Any help would be appreciated.
So I just finished Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip - a great read, and I highly recommend it. You can get through it after one or two smoke seshes and learn a lot about the band while jamming to them and reading it! there is a lot of discussion between the 'surviving' band members about some kind of holographic Grateful Dead show experience that would be so vivid and realistic it would be physically jarring. I think the technology has finally caught up to their brainstorming session in the form of what we have seen with ABBA and Tupac in the recent months and years, respectively.
My question... should an extremely authentic hologramic or holographic Grateful Dead experience open (maybe it tours, maybe it plays at just one set venue), would you go? What would you want to see from a photo-realistic recreation of a Grateful Dead experience? Do you want a stadium experience or more of a club-like atmosphere from earlier parts of the band's career?
SOUND OFF IN THE COMMENTS! And no, before you ask, I don't work for a company that is putting this together :D
Sorry for taking so long. Holiday season and I'm spending it with my family and friends. Just making time to write these two stories little by little. Anyway, due to popular request, here's the story.
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Alderman and Amina walked with renewed purpose through the crowds to the facilities' outer ring. The massive alien gigastructure spanned 45 million miles and was the centerpiece that their galaxy formed around. They had only been able to make it into one of the structures auxiliaries that seemed to be no more than a welcoming center with all of the necessary tools to learn their written language of 'English'. The small welcoming center was still large enough to house several dozen scientists per center along with enough space to research the ancient materials to their hearts' content.
The two marched through the narrow corridor leading to the main facility's outer ring with their entourage of followers that had witnessed the translation in person. Several of them were recording the entire scene for the galactic council and the people of the galactic federation. The camera drones flew over Alderman and Amina getting close-up shots of their expressions as they finally reached the doorway that led to the ancients who long for nothing but companionship. As they neared the door, the small cube lit up with a blue light and slowly disintegrated into small blue motes that floated silently towards a small opening in the side of the door.
As the blue motes of light slipped away into the opening a voice chimed in throughout the station as a whole. "Welcome datacube #3,567,001's use is confirmed. Humanity welcomes you to our last bastion of hope. May we all live long, and prosper... together."
With that small message, the datacube reassembled itself into a small square slot for the user to pick up on their way in. As Alderman gingerly picked up the cube the doors chimed a happy little tune before sliding open to reveal a deluge of colors and welcoming holograms with messages of unity and friendship. The datacube lit up and a small, synthetic Terran was projected into the space above the cube. *"Hello, friend! My name is Harmony! I am an A.I. that was designed by Ms. Choi to assist the wayward friends of the future that stumbled upon this place! Ah! Sorry! I forgo
... keep reading on reddit ➡"It sounded reasonable at the time? Perhaps mistakes were made?" - Unknown Senior NCO (Suspected Iron Fence), Age of Paranoia, Pre-Glassing
"You know what? I don't wanna know," Unknown Command Sergeant Major (Suspected Hamburger Kingdom), Age of Paranoia, Pre-Glassing
"Get out of my office, you lunatic," Unknown Colonel (Suspected Vodkatrog Empire), Age of Paranoia, Pre-Glassing
"There is a point where we needed to stop and we have clearly passed it but let's keep going and see what happens," Every goddamn Private ever in every goddamn species ever.
"I HATE YOU ALL SO MUCH! I WOULD SHOOT EVERY ONE OF YOU IN THE FUCKING HEAD AND GIGGLE MY ASS OFF FOR A PINT OF PISS AT THE PUB!" - Unknown Company Commander's Friday Safety Briefing (Suspected Bongistan), Age of Paranoia, Pre-Glassing
"That went well, don't you think, sir?"
"Oh my God in Heaven, what's wrong with all of you? This is why we can't have nice things!" - Radio Net conversation, Unknown (Suspected MechaKrautLand), Age of Paranoia, Pre-Glassing
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The blue spark reached the clouds and vanished, pulling Legion's intellect and awareness with it. He found himself swirling and rolling as he sped down a tube of data, thousands of bluish sparks joining him as he swept through the datalines.
He was suddenly spit out into a room. He felt the bluish spark get yanked away from his fingers as he landed, butt first, on a bunk. He didn't look around, held perfectly still, using his peripheral vision to get a good look at his surroundings.
Legion was sitting on a bunk in what was obviously a thirty-two man open barracks bay. Around him bunks had bluish sparks hit the carefully tucked and tightened sheets, flickering for a moment to show a Terran male sitting on the bunk, hands on his knees, waiting.
Through the windows was a low-rez sky and unoptimized bushes.
