I may be biaised but I believe this "tour" is not good. Not immersive enough. Just not really something we want as client.
- The moving/walking part is just bad. Even Matterport does much better with its technology.
Thanks faloon for the link. It's the best 'fuid'virtual visit I have seen in recent months. Gaussian Splatting algorythm seems to be the 'game changer' thing in VR we were waiting for.... This is fantastic times in this area. what a time to be alive !
Pass the "Wahoo" moment, I kind of see the problem with this 3D-modeling-from-a sentence :
- You have to take the given 3D model without a possible raffinement on important things like :
- the form/geometry,
- the texture style,
- ect...
I have been to Cludj. Quite beautifull.
Next time I travel to Romania, I should really try to go down this mine because it looks amazing...
Romania, which has a poor reputation as a touristic country (from France where I live at least) wass really the best surprise this year for me:
- Wonderfull historic city like brazov,
- Many wonderfull Castles,
- Wonderfull countryside.
I absolutely have to go to this cool museum...
Estonia is a great startup country: Online administrations, ect...
They love startups. Tallinn, the capital city, is an european hub for small startups.
And this comes by no miracle: - First let's not forget that Estonia used to be part of USSR from 1945 to 1991. This is not ideal for startup land...
- The real trick is that long before communism came, society in Estonia was rich and full steam on trading with boats. Hansea ligua was a big a thing in Northen Europe. Trade, compromise, innovation was already rooted in the Estonian working culture.
Vive l'Estonie
I (being an Estonian), recently started using the phrase "was occupied by USSR..." instead of "was part of USSR". We never wanted to be a part of that evil empire and never _formally_ were (when looking in from outside), so after seeing someone point it out in a forum, I also started usign the better description.
But yeah, USSR didn't manage to break our culture (and our own language is a noteworthy part of that). Although there was corruption in various government institutions after USSR collapse, systemic open corruption wasn't part of our culture.
Most (many?) people are ok to work for their own success instead of cheating others as the first choice, that helps the startup culture. And Skype is the most notheworthy company affecting Estonian startup culture. Although not founded/funded by Estonians, the tech & business was built in Estonia from scratch, by mostly Estonians. And now there are multiple generations of ex-Skypers who've successfully built startups & businesses more than once.
Culture & neighbors - that's what I usually tell other people, when they ask about our quick recovery after the USSR occupation.
Estonia and Latvia too are some of my favorite places in Europe right now. But: there is a massive shadow hanging over them with the Ukraine war as a painful reminder that Russia is still causing problems in Europe and likely won't be done for a long time to come.
I visit both at least once or twice every year and always come away being very much impressed with all the projects and companies that originate there. Access to funding is still not what it should be though, hopefully that will change in the future.
I am not Estonian, but my mother and her parents were. They emigrated in 1948. That generation has passed but I recognize in your description some of my own attitudes and how they came from their examples. Thank you for your window into the culture.
I know that Estonia was contested at certain points for Russian and German rule. My grandfather was a lawyer, may grandmother was a teacher, and, according to family lore, they were persons of interest to the people who'd invaded and taken over. Do you have recommendations for learning more about that awful phase of history? I wouldn't bring it up, but it is connected to my maternal line's emigration to the US in 1948, so there is a curiosity on my part.
Yeah - not thinking tech skills. More along the lines of sometimes it's nice to hash things out with people who are approximately same age/experience level. I love working with younger devs and manage/mentor and appreciate the energy and perspective. But at the same time it's fun to shoot the breeze with someone who lived through the EJB hype in Java land to give a specific example.
I know exactly what you mean. Younger people almost all actually believe the hype of each fad and don’t realize when they’re reinventing the wheel. If you’re surrounded exclusively with people like this, you’ll go insane. I have no solution, just empathy.
Most of my closest friends are also older developers, and we talk shop a lot.
Have you accumulated a professional network of colleagues? If so, you might consider adopting a habit of inviting them out to lunch or something every so often, just to shoot the breeze. They may be feeling the same need for casual connection just as you are, and it comes with the benefit of keeping your professional network fresh.
Mine are generally found on top of my head, when not in front of my eyes, as I refuse to get bifocals.
We were having a similar discussion on a language compiler group about my excessively off-topic comments. I miss the water cooler and coffee break in person chats from the good old days too. I'm going to bookmark this thread to see if anyone has a solution. I tried creating my own Gitter group, back when you could, but ended up mostly talking to myself, like on dylan-lang/general.
I have a 13" laptop with a 1080p display, which is actually a higher dpi than a 27" 4k display. I have to run at least 150% zoom to be able to see anything. Too bad fractional scaling sucks on linux.
Unfortunately, "pixel-not-a-pixel" and "scaling" won out as approaches, when us greybeards remember being able to choose our font sizes, everything scaling in accordance (or well, at least all the Gtk+ 2 programs did) and X actually reporting the true DPI to software. For laptop and desktop use, I found it immeasurably better.
Sure, responsive layouts that work on tiny screens were missing.
Still, I find fractional scaling to suck even more on systems other than Linux, and some even make other terrible decisions to drop things like subpixel rendering (looking at you MacOS and all those non-existing 10K 32" retina screens).
The Netherlands is already considered somewhat of a wet country, and I think it normally stays under 1000mm per year. So 8 months of 10mm per day seems more than a bit damp.
I built a simple software that generates immersion of artist studios.
Example (please refresh twice to visit) here:
https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01
- Why ?
As a parisian living in Belleville (poorest area), where artistes
build things, I used to visit a lot of "artists studios". I have always loved this places. "J'aurai voulu être un artiste", in a way.
I always thought that no photography or 360-photo would feel the
Space, the immersive feeling.
- The zooming-on-painting part is good though.
The point : I am building a much more immersive technology . Here is an small example. https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01
If you like this visit, and if you know a museum who needs my immersive technology, please send me a mail, I would be glad : thierry.milard@gmail.com