Orvanis

It’s just a fancy way of saying “Big Update #3”. I think the marketing department is using it as a play on words, like this is a “moment” you won’t forget type thing.

Any of the LEGO games are a great choice starting around ages 3 or 4. They use button picture prompts, and often obstacles can be overcome by the parent while the little one jumps around smashing things.

Re-enforces moving around in a 3d space, and gets good familiarity with button locations doing different things (while really only needing jump and punch for most things).

After a while with LEGO, started getting into games like Minecraft Dungeons - again parent can do most of the work while the little one tags along for the ride.

Was around age 5/6 that my son was able to pick up Minecraft - nothing sophisticated and again I did most of the building, but allowed him to contribute more than he had previous games, and strongly builds spatial awareness skills. Pokemon also became accessible as reading skills were good enough to understand what was on the screen.

From a tech perspective, insanely clever to use modern phones rolling shutter mode to sample significantly more data points.

From a “is this going to cause problems for the average person” perspective - not even close. Requires 65 minutes of recorded, stable footage. The camera must be < 6 feet away if the lights are on, and the cryptography algorithm must be running during that magic hour of recording…

It does enable remote attacks, but only if all very specific requirements are met, and it requires you have access to a camera for a long period of time that is perfectly positioned.

Yeah the benefits seem to be greater on the marine side…

But even then how much better they are is essentially unknown with an awful lot of drawbacks. They weigh more which is problematic for drones, are significantly more complex to manufacture and thus are more expensive.

So unless they can quantify how much better (and for those cons they need to be significantly better) I don’t see this gaining any traction.

I absolutely loved the humor. All hail the vegetables

The alpha build included a community contribution that opens significantly more image links directly in-app.

Which is fine, but the main problem is it isn’t obvious how to sign into your first account. And intuitively clicking the Person icon bottom right just tells you that you aren’t logged in (which is not at all helpful - if that is the case open up the login screen instead)

It sounds like you need to stay away from 1st person perspective games. Find some “top down” style games: Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, Starcraft, etc and see how those work for your motion sickness since the camera is much more locked in place.

I believe so. I also needed to forcefully close the app to get it to bring up my subscriptions finally.

That last bullet is the critical one… I clicked the bottom right account button a dozen times hoping it would magically decide to let me log in since it knew I wasn’t logged in before I found the drop-down.

Made for an exceptionally frustrating start to the app.

Ads upon ads upon ads. And then for some it is just that it is owned by Facebook.

As a cat family, Stray had me and my wife smiling from start to finish. So many “yep, that’s a cat thing” moments.