Well well well, where have I found myself? he asked himself, still holding still. He closed his eyes, checking his digital code. The system had dropped him into the area without running a full scan, so even his barely hidden code was intact and waiting for use.
You see me now, a veteran of a thousand psychic wars, he quoted.
Inside of himself
... keep reading on reddit ➡- ARfusion™, which combines a precision cast optical manufacturing process incorporating functional high-performance components. AR developers now have a one-stop-shop platform for integrating smart technologies into devices, including lightweight plastic HUD's and ophthalmic AR glasses.
- holoOPTIX™ - Volume Holographic Grating (VPG) films for custom AR displays and industrial filters based on Covestro's Bayfol® HX photopolymer chemistry
- metaAIR® - Protective glasses and films that guard professionals from dangerous laser eye glare strikes
- NANOWEB® - High volume, highly transparent, conductive nanostructures for active and passive 5G antennas, reflectors, heaters, EMI shielding and other transparent integrated electronic functionality in consumer, medical and automotive products
- KolourOptik® - A nano structuring platform, used to create sub-wavelength high aspect ratio pixels with multi-faceted microstructures for printed visual effects or other plasmonic metasurfaces
View source version on accesswire.com:
https://www.accesswire.com/684594/Meta-Materials-to-Present-and-Display-Photonics-Solutions-at-SPIE-Photonics-West-2022
HALIFAX, NS / ACCESSWIRE / January 19, 2022 / Meta Materials Inc. (the "Company" or "META®") (NASDAQ:MMAT) (FSE:MMAT) a developer of high-performance functional materials and nanocomposites, today announced that it will be exhibiting at SPIE Photonics West 2022, January 25-27, Booth 2161, the Moscone Center, in San Francisco. META will be demonstrating a range of photonic, electro-optical and electro-magnetic component capabilities on the ARfusion™ technology platform for smart augmented reality eyewear and demonstrating holoOPTIX™ SLANT, a unique series of high-performance and low-cost holographic notch filters based on Bayfol® HX photopolymer chemistry. The Company will also be recruiting at the annual Job Fair at SPIE Photonics West, January 25-26.
Dates and Hours
Exhibition - Moscone Center
Tuesday 25 January 10AM to 5PM
Wednesday 26 January 10AM to 5PM
Thursday 27 January 10AM to 4PM
Invited Presentation by Stefan Trotzky, Senior Optical Engineer
Title: Mastering challenges in holography with widely tunable CW optical parametric oscillators
Job Fair - Moscone Center
Tuesday 25 January 10AM to 5PM
Wednesday 26 January 10AM to 5PM
META will be demonstrating a range of photonic, electro-optical and electro-magnetic component capabilities products, technologies, and capabilities at the show, including:
- ARfusion™, which combines a precision cast optical manufacturing process incorporating functional high-performance components. AR developers now have a one-stop-shop platform for integrating smart technologies into devices, including lightweight plastic HUD's and ophthalmic AR glasses.
- holoOPTIX™ - Volume Holographic Grating (VPG) films for custom AR displays and industrial filters based on Covestro's Bayfol® HX photopolymer chemistry
- metaAIR® - Protective glasses and films that guard professionals from dangerous laser eye glare strikes
- NANOWEB® - High volume, highly transparent, conductive nanostructures for active and passive 5G antennas, reflectors, heaters, EMI shielding and other transparent integrated electronic functionality in consumer, medical and automotive products
- Kol
Greetings everyone, I'm a super old League player and Yorick enthusiast since his release in 2011 and absolutely loved his rework in 2016. I've mostly lurked Reddit in the past on throwaway accounts, up until now, of course. I'm bored and I'm in a bit of a writing mood, so I'm going to rank his skins from best to worst as my introductory post to the sub, (though I've been around for a long time, staring.) Let me know if you agree with my takes on his skins, I'm rating them based on a variety of factors and have attempted to be as unbiased as possible, gauging them by their merits of general appearance, splash, visual effects, sounds, animations, models, thematic, and cohesion with his champion identity. Without further adieu, into the list, written in order of best to worst. There is an element of subjectivity to these sorts of list, but I'll dissect the reasoning for the rankings in as close to an objective analysis as possible. As a final note, by virtue of my boredom, this may be a bit lengthy. I used to discuss skins with an old friend of mine who ran a website on it, but he lost interest in such things a few years back. Given I have no one else to bounce these discussions off of anymore, I figured I'd bring one to the sub for my favorite champion. Enjoy the read.
