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Google Blocks

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Okay, so, if like me, you've had your interest piqued by the prospect of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) over the past year and a half and have even invested in Oculus Rift and/or a Samsung Gear headset (* other VR units are available ) and you've got yourself a copy of Unity or Unreal Engine and had great expectations about making this wonderfully great new VR world with magical spinning things and whooshy ( yes, that's a word I just made up ) swirls of rainbow goodness, only to the have to fire up Udemy or Coursera to find a course that teaches you how to make 3D models. Several weeks later, you've made a potato.  A bad looking potato.  It is kind of 3D, but has lumps in the wrong places.  It does NOT look like the prancing unicorn that you envisaged for your main character representation in your snazzy new VR world.  Come to think of it, the rocks, buildings, cars, <insert any other shape or object that you wanted to have in your landscape> n

Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot, and What's So Hard About Consumer Robotics

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Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot, and What's So Hard About Consumer Robotics I've been toying with the idea of a GardenBot, for a few years now..... and many people have asked, "Why haven't you done it yet?". Well.....I'll let the "expert" explain why.  It's not as simple as it sounds. CHECK IT OUT HERE Although I am still in the process of making K9-RPi3_bot...so maybe that will evolve into my GardenBot at some point, we'll see...