What's the Register coming to?
Where's the once-obligatory Weee Netbook Girl photo?
Did everyone grow up or leave or something? Oh...
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I'm guessing that FAST will pluck some numbers out of nowhere, and it will be up to you to prove them wrong.
Isn't it usually the case with FAST "investigations" that the onus seems to be on the accused to prove that they did purchase the necessary licences, and not the other way around?
Quite how that sits alongside our current justice system is beyond me, but it seems to have worked out just dandy for them in the past.
Estate agents, car showrooms, employment agencies...
Disties may be in a different market, but in general their business is to sell <insert-product-here> at the best price they can get.
Will the businesses adapt? They probably don't care. If they can't shift IT stock any more they'll just shut the shop and move on to selling something else.
I'd not considered the focussing issue before.
For run-of-the-mill 3D viewing, eg Imax, 3D-TV, Cardboard-style VR headsets, etc, your eyes are focussed on a physical screen (which in the case of headsets is effectively feet, not cm, away due to the use of lenses). Images may appear to be closer or further away than the screen, but your eyes remain focused at just the one distance. Confusing for the brain and unpleasant on the stomach (in my case anyway).
How does that even work with AR?
You could be looking at a physical object 10 metres away, and an identical virtual object right next to it. But if the focussing plane of the headset is only 3m away, what do you actually see? Can you only have one of the objects in focus even though they are the "same" distance away?
I'm feeling ill just thinking about it.
Reminds me of the CRT monitor "hack" of the last millennium. Because CRT pixels were lit up one at a time, the boffins involved showed that you could "see" what was on someone's out-of-sight screen just by recording and analysing the light levels in the same room.
Simple in principle, but required very fast sampling rates and a pretty high level of precision & accuracy.
So, "transmission" between an entangled pair is instantaneous. And I can also package one half up and send it into space, where it will be moving at silly speeds making it effectively younger than the other...
Bingo! - I think I just invented quantum Resublimated Thiotimalene. Nobel prize here I come!
Time is definitely an issue for the Virgin Galactic program.
One thing the US space program taught us is that the public appetite for sub-orbital trips to space has a very limited shelf-life. I always felt a bit sorry for Alan Shepard in that respect.
Is Richard Brandon planning craft capable of higher or longer trips? Without them I fear this could be just a flash in the pan.