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Good luck, and keep us posted :)


My two cents : I have been meditating for one month now, daily when i Wake up for 15 min. I feel great since then, and I can actualy focus and actualy be present and listen when people talk to me. You should try.


Are they using some SLAM to do this ?


I'm new to this, but does it mean that Apple is preparing for some AR stuff ? Thanks.


Hi, I'm new to this, does it work with 3d animations ? Like something generated with blender ?

Thanks.


I'm not actually familiar with blender or how that works with AE. I didn't work much on creation of the different compositions, just the end product, so I'm not sure what technologies our designers and animators may have worked with.

Presumably, if blender formats the composition in the supported structure and doesn't drift outside what the library recognizes and supports, it should work.

https://github.com/facebookincubator/Keyframes/blob/master/d...


Hi, you seem to know blender quite well, I'm trying to export an fbx file into unity 3d, but when I import it, it's not the rendered model, it's just the solid view model, not animated... :/

I'm trying to import this simulation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epyqHzoCxa0) without the camera view and the background image.

Thanks.


You'd probably have more luck asking this on blender stack exchange or blender artists. Here's what I found after a quick google search. It looks pretty similar to your question:

http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/5525/animated-obj...


The fbx exporter can be tricky... Make sure you have your whole model selected before exporting and also switch from cycles rendering to Blender engine before export.

I found those two things fix missing stuff in exports of all kinds =)


why is that ? I'm 26 soon 27, I don't have a girlfriend (not looking for one currently), and I'm wondering what would be the ideal age ?


I can answer this because I too wish I could have had my son sooner. I was scared to death of having kids for all through my 20's and early 30's. I now realize I was just selfish and didn't want the "burden" for lack of a better word, of something that doesn't go away. I now realize how wrong I was.

My wife of 10 years convinced me finally to have a kid when I was 33. I risked, at that point, a failed marriage if not giving her at least one. We agreed to just one kid. Had I'd known how hard it was going to be for us to just conceive of one, I would have agreed to start trying much sooner. It took us 5 years of trying the old fashioned way as well as some basic medical help until we finally agreed to pay the price of a new small car for IVF. The stress it caused my wife for five years of trying was hard to watch. She'd tear up seeing a teenager carrying two kids but we couldn't have one.

My life changed the day my son was born (who is now 6) and I can't put into words how much joy he has brought to me. He is like a mini-me and my best friend. To watch him grow, learn and pass through some early life moments (kindergarten, etc) has choked me up at times.

So the regret is because of not knowing how hard it CAN be to have a kid. And you aren't even in the first phase of it yet in which you have a mate you can devote to. Plus you hear about it all the time but it is so different to be living it, but children are exhausting. You want that to be hitting you in your 20's and 30's at peak energy. I am past 40 now and I feel like a zombie at times and many other area's of my life have suffered. I think back how much easier it would have been just to play soccer with him longer if I was 10 years younger.


I don't get why there are special programs for women. Here in Québec we see more and more women becoming doctors, teachers, nurses etc... Why aren't thre programs to help men adopt professions that are outnumbered by women ? I think today anyone can learn anything I they want to, it's all out there... just my 2 cents


It's easier to get funding for these programs because they will be sponsored by tech companies that stand to benefit from the outcome of the programs.


Yes we are working on a API so it would be easier to integrate content on the app and asign beacons to it, in the future we want to integrate muséums too. The idea is, one App for one city to explore it's culture. You won't need an app for one museum, and another app for another museum, and another app to explore the city. Thanks for your comment.


You might also look at the geocaching community. They might make for some great partners to get the word out about your startup's use & potential to a slice of your target market. Probably just need to coordinate some event(s) and donate/lend some of your hardware and you could find some loyal fans.

Not sure if it'd work out or be worth it, of course, but an idea.


Great idea, I'll dig it up. Thanks for your input.


Our target users are tourists, and tourists don't have internet connection when they travel, so the app is loaded with all the data when you download it, and the data is showed when you pass nearby a beacon, no need for internet, you just have to turn on your Bluetooth. We have tougth about using the GPS, and geofences, but withouth internet connection, it's not precise.


Is this only available in select locations/cities, then? I'm not sure I'd terribly like a huge app downloading a world of information for monuments and things in cities/countries I'll never use.

It might be a good idea to look into post-install "city pack" downloads, where you can download some subset of data for cities you care about (or are about to travel to). Might be kind of neat also, and opens up a cognitive gate to letting people potentially just "browse" beacon information remotely in the cities they care about.


We are doing a pilot projet in Québec city rigth now, our plan is to expand into other cities in the future. So right now when you download the app you just get the info of Québec city. Thanks for your suggestion. :)


The precision of GPS and geofences has nothing to do with internet connections. You could send a data payload to your app to be used offline, accessed via geofencing, and you wouldn't lose any precision.


I'm surprised that GPS and geofences has nothing to do with internet connections. I installed an App (EgiGeoZone) from the playstore, and made many geofences to get notifications. When my internet was on it was working well, but when my internet was turned off, I would receive notifications from various places that were not geofenced. Maybe you can give me some clue on how to improve precision without internet connection ? That would be very helpfull. Thanks for your comment :)


Your experience with that app doesn't tell you anything because you don't have the source code, so you don't know what it's doing. It might be poorly written or relying on detecting SSIDs of nearby WiFi networks or any number of things.

A geofence is just a shape on a map, which is a latitude x longitude grid. If a device knows A) the shape of the geofence, and B) its own location, it will accurately determine whether it's within a geofence.

Neither of those things (A or B) require an internet connection. GPS operates independently from the internet. It's a one-way transmission (satellites -> device).

It's possible to detect location more quickly or more accurately using other sources to augment GPS. These include WiFi SSIDs, as mentioned above. That still doesn't require an internet connection -- only a WiFi adapter.


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