I'm guessing with the API dead it's the only way to find content on Reddit anymore, too. I can't imagine the Reddit searches that worked weren't using the API, and Reddit's search is a dumpster fire.
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There are cases where that would work (including possibly here), but I was speaking more generally to how I'd like to see the abuse of Bluetooth beacons prevented.
I don't think most non-technical people recognize how pervasive that shit is.
Multiple physical locations and network setups. It doesn't matter.
Bluetooth is substantially higher latency and lower stability than the proprietary adapter. It's fine if you can tolerate it, but the performance isn't the same.
OK, you block bullets with the bike, reload your parry with a front flip, and reload your gun with a backflip.
And I was addicted to whatever the first bike game that did this was back in the day, so exploring a map with it is really fun so far.
Edit: it doesn't force you to, but if you choose to sprint through levels holy hell it plays fast.
lol no thanks.
No, I am not. I have used the current Xbox controllers on both windows and Linux on multiple modern systems with Bluetooth and they're completely unusable without the dongle every single time. I've never had anyone not notice.
The latency is obscene.
The problem is many more apps abuse Bluetooth for location tracking than use it for any legitimate purpose.
Ideally they would isolate the process and allow users to do managed individual scans in an app for the purpose of handling Bluetooth devices, and only allow persistent permissions to communicate with specific devices. I'm not sure enough of the underlying protocols to know how much hoop jumping it would take to do that though.
And how do they get paid if everyone is reading from the library, who's allowed unlimited loans? Unless you raise their cost per title, which they can't afford.
I read 25 books some months, but some are 50, and some are more. Do you really want your library to pay for every book I read if they get charged per read?
If they don't, even the handful of authors who are making money now are in trouble. If that best seller is free without restriction from the library, what are the chances that even they sell enough to survive?
Because if it was actually legitimately unlimited, nobody would pay for books. There's Hoopla that my library also supports that has instant borrows of anything, but it's capped at 6 per month.
There are authors who make decent money, but there are a lot more who don't.
With extremely low quality, high latency passthrough? They shouldn't even be allowed to call it AR without criminal charges for fraud. It's not remotely close.
You can read giant text on your Oculus 2. You can't read a virtual monitor placed among other windows in 3D space. The resolution for that to be possible does not exist. Most of the things that aren't straight video feeds or gaming that people are talking about using the Vision Pro for aren't "lower quality" on the Quest. They're straight up impossible because there are absolute bare minimum thresholds for display quality and the Quest 3 is way too low. It's gaming, maybe (though given the fact that Facebook is absolute dogshit at getting content, probably actually not) media consumption, and nothing else.
Allowing you to "do AR" is very different than having AR that even 10% of the planet can use without vomiting. Nobody is actually going to actually use the quest for AR. It's not remotely close to the bare minimum to actually function. People who try for more than 10 seconds at a time will vomit. Repeatedly.
And that's before the fact that it doesn't have the resolution for text, nullifying almost all of the utility the Vision Pro has.
There are better value options if you're looking to play games on it. There are cheaper options if budget is a huge concern and you're OK with low quality plastic builds.
For all metal construction their value is really good, and there still isn't anything out there that balances the power and battery life they offer. For most professional use cases (which usually mean working with video/photos, in terms of what's demanding on a laptop), they're at minimum competitive on raw power. The biggest difference is that can use that power all day on battery, while the stuff that can be argued to be competitive will chew through the battery at high loads (and, compared to Apple, at idle, too).