VR hand tracking update
Since my last post about this I have obtained a Leap Motion 1 and have experimented with it a whole bunch, and unfortunately, it’s just not quite there for what I need out of it.
Random updates
Hey! How’s it going? I think things are fairly okay on my end.
Improving my VRChat performance audio
Now that I’m doing even more performing in VRChat and also making use of occasional backing tracks (instead of just doing everything totally live), it’s time for me to improve my audio setup. But Windows audio is super tricky and annoying, so it took me a bunch of iteration to figure out how I want to make it work now.
Health stuff (positive)
Hey, stuff’s happening and it’s generally feeling okay. Hopefully posting about positivity won’t jinx it.
Everything in moderation, including moderation
So, a couple months ago I started on Lyrica, which made me super fatigued and didn’t help with my pain any. And I got super frustrated about not being able to get anything done.
Over the last couple weeks I’ve been tapering off the Lyrica, and it’s made a huge difference in my energy levels: I’m actually able to do stuff again!
So of course with this surge of energy I’ve been Doing All The Things, with the inevitable result that I am now in incredible pain because I’ve overdone it (as you could probably tell by all the work I did on the streaming music prototyping over the last couple days). And of course, I got it to a spot where things are useful for a hypothetical future, but nothing anyone else can actually use just yet.
My life is such a precarious balancing act, huh.
More rambling about this streaming radio thing
I’ve been playing around with some protocol ideas and I have some more thoughts.
More IndieRadio(?) progress
You can always tell when I’ve been deep into a project when my feed reader stats go off-kilter:
Anyway yeah I’m working on the radio thing!
A fair independent streaming platform
Over on my music site I wrote a bit about the current state of streaming providers, specifically to encourage people to go back to buying their music and listening on local devices.
The problem with this line of thinking is that people really want the convenience of being able to listen to all the music, all the time, anywhere.
A thought’s been pinging around in my brain for a while about how this could be done differently, without falling into the trap of having a single service for people to have to subscribe to and put their trust in: what if we could make an IndieWeb-style streaming platform?
The state of the fluffy
I’ve not been doing super great lately. I’m trying to get better, but I don’t know how.
On the quest for VR hand tracking
One of the main things I do in VRChat is live performances, mostly doing guitar and vocals. One spot where this has been lacking is that I don’t have a satisfying way of tracking my hands while I play guitar, though. Here’s some things I’ve tried and things I’ve yet to try. At some point I’ll make a YouTube video about these different things.