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Head of Strategic Partnerships @getVITURE. Co-founder & Business Director of XR news publication @RtoVR.

15+ years in the XR industry. Opinions are my own.
Philadelphia roadtovr.com Joined April 2008
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TIHI
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my vocal synth models the vocal tract as a network of branching acoustic tubes, unlike vocaloid which stitches together and pitch-shifts phoneme recordings. still working on improving naturalness by tuning it against recordings of real singers, but I'm already impressed at how cool it sounds!
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For everyone guessing 68 is the current temp, you are right about what’s most intuitive, but wrong about what Google decided was most intuitive 😭

In this pic, the heat is set to 68 and the current room temp is 75.

It’s not just wildly unintuitive, but there’s so much room on this display to have made it clear and include useful information (like which way the temp is trending).
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Google Nest has a huge display and the best they can come up with is this UI.

Based on what you see, please guess what the current temp in the room is.
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Quest 2 is definitely an old piece of hardware by now, but it's also the #2 most used headset on SteamVR, representing an estimated 772,800 monthly active users. Not that Meta should necessarily care about what's going on on SteamVR, but it's clear there's still a ton of active Quest 2 users out there. Sunsetting such a widely used product doesn't seem like a good call.
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Meta's Quest 2 Era is Coming to a Close as Support Winds Down Next Year

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