S Tier
Classic
A choice that may be controversial for some, but there is reasoning to such madness. Yorick's classic design is very, very good. He appears as a rugged necromancer weathered by time and fate, with befitting attire that is both practical and sturdy looking, fit with handwraps for digging graves, an iconic spade of metal and stone with a great shape, and his signature hood. The ability effects are dark and sinister and share a satisfying cohesion with his ability icons -- a weathered blue and gray -- something many skins fail to do. His recall is simple, but smooth and elegant, a ritualistic, skilled, and practiced movement to carve his symbol into the dirt with his spade before recalling to base. The sounds are great, on both the basic attacks and notably the strong stone-rattling sound of Last Rites, along with the rest of the ambient effects, such as the Maiden of the Mist theme. His voice befits his identity, purpose, and appearance -- somber, melancholy, but determined. One must remember that the base appearance of a champion still constitutes as a skin and can be absolutely fantastic in some instances, most notably in the case of our necromancer. It's difficult t
Sheloran has "Christmas Morning", Tartarus has a meeting, and Patricia Hu gets some bad news.
The rest of the series can be found here
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Sheloran sighed happily as she wandered the rows and rows of weapons in The Paper Tiger’s “toy room”.
There were just so many choices! How could she settle on just one (or two or three…)
There was a quiet “pssht” as Gloria popped open a beer.
“You’re making a mess, you know,” she said as Sheloran pulled out another weapon, a Juon cyclone assault blaster, and put it over against the wall with the others.
Gloria smiled.
“I know,” Sheloran sighed absently as she toyed with the shoulder strap of her bib-overall skirt, one of her new dresses and rapidly becoming her favorite. “I just can’t decide what to start on first.”
“You might want to move a bit quicker,” Gloria replied. “We’re hitting MAGA this afternoon. Just pick something for fuck’s sake. You can always make something nicer later.”
“But I’m leaving once we reach MAGA.”
“Yeah, but do you have to do it right away?” Gloria asked as she walked up with a bag of Martian crispy crickets. “There’s no rule that you have to split on day one. We’re going to be there for a bit.”
“I know,” Sheloran said as she reached into the bag. “but I really need to… ooooh...”
Her voice trailed off as she saw an old beat up long arm of some sort.
She pulled it from a box of “trash”.
“What’s this?” Sheloran purred.
“You have a good eye,” Gloria smiled as she raised her scanner/camera, ”That is an Old Earth Norinco Jian Mark Eight, one of the better old supercap gauss weapons.”
Sheloran’s eyes glazed as she gently stroked the side of the ancient weapon.
“We found it during a little treasure hunt back in the day,” Gloria said. “Too bad the cap is shot. We thought we got our hands on a small fortune there for a second, not that we would ever sell one of those. You can’t get them for love or money these days.”
The weapon seemed to disassemble itself under Sheloran’s finger pads.
Sheloran reached for the damaged supercap.
“Careful with that,” Gloria smiled, “It’s ‘dead’ but there could still be enough fuck you up in there to ruin your day.”
“Where did bavnee like you get your hands on these?” Sheloran purred, her eyes now solid black.
Gloria smiled. It looked like the real Sheloran popped up. She had been waiting for this.
“Oh we used to make them,” Gloria shrugged, “Before Yellowstone I
... keep reading on reddit ➡Nick Carr recently wrote a series of small articles about Mark Zuckerberg's newest pet project/monster. If you're curious, you can read the other two here and here, but this is the one that seems most relevant to this sub's interests.
If you don't feel like reading the whole thing, just scroll down and skim the passages I've bolded. The long and short of it is that venture capitalist and early Facebook investor Marc Andreessen thinks the world of Ready Player One is the one we ought to be building, and is pretty much openly declaring "you will live in the pod, you will eat the bugs, you will wear the headset, and you will be grateful."
Bonus appearance by gamification exponent/moron Jane McGonical.
>I like to think of Marc Andreessen as the metaverse’s Statue of Liberty. He stands just outside the virtual world’s golden door, illuminating the surrounding darkness with a holographic torch, welcoming the downtrodden to a new and better life.
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>You might remember the colorful interview Andreessen gave to Substack trickster Niccolo Soldo last spring. At one point in the exchange, the high-browed venture capitalist sketches out his vision of the metaverse and makes a passionate case for its superiority to what he calls “the quote-unquote real world.” His words have taken on new weight now, in the wake of Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook is changing its name to Meta and embarking on the construction of an all-encompassing virtual world. Andreessen, an early Facebook investor and one of its directors since 2008, is a pal of Zuckerberg’s and has long had the entrepreneur’s ear. He is, it’s been said, “something of an Obi-Wan to Zuckerberg’s Luke Skywalker.”
