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Paul Allen Dead at 65

posted by takyon on Tuesday October 16 2018, @06:00AM   
from the preserve-his-brain dept.

black6host writes:

Paul Allen has died at age 65:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/15/paul-allen-co-founder-microsoft-dies

Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates, has died. He was 65.

Allen's company Vulcan said in a statement that he died Monday. Earlier this month Allen said the cancer he was treated for in 2009, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, had returned.

Allen, who was an avid sports fan, owned the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks.

Of course the article has more information. There was more to Paul Allen that just mentioned above. Bound to hit multiple sources with different takes so be on the lookout for something from a source you like.

takyon: Allen Institute bio and Vulcan Inc. statement.

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• Re:Interval(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday October 16 2018, @12:13PM

  by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Tuesday October 16 2018, @12:13PM (#749487) Journal

  Thing is, I don't know if the DVD ever actually had those different angles, because I, like 99% of people, just wanted to go with whatever the director decided was the best camera angle. After all, he is the professional, and is paid big money to get it right. Why would I override his cinematic choice?

  VR could be the thing to change this. Certainly, a VR movie still requires cinematography choices and direction, but it would use 360-degree cameras (maybe 180° in some cases) and viewers have different headsets and fields of view (peripheral details in a film could attract more attention when using a 200° horizontal FOV headset instead of a first-gen 100-110° FOV headset).

  For those who do want to be "in charge", there is an entire genre of games that allow you to do so, interactively prompting you to make decisions that will affect the narrative, and most of them being 3D, you have control over whatever camera position perspective you want.

  Even this can be tough to realize. Telltale Games, that adventure game studio that is shutting down, was often criticized for the linearness of their episodic games. You make some choices, but ultimately end up at the same plot points.

  Among recent titles, Witcher 3 may have done it a lot better.

  Maybe AI/machine learning will allow much more complicated game storylines. Either running on the player's machine, or being used to do "heavy lifting" back at the game studio so that they can create large amounts of content faster.

  So much potential, and in the end all most people know about it is that its the tech that was used for spamming you, while preventing you to skip the spam (which ironically, made the pirated versions more desirable, as they were nothing but the actual stream you want to watch).

  Didn't Blu-ray try to revitalize the interactivity idea with mandatory Java support? Pretty sure that went nowhere. Now consumer optical discs are on the way out and the streaming services co-exist with apps/games on smart TVs.

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