Tony is a Geek

Hey, hang on....what?..... Unity is a games engine, isn't it?.... Well, yes.  Yes, it is.  It helps you to create 3D and 2D games... that deploy to Android phones, iOS phones and Tablets, Web (some limitations) and if you really want to (and have the licenses) to XBox and PS4.... as well as adding in some Augmented Reality (AR) if you want....and some Virtual Reality (VR) output to Samsung Gear / Oculus if you really want to also..... Whoa....sit back and think about that for a second or two.  We have an IDE that allows you to build a UI, really simply, that can be deployed out to multiple devices, can be "smart" in being responsive with the UI and have a single language scripting engine where you can basically write all manner of code in C# that can interface to any backend server based API (written in whatever flavour you want OR someone else's APIs), now we're starting to look promising. How long to setup and make a reasonable app?  Really? a couple of...

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Yeah, yeah, I know I'm a little late to the game with this one...but....now most of the bugs have been ironed out, it's a good time to check it out! https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/05/10/launching-3d-game-kit-explore-and-learn-unity-in-3d/ I was using an "old" version of Unity, I think it was 2018.2.xxx and when I added the 3D-Game-Kit asset, I received lots of errors about namespaces missing etc... after a bit of searching, I saw a load of workarounds and a variety of posts and I was about to give up and switch to using Unreal Engine, then I thought...I'll give it one last go.... That's when I decided to upgrade to Unity 2018.3.3f1 and then added the 3D-Game-Kit as an asset - and voila! it just worked.  I worked very well in fact and I'm using a 2013 Macbook Pro. Check it out and walk through the tutorial, I was very surprised at just how simple they've made this: https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/s/3d-game-kit admittedly it is hid...

You hear reports that a tiny bit of debris the size of a coin can punch a hole straight through metal and then you wonder just how does the International Space Station avoid the daily barrage of debris without major incident.  That raises an eyebrow of curiosity itself, then you start wondering, just how much "stuff" is floating around outside this little planet of ours... A quick duck-duck-go search later and I found this great little website:   http://stuffin.space/ http://stuffin.space/?intldes=1958-002B&search= well, if I was looking for a parking space from space, I think I'd try a different planet, this one looks like it's going to be far too difficult to approach successfully........ might explain the decline in UFO sightings ;-)

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I do, of course...as I have my original version in the cupboard (over there), I have the smaller version that has a screen attached to it , so no need for a TV and of course I have the PSOne wallet :-) I also have the Net Yaroze too....yep, the developer edition...(ah, I miss the days of coding games in "C" directly and not using Games Engines like Unity or UnReal)......and I have some PSPs that I actively use for playing UMDs and the odd game I have the PSX /  PPSSPP  emulators running on my OpenPandora and my lubuntu linux laptop as well as a RetroPie that I built with a proper joystick.... Well, it looks like Sony has gotten all nostalgic too....and is releasing a small version for Q4 : https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/explore/playstation-classic/ (it's amusing that my waistline has gone the opposite way in that timeline!) It does make you wonder if it is just a Raspberry Pi inside there or whether Sony actually built their own smaller board f...

I've been here before, but I think I was a bit too early.... http://tonyisageek.blogspot.com/2017/05/babies-first-computer-quantum.html However, I'm pretty sure that this is the place to start to move over into. If you think about the limitations we have today in relation to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, it's a bit like looking at the limitations of the horse&cart and having the vision to see the Quantum Sports car ( okay, not the best evolutionary step, but a vision none the less ) During my day job, I've seen a lot of people working away delivering various Machine Learning services, such as " chat bots ".  They are all super excited that they are going to really make a difference and help out their fellow human beings to "get things done". Then they release their baby into the wild and well, it gets a whole lot of abuse and gets condemned for being "dumb", for not being able to do the "simplest of thi...

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