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kleinbl00  ·  534 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I have a deep and burning desire to rag on Apple's nerd helmet.

    good eye tracking effectively pulled into a user interface system is new, and useful.

It's not, though. DoD rolled out IHADSS for Apache pilots in '85. It was a major plot component in 1990's "Firebirds."

DoD was so impressed with the results that they went "behind me Satan" and kept it off everything else until 2015.

    A quality platform for 3d interfaces may challenge our dependence on 2d rectangles to convey information.

Okay, I'll play. What information?

    Can a (well-paid) white collar office worker be more comfortable with a free-moving headset rather than be locked to a desk to rest their laptop and peripherals off of?

An anecdote: I resisted cell phones until about 2005. It was only when people got angry at me for not being available that I relented, and I immediately got something that ran Windows. My thinking? places have phone numbers, not people. If someone wanted to get ahold of me they could call me at home. at work. If I wasn't at those places, then I wasn't available by phone. End of story.

I haven't had a real job in more than 15 years? But fuck you I'm not strapping my job to my face. Never ever ever. The ability to put it down is the difference between "working a job" and "being a job" and for ten years I held a profession in which I was surrounded by literal millions of dollars of technology. Literally dozens of screens in front of me, literally hundreds of channels of audio. I should be the poster child of this whole push and with no ambivalence: hell no.