Or develop thesense & skill of using it. It clearly has a fixed FOV that's being cropped based on what's on the display.

Humans can learn this stuff, cameras with crude viewfinders have appeared in the past.

The frame is a compositional aid, and it does have quite a strict relation to what the camera is capturing.

The best version of your complaint is that the viewfinder does not have accurate frame lines that account for parallax at various distances, which is true, but there are still ways of using the viewfinder to assist in composition.

If you take two or three shots at two meters, and look at what the camera captured versus where your composition was in the frame, you can immediately intuit a baseline for where the frame lines 'should be' on the viewfinder at two meters. "Occupies the bottom right two thirds of the viewfinder" for example.

Without a reference frame, these intuitions (and your aiming of the camera!) are going to be far less accurate.

Seems a lot easier to learn "it's accurate when it's about 8 inches from my face; it's this much off when it is 12 inches away" than to project out a virtual FOV from the camera at an arbitrary position onto the world.

And this is the first technology that directly strokes their ego

Users generally do not believe Instagram is reading their chats. Source: I have had this conversation many, many times.

> do not believe Instagram is reading

Well, not when they had to pay people for it. Now, however ...

A lot of people are blissfully unaware how any piece of software is profitable. Tech and business literacy are terribly low.

*literacy is terribly low. Everyone using this site is blissfully inside a bubble of people who can at least read and write at a high school level.

This is what I'm looking for. This would replace Corel Draw for me.

There is a plugin for blender that allows CAD style sketching. It may be a way forward.

I worked there. Everything goes into a slide.

Precisely. Things become clear when we think of benefits for people instead of monetary terms.

A huge number of us labor behind the scenes with no public acknowledgment or credit. For each idea brought to life we might hope for -at most- an epitaph carved in expired patent claims.

This story is touching.

thanks daniel. i swapped a few emails with stephen's ex-wife and they melted my heart. i asked if she was OK with sharing this story of a humble genius with the wider world and she said, yes.

I've been running GrapheneOS for a few months now, keeping my old Samsung on WiFi as a backup.

It is such a breath of fresh air. It is so quiet and functional. It feels like it prioritizes me, the user. I am so grateful to have this OS.

Of course it has flaws, but they're lesser flaws. Like the crop tool is sometimes unusable in the gallery app. I can live with that. I couldn't live with the AI onslaught and spyware infiltration.

Respectfully, at this point, do we need Googlers to explain?

Structurally: launch-dependent levels/career advancement. Design wise: massive over reliance on A/B testing. Philosophically: a company hell bent on observing, categorizing, and exploiting us in extremis in exchange for only a tiny "relevant" slice of their potential deliverable.

Because of their focus on "scale", they have never cared about any individual user. The indifference of their technical systems is absolute.

But in this hyperpersonalisation era, we somehow give them a free pass when their A/B testing should catch these exact things.

Taking a vacation abroad cant be a new concept for them.

In a VR headset the virtual screen distance is set by the distance of the microdisplay from the lens in the headset.

It's not crazy to think you could move the microdisplay position and get a virtual display at 6". There might be other optical consequences (aberrations, change in viewable area) but in principle it can work.

The microdisplays are usually fixed in place (and sometimes the display and optics are a single package), so it would likely be a bespoke solution.

I'd be open to trying something like this. It might be the kind of simple solution that would work for me.

a few AR glasses come with adjustable knobs for nearsighted people. So, not all of them are fixed distance.