I think it is, he says point blank he doesn't like that his perspective keeps getting yanked around without his control. The counter is 'oh but that seat isn't going to be the best'. So I'm suggesting a compromise, a selectable 'seat' for the basic immersive experience that will not cut unless you explicitly select to do so, and a separate 'screen' to provide those curated cuts that you propose are vital to getting to see the action as it moves beyond your ability to reasonably see, just like the 'jumbotron' shows stuff to the live audience.

Well, the 3D video thing makes sense...

With traditional approaches, well first you either halve the frame rate or resolution, depending on which technique is in use.

And even the highest end versions tended to have a bit of uncomfortable cross-talk where the wrong side would bleed through because the shutter glasses or the polarization wouldn't block *all* of the intended other one. With the VR headsets, you have actual dedicated pixels per eye, so no crosstalk.

Yeah, VR is a bit of a niche, but not under a quarter million globally. Biggest problem for VR is that Facebook bought up Oculus and tried to focus it on social networking type thinking which is just a horrible mismatch of market to product. It's a gaming platform and maybe a general personal entertainment device. To the extent you do have people doing social things, they don't want the milquetoast Wii-like cartoon avatars and corporate approved environments, they want to go wild with characters and environments.

Perhaps it's more not liking having the cut happen without having control. Or maybe the composition, like have a 180 feed and pop up key views on extra screens. Just like how sporting events have big screens for letting the audience get a focused view, but let the 'immersive' view remain while you may also use that focused view.

Biggest problem with even the 180 degree view is that the source resolution tends to be rather underwhelming, Even 4k becomes underwhelming when spread across 180 degrees. Properly executing this might need an stereoscopic 8k feed with auxillary feeds for the 'bonus' content like focused angles and such.

The issue at hand is if you think Apple was honoring your privacy and will now erode it, where do you go?

Handheld/Tablet wise, Google is the only other viable player in the market. So on that front, they only need to be marginally more respected than google, even if they cede some quality/respect, they just have to retain enough reputation to be nominally distinct from Google.

Rumors are that Meta at least was in talks to buy TPUs.

That said, from what I know Apple is generally happy to host their infrastructure on other providers, so not sure that would have even come up.

Funny thing is to imagine what the right wingers would be saying if a democrat ever dared to utter such a policy. Would (deservedly) earn so much criticism for being a pretty unworkable, stupid idea.

The student loan scenario at least was along the lines of something many think should be government funded *anyway*, however a lot of us still didn't like that forgiveness was on the table without some durable plan moving forward. Maybe forgiveness as part of a package to largely convert higher learning to have credibly funded public options, but by itself it was a problematic concept that only rewarded the people that couldn't have known it was coming, and inherently impossible to plan around.

This is just absurd to think you can cap unsecured debt at a threshold *that* close to secured debt for arbitrary borrowing and still have a reasonably functioning lending system for the masses. It's also *allegedly* the party that is supposed to have the better "business sense" and this is just flat out stupid. Trump in part is in office because a lot of dumb people think "Trump is *the* quintessential business man" rather than a relatively poor businessman that has to get by on con-man grade stuff instead of decent businesses. He shouldn't, in theory, be proposing things that make no business sense at all, whereas from a career politician at least you could understand a lack of understanding.

I expect a fair amount of stunts this year, very short term, no whiff of even an intent to sustain, aiming for enough to make things seem temporarily 'good'.

The mix of games that users are playing matters less than the percentage. If hypothetically 95% of users used a platform, but that platform 'only' did casual games and/or 10-year-old AAA games, then the gaming ecosystem is defined by those games you are being dismissive of.

To the extent your sentiment applies, the percentage will dictate the viability. It has proven to be technically capable, with improved performance for AMD GPU systems compared to Windows, and while it lags today for nVidia, there's been analagous work that suggests the improvements that would put nVidia in the same boat. The lack of 'native' editions is now a matter of relative popularity, rather than technical implementation concerns.

Even that all said, looking through the general 'top seller' list without regard to Linux, I'm struck by the fact that most of those are over 10 years old already. But trying to filter by games released in the last 3 years, the list is:
* ARC Raiders - Not native linux, but reported to work fantastic with 'Steam Play' (AKA Proton, Valve's packaging of wine)
* Marvel Rivals - Same as above, strong compatibility through Proton.
* StarRupture - Same
* Dead Island 2 - same
* Battlefield 6 - Finally, a recent unplayable game, thanks to windows rootkit requirement
* Fallout 76 - Back to playable under Linux
* GTA V Enhanced - Playable under linux, *technically* newer edition of older game
* NBA 2k26 - Playable with proton
* Apex legends - Similar to Battlefield 6, technically can work but blocked by draconian anti-cheat
* Path of Exile 2 - Playable with Proton

So there's a top 10 of 'new/popular games today that released 2020 or later' (six games skipped because they were 'too old' by your metric) and only 2 don't work and that's because the respective publishers explicitly block Linux due to anti-cheat concerns. I suppose you have a *partial* point that every last one of those use Proton to work rather than having native ports, and the native port catalog is a bit more anemic, but the point stands that even running with Windows binary compatibility mechanism, it still can outperform Windows at playing their own games.

As described, it sounds like they have some typical prescription, and then just like bifocals there's a near vision adjustment. The difference is that the electronics will detect if something is in the 'reading' distance range and auto change part of the lens to reading glasses.

Sounds like the intent is that when the battery runs out, it changes from auto-bifocal to just plain glasses. Not exactly a horrible outcome...

You are overestimating the precision. From reading, it seems more like it decides if it should be 'normal' prescription across the lense or if it should change a lot of the lens to 'reading glasses'. Looks like a boolean. Basically bifocals with only part-time reading area, with the reading area made much larger since it is only sometimes active.

I suppose if you are using viewfinder and not a screen, you have a potential point, though I imagine the logic for the glasses could treat being within a couple of inches as 'distance' because there's no way you are going to resolve anything *actually* that close, so it should just assume the focal distance is actually long and you are looking at a lens. Also you could probably turn them off, take them off, or switch to normal glasses in that scenario.

You wouldn't wear them until your own reflex of accommodation is already failing. If you have aged up into reading glasses, your eyes are already not focusing on their own.

From the looks of it, basically it's normal glasses that when it detects 'reading distance' threshold, turns some part of the lense to reading glasses. So it's like part-time bifocals, not something continuously adjusting to just the right distance. Which makes sense unless you have a more complicated eye exam to get corrections across a range, instead of your normal prescription and the reading-distance amount.

Ugh, I'm generally annoyed by my varifocals. Having to move my head around and do a head tilt if something is close to me but higher than nearby things usually are... And that distortion to the lower sides...

I'd love a solution that worked in practice like these things claim to in theory. Subject, of course, to it actually working well, silently,

They claim 22g, which would be a respectable weight.

I'm not going to be getting on a wait/pre-order list or anything, but if they deliver as promised, I certainly would be interested.

Dashboards are far enough away anyway to not run into problems with people's presbyopia anyway. Even older eyes can see dashboards normally.