I got to try messing around with a Hololens a couple of years back. The hand tracking wasn't perfect but it was pretty cool. It read my "typing in the air" gestures to set a WPA2 key very accurately (much to my surprise). The parameters of the demo I was playing around in (picking up and moving virtual packages around in a model city to control drones flying around that part of the convention center) was pretty cool.
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Several such solutions already exist. Problem is, only folks like us mess around with it. Non-geeks, not so much.
Google happened to it. Right when some of us started doing practical things with it. Still haven't forgiven them for that.
I think you're missing a blocklist or two if you're still getting YT ads. Hasn't been a thing for us for at least four years now.
I have a couple of blocklists loaded into the family Pi-Hole:
- Steven Black's master list
- Ad-Wars
- Ad Away
- hostsVN
- yoyo.org's dynamic list
That seems to have knocked out maybe 94% of the ads we'd otherwise see. I can't speak for the rest of the famiy, but I still use uBlock Origin for Firefox to handle Youtube ads.
My strategy for the medium to long term is this: Given that browser-based adblocking is more and more likely to be killed off, or at least badly nerfed, I'm pushing adblocking out to the Pi-Hole and will leave streaming service ad blocking in the browser for as long as possible. If and when that eventually goes away I already have a bot running and used somewhat heavily to download video streams to view with Kodi or VLC.
Thanks for the link. I didn't know about this. Added to my collection of resources!
Acceptable? How about necessary for most students. Books for a semester should not cost more than living on campus and a meal plan.
And/or, private equity is revving up the bulldozers to strip mine each and every last bit of value out of it before they let it collapse.