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>In describing the metaverse, Zuckerberg has stressed the anodyne. There will be virtual surfing, virtual fencing, virtual poker nights. We’ll be able to see and smile at our colleagues even while working alone in our homes. We’ll be able to fly over cities and through buildings. David Attenborough will stop by for the odd chat. Andreessen’s vision is far darker and far more radical, eschatological even. He believes the metaverse is where the vast majority
https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2022/01/apple-won-43-patents-today-covering-an-hmd-with-a-direct-retinal-projector-system-and-reflective-holographic-combiner-more.html
Be sure to study the Figures in the above link ;-)
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 43 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In this particular report we briefly cover Apple's technology in regards to their future headsets (VR, MR, Glasses) with a Direct Retinal Projector System and Reflective Holographic Combiner and more. And as always, we wrap up this week's granted patent report with our traditional listing of the remaining granted patents that were issued to Apple today.
HMD with Direct Retinal Projector System with a Reflective Holographic Combiner
Apple's granted patent covers various embodiments of an augmented reality (AR), and/or mixed reality (MR) direct retinal projector system that may include an AR headset (e.g., a helmet, goggles, or glasses) that uses a reflective holographic combiner to direct light from a light engine into the user's eye, while also transmitting light from the user's environment to thus provide an augmented view of reality.
The holographic combiner may be recorded with a series of point-to-point holograms; one projection point interacts with multiple holograms to project light onto multiple eye box points. The holograms may be arranged so that neighboring eye box points are illuminated from different projection points.
The holographic combiner and light engine may be arranged to separately project light fields with different fields of view and resolution that optimize performance, system complexity and efficiency, so as to match the visual acuity of the eye.
The light engine may implement foveal projectors that generally project wider diameter beams over a smaller central field of view, and peripheral projectors that generally project smaller diameter beams over a wider field of view.
The light engine may include multiple independent light sources (e.g., laser diodes, LEDs, etc.) that can independently project from the different projection points, with a proportion being foveal projectors and a proportion being peripheral projectors.
In some embodiments, the light engine may include two or more two-axis scanning mirrors to scan the light sources; the light sources are appropriately modulated to generate the desired image.
The light engine may includ
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
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"Over the break, we've had some very interesting developments. The American President has now finished his speech, and met with the last of the leaders or diplomats from the rest of the world."
The camera panned over to the Space Piercer as the doors opened. At the bottom left corner of the screen, the word 'live' blinked in bright red text.
"There appears to be some movement from the Space Piercer, and... wait hold on, I can see someone coming out!" The camera zoomed in on what appeared to be Amber Greyson.
"That's her alright!" Tom said with a smile. "And out comes Jane and Maxwell. Wow, they look better than I do in those flight suits. I'll need to snag one of those."
"Focus back on the ship, Tom, let's get a new angle if we can, I believe the drone is now positioned.
Tom looked back at the camera, fully aware that he was being watched by nearly a billion people. "I'll find a way to get one of those uniforms."
The camera blacked out for a second before switching to a drone feed showing a head-on view of the crew of the Space Piercer. "What on earth," he whispered as the camera zoomed in.
"What is that?" Laura, one of the reporters at the table asked. "Is that an alien?"
Similar exclamations were let out nearly simultaneously in several different languages across the world. Gaia stepped out of the Space Piercer, now fully clothed in a jumpsuit the color of tree bark. Gaia's light green skin clearly glowed.
Dark green highlights ran down Gaia's ears and middle fingers. Gaia smiled, and black clouds formed around her head in a halo.
"Hello, humans," Gaia said. "I am Gaia. Progenitor of all life on this planet, and here to have some talks, do some partying, and advance us both!"
Gaia thrust their hands up into the air and lightning flashed into the sky from their fingers. Thunder boomed, though not nearly as loudly as it should have, considering that it wasn't rupturing Tom's eardrums.
Tom attempted to regain his composure. "So, uh, we've had our first human FTL flight, and now we've been contacted by a Greek God. More news at-"
"I'm not Gr
... keep reading on reddit ➡"The end of the gunfire is the beginning of the hardest part." - Former Grand Most High Sma'akamo'o, from I Have Ridden the Hasslehoff
Dreams of Something More leaned against the lectern and stared at the massive Senate chamber. There were over a thousand seats in comfortable little booths that held space for aides, scribes, runners, even bodyguards, each seat representing the interests of a body of the Unified Council Systems. From corporations to planets to stellar system districts to governmental bodies.
When the unconditional surrender of the Unified Council had been officially signed and sealed, every seat had been filled, there had even been beings on the sidelines watching nervously. In the weeks following, the anxiety had been a physical thing to Dreams and her psychic senses.
