“Oculus” by Andrea Mantegna (between 1465 and 1474), on the ceiling of the Camera degli Sposi in the Ducal Palace, Mantua.
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On March 3, 2016, the Oculus partially opened to the public, along with new entrances.
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Greetings to those who see this!
Once DEV (@funkyfurretyt) gets a competent machine again (AKA, once his main rig is back…), development shall be shared. But until then, he needs assets!
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Me fudging my head with trying to get Meta Rift DK1 2 hd prototype things working with linux. On a laptop that didn’t even support this stuff on a first place, because it has no GPU.
Headsets do send the data, since OpenHMD spits it (For DK1, DK2 but not HD Prototype. Last one returns 0’s, like nothing is connected. And DK2 returns no positional tracking nor even attempts to interact with the camera.)
DK1 and HD Prototype show the desktop and get recognized as monotors.
From all of this, i can Try to get OpenHMD Unity plugin for unity 5, and try to do something, but.. eh, Unity Hub decided not to function, i got lazy and bleh. A simple setup of 2 cameras in split-screen and a script (?) fetching OHMD data in real time with some motion amplification (to avoid motion blur and lag) would make it work. Hopefully. (I don’t even know the contents of a plugin yet, these are all my guesses)
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Oculus (2013)
Oculus is a horror movie for the people who watch horror movies and think, “These dummies deserve to die. I know exactly what I would do in their situation.” It has an ingenious premise, a great hook, an engaging mystery and the presentation makes even the familiar elements feel fresh.
In 2013, Tim (Brenton Thwaites) is discharged from a psychiatric hospital after he is finally able to accept that 11 years ago, his father (Rory Cochrane) went mad and terrorized him & his sister (Annalise Basso) before murdering their mother (Katee Sackhoff). Then his sister, Kaylie (Karen Gillan), reveals to him that the stories he told as a 10-year-old were true: their father was possessed to do the things he did and that an evil mirror is responsible for all that happened. Together, they’re going to prove it.
In a normal horror movie, the mirror’s evil would be revealed before the title and we’d have to sit and wait while the characters figure it out. In Oculus, Kaytie already knows the mirror is evil. She’s on the same page as us. With cameras rolling (she’s got to document this to prove he wasn’t crazy), she explains to Tim the mirror’s history and what it’s capable of and the movie expands on what she says with flashbacks. These present a somewhat familiar haunted house-type of story, but you don’t mind the familiarity because of the other half of the film. In fact, you kind of look forward to the scenes that confirm what you “already know” - it’s not enough to hear; you want to see.
Katie goes about her task scientifically. “This happened in 2011, so logically, if the scenario is duplicated, the same thing will happen again”. Her methodical approach to this supernatural object draws you in even more. Your mind goes through all of the precautions you would need for this mission to be successful. Her goal, by the way isn’t merely to prove the mirror’s powers; she also wants to destroy it. She’s hoping Tim - the one person who could believe this thing is as dangerous as she says it is - will help. To do that, she has to get him up to speed.
The protagonist being smart and going into her mission with a well-developed plan goes a long way. You relate to Kaylie because she’s horror-scenario savvy like you. There’s also a sadistic side to you – the one that chose to watch this horror movie in the first place – that wants to see what will go wrong. It’s not necessarily that you know Kaylie and her brother will fail, it’s just that it all seems a bit too well thought out; if it were “that easy” – and to be clear, all of the planning Kaytie’s done makes it clear this plan didn’t just come together overnight – a whole movie wouldn’t have to be dedicated to this mirror.
Another thing the movie does right is the mirror itself. Where did it come from? We never find out. What does it want? We’re not sure either. We know it’s sinister and the things it’s done/caused say a lot, but we’re never explicitly told via a montage with microfiches and newspaper articles that the mirror – who isn’t even named, which is too bad, because it’s such a great “character” – wants X. We learn a lot about its history and its abilities are slowly revealed frighteningly but a lot is left unknown. That makes it even more dangerous than it initially seemed. You realize how daunting a task just revealing to the world that this thing is evil will be. Destroying it? That’ll be a whole other equation to solve.
