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Examples: Skyrim, Fallout 4, Life is Strange, Watch Dogs, The Walking Dead...

The sort of games where they added skin pores but the facial rig is still kinda janky, and some of the animations are mocapped so they look just a liiiittle too smooth compared to the stock animations? Now THAT is my jam

Opinion: Crunchy, uncanny valley 3D rendering from the mid-2010s is the sequel to crunchy PSX graphics and does not get the attention it deserves as a deliberate art style

Nice uses of "AI" I can imagine: you're reading a message with times in it sent by someone in a different time zone so the computer offers to convert them to yours

The uses of "AI" that we actually get: you bought one fridge so now you will get lots of ads for more refrigerators. If you don't buy more refrigerators someone will get paid less maybe

so i was lurking a chat that drifted into the topic of VR flight sims.

an acquaintance of mine who's doing his Ph.D in HCI with a VR specialization mentioned something about simulator sickness being a partially solved problem thanks to 30+ years of research, but that the solutions were either expensive, or involved shocking yourself.

the chat was not enthusiastic about the second option.

except for me, immediately hand up, thinking about two great tastes that taste great together.

anyway here's one paper he sent me on the e-stim option for mitigating simulator sickness: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1472-6882-13-84

Pam Echols, who is still alive today, grapples with a cop during a rally for open housing in Milwaukee. The struggle against racist housing practices built pressure that led to the Fair Housing Act of 1968