobile apps? I couldn't find any mention of them on your website.

Although the bulk of our Trello usage is on desktops, being able to access and respond to notifications when away from the desk/office/laptop are deal breakers for our team.

VR might take a while to become a viable mainstream entertainment medium but there are sizeable niches that can sustain businesses as development catches up with the hype. Location-based entertainment, hardcore home VR games and enterprise products all seem to be reasonably solid markets, even if they don't scale up to the dizzying heights some expect them to reach.

We have a design meeting and visualisation tool for engineers and desginers to discuss projects with their management, clients and other domain experts. This has significant benefit for our customers and it will not go away anytime soon.

Perhaps the hype cycle will cause the current HMD manufacturers to exit the market and VR will retreat to these niches but it's definitely not going away.

We're trying to avoid the deep sea getting hot, remember?

Put the powerwall on the train as well and use both :)

You can wash clothes while you're not there. It's even possible to schedule the washing so that it's done near the end of the light cycle so they don't sit in the machine for long after they are clean.

> The burden of proof for unauthorised transactions is _never_ on the consumer.

It's true that the merchant has to prove that the consumer made the purchase. However, the burden is still on the consumer, since they still have to service the transaction until the dispute process is resolved.

It's not just "poof it's gone" here.

In Australia, if you dispute a credit card transaction, it still counts against your limit and your required repayments until the dispute is resolved. This can take months and be more than inconvenient.

What about SMI already tracking pupils at 250Hz? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq09BTmjzRs That tech is still expensive and I don't know how accurate or reliable but if it is good enough for foveated rendering, I would have expected it to be good enough for focus as well. Care to elaborate as to why it wouldn't work, or is it just beyond your horizon of "today"?

You seem to be conflating the choice; really, it's a choice of adding Google to the list of MITM or not. This system can't remove your mobile carrier from the circuit or stop them playing with your data.

Anonymous but verifiable/auditable online voting is a very hard problem that does not seem to be solved yet. How do you ensure that the remote voter gets one and only one vote while also being able to audit that the intended vote was recorded (it wasn't changed on the wire, in memory or on storage), without linking in any way the vote cast with the voter?

Ensuring that remote voting is not done under any form of duress or monitoring seems essentially unsolvable.

Incidentally, voting in state elections is compulsory in NSW so your example doesn't fit this case either way.