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PortalVR Motion – use any VR content in 2D with 3D tracked Joy-Cons

portalvr.io
43 points·by gfodor·hace 2 meses·6 comments

PortalVR lets you play VR content without wearing a headset

portalvr.io
1 points·by gfodor·hace 7 meses·0 comments

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1 points·by gfodor·hace 8 meses·0 comments

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1 points·by gfodor·hace 8 meses·0 comments

PortalVR: XR Without a Headset

portalvr.io
29 points·by gfodor·hace 9 meses·18 comments

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gfodor
·hace 23 días·discuss
You can just run more tests to get increased statistical power.
gfodor
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Good feedback, thanks! I am using Polar for license keys, that's just how it works.
gfodor
·hace 9 meses·discuss
Saying we don’t understand why LLMs are intelligent is both true and completely unrelated to religion. You inserted the word “spirit” so perhaps you are the one conflating the two.
gfodor
·hace 9 meses·discuss
Correct, my opinions have nothing to do with financials. If I was around for the discovery of fire I wouldn’t be wondering about the impact on the bottom line.
gfodor
·hace 9 meses·discuss
If Acetaminophen started exhibiting signs of human level intelligence I would have a similar perspective
gfodor
·hace 9 meses·discuss
It’s not a religious angle, we literally don’t know how or why these models work.

Yes we know how to grow them, but we don’t know what is actually going on inside of them. This is why Anthropic’s CEO wrote the post he did about the need for massive investment in interpretability.

It should rattle you that deep learning has these emergent capabilities. I don’t see any reason to think we will see another winter.
gfodor
·hace 9 meses·discuss
Yep, this time it’s different.
gfodor
·hace 9 meses·discuss
I’m saying that seeing dubious economics is blinding people from accepting what’s actually going on with neural networks, and it leads to them having a profoundly miscalibrated mental model. This is not like analyzing a typical tech cycle. We are dealing with something here that we don’t really understand and transcends basic models like “it’s just a really good tool.”
gfodor
·hace 9 meses·discuss
Yeah, I know. It’s weird to admit this kind of obvious error in public though, speaks to a very big epistemological hole on your part.
gfodor
·hace 9 meses·discuss
Do people really buy this nonsense? I mean just this week Sora 2 is creating videos that were unimaginable a few months ago. People writing these screeds at this point to me seem like they’re going through some kind of coping mechanism that has nothing to do with the financials of AI companies and everything to do with their own personal fears around what’s happening with machine intelligence.
gfodor
·hace 9 meses·discuss
I tried that and it made the gameplay worse since it harmed your ability to control the camera precisely with your hand. The goal of this is primarily to enable gameplay, and secondarily to deliver a portal effect.
gfodor
·hace 9 meses·discuss
That’s not the main app, that’s the controller app you install on a phone to use with the main app. The main app must be side loaded, because Google will not approve it in the Play store since it installs third party apps.
gfodor
·hace 9 meses·discuss
I video it and demo it on a tablet since it helps make it clear how it works, but my preferred display device is a Galaxy Fold. Pockets great, and is a nice comfortable size when unfolded.
gfodor
·hace 9 meses·discuss
I was going to name it Portal, but I named it PortalVR to minimize confusion.

It’s called PortalVR because there is no better name to describe what it’s like to play VR this way. It is like playing games by looking through a portal you hold in your hand.
gfodor
·hace 2 años·discuss
Claude's better.
gfodor
·hace 2 años·discuss
Stop whatever you're doing right now and go sign up for $20/mo at claude.ai and use Claude Opus. There's something like 20 or 30 IQ points you can add to your experience by just doing this simple step.
gfodor
·hace 2 años·discuss
When I went to school office hours was where you went if you wanted to get hints on what you needed to know for the exam, not to learn stuff. It was a means to an end. Honestly I never even considered the idea that office hours could help me better understand the material. Goes to show you what the mind of a college student is like.
gfodor
·hace 3 años·discuss
It’s resolved once William and Mary are done.
gfodor
·hace 3 años·discuss
Yeah the odds are extremely low but the case isn’t closed yet. There is ongoing analysis of the actual samples.
gfodor
·hace 3 años·discuss
"A crystal of pure LK-99" is an oxymoron, LK-99, the physical substance in Korea, is not a pure crystal.