Now, less than a third of the seats were filled. Those that were filled weren't paying attention to what was going on and it appeared to Dreams that those who were present were involved in their own discussions and plans.
She knew they weren't paying attention because she had ceased speaking nearly ten minutes prior and everyone was still involved in their own activities.
"I don't think they're paying attention to you, oh Madame Diplomat, thou burning bush of the Terran Confederacy's political will," Words Spoken We Fear said from beside her. The black mantid was examining his holodeck, his palm of his left hand upturned so that the holoprojector implanted in his palm could be used to do computer operations.
"Oh, shut up," Dreams snapped. The other mantid was getting on her nerves. "What is so fascinating to them all that they'll just ignore discussions on ensuring that the planets effected by the shipping problems are properly supplied?"
Words tapped at two of the holographic icons and looked up. "Want to know? I've tapped into the discussion between a few of the representatives."
"I should say no," Dreams said, petting Mr. Rings, who had gotten bored with the council chamber and had begun to doze. His rings were dark blue and his tentacles curled up.
"Yes, but aren't you curious?" Words asked.
Dreams frowned. She'd worked with Words for a long time and knew when he was up
... keep reading on reddit ➡Based on the r/HFY story ["There Will Be Scritches"] by u/YukiteruAmano92 and set in the same universe. Used with permission.
The Arrival at Iseon (Scritchesverse)
Part 2
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Security Officer (formerly Sergeant of Marines) David Miller found another good tree and tagged the exact location on the trunk for the next perimeter sensor, before slinking off into the underbrush again. After a few meters, he stepped into the lee of an exposed tree root nearly two meters tall and over a meter thick, and surveyed the immediate approach to his position while he checked in on the lieutenant’s security feeds.
Where the actual hell did she get milspec combat droids? He wondered as he checked the live feeds. Did she have a permit for them? Did she need one? He didn’t know, but intended to find out. Sure, they were older, surplus models, and spec’d to gardenworld military standards, but there were four of them, and they had surveillance radar and could post perimeter sensors according to a radio frequency tag, saving him precious minutes.
And every minute counted. Damn those oblivious researchers. Dr. Trrbin, the Svikkthian researcher at the head of the entire operation, had aligned each day’s landing zone and time to coincide with shipboard day cycles, arguing that doing so would maximize the field team’s effective working time with minimal risk of adversely triggering any of the team’s species-specific circadian rhythms. Never mind that this planet’s day was 30 hours. He already had the ground team setting up meteorological and environmental monitoring equipment near the shuttle, hoping to start passive recording by midday, and have a ground camp set up before dusk. The idiot even wanted to sleep dirtside, and had convinced the captain to grant the go-ahead, in spite of vehement protests from both Miller and Sydni.
They had been on the ground less than thirty minutes, and Dave had already startled six crepuscular predators investigating the commotion. At less than a meter long and barely half a meter tall, the small reptilians were likely ovivorous, and not much of a threat. Sydni and the combat droids could deal with them easily, and any scratches they caused would likely not be life-threatening, even to a gardenworlder. Dr. Trrbin found Miller’s report on them to be more exciting than concerning, and had asked for both a live and dead specimen to be collect
... keep reading on reddit ➡Q: Sabby, da fuq be this?
A: My patrons voted for smut pancakes for this month's non-HJ content piece, and I ended up doing some world building in the HEL-Verse instead. After all, the griddle must be hot for a fluffy breakfast. I'll try to think of a title for this later, but if you have suggestions feel free to leave them in the comments. Hope you enjoy the expanded lore! Everything in this story can be considered canon to the HEL Jumper unless I say otherwise
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“Are there any other matters to be brought forward at this meeting?” the Alpha division head diplomat questioned, looking around the circular table full of humans and Ghaelen. That particular group of individuals was well acquainted with one another and the mostly featureless conference room in which they were seated, a forum where representatives of human and Ghaelen governments could communicate on various issues affecting the two species. Kal’Shala adjusted her glasses and cleared her throat, making note of the entirely predictable reactions from the humans seated nearby. They did not want to hear anything further that day, but their not wanting to do their job was their problem, not hers.
“I would like to reiterate the request from the High Council of Ghaela regarding the whereabouts and mission of the human dreadnought HMV Event Horizon,” she said in clear and fluent English, knowing that the purely cosmetic pieces of glass and wire that rested on the bridge of her muzzle would make her appear more intelligent and serious to the human diplomats. The one in charge of the meeting took a sip of water from a simple crystal glass and responded.
