Quick rendering math lesson (common trap): FoV in Unreal... Engine isn't interpolated correctly when blending between two cameras The current code does: FoV = lerp(FoVA, FoVB, Weight) however, that's not how you interpolate FoV! To be "perceptually" linear and also correct under aspect ratio scaling, FoV needs to be lerped in tangent space: FoV = atan(lerp(tan(FoVA*0.5), tan(FoVB*0.5), Weight)) * 2 First video showcasing the problem. Blending between a 32:9 camera with 98.21° FoV and a 16:9 camera with 60° FoV. Viewport is 32:9. Due to FoV scaling being Hor+ by default in UE, at 32:9 they should look identical. But during blends, they don't (the FoV isn't stable)! The relationship between FoV and aspect ratio isn’t linear, because FoV is angular In practice, it also means camera interps aren't as smooth as they could be, second video shows that. PR to fix the problem: hopefully it gets merged!show more

btw, Many players say BF recoil control is ez... but I've never seen a even 1 player who can recoil control like me. Many players mistake doing recoil control well cuz they play with stretched res or high FOV, but that's not real. Don't be fooled by the optical illusion, the long range you think is actually not even mid range. This is the concept of "True Aim" I always say. Ofc, you don't have to force to change your settings, but try record your play and zoom the screen center in as much as possible. Then, you can check your true aim. (These are just Sunday clips btw, 16:9 res 98 fov)show more

Sonys pulling the plug on the servers for PS3... games also, Infamous 2 will lose its online user generated levels and stories. It has never received a remaster and will be left stranded on an abandoned platform. So Chad Warden's been cookin' here's Infamous 2 for PC, with enhancements via community patches in RPCS3! Play at 60FPS 4K resolution! With configurable FoV via patches! Online is currently not functioning, its a shame. I hope these levels will be released to the community so they can be saved like LBP was.show more

🆕 Need for Speed: Most Wanted — Widescreen Fix... updated! The most iconic NFS of its generation — now with the visual and quality-of-life treatment it deserves. 🔗 Download: • 🔧 Fixes: • Native support for any resolution, including ultrawide • Corrected aspect ratio for all rendered elements • HUD repositioned & scaled with optional 16:9, 21:9, or custom constraints, configurable UI scale & auto-fit mode • Xbox 360 or mathematically correct hor+ FOV scaling • FMVs fullscreen with crop/stretch, auto-fit for narrower ratios ✨ New options: • Skip intro FMVs • Borderless, bordered, resizable, or borderless fullscreen windowed mode • Configurable simulation refresh rate — sync to monitor or double it • Xbox, PlayStation, or text-only gamepad labels with fixed bindings • Configurable analog deadzones • Shadow resolution up to 16384 — improved LOD, and auto-scaling by aspect ratio • Shadow map format selection: D24S8, INTZ, DF16, DF24, or forced sharp shadows • Custom save directory & registry-free settings • High spec audio (forced 44100 Hz), Xbox 360 gamma and more... 🎥 Free-look camera — mouse & right stick with full configurability.show more

