mwilcox

I'd be interested where you're getting your numbers - there was a popular article floating aroudn a couple of days ago about VC capital invested into Bitcoin already passing the 2014 total: http://cointelegraph.com/news/114862/bitcoin-capital-investm...

189m seems low considering 21, inc. alone raised over $110m.

Yep, more of a competitor to Microsoft's Visual Studio Online than any of the social coding platforms: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/what-is-visual-s...

I graduated in Auckland 2 years ago and had assumed I would have to leave the country to find interesting work. Stumbled into the startup community and now I'm completely addicted, yet don't see myself needing to leave the country any time soon. And I'm not even working out of a main center.

This is the patent: https://www.google.co.nz/patents/US8950867

Abstract: A system may comprise a selectively transparent projection device for projecting an image toward an eye of a viewer from a projection device position in space relative to the eye of the viewer, the projection device being capable of assuming a substantially transparent state when no image is projected; an occlusion mask device coupled to the projection device and configured to selectively block light traveling toward the eye from one or more positions opposite of the projection device from the eye of the viewer in an occluding pattern correlated with the image projected by the projection device; and a zone plate diffraction patterning device interposed between the eye of the viewer and the projection device and configured to cause light from the projection device to pass through a diffraction pattern having a selectable geometry as it travels to the eye.

I'm not really understanding what the announcement is here. They've had a Developers section on their site for almost 6 months?

Oliver Kreylos probably has the best description of the current demo: http://doc-ok.org/?p=1223

Magic Leap are promising MUCH more - realistic occlusion of virtual objects by real ones, dynamic transparency (allowing both AR and fully immersive VR), natural depth of field (refocusing on virtual objects without simulated blur), a scanning fiber light-field display, fully accurate hand tracking, both very near (holding something in your hand) and far (things flying through streets) depth tracking.. you get it. Not to mention, they haven't even said anything about their cloud platform yet, which you can bet Google are heavily involved with.. combining Tango area mapping with Google Maps.. they are trying to solve every problem in AR/Computer Vision, so it's no wonder people are skeptical. But if anyone's going to succeed, they have a pretty impressive team & investor lineup.

Not to mention, Magic Leap are trying to build a whole ecosystem designed for AR experiences, right down to retails stores. Whereas Microsoft simply seem to be making 'Windows-AR'.

The sand looks like simple geometry at the moment, I imagine it could be (relatively) easily implemented as a second particle type as part of the same simulation. The granularity of sand makes it pretty similar to liquid, it would just need adjusted properties (weight, friction, appearance)

WETA have been selling physical replicas of these weapons for years: https://www.wetanz.com/rayguns/

And Timely, an appointment booking service: http://www.gettimely.com

With all these different ways of doing it, we're going to need some sort of syndication. It would need to be really simple though.

They already raised $50mil Series A in February, it doesn't seem that unrealistic. Remember, a typical film budget for these guys easily breaks into the hundreds of millions.

Light field displays literally show a different image to one part of your retina than another. It is not incorrect to explain that technologies like the rift are 'flat', as, while they may show two images, they are simply flat images on a display. Light field tech combines an array of images that recreates the way light works in reality.

Light field displays are to the Rift like the Rift is to a 3DTV.

$7.50? Try living in New Zealand where the only option is $49.50 shipping: http://i.imgur.com/PR6V6SN.png

The thing that gets people is that, as backers of the Kickstarter / customers of the developer kit, you ARE an investor. Sure - not an investor in the sense that you own a piece of the company. But you are investing your time and money into the potential consumer success of the product, by buying the hardware and developing a game for that. You are right to feel betrayed, it you feel this disrupts the potential consumer success.

Wow. He is getting demolished there.

Plenty of people had accounts & personal info at Mt Gox but didn't have any money there.

You should team up with the Ethereum project: http://ethereum.org

The higher price is because of all the USD trapped in the exchange

Thanks!

Probably because it's not directly technology related? And political.

Also the Chair's report which covers where each country stands on issues: http://wikileaks.org/tpp-enviro-chairsreport/

Edit: This NY Times article was posted on the Wikileaks twitter as well: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/politics/administration...

Oh, I'm well aware that's their intention, it's really saying more about Dropbox and the like. It's still cloud storage so I wouldn't store anything incredibly sensitive on there, and you do need to install the browser plugin for the security not to be completely laughable, but it's still a lot more usable than TrueCrypt for day-to-day stuff imo.

The only thing that's stopping me from completely switching over from Dropbox (I use Google Drive a bit too, but mainly for Docs) is the lack of a Sync client. They're beta testing it at the moment, but its still a little buggy and time limited. Apart from that though, it's a fantastic service. The web app is speedy, download times are great, and with the encryption I'm a lot more comfortable storing private docs than I would be on Dropbox.

The Android app does photo backup too, which is one of the main things I currently use Dropbox for.

Not to mention his academic qualifications: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(computer_programme...

The Nexus 5 is pretty impressive. The iPhone still beats it pretty handedly in the camera department though.

Just look at the BTC market..

I clicked it probably only 10 minutes ago and it showed the screenshot listed. They seem to have just disabled it.

They should be tackling monetisation for publishers, microtransactions, spotify-style royalties, etc. There's a lot of room for innovation in the RSS market, but being arrogant and squeezing as much as you can out of free content doesn't help anyone in the long run.