Salv8 (sam)

Clearly someone missed this one - Apple is no better than those companies you listed when it comes to tracking you and turning you into the product. It's all just marketing.
 

My condolences. D: Hopefully it gets sorted out, and not too many people will be effected.
 
I would say 'Rar rar rar Linux is BETTAR' but I know that an Admin with no sense would be able to make just as much mess in Linux as in Windows.

when i read this i instantly thought that the cooler was screaming to get rid of the air.
like how a human screams.

when i read this i instantly thought that the cooler was screaming to get rid of the air.
like how a human screams.

when i read this i instantly thought that the cooler was screaming to get rid of the air.
like how a human screams.

Nvidia and fucking their customers with VRAM fuckery, name a more iconic duo. 

when i read this i instantly thought that the cooler was screaming to get rid of the air.
like how a human screams.

Is it covert if it’s out there in the open? Perhaps more suitable words may include: Brazen, Overt, Obvious, Glaring, failed Metal Gear Solid VR. 

At this point Eufy/Anker has shown their hand. This is not a leak, this is an active effort to deceive and spy on their customers. If it was a leak they would have actually shut off the web feeds and data exfiltration instead of throwing a sheet over it and hoping nobody looks too hard. They're committed to keeping their covert access to your cameras and won't be backing down.

when i read this i instantly thought that the cooler was screaming to get rid of the air.
like how a human screams.

when i read this i instantly thought that the cooler was screaming to get rid of the air.
like how a human screams.

when i read this i instantly thought that the cooler was screaming to get rid of the air.
like how a human screams.

when i read this i instantly thought that the cooler was screaming to get rid of the air.
like how a human screams.

when i read this i instantly thought that the cooler was screaming to get rid of the air.
like how a human screams.

when i read this i instantly thought that the cooler was screaming to get rid of the air.
like how a human screams.

when i read this i instantly thought that the cooler was screaming to get rid of the air.
like how a human screams.

Only 10milion...? Bitch please, that's such outdated low tech. We already got HDR10+ with 1.07bilion colors.

And also opening up the console experience to more than just FPSs and and third person action adventure games with stealth elements.
A console that also give you access to city builders, RTSs, whatever genre is Europa universalis, simulation games, etc etc etc

It has never been an issue to get stuff from Japan if you want it bad enough. The issue is the software. Japanese vtubing software tends to have english UI's, but they're still overcomplicated messes.
 
Presently, if you want to be a 3D Vtuber, your options are:
VSeeFace (No longer works as of Nvidia 526 drivers)
3Tene
VUP
 
Of these software products you need at least the following hardware:
- a webcam (for the worst experience) for face, body or hand tracking  (pick ONE)
- an iPhone X or better (for the best experience) for face tracking
- motion trackers (most common are vive trackers) for body tracking
- finger-hand tracking (done via a separate specialized camera unit, eg leapmotion)
 
No HMD. You're not going to wear a VR HMD unless you're playing VRChat, or Beatsaber. You're not going to buy the Meta Quest Pro to be a vtuber, it just doesn't make sense to spend that much money for what amounts to just a head tracker that can't even track the lip/jaw and eye/brow movement.
 
Vtubers who have money to burn on a full body setup will skip the trackers and go straight to a mocap suit. The problem with going this route is that while the suit itself might actually be fairly cheap itself, the software is not, and mocap software is some of the worst subscription BS there is. At least two English-speaking vtubers are known to use full body setups with mocap suits (Eg CodeMiko and Project Melody), and even then, most vtubers would rather use more detailed Live2D models than janky 3D models with full body when they spend most of their time sitting in a chair. 3D tracking is 
 
What would be the real break through piece of tech would be combining trackers with a stereo webcam that can track the face, body and fingers. Because, relying on Apple to not change the face tracking is still a gamble (and Apple has degraded the face tracking on iOS 15.x) Like Intel's RealSense could have had traction here, but they've abandoned the product.
 
A common joke in the Vtuber community is having people go "Why don't you use the kinect?", which the answer is "What Kinect?", As Microsoft discontinued it long before anyone got into Vtubing, and the Kinect never actually did good face tracking (20 params vs 52 in ARKit,) only some rudimentary body tracking. The Azure Kinect is essentially unusable.
 
Pretty much among the vtuber community, If anyone uses trackers, they use the vive trackers, and they're not great, because they break easily. We're kind of in this neutral position where the price of trackers has gone down, but the quality hasn't gone up, and the software needed to use trackers is still not great. The problem here, is that these trackers use the phone, which means to use these trackers to use with face tracking would require a second mobile phone, which is a non-starter for most people. 
 
The rokoko mocap suit costs $2500, the Perception Neutron suit is $4000-7500, and these are so extremely far out of the cost range for all but maybe 10 vtubers in the world. A $350 set of 6 trackers is cheap compared to $160 per tracker for the vive trackers.
 
But ultimately if you're seriously into vtubing, you need to be willing to spend $5000 on the model alone. Most people doing vtubing right now are either:
 
2D using Vtube Studio and an iPhone
2D using Vtube Studio a webcam (with or without nvidia RTX broadcast)  
3D using VSeeFace
2D or 3D using 3Tene Pro
2D using PrprLive
2D or 3D using VUP
 
If you're unwilling to spend money on the model at some point, then buying the hardware that has no other purpose is pointless. Sure, you can use the VR trackers for VR, but if you didn't buy the VR HMD, the trackers have no other actual use. Sure you can use it to maybe record motion data for video games, if you're developing a video game. But most of the uses of full-body tracking involve puppeting an existing model you have the rights to use. So unless you're willing to spend money on that (or design one yourself) buying "just the trackers" doesn't have much utility.
 

The pyramid is finally collapsing.....

my typec doesn't have analog RGB and it can't uhh transfur 20,000 volts is bad i no want.
 
the day type-c can't handle the average user's needs is the day i will kick the bucket.
unless the average user starts transferring muti-terabyte sized files regularly or is trying to power some behemoth sized laptop with a 4090 maxq, they aren't gonna care.

Eh well, when the time comes where type-c can't handle the speed / power delivery for new more powerful stuffs, pretty sure there will be a new kind being proposed by then.

Until that time comes, I really prefer just having everything with same type of port. Less hassle.
Right now I have a box filled with all sorta cables, micro-usb, mini-usb, type-c, lightning, micro-b, etc <_>
I wish my country implements this kinda law already.

That time he dropped the thing

He needs a lawyer. not an internet mob.