❓ IS 3I/ATLAS RAPIDLY SPINNING ❓ The short answer?... Of course not. I've been trying to avoid addressing this YouTuber directly because I know the cult will come for my comments, but I'm tired of getting messages about it and seeing people base entire arguments about 3I/ATLAS on this single false premise. Simply put, Ray does not understand what he's looking at in this video (and many others). The changing appearance is due to simple atmospheric distortion. I'll explain below: All light that we observe from the ground here on Earth is subject to atmospheric distortion regardless of the source. Think of how the air looks "wavy" over pavement on a hot day. Same concept. Different sources of light result in different effects (e.g., stars emitting light twinkle, while planetary bodies reflecting light do not), but it is all distorted in one way or another. Now, we know Ray is using a 14" telescope. Depending upon his eyepiece, that means the FOV in his images is likely somewhere between 40 and 90 arcminutes. The current estimated size of the coma of 3I/ATLAS is 2.2 arcminutes. In all likelihood, the visible part of the coma in Ray's images is even smaller than this, but in all of the math I am going to give him the benefit of erring on the side of caution. Why does any of that matter? This means it occupies a tiny fraction of the total FOV of the telescope. Even if we give him the smallest FOV and the largest coma size, it's still a mere 5% of the total image. Now, telescopes do not have a magical optical zoom feature. Any zoom is done digitally with all degradations of quality involved in doing so. This extreme zoom also means that small atmospheric distortions are heavily amplified. So, when Ray captures an image every 60 seconds (or really any interval since he isn't stacking), he is capturing the atmospheric conditions in a slightly different position. Again, think about the "wavy" air above pavement on a hot day and how it is constantly moving. It's the same concept. The Earth's atmosphere is in constant motion. This is what causes the image to look different in every single frame. In fact, you will never find two of Ray's frames that look identical ever. In any video. So let's assume for a minute that you don't believe in atmospheric distortion for whatever conspiratorial reason. Let's examine what he is claiming on its face. In order for you to believe Ray is correct, and his video is actually showing movement of the anti-tail and coma and not simple distortion, this means you have to believe that TENS OF THOUSANDS of kilometers of dust, gas, and other ejecta are simply disappearing and reappearing every few seconds. The anti-tail is an estimated ONE MILLION kilometers long. You would have to believe that a 1 million km long structure is shifted nearly instantaneously without leaving so much as a trail. And this isn't even accounting for the tens of thousands of kilometers of dust and gas randomly disappearing and reappearing from all sides of the coma at random. I don't think Ray is a bad guy and I think he means well. I think he has a super cool rig and was learning how to decipher the images he was capturing when he was suddenly thrust into the spotlight and did the best he could. But enough is enough at this point. 3I/ATLAS is NOT rotating every 60 seconds or whatever other nonsense is being proposed based on Ray's observations. The "scientists" and "PhDs" out there who don't understand simple physics about Earth's atmosphere and the movement of planetary bodies need to quietly see themselves out of the conversation or do some reading and come back more informed. Stay curious. #3IATLAS #3I #3Iatlascomet #astrophotographyshow more

Let me explain what I'm doing here for those... who are interested. I've been building a retro-style D3D12 game engine from scratch, and recently implemented a "Spatial Compression" effect. Essentially its a technique that makes distant geometry appear larger than standard perspective projection would, giving scenes a telephoto compression feel without changing the camera FOV globally (to keep things "normal" when close to the camera). The goal: foreground geometry completely unchanged, objects beyond a configurable start distance progressively scaled up, with a smooth power-curve falloff. The solution: Once the full view-projection transform has been applied, I'm holding 2D screen coordinates. Camera orientation is already resolved at that point, so it's done its job. Scaling those coordinates outward from screen center is a pure 2D operation with no dependency on where the camera is pointing. The scale factor itself is derived from Euclidean world-space distance between the camera and the vertex (not a view-space value, which would rotate with the camera). Combined with the 2D application, both ingredients are fully rotation-invariant. Critically, only the XY screen coordinates are modified. Depth values are left completely untouched, so the depth buffer and any shadow calculations remain correct. I then tried inverting the effect for the opposite in interiors, leading to "Spatial Expansion".show more

🗣️: we know that your williams is starting off... with an overweight problem. based on your experience, do you think it's a problem they'll be able to solve, and if so, how long will it take? carlos: honestly, i think we're starting with a weight problem and a downforce problem because, ultimately, the gap between the cars in front isn't all weight; there's also a downforce gap, and we have to address both, (find out) how it is possible that williams, who had the whole of 2025 to focus on the 2026 car and with more hours in the wind tunnel, we weren't as good at developing the car as the top four teams that had less time, and that were fighting for the world championship last year. so it's a lesson for the team to see how far ahead the frontrunners are. we also have to learn to make lighter cars, but i think we've already figured that out this year *laughs*, and i think the team will already be ready to produce lighter cars next year.show more

