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Commented on What's The Future For Virtual Reality Movies?
Immersion in VR can be greatly increased using embodiment techniques, as pioneered by Ehrsson. This requires full body tracking to animate a first person avatar. Induction using synchronised touch of the real and virtual body, and visual feedback from virtual...
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Commented on The regular holy war ...
Last I did this it lasted about a year, until a hardware upgrade pushed me over to Win 7, which is not a bad* OS. The key in Ubuntu for me was having a litle Vbox installation of Windows XP...
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Commented on Monarchy versus the Panopticon
Charles was the first one to go to school. They might decide to cease that little experiment and run their own elite education system, with a suitable coterie of little friends. That plus a bit more funding for the presumed...
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Commented on Lies, damned lies, and popular beliefs
Some of this is ignorance, but of the examples you give here, most seem like the kind of errors that are actively encouraged by members of all four parties for their own ends. Duncan-Smith a particular offender....
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Commented on How I feel this morning
It took me about 5 minutes to get my subscriptions into netvibes, dump out their default feeds, and in list view it looks pretty much the same. It's been so painless that I'm wondering whether something equally painless could free...
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Commented on Things that keep me awake at night #1: The end of telephony
Would knock codes help here? The default behaviour for non-whitelisted callers is block, but your teenage dependents could know that they need to let it ring twice, then disconnect and call back. Anyone else who is not on the list...