On this week’s episode, Will, Norm, and Jeremy discuss the Oculus Rift annoucement, the unveil of the Oculus Touch VR controller, the latest news from WWDC, including OSX El Capitan, iOS 9, WatchOS 2, and the first solar sail tests. Enjoy!
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They should have made the microphone a stand for the headset, missed opportunity there.
Metal is really a bad thing. We already have a proprietary, vendor specific API with DirectX. Vulkan (OpenGL Next) is already going to do what Metal was designed to do, so it’s really redundant. The best case scenario with Metal is that it’ll die a quiet death.
I am looking forward to Norm (and Will’s) video review of the Asus ZenFone 2.. 🙏
solar sail doesn’t catch photons, photons have no mass they won’t generate force on collision with the sail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind “It consists of mostly electrons, protons and alpha particles”
“Even though photons (the particle aspect of light) have no mass, they still carry momentum. This leads to applications such as the solar sail.” From the Momentum Wikipedia entry. Quite fascinating how all this stuff works and very cool. Same general idea seems to hold though, at least from a layperson’s viewpoint.
I think Metal is good overall. Too bad they need it to prop up the base integrated or ,at best, middling graphic solutions they put in their “pro” computers.
The Apple TV being the hub for home kit is scary, I have never seen a product that loses sync with the network and needs to be restarted as much as the Apple TV. Without drastic improvement on that front the Apple TV seems like it will be a miserable hub for your home automation.
Will, in your talk about the Playstation TV, you mentioned that “it has all the Vita apps for media streaming, like Netflix…” I don’t have a Playstation TV myself, but as far as I know it doesn’t actually support Netflix or even Youtube for that matter, with slim hope of them ever being supported. Even Hulu plus was added just 3-4 months back. I think you can maybe install the apps but not actually run them.
Just hope nobody wen’t running out to get this as a Roku/Chromecast alternative after listening to the podcast. Also worth noting is the max resolution it outputs is 720p, that also applies to the few streaming services it does offer.
Looking forward to my pebble time steel. Put a bootleg Apple watchface on it and I am set. It’s gonna be great!
i just tried using the code for lootcrate and it was not accepted. Seems like the offer was only for the US as I am in Australia
GPS is not an accurate description for the tracking method that the oculus employs. The valve lighthouse system may work this way, although I don’t know if internal clocks are even remotely fast/accurate enough to give that sub millimeter position. I can guarantee that oculus is not timing the led pulses for distance, though. The infrared LED’s pulse at an identifier frequency, which allows the tracking system to know which led it is, that is all the pulsing does. Everything past that point is based off of known geometry and optics. If you lock the camera’s optics so the lens is fixed, and you place at least three points to track, a single camera can take the points it sees and figure out distance,position and rotation with some simple geometry. With the sheer amount of led’s placed on the oculus, they just might be able to get the kind of precision you want, given a high enough resolution camera. I’m excited to see what happens with this.
Also something that has not been discussed, but I’m sure oculus has thought about.. You can add a second camera, just like a second lighthouse, to increase trackable area. only issue then is calibration and optimization of camera placement.
re: 360 wireless dongles
it is not hard to find them standalone.. maybe it was in the past.
You’re right it doesn’t. I bought one when my PS3 in my living room started having issues and I immediately returned it once I learned that the “PS Vita” Netflix app is DOA on the PlayStation TV and that Netflix has said they have no plans to support the PlayStation TV.
Haha, I was listening to today’s Idle Thumbs podcast and Remo mentioned how your Oculus “O-Face” is used constantly anytime VR porn is discussed. I had a good laugh. It’s at about 53:00 in if you want to listen.