Why the character movement in my custom game engine... felt janky and how I fixed it. In a game engine, most often, a character moves using the physics engine. Meaning, the player is not just a coordinate in space but a physical body. It has velocity, it handles collisions, and it interacts with the world. Now, as you might know, physics engines need stability. If you run them at variable framerates, things start breaking. Objects phase through walls or fly off into space because the math becomes unpredictable. This is why most game engines lock their physics loop to a 60Hz fixed rate. But here’s the problem: If you have a high-end system, you don't want to limit it at 60 FPS. That's a waste of good hardware. Now, that said, if the GPU is rendering at 144 FPS but the player's position (physics driven) only updates 60 times a second, it creates a micro-stutter that ruins the "smooth" feel of the game. A good way to fix this is to treat the character as two separate things: 1. The Physics Body (Invisible part): This is the "real" character. It lives in the 60Hz physics world, it moves the player and handles collisions. 2. The Visual Model and Camera (Visible part): This is what the player actually sees. It doesn't care about collisions, its only job is to look nice and smooth at whatever framerate the GPU is pushing. Once you have this separation, you can use interpolation to keep them in sync. Every time the physics clock ticks, you save the previous position of the invisible body before moving it to the new one. Between those ticks, calculate how far we are between the last physics update and the next one. By using this to drive the visible parts of the game, the stutters disappear. The physics loop stays fixed behind the scenes, while the visuals slide smoothly between the snapshots. Example: - Right after a tick: blend_weight= 0.0 (The visual model stays at the old physics position). - Halfway to the next: blend_weight= 0.5 (The visual model slides to the middle point). - Just before the next: blend_weight= 0.9 (The visual model is almost at the new physics position). Pro-Tip A critical mistake I made initially, and one many devs make, is parenting the camera and visible parts directly to the player body. If you do this, the camera inherits the discrete 60Hz physics movement by default. In that setup, interpolation won't work because the camera is "stuck" to the physics clock. For this fix to work you must decouple the camera and visuals from the body and move them separately. Player movement processing in Detis Engine: - fixed_process: Physics runs at 60Hz. Handles collisions and raw movement. - process: Variable rate. Mainly used for player input caching in the player case. - late_process: Variable rate. Handles interpolated camera movement after physics and everything else is done being processed. - render. Submits the final interpolated transforms to the GPU. The test environment in the video is running on an old 2070-based laptop. Hopefully the video compression won't introduce any stutter... I’m sharing this in hopes it helps a fellow dev. Cheers.show more

You’re not going to believe this one. Seattle is... building these two nearly identical residential towers downtown, and they decided to hang a retired Boeing 747 fuselage right between them. The towers are mostly apartments, but that airplane section is actually going to be used as office and commercial space. Some people are already calling them the twin towers because they look so matching. It’s such a crazy architectural choice. It’s meant to be a tribute to Boeing, since the company was founded right there in Seattle. The fuselage is being used to physically connect the two towers as part of an indoor walkway between them. It really makes you wonder what the design team was thinking when they came up with this idea… and somehow got it approved. Would you want to live in one of the towers?show more

White night in Orbit. White nights are phenomenon that... occurs at high latitudes where in summers the sun does not set due to the angles. In Orbit we experience 16 sunrises and sunsets in a day. But not always. Welcome beta angle- it is the angle between the orbital plane and the sun’s position. 0 beta angle means almost half the orbit in dark and 90 beta angle means sunlight throughout. This does not mean that angles less than 90 cannot have continuous sunlight which is exactly what the video shows. The sun goes down but does not set. We landed on the station and then high beta occurred (beta >60). And in high beta docking/ undocking is avoided due to high thermal stress and limited heat rejection. In space shuttle days, during free flight the shuttle was slowly rolled in “barbeque mode” at beta> 60 to deal with this problem which can still be done with vehicles in free flight. But docking/ undocking are very slow processes and you can’t roll while doing it. The second constraint is on the solar array. You see in the video Solar arrays are moving as they always are to optimize power generation. During high beta their positioning gets restricted due to unequal thermal stress on the structure. Combined effect of these two issues- we got additional 4 days on Orbit. I am not the one complaining. 😊 #shux #iss #space #axiom4 #isro #shubhanshushukla #sunshow more

