That bit in Half-Life 2? Where you have to cross a jacked up bridge, disable a force-field, and then cross back?
Not so fun in 3D. Especially not when you fall.
Edit: Mostly just the sensation of something rapidly accelerating towards your face. Even without the other two, it’s enough to trigger a fairly decent reflexive reaction.
I’m lucky enough that I don’t generally suffer nausea or motion sickness, but I could see it happening for some. Same goes for fear - despite a fairly healthy fear of heights, I can’t say I’ve felt that entirely when using a Rift. I have felt a moment of brief weirdness when experimenting with infinite projection matrices, but that only lasted until I didn’t actually fall into the perceived infinite void.
That said… A lot of it seems to tie into how well your body handles conflicting sensations between your visual and vestibular system. A lot of people are reporting things like the loading screens being really nauseating because it is a static screen, and if you turn your head the view doesn’t shift whereas your other senses are telling you it should. This also seems to be one of the leading causes of nausea for most people aside from the actual steroscopic bits being misconfigured.
Like I said, it generally doesn’t effect me. I have noticed that the sensation it causes is significantly more pronounced if you are standing up, though.
Hacker serving 5-year sentence invents ATM add-on to prevent theft
Boanta’s arrest in 2009 spurred him to develop the anti-theft device to make amends. “When I got caught I became happy. This liberation opened the way to working for the good side,” Boanta told Reuters. “Crime was like a drug for me. After I was caught, I was happy I escaped from this adrenaline addiction. So that the other part, in which I started to develop security solutions, started to emerge.”
Yup.
At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom
Exhibit A:
Often, Google Glass owners looked strange. Many were using their cellphones while wearing the glasses — defeating a declared purpose of the new gadget, to free you from having to look at your phone. Another man continually looked at his watch to check the time, even through the glasses display a clock right above your eye.
Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time.
Melon: A Headband and Mobile App to Measure Your Focus
The Melon headband is a wireless brain-sensing device that uses EEG (electroencephalography) to measure your brain activity. From this activity, our algorithms detect your focus, and we use that data to give you personalized feedback on how to improve.
Interesting. It’s low cost, wireless EEG designed to be worn while active. My guess is that it’s single channel only, and despite missing a few features it is cheaper than the headbands that NeuroSky makes. As a bonus, they are talking about full access to sensor output, application SDK’s, and making it capable of working with other devices.
What’s the tradeoff? Just how suitable is this thing for use?
“If you see two numbers but they’re both the same and you have to squint to read them, you have synesthesia, colorblindness, diplopia, and myopia.”
That moment when you start to think that Randall Munroe has just decided to troll everyone…
For reference, I can’t see anything in it. Just numbers. So many numbers.
Source: xkcd.com
httpebble
httpebble is a scheme for communicating with the internet from the Pebble, using a generic protocol and without any application-specific code running on the phone.
I have some serious concerns over the long term viability of the Pebble as a product (especially considering this is basically a gigantic hack), but this is still wicked cool. It also only took about 5 minutes to get up and running on my own hardware/server.
I think that once I am done with homework for the evening I will be updating the app to use location information from the phone, instead of hardcoded values…
