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PortalVR Motion – use any VR content in 2D with 3D tracked Joy-Cons

gfodor — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:42:10 +0000

Article URL: https://portalvr.io/motion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038322

Points: 27

# Comments: 3

PortalVR lets you play VR content without wearing a headset

gfodor — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:03:34 +0000

Article URL: https://portalvr.io/how_to_play

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46350270

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gfodor in "OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup"

gfodor — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 22:45:18 +0000

Saying we don’t understand why LLMs are intelligent is both true and completely unrelated to religion. You inserted the word “spirit” so perhaps you are the one conflating the two.

New comment by gfodor in "OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup"

gfodor — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:51:55 +0000

Correct, my opinions have nothing to do with financials. If I was around for the discovery of fire I wouldn’t be wondering about the impact on the bottom line.

New comment by gfodor in "OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup"

gfodor — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:50:45 +0000

If Acetaminophen started exhibiting signs of human level intelligence I would have a similar perspective

New comment by gfodor in "OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup"

gfodor — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:06:29 +0000

It’s not a religious angle, we literally don’t know how or why these models work.

Yes we know how to grow them, but we don’t know what is actually going on inside of them. This is why Anthropic’s CEO wrote the post he did about the need for massive investment in interpretability.

It should rattle you that deep learning has these emergent capabilities. I don’t see any reason to think we will see another winter.

New comment by gfodor in "OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup"

gfodor — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:04:49 +0000

Yep, this time it’s different.

New comment by gfodor in "OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup"

gfodor — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:27:56 +0000

I’m saying that seeing dubious economics is blinding people from accepting what’s actually going on with neural networks, and it leads to them having a profoundly miscalibrated mental model. This is not like analyzing a typical tech cycle. We are dealing with something here that we don’t really understand and transcends basic models like “it’s just a really good tool.”

New comment by gfodor in "OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup"

gfodor — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:26:15 +0000

Yeah, I know. It’s weird to admit this kind of obvious error in public though, speaks to a very big epistemological hole on your part.

New comment by gfodor in "OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup"

gfodor — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:17:22 +0000

Do people really buy this nonsense? I mean just this week Sora 2 is creating videos that were unimaginable a few months ago. People writing these screeds at this point to me seem like they’re going through some kind of coping mechanism that has nothing to do with the financials of AI companies and everything to do with their own personal fears around what’s happening with machine intelligence.

New comment by gfodor in "PortalVR: XR Without a Headset"

gfodor — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 03:09:14 +0000

I tried that and it made the gameplay worse since it harmed your ability to control the camera precisely with your hand. The goal of this is primarily to enable gameplay, and secondarily to deliver a portal effect.

New comment by gfodor in "PortalVR: XR Without a Headset"

gfodor — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 03:08:24 +0000

That’s not the main app, that’s the controller app you install on a phone to use with the main app. The main app must be side loaded, because Google will not approve it in the Play store since it installs third party apps.

New comment by gfodor in "PortalVR: XR Without a Headset"

gfodor — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:01:01 +0000

I video it and demo it on a tablet since it helps make it clear how it works, but my preferred display device is a Galaxy Fold. Pockets great, and is a nice comfortable size when unfolded.

New comment by gfodor in "PortalVR: XR Without a Headset"

gfodor — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:59:44 +0000

I was going to name it Portal, but I named it PortalVR to minimize confusion.

It’s called PortalVR because there is no better name to describe what it’s like to play VR this way. It is like playing games by looking through a portal you hold in your hand.

PortalVR: XR Without a Headset

gfodor — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:47:31 +0000

Article URL: https://portalvr.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45456003

Points: 29

# Comments: 18

Can you play VR without a headset?

gfodor — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:28:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCCg-pMqkKU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44906451

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gfodor in "Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission"

gfodor — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 20:15:31 +0000

Truthfully I’m just going to stop posting here. This place has become a disaster in terms of the general attitude of many commenters. The spirit of the site is to celebrate hacking, and this person is trashing some of the greatest hackers alive who are pushing the boundaries and sometimes succeeding sometimes failing. I did in fact want to know if they have been seeing mental health professionals about their attitude - it’s not an insult to ask a question, it’s a genuine curiosity of mine if these people who have this mindset have certain pathologies they are working through.

New comment by gfodor in "Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]"

gfodor — Tue, 14 May 2024 02:58:56 +0000

Correct, the person you are replying to is telling on themselves!

New comment by gfodor in "Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]"

gfodor — Sun, 12 May 2024 21:25:34 +0000

This is the kindest response I’ve ever seen to someone suffering from whatever it is that causes these kinds of comments on this specific website.

New comment by gfodor in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"

gfodor — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:23:19 +0000

C++ is king for game engines, but many games opt for languages like Lua or Unreal Blueprints because C++ is to those as Rust is to C++

Personally I like Javascript