windows just deprecated windows mixed reality. thousands of headsets are going to become bricked. open source drivers (monado) do not fully support WMR. they are still selling WMR headsets like the Reverb G2. there is no refund policy. the only way to use WMR is to never upgrade your windows install. fuck microsoft.
A wild idea that I don't have the knowledge to pull off...
Has anyone created a pair of cameras whose distance can be varied? (For example, a motor shifts the distance between the two cameras.)
If a computer knows the distance between its two cameras, it might be able to make a 3-d map of the surface of an object. The varying distance between the cameras would help with further objects -- or with closer, small objects.
@Chip_Unicorn That being said it is possible in theory and I did see some practical applications, like clip-on lenses for #Xbox360#Kinect sensor bars so people can play closer to the sensor and in a tighter playspace than it was designed for.
OFC the opposite is also possible tho optically more challenging - not to mention that artificially increasing the playspace needed for the Kinect doesn't have any advantages except requiring more movement and poorer movement detection...
@Chip_Unicorn But yeah, that "Range Imaging" has been done and in fact I've seen some 3D scanning with Kinect Modules that provided blind people with acoustic heatmaps for rooms and hallways.
Tho having a #Kinect strapped to their face was considered not socially acceptable even before the rise of the #Glasshole|s despite said Kinect sensor not being used to record anything but only scanthe envoirment for obstructions.
Not to mention that #Microsoft ditching the #Kinect on the #XboxOne is a serious breach of #trust towards #GameDevs which now have to deal with an even more fragmented platform than the #Xbox360.
In 2009 Peter #Molyneux showed us demos of #Milo. An #AI boy that could see us through #Kinect and interact with us. We have since not heard from him. What's up with that? Is Milo trapped inside the XBox? He would be a young adult by now! Is he being forced to go through a series of torturous experiments? Wait. This is #Microsoft. Is ChatGPT actually Milo with a bunch of cables stuck to his head?
after a while of attempting to debug why the heck only the NUI motor was listed through lsusb and freenect-glview wasn't detecting anything, only to realise the power board on which the AC adapter was plugged into was not powered...