Wander app - Oculus 2 - the world in VR

[Bob Eisenman]

For about $10 the Wander app gives access to the world in vr where images and streetview data exist. examples.. Queen Mary in LA...yes, Britney Griner prison south of Barashevo...yes, newly built mosque in Nur sultan Kazakhstan (I played Walkabout mini golf on Oculus with a guy from there)...yes, my drone photosphere above the harbor channel in Manchester-by-the-Sea (21,000 google maps views and I rode there on a Gotway Monster to take it)...yes, Mt Washington NH summit...yes, Great Pyramids...yes. Sometimes clicking a blue vr access area comes up with zonk. App can archive locations. The Oculus voice command 'Hey facebook..take a photo' saves a picture from a viewed location to Oculus storage.

 

Edited November 21, 2022 by Bob Eisenman
correction

[Punxatawneyjoe]

On 11/21/2022 at 12:29 PM, Bob Eisenman said:

Wander app

I phone only?

[meepmeepmayer]

1 hour ago, Punxatawneyjoe said:

I phone only?

It's for Oculus virtual reality goggles.

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Also @Bob EisenmanI see what you did there Are you still riding? Anyways, hello.

Edited November 25, 2022 by meepmeepmayer

[Bob Eisenman]

@meepmeepmayer hello...life after foot surgery kind of sucks. I'm supposed to wear a sleek carbon fiber / foam orthotic brace reaching from under the foot to below the knee. Without it my foot gets sore quicker than when its worn. My foot flex is like half of what it used to be. Lots of hardware was used to realign the bones that got injured in the vehicle collision with my e-bike a couple years ago. I kind of walk with a limp when the foot gets over worked. I can walk a few miles on a good day when my foot is initially feeling ok. Other days I sit around, play online chess somtimes, play VR mini golf, VR porn is . I'm trying to clean up my image. I bought a guitar and now understand what finger pain is like learning easy chords mostly with 2 fingers sometimes 3. My Ninebot One is my only functional euc but the battery only goes a couple miles. A few months ago I decided to risk a short ride. I got it going, my foot was sore after and I don't think I could run off it without falling on my face( to dismount a rut encounter) since my foot does not bend normally. If you have a Google Drive account a link to my short ride video (I've since shaved off the beard) is at

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mX68_vQHKRtVgR4Sa0C09WbZAlFZHIQb/view?usp=sharing

The previous owner of the building where I live sold it. The sale had visions of converting two apartments (one of them mine) into a new large one. I had to vacate to another apartment in the same building or find another place. The apartment I'm in now has less space and the move has left my stuff disorganized.

 

In some ways my repaired foot sucks. On the other hand I needed to sign a document with the surgeon before the procedure acknowledging that infection or hardware rejection could lead to an amputation below the knee. Fortunately everything went well. My walk speed is under 2 miles per hour these days.

Life on 'social security' (a US plan for paying out money after years of contributions from payroll deductions) may need to be rethought to make affordability a reality for the long term.

The Ukraine war events surely have changed the geopolitics. Seems not long ago that social networking (buy a $2000 house in Ukraine) was a common denominator with US, Russia and all of Eastern Europe. Now rubble, refugees and worse are daily news stories. Drones as a grenade dropper. Mass graves.

One twitch streamer moved from Ukraine to Poland. A cam model from eastern Ukraine near Kherson (Kharkiv?...or somewhere near the Russian border) moved(after missiles flew overhead) to western Ukraine near Lviv. She said people in western Ukraine (pro NATO) hate people from eastern Ukraine (Russian family ties). She moved to Cologne, Germany.

I worked with someone in Boston in the 1990s who was from Ukraine (speaks Russian), a guy from Odessa worked at the supermarket down the street pushing food carts from theparking lot back to the store.

I still watch the twitchtv and Youtube for Dina Belenkaya (WGM chess) and her sister Asya  (theBelenkaya). I still watch some twitchtv streamers from St. Petersburg, RU and Omsk. Otherwise I'm a Gothamchess and Botez sisters chess channel watcher. There is a Detroit based chess master on twitch named GMCanty who is really fun to watch too.

I caught the debut of the B21 Raider stealth bomber in California on Youtube yesterday......really high tech nuclear capable stuff.

Cheers!

Edited December 4, 2022 by Bob Eisenman

[Bob Eisenman]

@meepmeepmayer I should consider my self lucky to have escaped from my e-bike accident with only a foot injury. A local woman(my age) was struck by a car recently in the parking lot of a doctor's local group practice. Severe leg and wrist injuries, stable when transported to a hospital but died later.

"SALEM, Mass. —

A North Shore woman who was struck by a vehicle outside of a doctor's office in Salem has died of her injuries, according to police." 

Obituary for the woman posted in the news today.

I'm watching the first part of a YouTube video in a  channel called 'Walking Alice'. This link is to the video for Strasbourg, France. Strasbourg is the Christmas capital. The architecture is interesting and festively decorated .Google maps says the distance to Munich is about as far as the distance from where I live in Salem, MA to New York City, NY.

https://youtu.be/WMt4tULO5UY

Walking Alice has some good videos of walking tours in various cities (Paris, Quebec City, NYC, Strousbourg...).