If you own a Home Services business and you’re... pricing by the hour STOP. In home services there is a pricing paradox that occurs when quoting a job for a customer. Customers want the work performed to high quality standards and also done in a timely manner. Often as quickly as possible. Signaling that they value time. However, the second a plumber, electrician, HVAC contractor, etc gets the work done in less time that the customer anticipated, they have a problem with the price. Assuming they should be charged less because it took less time. That’s now how things work. You’re paying for experience and craftsmanship not an hourly rate. Contractors should be incentivized to maximize adding value to their customers. Not drag things out (or cut corners) because they need to hit a labor target. You’re holding back your talented team who could get the job done more efficiently if they were incentivized properly. You’re also backing yourself into a corner with customers by anchoring them with a labor allowance. Price by the job not the hour.show more

Tom Holland says Matt Damon stayed in tears for... hours between takes on a nine minute Odyssey scene "Something I saw you do, when you did your big scene with Anne towards the end of the movie, it's like a nine minute scene" "You're lying there in tears, they cut, it takes five minutes to reload the camera, and you stayed in it the whole time, you were in that state for hours because of the nature of the way we had to shoot the stuff" "I didn't have to be there that day, but I remember being like, I can't leave, this is unprecedented stuff that's happening right now. And credit to Anne too, she did the same" "For me, as a young actor, to see two guys really at the top of their game operating like that, and it's not easy circumstances to be working with that camera"show more

Interesting turn of events with Nancy Guthrie case (mother... of NBC host kidnapping) The woman the FBI got the Nest camera footage from didn’t have a Premium subscription Yet without a subscription, even being disabled, it was able to record and store footage “We are tracked, they are listening, they are watching, we are being recorded” What’s happening is even if you don’t have a subscription Google is recording and storing the footage from your doorbell camera, but you can only access it without a subscription You think it’s not being recorded and stored, but it is…. Even with the camera disabled, it was recording footage and able to be recovered… “Nancy Guthrie had a Nest camera, which is owned by Google, and law enforcement initially believed the doorbell footage was lost and said Nancy Guthrie did not have a premium subscription to access video from her doorbell camera — Now, according to Google, if a Nest camera is disabled, it can still record up to three hours of event video history without a subscription. So many are wondering, why did it take so long for this video to be released? Well, it takes time for authorities to basically recover this video from Google servers, since Nancy Guthrie did not have a premium subscription that offers special features for video history. And essentially, video is continuously recorded and saved with a subscription, but without a subscription, video is saved until it's overwritten. In this case, they thought because there was no subscription, it would have been erased and recorded over because it would be sort of a continuous situation. And then that's the real issue here. Look, we live in a surveillance economy and as much as we'd like to think that we can delete things and things will go away, and there are some apps that in fact make things go away, the truth of the matter is that we are tracked, They are listening, they are watching, we are being recorded.”show more

Candace Owens little fan club is all over the... internet claiming that Candace never spoke out against cameras being allowed in the courtroom for the Tyler Robinson trial. This is a common tactic of theirs. Deny Deny Deny. Even if she’s on video saying it. Candace also always tries to speak in a way where she heavily implies things or says things indirectly so she can outright deny directly saying things when she gets called out for it in the future. But to put the argument to rest… Here’s Candace saying the media a.k.a the people with cameras shouldn’t be allowed in the courtroom because all they do is lie. And because people will make excuses for that. Here’s Candace on camera laying out a case for why there should be a delay and there shouldn’t be cameras because she claims they just want a “show trial” and not real justice.show more