“As we have repeatedly stated, emissary Kal’Shala, the destination and mission of the HMV Event Horizon are classified. The Council will have to petition Delta or Omega Division directly in order to open negotiations regarding that specific ship. Now, unless you have any new information for us regarding the status of the Ghaelen-occupied pacified worlds I would like to adjourn this meeting. We’ve already run an hour over time.”
“Time spent in service to the Order is never wasted,” Kal’Shala replied sagely, earning polite sounds of agreement from the two other Ghaelen, both males, in the room with her. “And given that all is peaceful on our worlds, we have nothing of note to report, Representative Cassin. I continue to broach this topic precisely because representatives from Omega and Delta insist that we talk to you instead. We look fo
... keep reading on reddit ➡excerpts from the press release (machine translation):
Established in 2014, Longjing Optoelectronics is the first optical waveguide module supplier in China to construct a full-product matrix of arrays, gratings and volume holographic optical waveguides. As of the end of 2021, Longjing Optoelectronics has applied for more than 170 patents and has authorized nearly 80 patents
The current yield rate has exceeded 70%.
The company's self-built Shenshan optical waveguide factory is expected to have a full capacity of 1 million pieces/year.
In terms of array optical waveguide layout, Longjing Optoelectronics will achieve a major breakthrough in the R&D boundary in 2021, complete the product development of two-dimensional pupil expansion, and solve the problem that the volume and field of view (FOV) of the one-dimensional pupil expanded array optical waveguide cannot be balanced. And successfully reduced the volume and weight of the module by nearly 3 times.
Regarding the layout of diffractive optical waveguides, Longjing Optoelectronics has been investing in diffractive optical waveguides since 2019. Currently, it has set up a diffractive optical waveguide micro-nano laboratory to create a complete nanoimprint experimental line and launch a new generation of diffracted light in 2021. Waveguide products have now gone through the entire nanoimprinting process and have the ability to ship in small batches. At the same time, the planned nanoimprint mass production line will include electron beam exposure equipment, etching equipment, electron microscope inspection equipment and other full-process semiconductor lithography production and inspection equipment.
Do your worst!
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Seems I cant crosspost, so now theres two of these. Original copy at
Haven't written anything in a little while, so I decided I may aswell put this out there. DoT is largely abandoned since I didnt know what to do with the allegories and plot, and it was too generic. No big loss, there was really only one pilot and a half-written chapter.
This on the other hand is something that will (hopefully) be more entertaining both to write and to read, though, as per the title, probably more confusing.
Inspired by the ES universes concept of CHIM and Zero-Sum, the SCP foundation, Dr Who, and MIB
Please suggest alternate titles In the comments. Without further adieu, the story:
Edit circa 1/14/2022: read part two here! :https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/s3v5uq/how_i_learned_to_accept_the_fact_that_i_dont/
How I Learned To Accept The Fact That I Don't Exist. (Working title).
He felt it in his bones as much as he did in his mind, the sudden pulse of realization crackling through his body with enough power to force him to kneel in shock. He stumbled over himself, placing his hands on the cold metal tiling, chattering his teeth in frozen panic.
The dimly orange lit and lightly dust-filled control room for the Star-wide supercomputer hung in still silence, rays of darkened starlight from the colossal furnace it encased peering through the ultra-tinted windows. The system-spanning AI aboard showed a faint representation through the holographic projector, its own colossal processing power incapable of comprehending the data, forcing it to rebuff and reanalyze the information. One cycle. Two cycles. A third reboot and reprocessing…
Ending with the ear-piercing gut-wrenching squeal of incomprehensible agony that only a being of a billion intellects could produce as it felt itself rent asunder over what to it must have felt like aeons. A single scream, lasting for only a second, yet echoing in the vast chamber for several.
He looked to the holographic projector with a shock. It was blank, save some garbled white noise. It seemed to struggle to understand its master’s sudden disappearance before beginning to slowly fade. Being the onl
... keep reading on reddit ➡
According to all known laws of aviation,
there is no way a bee should be able to fly.
Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground.
The bee, of course, flies anyway
because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.
Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black.
Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little.
Barry! Breakfast is ready!
Ooming!
Hang on a second.
Hello?
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Barry?
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Adam?
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Oan you believe this is happening?
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I can't. I'll pick you up.
Looking sharp.
Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those.
Sorry. I'm excited.
Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son.
A perfect report card, all B's.
Very proud.
Ma! I got a thing going here.
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You got lint on your fuzz.
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Ow! That's me!
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Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000.
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Bye!
Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house!
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Hey, Adam.
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Hey, Barry.
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Is that fuzz gel?
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A little. Special day, graduation.
Never thought I'd make it.
Three days grade school, three days high school.
Those were awkward.
Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive.
You did come back different.