The last thing to highlight is the presentation. In 2013, Kaytie asks her brother to try and remember what really happened. For him, the details are vague – that’s what years of psychiatrists telling you what you saw was an illusion will do to you. As Kaytie proves what she knows about the mirror and its abilities, he starts to recall. We get to see his memories through the scenes set in the past. As time passes, we get deeper into the flashback and closer to what we know: that Kaytie and Tim’s father will try to kill them. The memories become more vivid as we get closer to that one night that changed everything. Or maybe because the mirror’s strength is continuously increasing. Reality starts to bend and warp until – like our heroes – you’re unable to distinguish between truth and reality anymore. You were already relating to the characters at the beginning of the film. Now, you’re basically living through the same thing they are.
All of the information we get from the mirror make it clear that Oculus could be far more than just a one-and-done (and Mike Flannagan has shown with Ouija : Origin of Evil that he knows how to do the prequel thing right) but if this is all we get, that’s totally fine. There might be an element of the conclusion that you can see coming further ahead than intended (my one criticism, really), but the innovations within the picture more than make up for it. (On DVD, October 17, 2025)
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dawes is literally the realest character lb has written cuz girl just wanted to work on her thesis and listen to fleetmood mac on her headphones all day and stay in her huge ass hoodies
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ＴＥＤにて
クリス・ミルク：芸術として生まれ変わったバーチャルリアリティー（VR）
（詳しくご覧になりたい場合は上記リンクからどうぞ）
クリス・ミルクは最先端の技術を使うことによりパーソナルで対話型の人間性溢れたストーリーを作り上げます。
チェリストのジョシュア・ローマンとピアニストのマッケンジー・スタバートの伴奏に乗せて、ミルクは自らたどった音楽とアートの関係を語ります。
初めてヘッドホンを付けた時から、バーチャルリアリティー（VR／仮想現実）プロジェクトにより画期的な作品を制作する現在に至るまでの道のりです。
VRとは観客と語り手の距離を無くし、ストーリーを伝える手段として到達した媒体です。ミルクはそれを立証するために、TEDの聴衆を世界最大級の合同VR体験へと誘います。
そんな対話型のトークに参加するためには、Google Carboard（VRビューア）を入手し、with.in/TEDのサイトから、この体験をダウンロードしてください。
VRが、なぜ？画期的なのかと言うと他の媒体では、あなたの意識が媒体を解釈するのですが、しかし、VRではあなたの意識自体が媒体だと言えるのです。
VRは、無限の可能性を秘めていますが、今、どこまで進化しているのでしょう？この媒体の最新技術はどのようなものでしょうか？私たちは、今ここにいます。
映画技術の初年度と同じ時点です。これは、リュミエール兄弟の映画ですが、この映画を初めて見た観客は映像の中の汽車に轢かれると錯覚し、あわてて逃げ出したそうです。
この媒体の初期に起きた事と同じように、VRも単なる娯楽という枠を超え、ストーリーを伝える媒体へと進化するべきです。
映像という媒体でも映画という形が、物語を語るために最も有効な言語なのだと悟るまで長い年月を要しました。今のVRでは、言語を書いているどころか、まだ、文法を勉強しているようなものです。
こういう新産業でイノベーションが起きるとゲーム理論でいうところのプラスサムになるから既存の産業との
戦争に発展しないため共存関係を構築できるメリットがあります。デフレスパイラルも予防できる？人間の限界を超えてることが前提だけど
しかし、独占禁止法を軽視してるわけではありませんので、既存産業の戦争を避けるため新産業だけの限定で限界を超えてください！
情報技術の発展とインターネットで大企業の何十万、何百万単位から、facebook、Apple、Amazom、Google、Microsoftなどで数億単位で共同作業ができるようになりました。
現在、プラットフォーマー企業と呼ばれる法人は先進国の国家単位レベルに近づき欧米、日本、アジア、インドが協調すれば、中国の人口をも超越するかもしれません。
法人は潰れることを前提にした有限責任！ 慈愛や基本的人権を根本とした社会システムの中の保護されなければならない小企業や個人レベルでは、違いますが・・・
ヨーロッパでの一般データ保護規則(GDPR)でも言うように・・・
年収の低い個人（中央値で６００万円以下）から集めたデータほど金銭同様に経済的に高い価値を持ち、独占禁止法の適用対象にしていくことで、高価格にし抑止力を持たせるアイデア。
自分自身のデータを渡す個人も各社の取引先に当たりデータに関しては優越的地位の乱用を年収の低い個人（中央値で６００万円以下）に行う場合は厳しく適用していく。
（個人的なアイデア）
Before 2022, this would not have been possible, but with Apple, Google, and Microsoft agreeing to expand the use of “passkey,” a passwordless authentication system…
２０２２年以前では、不可能だったが、Apple・Google・Microsoftがパスワードな しの認証システム「パスキー」の利用拡大に合意したことで・・・
…on the basis of high security and a high degree of privacy as well…
高いセキュリティと高度なプライバシーも基本にして・・・
…and if, as Ivan Pupilev says, all everyday objects have gesture interface capabilities…
イワン・プピレフの言うように日常的な物すべてにジェスチャーインターフェース機能を搭載していれば・・・
By integrating them with a common smart home standard, “Matter,” and making it possible to automatically connect to them by simply approaching them, assuming permission and authentication…
スマートホーム共通規格「Matter」で統合して近づけるだけで本人の許可、認証を前提とし自動接続できるようにすることで
It may be possible to customize even simple functions as complex functions by combining various devices in a stand-alone manner.