I present a Celestial player that reaches a rank... by merely existing in a space and occasionally holding down primary fire. It’s like an iPad kid that wants autopilot games like raid shadow legends Look around you, do more than the bare minimum. Lack of awareness is the most common issue aside from toxicity, but id argue that they’re directly linked. This individual doesn’t want to acknowledge that they make mistakes and never learn from them. Never watches any vods to think about how decisions could’ve been different. Like standing in the open on main as strange no shield up until you almost die, then proceed to walk slowly forward like a zombie burning shield. It’s ok to make mistakes but you have to acknowledge what the real issues are, nobody is perfect. Look around you and make informed decisions. Is there cover you can utilize to mitigate resource issues for yourself and your team. As a tank if you’re in a position to put yourself between an ally getting beamed by an iron man would it be better to A) stand still on the cart and the second the iron man leaves your sight you stop moving. B) look around you position yourself between the iron man and the ally to absorb damage and control space. Standing on main isn’t holding space if you do nothing. Look at your replays and where you die. Where is your team? Did you think of needing a follow up heal or the engage being timed incorrectly to provide zero value? And don’t act toxic and insult others on your team and blame them when you are literally playing with blinders on or acting like a T-Rex 🦖 if it leaves your sight it doesn’t exist. Shift your focus around in your FOV, take moments where you aren’t in immediate danger to look around and account for your surroundings; who is present, what’re they doing, where are they going, how can my decision enable us all to make a play. Stats don’t matter and that’s why you see people upset about not being able to annihilate a lone support when they have all abilities available. Is your team currently at a disadvantage in the fight? You probably have one tank and they’re fighting 2. Your engage might be so far from the team that the support makes it back alive and you wasted everyone’s time. Is it close enough to where my team is fighting to provide value? Yes, forcing a C&D bubble on themselves is a bubble not used on frontline or players out of position. If you make a decision to do something without thinking beyond what you want to do as the hero you will never improve, you’ll likely become toxic, blame everyone but yourself and never enjoy the game. It doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing, you enable the best you can to win.show more

This is Giuseppe Sala expressing his strong opposition to... the presence of ICE in Italy. Video Translation: Giuseppe Sala: "I am quite surprised by Minister Piantedosi’s attitude. First, he asks 'What’s the problem?', and then he says we are creating a controversy over nothing. ​No, it is not 'nothing.' I believe that as the Mayor of Milan, but also as an Italian, I really would not want this de facto private police force to come to Milan. ​In short, it is a police force that acts in total illegality—aside from the fact that it kills. But in any case, 'illegality' also means entering citizens' homes without any warrant; they sign the warrants themselves. Therefore, they are totally incompatible with our methods of managing security. ​So, it is truly astonishing to hear someone ask 'What’s the problem?'. No, there is a problem, and a big one. I hope—and it seems to me—that a denial is finally being issued. But I certainly do not think they are compatible with our ways of handling a delicate issue like security, because it is certainly delicate." ​Journalist: "So, it still can’t be ruled out?" ​Giuseppe Sala: "I can’t know that; I would only be 'notified,' so to speak. But I strongly hope they do not cross Italian borders. That's the least we could expect."show more

I don't get why everyone is hating on this... scene. To me, this scene isn't a problem because what she says at the end is what should really be taken away from the sequence. She says she isn't regretful at all. There's a difference between confessing and accepting one's love and acting on that love. Sure, they both confess their love in ep 28/29, but their convo in their room reveals that while they've overcome one obstacle, they're still struggling with the wall standing between them being intimate. In this scene, what Alya is trying to say is that its ironic Boran's shadow looming over their relationship was cured by his actual presence. That Boran coming back and blaming them, acting all high and mighty helped break down that final barrier between CihAl so that they could be together to act on their love. She doesn't mean they would never have acted on their love, she means they would still be unnecessarily punishing themselves with distance had the zombie not come back. Finally, I think people wouldn’t have had such a problem with this scene had their pillow talk sequence been longer. They brushed over that, which is likely why everyone is so weirded out by this. To me, the best couples are they ones that can talk about the worst of things at the best of times and the best of things at the worst of times. Because they get each other so well, there's zero judgment. That's my two cents, anyway. #CihAl #UzakŞehirshow more

We might be solving the wrong problem in robotics.... That’s what this makes clear. UMI → Universal Manipulation Interface A simple $400 gripper that lets you teach robots by demonstration. You hold it like a tool. Show the task. The robot learns. No teleoperation. No expensive hardware. No robot-specific data. Stanford open-sourced everything → hardware, code, datasets. What stands out to me is the bottleneck. Not algorithms. Data. Teleoperation → ~35 demos/hour UMI → ~111 demos/hour And the data transfers across robots → UR5, Franka, others. The design is surprisingly practical: → GoPro fisheye lens (155° FOV) + mirrors for depth → SLAM + IMU for precise 6DoF tracking → latency matching for dynamic tasks → diffusion policies for multimodal actions Then it scales. Cheng Chi takes this further with Sunday Robotics (with Tony Zhao). A $200 glove → deployed in 500+ homes → ~10 million real-world interactions. Not lab data. Real human behavior. Their robot learns dishes, laundry, espresso → with zero robot-specific data. This is where the shift becomes obvious. From training robots in controlled environments → to learning directly from humans at scale So here’s the real question: Will robotics be unlocked by better models… or by unlocking data? #ArtificialIntelligence #Robotics #AI #Innovation #FutureOfWorkshow more

