you look at the letter and pinch... that's how i do it. Not often. and not during facetime calls. But yeah... possible.

Yeah, I know you can type that way, but I have a quest3 and after watching the video I would think no one is actually typing that way. It looks to be easily twice as slow and way more annoying than just using your fingers with hand tracking.

The video is definitely exaggerated because they’re moving their whole head.

Typing with your eyes is much faster and more subtle than what they show here.

Can you provide some use cases.... like what what would I need this for, counting people that walk into a Costco?

Anything really. Keep track of things in your life, e.g. how many times you go to the gym, etc etc.

(i plan on adding a history so you can see on what day the counter value was)

Interesting title. Obv not implying that YC is the biggest waste of time.

With data going forward? or past data? Because I don't agree with using my past data... (kinda of rhetorical as I long deleted my accounts, though I'm sure the data is still there)

Technically, not deleting your data would be a GDPR violation of the right to be forgotten. They could be ignoring that but it would be very expensive if they were found out. Probably doesn't apply to models that have already been trained, but should apply effectively going forward.

basically anyone that has gotten a check from me has my checking account number...

213-954-8607

Random number, legit area code. Unless you are looking for all 10 digits, pretty easy social hack

Yeah, the only worry is someone saying mine fifty four. And you don't catch 5.

But that's pretty easy. Sorry I didn't catch that could you do it one number at a time?

"Was that sixty four, as in six-four?"

"Sorry, no 54, five-four."

"You said five ... four?"

"Yes, five ... four."

Doing the thing you want people to do is actually a pretty good strategy.

Recognizing when people are employing this strategy on you and intentionally not doing the thing is good fun too.

As a YC alum, of all the emails i get spammed with, I'll give YC founders are read and a reply. More often than not it's a "sorry can't help" but I will at least give it a look.

Depending on the length of the stay and whether you need a car, I'd do the road trip in a heartbeat.

Whenever I opt for 'roadtrip', almost inevitably, about 4-5 hours in, I wish I were flying. When I fly, I don't usually say "oh, I wish I'd driven" (unless there's a delay or problem).

As I've driven more, I need to allot myself more stops. If a trip is over 10 hours, I'll probably split it in 2 days, and stay overnight some place. 20 years ago, I would have 'pressed on', but... it's usually not worth it any more. But some of the 'cost savings' of driving go away when you factor in hotels.

I read it more as CTO was protecting the engineers.

maybe i'm getting old, but I don't see VR ever being more than a niche play thing. Humans will continue to want real world interactions, not just put on a headset and live in vr. Facebook, et al, worked because they were highly accessible. Having to put on a headset? No thanks.

It is a great replacement for the gym (at least for me), but I otherwise I agree.

I'm interested here, could you elaborate? What are you doing to replace the gym? Workouts led by a virtual instructor? Presumably cardio? Super interesting and I'd love to hear more!

Mostly FitXR, which VR shadow boxing set to music (with squats mixed in), but I also play some beatsaber to warmup and cool down. The former is designed for fitness, the latter is more of a game like DDR that can get sweaty. There is supernatural and a couple of others, but I mostly stick with FitXR because I’ve found some music and sets to like over the years.

I think that's just you.

I was an early adopter of virtual reality (since sold it and moved on). Even the most energetic VR games pale in comparison to a typical gym workout, provided the person actually works out at the gym rather than practicing fuckarounditis

I find the gym/outdoor running is much more effective for both weight loss (running being the most effective way to burn energy) and muscle gain (which generally requires weight-based resistance training)

It really isn’t. There is a huge community of people doing this, and it doesn’t seem to just be a fad. I find rubbing outdoors to be incredibly boring, gym machines are also. It’s hard to distract myself enough to finish the workout, and that’s not to mention taking the time to get ti the gym in the first place.

With VR, the games are distracting and fun enough that they don’t come off as overly tedious, BeatSaber is better but also less fitness oriented, FitXR is less so, but I can still get through it without expending lots of willpower. The best exercise is the exercise you do, when I was in my 20s and some of my 30s, I could push myself to go running and hit the gym, now VR fills that role.

I agree that FB could capture a fitness market a small fraction of Peloton's for this use. No one ever got fired for mimicking Peloton's business model.