[HN Gopher] Augmented Reality Ducks
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Augmented Reality Ducks
Author : Amorymeltzer
Score : 79 points
Date : 2021-09-30 10:26 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| tempodox wrote:
| Ducking awesome!
| athenot wrote:
| It was a nice touch to use the Duck system alert sound from the
| old MacOS.
|
| </nostalgia>
| swamp40 wrote:
| Apple's Memoji's give you a preview of how their VR is going to
| work. They are already mapping your facial expressions onto an
| animated image in realtime. Add a headset/glasses and a virtual
| room and they are done.
| sdoering wrote:
| > But, more importantly, it shows just how fantastic software is
| these days. How spoiled we are to carry supercomputers in our
| pockets. In less than 200 lines of code, I used these incredible
| frameworks developed by Apple to get this idiotic idea working in
| an evening.
|
| This was for me the essence of the post. We live in times that
| enable (some of) us to create fun stuff like this unbelievably
| easy.
| tylerhall wrote:
| Indeed, I buried the lede in this post. But I wanted to have
| fun with such a silly idea, first.
| sdoering wrote:
| I liked it. Was a great read. The buried lead up front would
| have spoiled the fun imho.
| netcan wrote:
| It's a great little piece, commenting on both the hope and the
| worry in a single lark.
|
| We live in interesting times. The potential is huge, in both
| directions.
| userbinator wrote:
| You mean, in a single _duck_...
|
| I definitely agree with you about "both directions" -
| especially when those "supercomputers in our pockets" aren't
| really under our control.
| zinekeller wrote:
| Apologies, but I initially read it as _AR Sucks_ instead of the
| ducking intended quack. Regardless, this is a fun little project
| that can be useful in case your work asks you to develop AR
| solutions.
|
| Also, _QUACK_!
| intrasight wrote:
| I ducking hate mobile auto-correct too, so I turned it off. I've
| become a better thumb typer and now own what I type. And I do use
| "ducking" since I don't like to swear ;)
| sneak wrote:
| > _There 's just no ducking way around it. Short of adding a fake
| contact to your address book named Dr. Duck Ducking McDucker,
| autocorrect seems ducking incapable of learning everyone's
| favorite bit of profanity._
|
| In keyboard shortcuts, add the words you want not-autocorrected
| to both sides of the shortcut, eg:
|
| fuck -> fuck
|
| fucking -> fucking
|
| This will make autocorrect learn them once and for all.
| mdorazio wrote:
| More specifically:
|
| Settings > general > keyboards > text replacement. Then add all
| your profanity words as phrases
| [deleted]
| kosasbest wrote:
| Still waiting for AR to catch on. I mean it's a cool concept, but
| it requires special equipment usually suited for the eye (like
| Google Glass). And we all know what happened to Google Glass.
|
| I think for AR to really catch on, the devices for it need to be
| invisible. Imagine a device that's inserted into the retina and
| blends in with the machinery of the eye for example? With nano-
| tech, it's doable.
| jayd16 wrote:
| Glass wasn't really AR as much as just a HUD.
| verdverm wrote:
| Or take the Hololens2 as an example. That device earned
| Microsoft a $22B contract.
|
| I think people will wear glasses for the experience. Two hand
| based AR is the future. We just need miniaturization at this
| point. By the time that happens, the software will be there.
| The policies probably not so much. VoicesOfVR on Twitter is
| talking about the ethics and related.
| mrweasel wrote:
| AR is going to have to fight and uphill battle for adoption.
| Many of us have see the damage smartphones and social media
| have done to society, and AR is presented as the next step
| after those two ideas. That might be completely unfair, but
| just like I'll never signup to any new social media platform,
| because of Facebook, I won't buy into AR because of
| smartphones.
| Loughla wrote:
| I would say that most people will not share that same
| hesitancy. I believe that most people do not identify their
| smartphone as a problem; it's a productivity and
| entertainment tool.
|
| Now, myself, AR, and especially AR implants of the kind the
| OP was talking about, are a hard pass until they are sold to
| me, with no external connections other than those I can
| absolutely control to the finest detail. While I may want it
| to help me identify people because I'm bad at names, I don't
| want it phoning home with those names and faces and logging
| it for some company/country somewhere.
|
| In other words, AR is almost certainly completely out of the
| question for me. Which is sad, because I used to be
| absolutely pumped for the day terminals and brain-laces were
| available like in The Culture.
| zxcvbn4038 wrote:
| I was hoping for a bunch of AR ducks running around. ;)
| croes wrote:
| Reminds me of the episode Arkangel of Black Mirror
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