[HN Gopher] Game Made for VR on a $1 Processor?
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Game Made for VR on a $1 Processor?
Author : RicoElectrico
Score : 83 points
Date : 2023-02-24 15:35 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| haburka wrote:
| Absolutely insane level of integrations and reverse engineering
| across a vast, unruly tech stack. Additionally with a hard
| deadline, I can only imagine the difficulty of delivering this,
| especially without too many bugs.
| cnlohr wrote:
| The surprising part is, thinking back to it, I don't know if
| any bugs surfaced. Nothing really glitched out. As long as the
| internet was up, everything just ... worked. And it's not like
| I tried extra hard to make it that way. I guess I just threaded
| the needle luckily.
| hungryforcodes wrote:
| So what is the processor?
| snvzz wrote:
| Tensilica Xtensa.
| dvh wrote:
| ESP-32 S2
| charcircuit wrote:
| Cool, but the game running on the $1 processor isn't a "game made
| for VR." I clicked to see what kind of compromises would be
| necessary to render 2 eyes at a high frequency, but it turns out
| it wasn't a VR game at all.
| NathanWilliams wrote:
| "Cool, but"
|
| Wow, did you actually watch the video, and understand what was
| accomplished?
|
| The technical expertise shown in this project is extremely
| impressive, and you are getting hung up on the title not living
| up to your interpretation of it.
| jermaustin1 wrote:
| I'd say the game made for the swadge (or whatever he kept
| saying), was extended into VR. I wouldn't consider the title
| misleading, just not as clearly communicated as it could have
| been.
| charcircuit wrote:
| There was interop with VRChat, but I wouldn't say that VRChat
| was running on the swadge. And VRChat itself is both a
| desktop game and a VR game. I can understand your point, but
| it is easy for one to assume that the video will include a VR
| game on a $1 processor.
| depingus wrote:
| This was incredible feat of engineering hacks. And it all came
| together beautifully. Great post!
| stavros wrote:
| "A processor designed to operate little more than a light bulb."
|
| Come on, the ESP32 has a 240 MHz CPU, 320 KB of RAM, and WiFi!
| It's more powerful than my first computer, and that did a lot
| more than a light bulb!
|
| Kids these days...
| squarefoot wrote:
| Agreed. The ESP32 can run Windows 3.0, aside many other
| interesting things.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDV8q9bwW7c
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz9D9lpATwg
|
| CNLohr is a genius, but that line is quite a stretch.
| detritus wrote:
| In CPU terms at least, 33x more powerful than my once-beloved
| Amiga 500, which was my first 'real' computer after 8-bits.
| Only slightly slower than my first PC in the late 90s, which
| ran at 266mhz.
|
| Looks like the ESP32 costs PS5, lol.
| dragontamer wrote:
| ATMega328p (Aka: Arduino Uno) is 24MHz, 2kB of SRAM, and 32kB
| of Flash (ROM / program space).
|
| Arduino Uno is more powerful than the NASA Apollo Guidance
| Computer that guided the space program to land on the moon (43
| kHz). With an addon SPI-SRAM chip, you could have more SRAM
| than the guidance computer too.
| RajT88 wrote:
| This is more powerful than my third computer...
| stavros wrote:
| My first computer was a person!
| 1-6 wrote:
| This is a perfect example of do less with less.
| brink wrote:
| We're still romanticizing "the connections" made from people
| jumping up and down in front of a camera and a screen?
| RadixDLT wrote:
| its called exercise
| [deleted]
| Elidrake42 wrote:
| I have a number of long lasting relationships that began/spent
| years in front of a camera. You should consider that what
| you're bringing to the table in these interactions might be
| limiting the scope of what you can get out of it.
| [deleted]
| young-cache wrote:
| [flagged]
| RadixDLT wrote:
| lol
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