So I’m about to start some long term travelling so I’ve been looking to shrink down my setup as small as possible. The plan is to use some Viture AR glasses for the monitor, a ProtoArc folding keyboard, a Swiftpoint Propoint mouse and then either a Pixel 8 (my first choice if it’s got the rumoured desktop mode) or a Samsung Galaxy S22 with Dex, which will be housed in a QuadLock MAG case which allows you to swap magnetic battery packs on and off really easily. I can then keep the phone in my pocket or a bag with the AR glasses attached and then the peripherals connected over Bluetooth. I personally think this is going to be the best way of doing it because if you have a usb hub connected to the phone for a powerbank or accessories the cables start becoming a mess on your desk, especially as you’ve got one cable that moves about when you do. Depending on where I work I may end up getting a wireless external portable monitor like the Asus Zenscreen Go so I can take meetings because the phone screen might be a bit small and if I’m wearing glasses people might find it a bit jarring. I’d be using the phone as the webcam and get it to eye level using the Quadlock tripod. Another option would be to use a Samsung Galaxy Fold, but they’re crazy expensive and they also have some durability issues so I’m not keen. You also lose the advantage of the being able to use a quadlock and the swappable battery packs.
On the software side of things, I’m going to do all my dev work in containers via Codespaces/CodeCatalyst. Apparently someone has made a native android version of vscode now, if not there is the browser version. For gaming, I can use an 8bitdo SN30 Pro/razor kishi and Nvidia GeForce Now which in addition to the standard streaming library allows you to play games you’ve already purchased on Steam. I’m opting for taking two 8bitdos as well as a usb-c to hdmi cable in case I make any friends on the go I have a portable 2 player gaming setup that doesn’t take up much more space than a sunglasses case. If that doesn’t end up happening after a year or so I’ll ditch the 8bitdos and the cable and get a kishi for more convenient solo gaming. I was originally going to do this entire setup with a Steam Deck instead of an android but found it awkward to pack and it’s also not available worldwide so if something happened to my machine in say Australia, I wouldn’t easily be able to get another one without waiting a while and paying through the nose.
If there’s any specialist software I want to use, I’ll spin up a cloud instance for it using AWS/Azure, there’s a few options for this now:
- AWS workspaces and Azure Virtual Desktop if you want a GUI desktop experience in the browser.
- AWS Appstream and Azure RemoteApp if you want to stream just a single application.
- EC2 and Azure VMs if you’re no bothered about a GUI or you want to roll everything yourself.
I don’t expect to have to do this often as I reckon I can get by on mainly android apps. I use Obsidian for notes, there’s Adobe Premiere Rush for video editing etc.
If you want more examples, head over to the Samsung Dex subreddit. There’s quite a few people on there who have ditched their computers and have been using Dex for the last year.
The majority of INS platform drift is from a thing called "tilt error" - where the IRS initially misjudges the exact direction of the gravitational vector during alignment. All this will do is improve the accuracy of the accelerometers but will still have the drift caused in the INS itself. How will this make such a large improvement over what we have already?
Let's use a magnetometer as an example. Inertial navigation system (INS) is just using the magnetometer as a compass, so errors in bearing accumulate over time. Instead, if you built a map of magnetic field strength, the slight spatial variation of field strength would let you precisely localize on the map.
In robotics parlance, this is the difference between dead reckoning versus SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping).
Traditional dead reckoning is reasonably accurate over moderate timescales in the mostly empty ocean as subs are big/stable and relatively slow. Thus the existing approach of only occasionally surfacing for GPS. This is therefore more a supplement as being able to regularly recenter even a few times a day is good enough.
The earths magnetic field is not constant. I don't know how much it changes, but I know magnetic north drifts a bit every year. And every once in a while the field reverses (IIRC we are like 10k years overdue for a reversal if we read the history of them right - a lot of guesses go into that of cousre)
There’s nothing saying that you can’t do a re-localization or remapping path with basically infinite frequency, or any frequency that we know that there is variance around. At a minimum then, it becomes a better standard for which other things can bear on.
I didn't mean to imply that it wasn't useful for practical purposes. That is what the article is about. I just meant to point out that there are limits and disadvantages to work around. I'm expecting to make this useful they will have to have a team to constantly remap the earth, and send those updates to whoever needs the information.
The accuracy of the reading determines the error. If today's error is so large that you have to resurface for GPS several times a day to reset it, maybe this can lower that error so you only have to resurface several times a month.
A long, long time ago I used to work as a technician in a shop that aligned INS for aircraft (although I didn't work on them myself). I think what the OP is referring to is that during the alignment process, the assumption is that the acceleration due to gravity is always perpendicular to the INS gimbal frame. So if there are any errors in the INS leveling during alignment, they can cause errors in the INS calibration. I assume this is what the OP means by "tilt error" (although this is the first time hearing of the term). These errors then get compounded during use. You can look up INS alignment processes for more information.
Well, I'd love to see a change there as well, then: if I'd want to share the interface with my family I wouldn't want to reenter everything everywhere they might be accessing the page from.
I was in Nazaré a couple of weeks ago and I loved it. While the waves were not gaint (100ft) they were around 20ft one of the days and this still really allows you to appreciate the power of the ocean. I really liked the town - nothing is better then cheap coffee and Pastel de Nata. It's certainly worth a visit there :)
I was also there a couple of years ago, in Winter with about 8m waves rolling onto the rocks. Even if I do know how to ride big waves I was not that stupid to try it there. It's insanely dangerous, worse than Mavericks. Even Supertubulos, on the other side were too high, they were like Puerto Escondido on big days.
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