単体では、単純な機能でもさまざまな機器を組み合わせることで複雑な機能としてカスタマイズできるようにできるかもしれない。
In the past, OpenDoc, a technology developed by Apple to realize compound document and document-centered operation, was available.
かつて、OpenDoc（オープンドック）は、Appleが開発したコンパウンド・ドキュメントとドキュメント中心の操作実現する技術があったが
Can we extend this technology to shift from a document-centric to a gesture-centric interface?
これを拡張して、ドキュメント中心からジェスチャーインターフェース中心にできないだろうか？
If you want to work on a larger screen from your smartphone, iPhone, or iPad with a user interface by wearing the Oculus Dash or HoloLens from Oculus Quest
Oculus QuestにあるOculus DashやHoloLensなどを身につけることでユーザーインタフェースをスマートフォン、iPhone、iPadからもっと大きい画面で作業したい場合
It was usual to use a computer with a large screen, but now it is possible to use a huge screen! However, there were limits to the amount of money and placement of the display.
大画面のパソコンでというのが、普通でしたが、もっと、巨大な画面で！！という場合はディスプレイの金額的、配置場所にも限界がありました。
Virtual reality as the future of the holographic age, Virtual reality Virtual reality OS and its extension to the gesture interface center.
ホログラム時代の未来にあるものとして、Virtual reality バーチャルリアリティのOSとジェスチャーインターフェース中心への拡張
Seamlessly linked together, there will be no spatial limits, and you’ll be able to work in a small room with any number of huge, large screens that you can place anywhere in 360 degrees!
シームレスに連携させることで、空間的に限界は無くなり、小さな部屋でいくらでも巨大な大画面で３６０度どこにでも置いて作業できるようになります！！
For example, even if it is not possible to display 3D without wearing glasses like the gesture interface in the sci-fi movie “Iron Man”…
例えば、SF映画「アイアンマン」に出てくるジェスチャーインターフェイスのようにメガネをかけずに立体表示させるとまではいかないまでも
It may be possible to “make it look realistic by wearing special glasses” such as Oculus Dash and HoloLens in Oculus Quest, so…
Oculus QuestにあるOculus DashやHoloLensなど「特殊なメガネをかけることでリアルに見せる」ことはできそうなので・・・
It would be fun to display the setting panel of a simple function device that you touch through the special glasses as if it pops up from inside the device in CG in a hologram format (image: Genie Effect on Mac)
特殊なメガネを通して、触った単純な機能の機器の設定パネルをホログラム形式でCGで機器の中からポップアップするように表示してくれると楽しそう（イメージは、Macのジニーエフェクト）
＜おすすめサイト＞
実用に向けた大規模言語モデルApple インテリジェンス 2024
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ナディーン・ハッシャシュ＝ハラーム: 拡張現実が変える手術の未来
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Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game
アレックス・キップマン：HoloLensホログラム時代の未来にあるもの
Gloveone: Feel Virtual Reality
ミゲル・ニコレリス：脳から脳へと意思疎通する時代へ―その方法とは？
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Been working on a Minecraft “ARG” series which I call The Keeper.
This first episode is called Minecraft ARG but the protagonist is scary.
Consider checking it out if the concept looks interesting. Maybe stick around too.
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I want to stomp on it until it cracks down the ring
(my headset controller disconnects every like 2 minutes and the other one won’t even connect it’s literally ragebaiting me as a CONTROLLER)
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Got my oculus VR headset back. I gave it to my cousin to borrow cuz I wasn’t using it and I was having problems with it, and I guess she managed to fix it, so that’s perfect. Now I need to bug my brother or some friends to play with me
