AdrianTheFrog
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- Comment on Real 2 days ago:
There’s also fedora kde
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 3 days ago:
Degrees of freedom
3dof things usually just track rotation, because that’s easier. But for a full VR experience, better depth perception, and more normal interactions, 6fof is used which tracks position as well.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 3 days ago:
IMO even a normal flatscreen is more immersive on average than a google cardboard, although that’s partially because a flatscreen hides the flaws in the graphics a lot better.
HLA tho needs 6dof controllers for the intended experience. That mod tries to get around it, but that obviously involves some sacrifices.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 4 days ago:
IIRC no cardboard ‘headset’ ever had 6dof tracking. It’s about as far as you can get from an immersive VR experience. I say this as someone who bought one before learning about VR and getting a real vr headset.
It’s like VR with all of the downsides, even less apps, and the only advantage over a flatscreen being (limited) depth perception.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 5 days ago:
I think there’s a mod for that iirc
- Comment on Fucking hell 1 week ago:
I think it means half less than 5, or 4.5
- Comment on Anon fixes their games 1 week ago:
Oh I guess I set it to private instead of unlisted on accident. It should be fixed now.
- Comment on Anon fixes their games 1 week ago:
I mean just from persistence of vision you’ll see multiple copies of a moving object if your eyes aren’t moving. I have realized tho that in the main racing game I use motion blur in (beamng) I’m not actually reaching above 80fps very often.
here, I copied someone’s shader to make a quick comparison:
with blur: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/wcjSzV
without blur: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/wf2XRV
Even at 144hz, one looks smooth while the other has sharp edges along the path.
Keep in mind that this technically only works if your eye doesn’t follow any of the circles, as that would require a different motion blur computation. That’s obviously not something that can be accounted for on a flatscreen, maybe in VR at some point though if we ever get to that level of sophistication. VR motion blur without taking eye movement into account is obviously terrible and makes everyone sick.
Someone else made a comparison for that, where you’re supposed to follow the red dot with your eye. (keep in mind that this demo uses motion blur lengths longer than a frame, which you would not have if aiming for a human eye-like realistic look)
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 1 week ago:
My mom is a biologist and complains how physicists always come into biology, try to reinvent everything without looking at any prior work, and then fail to execute their (sometimes interesting, sometimes not) method
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 2 weeks ago:
I would honestly be very surprised if any Republican politicians actually care about sex or gender. I think they’re just evil and those are convenient issues to divide the working class. When you don’t have popular policy in real issues, you need to make up some fake ones to get people to still support you.
- Comment on Anon fixes their games 2 weeks ago:
You still see doubled images instead of a smooth blur in your peripheral vision I think when you’re focused on the car for example in a racing game.
- Comment on Anon fixes their games 2 weeks ago:
It’s usually better in modern games. In the 2005-2015 era it was often extremely overdone, actually often reducing the perceived dynamic range instead of increasing it IMO.
- Comment on Anon fixes their games 2 weeks ago:
I think Halo Infinite has a good example of a limited ray traced effect (the shadows) and an example of a terrible DoF effect (it does not look realistic at all or visually appealing)
- Comment on Anon fixes their games 2 weeks ago:
Personally I use motion blur in every racing game I can but nothing else. It helps with the sense of speed and smoothness.
- Comment on gigachad 3 weeks ago:
I bought Trackmania United Forever last weekend and it’s kinda interesting because the stadium environment still looks great, most of the rest look ok and some others look pretty bad.
- Comment on That explains a lot 3 weeks ago:
Oh probably
- Comment on That explains a lot 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, but it does have 10^67 years to catch it.
Assuming the light isn’t bending at all, I think it should get about 890 watts of light, or 2.810^10 joules per year (or 3.110^-7 kg per year?) from the sun, which should be enough to cause it to grow, at least while the sun is still around. I expect it would get a lot more mass from gasses, meteors, and dust in that time frame. Based on your numbers above I think it should only be losing like 2^-40 kg per year if it was losing mass at a constant rate.
- Comment on That explains a lot 3 weeks ago:
Does the energy of light entering the black hole make it last longer?
- Comment on That explains a lot 4 weeks ago:
The black hole with the mass of the earth would have a diameter of around 4 cm
- Comment on BRASSICAS 4 weeks ago:
Or, the Italian way: simmer garlic in a pan with olive oil, throw in the vegetables and a bit of water, throw in some salt, cover, cook until soft, check occasionally that it isn’t burning
- Comment on Not the Toll Roads Notification of Toll Evasion!! 5 weeks ago:
Ok that makes sense
- Comment on Not the Toll Roads Notification of Toll Evasion!! 5 weeks ago:
Reminds me of the “U.S. Post: you have a USPS parcel being cleared, due to the detection of an invalid zip code address, the parcel can not be cleared, the parcel is temporarily detained, please confirm the zip code address information in the link within 24 hours” message I got with the totally not suspicious domain “usps.com-service.webnw.top/us” and the unnecessarily confusing instructions “Please reply with a Y, then exit the text message and open it again to activate the link, or copy the link into your Safari browser and open it”
- Comment on Just day dreaming when this struck me 1 month ago:
I read on Wikipedia that earlier tales of the Easter bunny only had it giving gifts to good kids, it might just be a regional thing now
- Comment on Gottem. :) 1 month ago:
If it happens at night it will probably take 5 or 6 seconds longer for people to start seeing the first messages on the internet
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
if drowning out other things was the intention, its probably working
that same image is in 6 of the top 10 posts on lemmy rn
- Comment on Same 2 months ago:
I feel like kinda the main reasons to pick up a latest gen gpu nowadays are energy efficiency and a warranty (although 5000 series doesn’t look all that energy efficient, we’ll see i guess)
otherwise you can definitely get something better on ebay for cheaper
but if you live somewhere where energy is expensive, the difference might be significant. 500w is kinda a lot lol, any difference in performance/watt will add up
prices are going to drop when the new gpus come out and people need to get rid of their old ones, but currently with a little bit of looking i could find a ‘buy it now’ 7900 xt for $640, a 3090 for $775, and a 3090 ti for $850
honestly these aren’t great deals you could probably find better ones
- Comment on New social experiment 2 months ago:
Untitled Document(5).docx
- Comment on its not just me 3 months ago:
CPUs are 100% efficient if they’re also replacing your electric space heater
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 3 months ago:
honestly if you can 3d print something you can make something almost as strong out of wood, it just takes more effort
one could also easily make a disposable mold for a low-melting-point metal alloy, those are much stronger than 3d prints and many can be melted on a normal stove
I think the problem is more that information on how to make guns is now easily available, rather than the specific usefulness of 3d printing as a manufacturing technique
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 4 months ago:
honestly, its pretty good, and it still works if I use a lower resolution screenshot without metadata (I haven’t tried adding noise, or overlaying something else but those might break it). This is pixelwave, not midjourney though.
