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| mnementh:
--- Quote from: Saskia on July 06, 2022, 03:40:53 am ---just a quick update: Hubby and me seem to have pulled thru. COVID tests are back to negative. Still weak and coughing our brains out tho --- End quote --- Welcome back, Valkyrie. Let us know when you're ready to bring the suborbital crowbar launcher back online; I have a fleaBay vendor needs a attitude adjustment. >:D mnem MAXIM 4: Close air support covereth a multitude of sins. |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 06, 2022, 08:14:12 am --- --- Quote from: mansaxel on July 06, 2022, 05:33:53 am --- --- Quote from: tggzzz on July 06, 2022, 12:30:09 am --- OSmaps show interesting features that you didn't know existed. VR stuff tends to have advertising features that you don't care exist. Plus black propaganda, fake news, and people/organisations flashing "look at me". No contest really. --- End quote --- I very specifically wrote Augmented Reality, not "VR". That is a thing, actually. You don't have to be on the Holo-Deck to use the Tricorder. --- End quote --- Indeed, but there is a lot of grey overlap! --- End quote --- Ahem. No, there really isn't. There is similar tech involved; but the entire focus is different... specifically, it's a matter of focus. AR's primary focus is to be inobtrusive and add information to what's out in the real world; this is what Google Glass was supposed to be shooting for. Essentially, the "SPOTLIGHT" features of a BluRay video brought to the real world all around you in real-time. If done right, it is a secondary focus to the real world events happening to you. Sortof like all the information delivery features of a smartPwn are supposed to be a secondary focus in your day-to-day life. ;) VR's primary focus is to completely replace your local reality with a fiction... someone else's movie or game presented (hopefully) realistically enough that you can suspend disbelief and fully immerse yourself in the fiction. The problems arise when stupid greedy people get hold of tech like this and realize they now have another avenue to bludgeon us with commercials... that's when the lines get blurred deliberately to ensure only one thing: profit. Just as has already happened with smartPwns and the carrier services they're tied to. :P mnem |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 06, 2022, 08:44:10 am ---...I expect the next thing will be banning drivers from talking to passengers FFS. --- End quote --- I could see a lot of good coming from such a law... mnem >:D |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 06, 2022, 09:30:08 am --- --- Quote from: tggzzz on July 06, 2022, 09:23:38 am --- --- Quote from: bd139 on July 06, 2022, 08:48:51 am --- --- Quote from: tggzzz on July 06, 2022, 08:28:25 am --- --- Quote from: bd139 on July 06, 2022, 06:46:00 am ---Yeah there are some recent advances which pretty much make the paper maps a backup option only in the UK. It has got to the point where even on the mountain leader courses it’s secondary navigation only. The OSMaps app is a fine example. You have vector, 25k and 50k layers, full offline support, precise positioning and backtracking. Importantly it’s far more up to date than paper maps, particularly in areas with coastal erosion which change very rapidly. This all fits in a little box that lasts all day, is waterproof and takes photos too and works in the dark without having to shoot your adjusted eyes with a torch. And it syncs with the compass on your wrist to give you absolute bearings for each leg. Of course I have backup nav. I usually carry an eTrex 10 for backtracking and GPX plotting and paper map in bag. ... I’ll take the phone any day! It’s much better. --- End quote --- Yes, but in the UK it isn't illegal to sit in a stationary car and read a paper map. Touch a phone to do that and you've committed an offence which can get your driving licence revoked. Yes, I know it is more nuanced than that. The whole topic is subject for creative misinterpretation by drivers and the police :( Try to choose an alternative route on a satnav, and it is nearly impossible. The best route is what the manufacturer in their "wisdom" decides is the best route. Plenty of scope for arguments with daughter there :) --- End quote --- Full circle. Thanks to the ML processor on my phone I talk to it so I don’t have to touch it. And it works with alternative routes with trade offs and noticed traffic changes. --- End quote --- Traffic changes, sometimes but not always. How does it display multiple alternative routes and the tradeoffs? How do you tell it what tradeoffs you regard as important? --- Quote ---And the audio integrates with the car and the built in control stalks. --- End quote --- Ah yes, the old voice recognition trick in which you walk up to someone's computer and say "sudo rm -rf /" :( --- End quote --- You tell it what tradeoffs are important up front i.e. you don't want toll roads, don't like motorways etc. Then it remembers your preference. When you ask it to navigate to an address it gives you a shortest time and shortest distance option. When traffic changes it notifies you that it thinks it can save X minutes by rerouting and you can choose to accept it or decline it. As for the voice recognition it doesn't allow you to do anything destructive by design i.e. you can't incur cost or delete things with it. That's a manual process. It's very well engineered in that respect. I appreciate your cynical outlook on it. The ideas need testing. I am usually the first person to shred an idea that doesn't work or is stupid but these tools are significantly saving time, energy and cost or improving life in some way. Importantly they enable me to have more time to enjoy what I want to do. --- End quote --- https://xkcd.com/327/ mnem I know just enough Kung-Fu to be dangerous. >:D |
| bd139:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on July 06, 2022, 12:37:47 pm --- --- Quote from: tggzzz on July 06, 2022, 08:28:25 am --- --- Quote from: bd139 on July 06, 2022, 06:46:00 am ---Yeah there are some recent advances which pretty much make the paper maps a backup option only in the UK. It has got to the point where even on the mountain leader courses it’s secondary navigation only. The OSMaps app is a fine example. You have vector, 25k and 50k layers, full offline support, precise positioning and backtracking. Importantly it’s far more up to date than paper maps, particularly in areas with coastal erosion which change very rapidly. This all fits in a little box that lasts all day, is waterproof and takes photos too and works in the dark without having to shoot your adjusted eyes with a torch. And it syncs with the compass on your wrist to give you absolute bearings for each leg. Of course I have backup nav. I usually carry an eTrex 10 for backtracking and GPX plotting and paper map in bag. ... I’ll take the phone any day! It’s much better. --- End quote --- Yes, but in the UK it isn't illegal to sit in a stationary car and read a paper map. Touch a phone to do that and you've committed an offence which can get your driving licence revoked. Yes, I know it is more nuanced than that. The whole topic is subject for creative misinterpretation by drivers and the police :( Try to choose an alternative route on a satnav, and it is nearly impossible. The best route is what the manufacturer in their "wisdom" decides is the best route. Plenty of scope for arguments with daughter there :) --- End quote --- My daughter is into spoken directions on her phone, & "in a weak moment" on several occasions, I have tried to navigate by such directions (when she is in the car holding the phone). It always freaks me out. The thing doesn't know the difference between a huge roundabout & a tiny one, so it says things like "turn right at the second exit", when the roundabout is just a few metres in diameter, placed in the middle of a normal intersection. It will also send you down some 40kmh "goat track", insisting it is a shorter distance, & hence "faster" than the multi-laned 100kmh controlled access highway alternative. --- End quote --- This sounds like the comedic "talk-ins" you get on 2m at hamfests. I actually used to drag my FT818 along just so I could listen to them getting lost and angry :-DD :-DD |
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