hammerandtongs

You know I'd rather see some of these chrome books with 8g and still in the $300 range.

But thanks, that's actually a nice little machine.

Yes and the 8g models of chromebook (there are 2 right?) are $750+

I'd be interested but ...

4gig ram.

Nice screens, reasonable processing power but they throttle the ram to make you want to spend the $500-750 for the "power" of.... 8 gigs of ram. But with the bloat of a useless(to me) windows license included.

How long is the chromebook spec going to stay like this? It's awful and holding them back.

It's nonsensical in 2018 to have this little ram on a laptop,chromebooks included but there it is still.

Also universally supported across time.

People have no sense that they might want to look at something in 10-20 years in that web service that was so handy at the time...

I agree that the incidentals like tracking and form will matter a lot.

I think however there is no "proof of existence" of any software or capability that would compel even early adopters to use a 100x100 display, even with all the other physical issues being polished to a high sheen.

Looking down at your phone or smartwatch seems far more likely.

The "maybes" that people frequently suggest require a staggering amount of unwritten software infrastructure (sometimes up to and including sentient AI).

That is a pretty bad article about VR that might have been excusable in 2013 but is not on firm ground in 2017 much less 2018.

Broadly, almost everything in it has been either not born out (vision concerns) or less of a problem then first assumed (motion sickness) once the limitations of different users were understood.

Many people using VR find that the vestibular concerns are not an issue over time as long as the framerate of the system is high enough (90fps+). People actually do get their "sea legs" over time and many (largely gamers so far) ask for locomotion systems that were considered terrible ideas even 2 years ago.

I suggest you spend some time reading his pretty extensive set of high quality articles on many companies and aspects of AR.

This is an industry where outsiders have a very limited understanding of the serious serious problems in front of AR.

It's also an industry that is taking advantage of the very limited understanding of just about everyone not in it to hype things far beyond their capabilities.

If you care about AR in even an offhand way you should spend some time self educating and Karl Guttag's site is a good way to get started.

It's very interesting field but there are tremendous challenges in front of it and it serves no purpose to just assume the companies involved have actual magic leaps that solve the problems.

Yes this article seems to be redefining "web brutalism" to be a simple recoloring of the same wretched over designed unusable webpages that "web brutalism" was a reaction to.

Thank you for writing this it was just what I wanted :)

What is your sense of the latency guarantees/scheduling to user space graphics and input? This is an area that everything else kind of fails at. "No drawing the groundplane and every possible frame for this user you have in your VR grasp is not optional".

Is the security actually in use or just someday?

edit: security looks baked in but tbd

I'd really like this to evolve into a standard thing in our linux distros. By which I mean apt-get'able, which it looks very close to.

I have no interest in the play store but I would like my lineageos/fdroid userspace available directly to my desktop.