In my early 20s, I volunteered to be a figure drawing model. The class was run out of the domicile of an older fellow named Arthur, who lived off the coast of the Big Island in what would best be described as an art shack. It was more screens and windows than walls, but you can get away with that quite comfortably there.
The class itself a group of maybe 10-15 drop ins from the local commune, a mix of mostly straight women in their 20s and gay men in their 50s. It wasn’t really a formal class, more just the sort of thing that comes together when you’re surrounded by whimsical folk. It was fun being the center of so much attention and so many playful quips.
It was my first time, but the instructor Arthur said I was doing well and asked if I had any experience. Naked and near completely upside down, told him no, I was quite nubile. He asked if I meant a noobish. I doubled down and told him, no, I’m nubile, but excited to learn. He smiled at me, and gave me quite the flirtatious look. I had no idea until weeks later when I learned the distinction. Sadly, a few years later Arthur passed away quite suddenly. I’m always reminded of that experience every time I hear the word, and doubly so when it’s mistakenly used.
Interesting architecture consisting of a RP2040 mated to a Pico W. The Pico acts as the primary CPU, executing code and providing IO. The RP2040 handles the graphics and GPU out. They GPU is connected to the CPU over I2C as a peripheral device.
> PicoVision uses two RP2040s - one on a Pico W as a "CPU" and one as a "GPU" - to produce high resolution (for a microcontroller) DV output by swapping the contents of two physical PSRAM frame-buffers back and forth between them.
> The two PSRAMs act as a front and back buffer. The "CPU" (the Pico W) writes to one while the "GPU" (RP2040) reads from the other, applies some "hardware" effects and generates the DV signals.
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If you really want to know how evil and down right fucked up the CIA was, I highly recommend The Devil's Chessboard, a biography of Allen Dulles https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/24723229
After finishing it, my sense was that the best thing for America and the world would have been to put an end to the CIA.
Yeah the were an agency with basicly no oversite and unlimited budget for much of their existence. Now they supposedly have to answer to Congress at least. Personally I think we ought to start over with clean slate agency with better oversight and legistive limits on their action beyond which they require Congress aproval on a case by case basis, and none of the current decision makers be allowed in. Do the same with the NSA. Also enable the FBI to have constant oversight on them and report if they are hiding anything from Congress from or exceeding their remit
> We need a high quality head mounted AR display attached to a laptop without the screen part
What would that look like? Is there an existing product that is similar? If it is something I have to wear, it seems like anything much bulkier / heavier than a pair of glasses is going to be a hard sell as a replacement for monitors.
Easier sell than a relatively useless mobile-first HMD with so many tradeoffs between power, computing, and form factor it's not even funny. Much easier sell to wear glasses at a desk than a bulky headset into the world. With a tethered solution, power and computing does not have to be strapped to your head, mostly just optics.
Companies are so busy trying to turn AR into the next smartphone that they forget the display came first.
ok, I think I am following you and I think I mostly agree. Probably the biggest issue is that as "just" a monitor replacement, the possible use cases are significantly narrowed. Probably a lot more overlap with the ELF-SR2 with probably the biggest advantage being portability if you can incorporate the compute/power/etc into a decent form factor (ie something that you might be able to use in a starbucks)
I cannot change the size of the screen with the ELF-SR2. I can many screens of varying sizes with a tethered AR display. With this, we are still looking into a box, maybe a cool and expanded box, but still a box. AR allows screens to be anywhere in the world, and the majority of consumption for traditional spatial mixed reality AR technology (so many words, so much confusion) is developers sitting at their desks working on prototypes. If I can spend $1,500 on a fancy monitor, I would rather spend $1,500 on a comfortable device that gives me many monitors. Take the computing, batteries, and the idea of stuffing it into a device under a pound and likely the price point becomes much more acceptable for adoption.
Edit: Can no longer reply to say, I think it is mostly executive bias from the mobile age that prevents the best optics from being used in a tethered format like this. Executives needs to stop seeing smartphone replacement and start seeing monitor replacement if they want early traction. Some startups building devices like this but few have the budget and amazing optics.
Furthermore, everyone, regardless of whether they are using a credit card, is paying for this in the form of higher prices (unless the vendor has separate cash prices...)
kldavis4 was meaning that everyone pays the same higher price to account for the fees present in card payment processing, regardless of whether they are paying in cash, be debit card, or by credit card.
> Higher cash prices are a violation of the card-holder agreement.
I think what you are meaning is “higher card prices are a violation of the merchant agreement” – so a merchant can't offer different prices for cash payments to account for differences in processing costs or they risk losing their merchant account with the card/payment processing company.
In some places this is no longer legal¹, you'd have to check your local legislation to know what applies in that regard where you are.
Also the reverse, offering discounts for card use rather than cash², is illegal in some places because it is unfair to those without cards⁴.
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[1] so card processing companies can't (legally) punish merchants for offering a discount for cash
[2] usually because the merchant gets a kick-back from the card payment processor, though sometimes these days it is because cash has become the minority payment method³ and vendors would rather only deal with one so want to further discourage cash
[3] it is worth noting while discussing potential costs or kick-backs for card payment processing, that for businesses the act of dealing with cash has associated admin and/or costs too
[4] which is disproportionately the disadvantaged, because they find it harder to qualify for any card, or can only qualify for one with a monthly charge that they can ill afford
"included provisions which allow retailers to refuse to use credit cards for small purchases and offer incentives for using cash or another type of card."
I think you mean the merchant agreement. There are many gas stations in the area where I live that have different cash prices and still take credit cards, so I'm not sure if this is still a thing. And honestly the fact that they would have that lends support to the fact that all of these credit card "benefits" are subsidized by cash payers.
