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New comment by jtxt in "Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)"

jtxt — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 02:35:12 +0000

I like the progressive example toys. Thanks!

New comment by jtxt in "I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses"

jtxt — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 14:08:30 +0000

I’ve done the same with a q3 and virtual desktop for a few weeks and hours at a time when I didn’t have a good monitor. I could run a 4k screen after tweaking the settings a bit. (And using a dummy hdmi plug so an external monitor was not needed)

It was best curved and large (and angled down a bit) so that I use it like it is 4 1080p screens. And move head to see each (and a bit more) sharp.

The newer version (tested briefly) lets you arrange several virtual monitors wherever. Not as convenient/sharp as a large 4k tv/monitor on my desk, but for a backup monitor and mobile it was great. I’ll give it a shot again.

New comment by jtxt in "Show HN: Breakout with a roguelite/vampire survivor twist"

jtxt — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 20:17:37 +0000

I didn’t have to disable mobile mode to move my fingers over the browser navigation from the app and still control the puck. It’s very replaceable. I like the statistics. Perhaps one that shows a histogram over all games and where you rank for score etc? But top tennis is generous.

New comment by jtxt in "Show HN: Breakout with a roguelite/vampire survivor twist"

jtxt — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:11:15 +0000

Very fun! Works great on iPhone. Neat that I can stop by just lifting my finger to take a breather. Fun multipliers! More to discover!

New comment by jtxt in "I ate and reviewed every snack in our office kitchen"

jtxt — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:40:36 +0000

Nice. I’m similarly spoiled for choice now. Past workplace:

1. Swiss Miss Hot chocolate mix

2. Starlight Peppermint Mints

3. Lemonade

4. Peanut butter

For variety, I tried many combinations. Some: 1+3: bad, 1+2, 2+3: good, 1+4: awesome

New comment by jtxt in "The software you need for holiday overdecoration"

jtxt — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:34:45 +0000

(Hmm... A qr code to an audio stream? Could be a fun challenge to get it to sync reliably.)

New comment by jtxt in "CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader, Looks Better Than Black Frame Insertion"

jtxt — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:09:31 +0000

Nice! Does-this/can-this handle interlacing?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video

(Half vertical resolution, offset a bit every other frame)

New comment by jtxt in "Merry Christmas Everyone"

jtxt — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 09:16:52 +0000

OP's relationship story sounds so familiar to me.

[Insert TMI story.] Cycle of abuse: https://psychcentral.com/health/cycle-of-abuse

Fortunately, it ended ok. I healed for over a year before dating again, and dated someone for exactly a year to make sure it was good relationship. It still is. :D

New comment by jtxt in "Voxon: Real time interactive volumetric holograms"

jtxt — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:39:50 +0000

Occlusion could be done with head tracking for one observer (not both eyes though); but defeats the point. I'm guessing AR glasses will work for much of this.

New comment by jtxt in "Pi Chess Board"

jtxt — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 21:04:31 +0000

I was thinking shooting the piece into a basket or something, but aiming for the player's forehead sounds fun.

New comment by jtxt in "Pi Chess Board"

jtxt — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 22:08:59 +0000

Cool project!

Could a hefty reverse magnetic pulse launch captured pieces off the board? And maybe with some precision by controlling the offset and power?

New comment by jtxt in "AI-Time Travel-Street View"

jtxt — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:16:45 +0000

Neat, I played with 360 equirectangular projection gen for a gamejam last year. It has some interesting possibilities and challenges.

I started to image segment objects then generative infill to replace the background and make objects in the forground to work have z depth for vr, used switchlight ai to make objects into PBR textures so I could have dynamic lights...

I later found this tool for generating 360 panoramas: https://skybox.blockadelabs.com/025e37f6fb27d9f2495cbbbf874f...

What would be cool is to have ai generated scene that is spatially coherent and explorable. I think it's possible with a bit of tooling now...

Curious what the author's plans for this is.

New comment by jtxt in "Building a Game with the Real Engine"

jtxt — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:44:22 +0000

Reminds of an early tank simulator where the driver in the cockpit saw a video feed from a camera on a gantry they were slowly driving around a diarama. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AcQifPHcMLE

"Real engine" for just one player at a time though.

New comment by jtxt in "Depth Pro: Sharp monocular metric depth in less than a second"

jtxt — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 07:04:47 +0000

Consider meshroom, nerfstudio, (search alternatives too) ffmpeg to split to frames.

New comment by jtxt in "Porsche's idea for a six-stroke internal combustion engine"

jtxt — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 15:45:50 +0000

https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadBasic... o

New comment by jtxt in "The staggering death toll of scientific lies"

jtxt — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:22:11 +0000

Follow the money? What financial (or power) incentives are there for faked science?

New comment by jtxt in "3D printer successfully makes little space shuttle models in microgravity"

jtxt — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:59:21 +0000

Better link: https://engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2024/07/berkeley-resea...

New comment by jtxt in "Tetris Font (2020)"

jtxt — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:52:54 +0000

This is neat, but yeah, another fun challenge: have it build a letter/word/pixel art from random pieces, the best it can.

New comment by jtxt in "Start presentations on the second slide"

jtxt — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 05:40:01 +0000

Wadsworth constant. (Older Reddit meme) Skip (30%) to the good part!

New comment by jtxt in "I accidentally Blender VSE"

jtxt — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 09:52:06 +0000

Animation tools have a ton of room for improvement, that they're working on. ...and the move to Vulcan will help a ton it looks like.