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It is still possible to join our C++ study group!
https://forums.hash.com/topic/52292-c-study-group-june-4-2023/
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On a related note, the voice assistant business is doing poorly. Although commanding your appliances by talking to them is a long-standing futuristic vision, few people want to have any conversations with their appliances that will make money for the smart appliance makers.
Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year
QuoteAlexa has been around for 10 years and has been a trailblazing voice assistant that was copied quite a bit by Google and Apple. Alexa never managed to create an ongoing revenue stream, though, so Alexa doesn't really make any money...
...the hope was that people would buy things on Amazon via their voice. Not many people want to trust an AI with spending their money or buying an item without seeing a picture or reading reviews. The report says that by year four of the Alexa experiment, "Alexa was getting a billion interactions a week, but most of those conversations were trivial commands to play music or ask about the weather." Those questions aren't monetizable.
Microsoft seems to have given up on Cortana for similar reasons.
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When Apple introduced the iPhone and the iPad, they both did more than anyone expected, at a great price.
These Vision Goggles maybe partially approach expectations, at a price most people won't consider paying.
I don't think this is a case of Steve Job's "How can people know what they want if they haven't seen it yet?"
People have "known" what VR is meant to be at least since the Star Trek "Holodeck" in the 80s. The apps that have been demonstrated for the Apple Vision don't com close to expectations and dont' seem to present any new "wow, I need that!" ideas.
Microsoft has recently scaled down its Hololens development, perhaps sensing that the market for this won't justify the dev costs.
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It's the new VR headset, the device everyone wants until they have to use it.
NYT has an early try-out...
A First Try of Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro Headset
One artist's reaction...
Optimize your dating life with our incredibly ugly and expensive headset
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18 minutes ago, R Reynolds said:
Its biggest downside was that it made me think that 24 frames was a sufficient cycle length. Once I got a quasi-workable left leg cycle I realized how wrong that was
You can bounding-box select your keyframes and stretch the cycle to any duration you want.
Also, a walk cycle on a path will scale its duration to traverse the path in the specified time.
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On 6/5/2023 at 2:52 PM, R Reynolds said:
I'm working on my very first human walk cycle.
(My hat's off to anyone who gets a believable cycle without days (weeks?!) worth of tweaking.)
When I was taking AnimationMentor classes, there was a lecture that began with a montage of several studio animators each revealing what they dreaded animating most... walks!
Convincing walks are hard to do and harder if you are doing a walk cycle. What ever is wrong with it becomes more obvious as the cycle repeats.
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Hi Roger,
I don't recall a switch but I think the key is to have the action "Length" equal to the time of the end-of-cycle keyframe that is a copy of the start-of-cycle keyframe.
That seems to work in this sample PRJ.
If you are watching your cycle in in real time you will want your Play Range set to be no longer than your last frame. When I had a slower computer I think I had to set the Play Range one frame short but when I look at this project today it doesn't seem to need that.
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6 hours ago, pixelplucker said:
No patch for error loading files from a nas? Seemed long file path names crashed v19 when trying to load a prj. I had posted in bug reports.
Ended back with the cd version.
Thanks
Do you have an AM reports issue number for that?
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You can still join our new C++ study group!
It's fun, it's exciting, all the cool kids are doing C++ these days.
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That is an interesting Hair result! Almost like a robe!
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@Rodney @Roger @Shelton Robbie
For our first meeting you will want to get four things done.
- Download and install Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 "Community" edition
- Sign up for a free account to Udemy.com. Enroll in free Udemy course "C++ Tutorial for Complete Beginners" and watch Lesson 1 "Introducing C++"
- Get a personal Google Account so you will be able to attend our Google Meet sessions.
- Get the computer you will use to do C++ set up with a microphone and earphones so you can participate in our Google Meet session. No camera needed.
Getting Visual Studio...
- Go to https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/ and choose the "Free Download" of the "Community" edition
- You will be prompted to save a setup file. Save it to where you can find it, like to your desktop...
Run the Setup file. It will lead you through several steps...
- The installer will give you many options for downloads. Uncheck everything except "Desktop development with C++"
We'll check your installation at our first meeting. You will be able to add
Getting course at Udemy...
When you put "C++ Tutorial for Complete Beginners" in the Udemy search bar you should get an option for a course taught by John Purcell. Choose than one! It is free.
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Welcome to A:M, @Madfox! Glad to have you!
Cool to see what Tubehead is all about! He was trippy. -
We appreciate your efforts on behalf of A:M, Jason!
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For anyone following along...
After some testing, Saladeen and I concluded "Mirror Constraints" was working correctly except for Spherical Euler Limits.
That may be a bug that needs to be reported.
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That could be a Who from Whoville.
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If you want to send the "before" version to me in a PM I'll look at it. You can take the mesh out if you don't want share that.
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That's a guy who's had his first beer. 😀
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The constraints that have a 2 in the name after the % sign are very suspicious.
The "Before" version has some of those. Are those intentional or accidental?
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Project Workspace. Can you show me some of the heirarchy where the extra left is showing up?
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I think I know what you mean. Can you show a shot of your PWS before and after?
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We are still planning to start the new C++ Study Group on June 4 and you still have time to get on board the C++ train.
If you have not already, PM me if you are interested.
QuoteWhat is C++ and why is it used?
C++ (or “C-plus-plus”) is a general-purpose programming and coding language. C++ is used in developing browsers, operating systems, and applications, as well as in-game programming, software engineering, data structures, etc.
C++ is the language of A:M and just about anything else that does anything useful.
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If you want the distortion box I can show you how to do it, but your approach will work too.
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My first gambit is to use a distortion box but this isn't trivial to make work...
Apple Vision Pro announced
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I don't think the public expects the Holodeck, they know that's impossible. But these various VR goggles will have to present some experience nearly as compelling as that to lure the general public into making a habit of wearing these and paying a premium fee for it.
Planes were introduced and proved their use long before The Enterprise so they never had that comparison problem. Planes won market acceptance by offering a clearly faster alternative to something people were sick of... train and bus travel.
VR goggles are a superior replacement for... what? What essential activity? I'm not sure what that is yet. None of the VR uses being demoed look like such a thing.
I can imagine valid uses for architects and car designers and military planners, etc., but that's not a mass market.