Just wrapped up the latest build of Bedtime Hero - an application (React-Native, ios, android) for parents to build/generate bed time stories with their little one. Allows the parent to use pre-sets or set their own and then generate a story (complete with images).
This was a satisfying project mostly because I dog-food it every night with my little one.
I'm actually building this exact thing right now. Using Gemini TTS with its multi-speaker capabilities. Soundtrack comes from a Suno Playlist which the tool will download the entire playlist at the start.
Plays 3-5 songs prior to a "break", where the logic will call out channel donators vs pick a random topic to discuss, then use an LLM to generate the script before sending to gemini.
In the end; its really just a wrapper around FFMPEG broadcasting to an SRT or RTMP stream. I can upload the latest branch when I get home to share
that’s great to hear. I’d love to check out your project and have a chat if you’re up for it. maybe i can contribute to it instead of working on a separate project.
VTubers are already a thing. For those who don't know, it's a streamer who leverages a virtual avatar to hide their appearance. Nothing stopping someone with resources introducing a vtuber presence leveraging a voice ai. Could be a hybrid channel where peak hours is a real person, and they leverage the "AI" version for additional channel coverage.
Its definitely a different experience, but using Immersed was the best. You can set portals to your keyboard and have extra portals as well (like that spot on the table you put your drink).
To help with ergonomics, I would recommend a Halo style strap and a fan facial interface to help with longer sessions. If you were glasses, or computer glasses normally I generally recommend getting the Occulus prescription lens.
I would recommend at least trying it, as mentioned it won't be for everyone, but it is definitely a cool experience. With a bit more innovation at the ergonomics, I can definitely see this being a thing in the future.
I am convinced Power Users are not the target market for Windows 11 (or maybe even windows). I mistakenly updated to it and have regretted it. Did you know they turned off animations when using Virtual Desktops [1]? A power-user feature on all the other OS' that took Microsoft till 2019 to adopt was crippled in little over 2 years after release.
Color me confused. Why would I ever want animations when I change virtual desktops? I know what keys I pressed. I pressed them for a reason. The animation just gets in the way.
In general, animations don't seem like a "power user" feature at all. Animations hint at new users ("hey, where did that window go when I minimized it") but aren't useful once you understand the abstraction.
Being a power user does not make you infaillible or unable to press the wrong keys. A subtle animation is a trivial visual cue that they keys I pressed did something, the wrong keys resulting in the wrong cue. I am not looking at my keyboard when I switch desktops.
Look at tools, for example. Tools for power users do not have fewer cues and affordances than tools for neophytes. They have more, because they have more features, more power, and using them can be more dangerous. You can also see it that way: a newbie using a feature once a day will be wrong (and needing to be nudged to the right direction) once a day. A power user who is wrong 1 times every 100 they use a feature will still be wrong more often than the newbie if they use it more than 100 times a day.
Also, this:
> We’ve turned off the animation when switching Desktops using the keyboard shortcuts as it was leading to flashes and hangs
is fucking ridiculous. If your compositor is so bad you can’t animate desktop switching without “flashes and hangs”, it means you have some serious work to do on your display subsystem. Fix your OS already!
Maybe I just have exceptional cognitive and motor skills issues, but even though I spend pretty much all my time in front of a screen and consider myself to be a power user, I press wrong keys by mistake very often, and I do appreciate (fast) animations for feedback. There definitely should be at the very least a toggle though.
When going "two to the right" over empty desktops it is nice to see it was triggered two times maybe? I have a habit of putting the same stuff on the same virtual desktop number, so the other are ofen empty.
This was a satisfying project mostly because I dog-food it every night with my little one.