I'm surprised nobody mentioned the volume slider being moved from the left to the right side on the player... They also removed the ability the use mouse wheel to control the slider too.
How does something as big as a player redesign go through so little QA on one of the largest websites in the world?
I'm curious if the lack of heat in the lightrays will ruin the immersion of sunlight? Perhaps couple this with an IR heatlamp to add the real feel of sunrays hitting your skin?
The main issue is the blue scattering. If you can get away with pre-scattering the light before it hits the dish adding an IR lamp is no issue since you're using a parabolic mirror which has no diffraction. I have no idea if it 'feels' right doing that though.
For full immersion you would also want a number of different light sources since leds are have very narrow spectra.
The method proposed in the video already accounts for the narrow LED spectra by using lights that have excellent color reproduction (the part where he recommends a CR rating of 95%+)
To answer anyone looking at this now: the Rayleigh scattering needs to produce diffuse light [0]. Which actually makes the project easier to pull off since you just need to place secondary lights all around the roof and walls of the room that emit AM1.5 diffuse light globally and not worry about any sort of filtering on the main light, which you need to match to AM1.5 direct.
Yes, patio heaters are very cheap. Such an infrared emitter would have been a very easy addition to this project, at the cost of doubling the power draw.
You mentioned the Touch Bar but didn't mention smart phones?
I think the trend is clear, ideally you don't want anything between you and your computer. Hence the rise of touch screen phones (combining the keyboard and touch controls with the screen).
What I'm excited about is moving from 2D controls to 3D environments. It is still a little early but if you look at VR, you can create any sort of interface with your computer. Need more monitors? Just edit your scene. Need a bigger or smaller monitor? Easy, edit your config file. Those monitors you just created ... you can make them respond to touch or your eyeball movement.
The only hardware you will need is a VR kit (headset for vision and audio + gloves/knuckles for your hand interface).
Those are really good points - thanks for the well considered reasoning.
On the smartphone side, I think we use them very differently - you wouldn't do engineering design on a smartphone, for example, so this is maybe outside of the use-case I was thinking about. I don't think touch screens are that effective either - typing on them is a pain!
Your point about VR is very interesting though because people are starting to do complicated tasks like CAD and graphic design through VR. This does mean it's able to do tasks that typically people would spend a lot of time sat at a desk typing and clicking to achieve.
Having many 'virtual' computer monitors displayed through a VR or AR headset is not something I've ever thought about, but is a really cool possibility. Do you know of any examples?
Maybe "fry" was the wrong word to use here. The USB device mentioned in the article doesn't work after it kills the device so the components actually don't get too hot after the initial surge.
Also any battery on your device is also a potential fire hazard. There are procedures in place to deal with such cases.
Maybe I'm the minority, but seeing a post with a ton of likes will discourage me from liking it. One like has no impact among thousands. Same reason I don't upvote posts on the front page, they already made it there so why bother upvoting.
Only the first few votes give any kind of information. If you’re waiting to vote, it doesn’t matter if you’re voting with the crowd or against it. Your vote is meaningless after the cascade has started.
I have a CO2 monitor, and I can confirm that it goes up at least that fast in my home. I can't speak for submarines or healthy levels. I've been wondering for a while why environmental rhetoric only talks about the global rise in CO2 in terms that make people think it's just an atmospheric phenomenon rather than notably changing what they're breathing. It looks like we've nearly doubled the CO2 we're breathing in the past couple centuries, not including our more sealed up lifestyle.
>only talks about the global rise in CO2 in terms that make people think
Because the levels in the global rise are negligible in comparison to what is dangerous for breathing. Here's a hint, if you think you've spotted something blindingly obvious in a field scrutinized by hundreds of thousands of scientists, you're probably making a mistake.
Thanks for the hint. The thought that the health effects of a waste product from the most profitable of industries may have gone under-reported is indeed preposterous.
Here's a study showing reduced cognitive performance at various CO2 levels in the ranges we're talking about.
Which isn't exactly germane to the issue at hand. Cloning someone else's business idea has no bearing on 'should they be able to earn money for services provided?'.
How does something as big as a player redesign go through so little QA on one of the largest websites in the world?