waleedamer

It really sounds like a Silicon Valley startup name.

Happy thanksgiving!!!

Does anyone even use the Go? I'm a full time VR developer and I haven't heard of the Go in over a year. Still great to see this kind of move coming from Facebook though.

Here's hoping for the same initiative for the Quest 2

I think a custom DNS server could help but I'm not sure how to set those up

I actually just started reading the abstract and let out a deep sigh. It's still impressive but no longer mind-blowing unfortunately.

This is absolutely mind-blowing! I'm looking forward to reading the paper they published.

Absolutely. I am almost in the same position as you. I am a college student majoring in Computer Science. I'm going to be a senior this coming fall but I have only recently switched to CS from Pre-Med so I have a long way to go, particularly from an academic perspective. I've been programming for almost 9 years as a hobby yet I still feel like I have lightyears to go. Even worse, I have nothing to show for those past 9 years. The one thing I'm absolutely sure I have, however, is the passion to continue learning.

When I first joined HN about 6 months ago I couldn't comprehend 80% of the material. I remember browsing through and thinking it all looked like Assembly code. It felt great to be surrounded by such brilliant minds, which is why I kept coming back, but I did feel like a lost puppy. Now, months later, I don't yet consider myself knowledgable enough to be posting comments (this is probably my 5th comment), necessarily, but it feels great to now be able to follow at least 50% of the content. This is the result of two things: a, Browsing HN pretty much daily and b, Programming more, focusing on the things I don't already know.

There aren't many lessons to be learned in your comfort zone. Good luck!

Fantastic idea. I agree with leading_who_ in that you should post this on Show HN.

waleedamer@me.com :) :)

I sometimes play with the focus when I'm taking videos. Sometimes I'd want the focus to be very up close at first and then focus more on the background while recording. Also, it's not always easy to tell if the object is too close/far to focus on, so the picture might not come out too well.

If you're thinking Snapchat and the video lasts until you release, the focus could perhaps be controlled by dragging over the area rather than tapping.

Overall, the focus isn't that big of a deal, but, to make as many people as possible happy, I would find a way to include as many features as possible. Flash is also a very important feature that wasn't accounted for. On top of that, how would the user go about toggling between the front and back facing cameras?

This is a neat concept. It could potentially solve the vertical videos problem we have lately with smartphone cameras in everyone's pockets. My only nitpick is the "tap to take a picture/hold to record a video" control scheme. A viable alternative would be: tap to focus, tap and hold for a menu (think Galaxy Note 4 Air Command) where you can toggle flash, choose photo or video, etc.