I wanted to talk about the “harem” aspect of... Chitose Is In The Ramune Bottle and how I feel it’s done differently than most “harem” shows. First of all yes all the heroines do have feelings for Saku, yes each of them know that they all have feelings for him and each heroine have a unique relationship with Saku when it comes down to their conversations and how they hang out. I think the biggest difference from other romcom/harem protagonist is Saku himself and how he is aware of all the girls liking him but because of his philosophy (the video i posted shows what Saku thinks about “falling in love”) he chooses not to pursue a relationship with anyone. The nature of the protagonist and the nature of the story/set up I feel is what makes it different from any other romcoms, it also doesn’t help that the author makes good cases for why Saku should be with (insert heroine) every moment with the cast feels like they can be a couple in any other series.show more

First, the conclusion: the so called Galaxy Z Fold8... Ultra leak from last night turned out to be a false alarm. After watching the original video over and over again, I'm convinced it isn't a Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra. It's actually the blue version of the Galaxy Z Fold7. Because of the lighting and color temperature, the blue frame appeared black on camera, which led to the confusion. Here are the three biggest clues: 1. The inner display camera cutout is too large. Compared with the official Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra renders, the inner camera hole on the Fold8 Ultra is noticeably smaller. The one in the leaked video is still the larger Fold7-style cutout. 2. The rear camera housing doesn't match. The cylindrical camera housing reflects light with a bright metallic sheen, which is much more consistent with the blue Galaxy Z Fold7 than the black Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra. Some of the hardware details also don't line up. 3. The inner display is still highly reflective. The device in the video shows obvious screen reflections. However, the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra is the first Fold to feature an anti reflective inner display film. Anyone familiar with Samsung foldables should immediately notice that the reflections don't look like this. Based on these three points, I'm confident the device in the video is a blue Galaxy Z Fold7, not the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra. The confusion is understandable because the two generations are incredibly similar. They share the same overall dimensions and aspect ratio, making them very easy to mix up. The good news is that the real Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra will be even better. It will have an even less visible crease than the Fold7, along with the new anti reflective inner display film.show more

Larry Ellison described the moment money stopped being the... strongest thing in the room. Ellison: “Me and Elon begging Jensen for GPUs, ‘Please take our money. We need you to take more of our money, please.’” Begging is what a buyer does when the seller holds something no bid can move. Two men who can buy almost anything found the one line they had to stand in. Ellison: “The demand for GPUs, the desire to be first, the desire to build the most capable neural network in the world.” Money moves goods that already exist, and it has always worked because supply eventually answers. A chip fab takes years to stand up, and money doesn’t shorten them. Capital compresses time everywhere else by adding people, adding shifts, paying to skip the line. Here it met an input that refuses the trade. The scarce good is arrival. Everyone in that line is bidding for a position in time, and the hardware is the form the bid takes. Ellison: “Getting there first is a big deal. Whether it’s getting there first in self-driving, or getting there first in reading cancer biopsy slides, getting there first synthesizing video and making movies.” Driving, oncology and cinema stand in the same line. Three fields that shared no equipment, no journals and no talent pool now wait on one shipment. Underneath, they turned out to be the same problem. One machine serves all three. Ellison: “The guys who are in this race are very smart, and they understand they need to be best at something, they’d like to be first.” Best is what gets you into the line. First is what you are standing there for. Ellison: “By 2029, I can guarantee you AI is not going to be the problem. Because the simple phrase, ‘the race goes on.’” A company alone in a field ships when it is ready. A company with a rival close behind ships when the rival is nearly ready. The distance between those two dates is measured in years. Every lab in the race is being forced to solve its piece years earlier than it would have chosen. Somewhere a person is waiting on a biopsy result, and it comes back early because two of the richest men alive could not stand to be second. They were begging on that person’s behalf. Nobody in the room knew it.show more