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Hi, Barry.
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Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good.
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Hear about Frankie?
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Yeah.
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You going to the funeral?
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No, I'm not going.
Everybody knows, sting someone, you die.
Don't waste it on a squirrel. Such a hothead.
I guess he could have just gotten out of the way.
I love this incorporating an amusement park into our day.
That's why we don't need vacations.
Boy, quite a bit of pomp... under the circumstances.
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Well, Adam, today we are men.
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We are!
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Bee-men.
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Amen!
Hallelujah!
Students, faculty, distinguished bees,
please welcome Dean Buzzwell.
Welcome, New Hive Oity graduating class of...
...9:15.
That concludes our ceremonies.
And begins your career at Honex Industries!
Will we pick ourjob today?
I heard it's just orientation.
Heads up! Here we go.
Keep your hands and antennas inside the tram at all times.
- Wonder what it'll be like?
- A little scary.
Welcome to Honex, a division of Honesco
and a part of the Hexagon Group.
This is it!
Wow.
Wow.
We know that you, as a bee, have worked your whole life
to get to the point where you can work for your whole life.
Honey begins when our valiant Pollen Jocks
... keep reading on reddit ➡I'll start with what happened very early in the morning.
I woke up sometime in the middle of the night. I didn't feel like checking the time, but the sky was pretty dark. While my eyes adjusted to the dark, I noticed there was still darkness in the corner of the room where my table was. The darkness began to move towards the window. I was then able to see the corner of the room, including my table. I also noticed a human figure standing still in front of the window. Chills ran all over me. I watched as it stood still. Seconds later, it moved over to the table. It placed something on the table, but it was still too dark to see what. The shadow walked by me, brushing past my head. I looked over to the right. I watched as it went out the door. Seconds later, it disappeared.
I was up for an hour thinking about shadow people. At one point during that time, a soft voice called my name. I didn't know who it was, which only made the whole thing creepier. At one point, I finally fell back asleep.
I woke up to a cloudy sky outside. I grabbed my phone to check the time. It was 8:12 AM. I looked over to the corner of my room, noticing a grey book sitting on the table. I didn't recall putting the book there. I recalled seeing the shadow place something on that spot, but I was skeptical. It had to have been a dream. When my dad walked into the room, I asked him if he was the one who put the book on the table.
"No, I didn't touch any books like that," he said. He brushed it off. He told me he was going to get a coffee, then he walked out of the room.
I was curious about the book. Did a shadow really give me a book? I thought my dad could be playing a prank, but he wasn't like that, though. I walked over to the table. I grabbed the book, then I sat back down on my bed. I looked at the cover.
The book had a shiny grey/white cover with a title written in bold black letters on the center.
"The By Year History of the 21st Century," the title read.
The author: Arilyn Campbell.
The cover had no images on it, which was odd for a history book. I looked at the cover some more as I picked the book up. The shiny aspect was aesthetically pleasing the more I looked at it. I flipped the book over. There was a quote taking up most of the back cover:
"The world is always extremely different at both ends of each century. Imagine someone in 1999, in the day of early computers, looking back at the Victorian era, where the main type of transportation was a horse pulling a
... keep reading on reddit ➡For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
It really does, I swear!
Within Agent Ramsey’s quarters aboard the apocalypse class battleship ‘Road to Harmony’ was an interactive holographic statue of an anime-esque girl in a typical ‘idol’ costume standing on a small mirrored stage.
Ramsey called her Clara.
On top of being cute and just generally fun to have around, Clara had the added benefit of keeping his quarters private from intrusion, since she made the aliens on board viscerally uncomfortable.
Ramsey bopped her affectionately on the head while closing the door behind him, a gesture that brought on a stream of adorably indignant chastisement, and threw himself into his computer chair.
A few minutes for routine security checks.
No bugs, electronic taps or digital software on his laptop that hadn’t been there before. Of course there wasn’t, even if espionage was the bread and butter of the galactic community, no one listened in on human comms.
No one.
He opened a secure channel.
Over the hiss of background static, a lone voice came by degrees into clarity.
“...ception of your reality, but what happens when those senses are fooled? By chemicals, or electronic hijack? How can you be so sure that what you see is…”
“Pink Panther reporting in, come in Central.”
He interrupted the never-ending stream of chatter to make his call.
“...does it really matter, what you’re doing? Does any of it matter if you aren’t ev- a colourblind genius sits in a black and white room.”
A more deliberate voice spoke over the soporific tones of the background noise.
“When they see a rainbow, do they learn anything new?”
Ramsey completed the other half of the cypher.
“Pink Panther…”
Said the voice, now overriding the whispers entirely.
