Theoretically. If the cameras are infrared, theres a low chance they could detect lighthouse lasers...

Grungy 3D-printed extension in June, glossy HTC promo video for their extension by Christmas. Given they now are the manufacturers of Lighthouses...

Cycle of grief complete from me; I look forward to the "I made the Frame work with base stations" Youtube video by, like, June. It's a Linux computer. The point of trackers is to be device-agnostic. Getting a face computer to track itself via Lighthouses instead of SLAM does not seem impossible.

As is Shiftall, presumably

Aside, I do understand why HL3 would be tied in (because I'd be surprised if the folks at Valve who wanted to make it could get the project pitched internally without being able to bolt it on to the Frame) but it's not the best IP Valve have. Portal would be perfect and has more modern relevance.

I would expect it to be the other way around, you announce the Frame, then next week you announce HL3, the pack-in game for the Frame that supports both immersive and flatscreen modes, and Frame owners get the game before general release.

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A game notorious for being the product of a single dev laser-focussed on servicing a niche market with the best damn cozy farm lifestyle game they could make is politically rooted in Japanese farmers specializing in matcha and Wagyu beef. Same economic logic.

Fun fact: the Story Of Seasons (nee Harvest Moon) franchise, and ergo Stardew Valley, call back to the Japanese trend toward encouraging local quality produce production in the wake of being outcompeted by the US in farming after globalization in the 80s.

There's a lovely series of VERY LONG videos doing a writing project focussed on revising and editing the books by a child therapist and writer going by My Little Thought Tree. Recommended listening on the topic of adaption - flags a lot of the issues/missed opportunities early on, constructively.

As discussed endlessly the problem they've got is that they're adapting a book series that has really quite serious problems without the liberty to cut what doesn't work and without a focus on adapting with the benefit of hindsight.

You'd need a narrator etc even if this was an animated production with adult VAs tbh. Potter is a series for kids with a storybook air to it which ages into YA, so you start with a narrator and then let the rising drama replace the need for Stephen Fry to lavishly describe Christmas at Hogwarts.

Black Panther - a film about black identity packaged in a good superhero movie at the height of Marvel's draw; it was really impactful to me to realize how much the movie's themes meant to the audience around me.

DBZ Broly: Oh my god French anime nerds are LOUD