My new discovered superpower for Google sheet is using Gemini, not the integrated functionality, but using Gemini to spit out some very specific use case into app script which I plug into my sheet. Majority of the time the code works without any issue on first try with Gemini Pro.
Atleast let me disable shorts on the TV app. I can't scroll thru my subscribed channels feed without being spammed with all the shorts, this makes content discovery awful and im just not using the app as much.
Agreed. In general I've had such bad performance for complex table based invoice parsing, that every few months I try the latest models to see if its better. It does say "96.12" on top-tier benchmark under the Table category.
"How are Canadians occupying Canadian cities supposed to lift US restrictions?:"
They can protest (which they did) and Justin Trudeau could have picked up the phone and call Biden and ask to remove the restriction, which at that time of the pandemic was completely useless. Instead, Justin Trudeau played politics, he figured it was much better for him to divide the population on the issue than actually work with its biggest trade partner to remove the restriction.
Thing is that Canada already had the mandate delayed once by request to the US prior to it coming into effect, I believe it was 6 months delayed already.
The level of vitriol reserved for Trudeau on this topic is strange, considering it was US-driven policy.
Also strange considering the vast majority of "vaccine mandate" policy in Canada was provincial in jurisdiction, and the federal gov't only had control over ports and borders, so really didn't do much on the "mandate" file outside of that.
The reality is that this convoy was targeted for Ottawa and the Canadian govt because that govt was seen as weak and more easily undermined. The chief organizers are far right radicals whose previous involvements had been around protesting climate change initiatives and in favour of the oil and gas sector ("yellow vest" convoy in favour of pipelines and stuff)
The same kinds of protests done on the US side would have been met with far more severe consequences.
My point was that those companies are indeed in the top 10, and those companies also look at and hire US applicants. This was in response to the commenter’s point that they’d be surprised if 5-10% of H1Bs listing even considered US applicants.
Agreed. Can the experience provided by this hardware be so much superior to a smartphone that'd ill want to put this thing on my face if im not someone that needs to wear glasses? Can this be really superior to a "fingertip" experience I take out of my pocket when needed? I'd have to take the glasses out of my pocket, put them on when needed, OR wear them all the time? All the time is a no-go for me, I've had Lasik, and its in my top 3 best lifetime decisions, not wearing glasses is such a quality of life improvement. I'm a vision pro owner, and it's a great experience, but even with a smaller form factor, I would not consider this a replacement to the 'fingertip' experience.
Interesting and fun article! I've been experimenting with various LLMs/GenAI solutions to extract tabular data from PDFs with underwhelming results. It seems like they are good at extracting strings of text and summarizing (e.g what was the total price? when was this printed?) but extracting reliably into a CSV has a decent margin of error.
Is there any technological solution to VR motion sickness? I built up my motion sickness immunity on oculus, could play games well, and then one day got hit with crazy nausea and since then I can’t play, that feeling was so bad, it’s similar to when you eat something and it makes you nausea and you can’t eat it ever again. Is there a technical solution to make sure people don’t need to build nausea immunity? Seems like the biggest UX hurdle to be and without a fix, how can this really take off?
> Is there any technological solution to VR motion sickness?
A fan facing you so you can orient yourself in the room along with starting on a standing pad. Both help you ground back into the world but like you stated, it's largely getting used to it by building up longer sessions.
I am not a neuroscientist or the like but I imagine there are visual tricks that you could employ to improve it. I think things like blacking out vision when turning quickly is one method. I can't speak for sure, but it almost feels like VR games haven't adapted to screens being 2" from your eyeballs.
I'd imagine anything that can help / trick our brains into processing like we are in the world would help. It looks like foveated depth-of-field helps reduce sickness by 66%, I'd imagine because it mimics how our vision works so our eyes are trying to process less at one time.
> I can't speak for sure, but it almost feels like VR games haven't adapted to screens being 2" from your eyeballs.
The screen being 2" from your eyes has nothing to do with it, especially since the lenses focus the image as if it was 4 feet from your face.
At least, not for me, so I guess this is just worthless anecdata, but...
I have literally played Beat Saber for an hour straight, then sitting down for PokerStars VR for another 4 hours. Five total hours in VR, and I felt 100% fine.
But put me in Assetto Corsa (racing game) in VR, and as soon as the car starts moving, I'm feeling dizzy. Half a lap around the Nurburgring, and I'm nauseous. After finishing my lap, I'm having to take the headset off and I'm spending the next 15 minutes fighting the urge to puke and then another hour with a headache.
The greatest cause of motion sickness in VR is simply motion in the real world not matching the virtual world motion.
There's a device called the Otolith [0] that supposedly can cure vertigo and supposedly prevented motion sickness in VR, but they're only chasing the market for solving vertigo.
Curiously, what games are you playing? I find that games that involve real world motion didn't match virtual world motion (ie, any racing or flying game), I feel sick within seconds, but games where the two worlds always match (ie, Beat Saber, Pokerstars VR, Superhot VR, Space Pirate Trainer), I could play for literally HOURS and feel fine.
Games where I'm sitting down like a car, I wouldnt get motion sickness, but the ones where you walk around with the keypad like Medal Of Honor and Half Life Alyx are the ones that I cant do anymore. I was having a blast with medal of honor, playing 30-45 minute bursts until the nausea once set in very bad and stayed since then.
I dont get any motion sickness from room scale games (real world motion match virtual world) like ping pong or watching movies.
As far as I can remember I've always been sick in cars, when I'm not driving. When I first tried my Q3 headset, I couldn't stand it for more than 10mn in a row. The trick I discovered works for me, but I wouldn't bet on it for everyone else. I removed my shoes and I play barefoot, with my two feet firmly on the ground. I couldn't play Population One until I applied this trick.
Now after many months of using it, I must say I feel pretty confortable. My main usage now is watching movies or videos on cinema size screen.