“...we’re getting some disturbing reports. Care to fill us in?”
“Well… it wasn’t my fault.”
There was a static laden sigh.
“Pink Panther is this really the time?”
“You can’t see it right now, but I’m smiling.”
“Then cut it out. One of Earth’s top diplomats has been kidnapped by a bunch of underhive gang members and you apparently still have time to jerk us around.”
“Sorry Central… being around aliens all this time does things to you.”
Ramsey turned to Clara and winked, causing the holo to smother a fit of giggles.
“Captain Farah has began deepsweeps into the hive, commando teams have landed but there’s… well… a lot of hive down there, so I don’t think we’re going to get anywhere going door to door, especially
... keep reading on reddit ➡Because she wanted to see the task manager.
WOW! You all have absolutely blown me away with your kindness, generosity and creativeness this Christmas! I am exceedingly grateful to be a part of such an amazing community and I wish everyone a wonderful festive season. Cheers to more snail mail in 2022!
/u/umeshufan – THANK YOU for the humorous Christmas card! One of the first I received this season. I love that your card also has on the back “Not Printed in China” LOL.
/u/tigerlady13 – THANK YOU for the cute Christmas card! I hope that you have a lovely time this season too. You have cute stickers and washi. Love the vintage stamps too.
/u/Ginger_ninjah – THANK YOU for the adorable penguin Christmas card! Cute stickers. I hope that you have a lovely Christmas too. Cheers to 2022 : )
/u/NoHumidity – THANK YOU for the gorgeous holographic silver Christmas card and the snowman snowflake ribbon you included. I hope that you have a magical season too.
/u/dwrfstr – THANK YOU for the stocking Christmas card with flowers in it! Love the colors. You have really cute washi; thank you too for the stickers and tea. My holiday plans include crossing off another National Park from the list :D
/u/iheartcitrus – THANK YOU for the nutcracker Christmas card and the envelope stuffed full with all sorts of goodies: wooden snowflakes, snowflake confetti, penguin sticker, washi sample and the tea! Cute stamp shaped washi on the envelope too. How is your quilt coming along?
/u/canameow – THANK YOU for the winter themed postcard; I love the colors and am happy to have you along for the de-stash of 2021! As always the postcard is impeccably decorated. I hope that you have a fantastic holiday and get to relax for your week off. Thank you too for the under the sea sticker sheet!
/u/travel4me22 -- THANK YOU for the gorgeous soot stamping Christmas card! I am so looking forward to trying out this new technique! I also have a fancy fold card I’ve been wanting to try… maybe over the holidays I’ll have some time to try these : ) Also, I bought similar washi at the convention lol!
/u/powelale000 x2 – THANK YOU for the adorable gnome card! I am so glad you have found joy in punch art… it is pretty satisfying to put it all together to form a picture. The matching washi is super cute! Thank you too for the stickers, tags, tree diecuts and the puppy dog postcard.
/u/nutriyum – THANK YOU for the snowman card! I am in LOVE with the postage stamps you used. I adore the holograph
... keep reading on reddit ➡but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
This is a continuation of Part I.
III. Investment in Digilens by OLED companies
Digilens has seen investment by 2 prominent OLED companies UDC and Samsung.
Universal Display Corp (UDC) , the leading OLED materials supplier by revenue in 2021.
Samsung, a leading OLED display manufacturer with 77% of the global market share of OLED smartphone displays in 2021.
In 2019 - DigiLens Secures Investment from UDC Ventures and Samsung Ventures for Holographic AR Displays
Steven V. Abramson, President and CEO of Universal Display Corporation. “With parallels to our own business, we look forward to working together to bring best-in-class solutions to multiple industries and to collaborate on the future of OLED technology within the augmented and virtual reality display sector.”
11/4/2021 - Samsung invests in DigiLens XR glasses firm at valuation over $500M
IV. IVAS SDE - Screen Door Effect
SDE is closely associated with OLED displays used in VR applications. SDE is commonly seen when using an OLED screen with a low pixel fill factor close to the eye. Samsung is the primary supplier of OLED displays to the VR industry.
IVAS reported SDE -
"In the lead-up to tests this August, Potts said there were inconsistencies in some of the heads-up displays. The issue, at times, caused a “screen door effect,” meaning the image resolution had a kind of gridded view."
V. "eye glow"
Diffractive waveguides such as those used in Hololens 2 have a "very strong" eye glow while Digilens has "medium" eye glow according to this chart by Bernard Kress -
[https://imgur.com/EoteSu0](https://im
... keep reading on reddit ➡Heard they've been doing some shady business.
