The loading bar that I implemented in our app at work is real. It only advances when it has done something, and it advanced that % of the total when it has done it.
It gets away with that because unlikely other bars mentioned here, what's it's doing is a lot of little things that all take about the same time, and so it's actually a pretty decent approximation of how much is done.
So there's at least one that isn't fake. ;)
I guess you could hope to find someone here that could help you with that, but it occurs to me that you're working with people who definitely understand it. Perhaps you could ask them for some guidance?
Looks like a gaming table with a screen in it. There's a lot of custom builds like that on Youtube, and there are even a few companies that sell them, I think.
After looking into z-wave and zigbee and having installed a lot of wifi devices, I also decided to wait for Matter. I've been pretty disappointed in the reviews I've seen, and the range of devices is really limited. I'm starting to wonder if I should just give up and go with Z-wave.
It does say it was cross-posted (to 3 places) at the top on the web.
I think the PS Vita tried to overreach, and priced itself out of relevance. I feel like I had a lot more fun with my PSP than my Vita, even ignoring the cost, and I think that's because it had weird features that developers didn't know how to use properly, and Sony seemed to incentivize devs to use them for any game that was made for it.
Based on the title, I was expecting it to be an easy way to automate what you just said. But it's not.
Reading the page and docs, I don't understand the use case for this.
I think maybe they aren't quite updated in some areas. In the US, I checked my console and the web, and it's still showing the old games, and these aren't claimable yet.
I can understand being underwhelmed if you went into it thinking it was going to be Fallout in space. But I went in knowing it was a space western RPG, and I quite enjoyed it. I've been thinking about replaying it, and it was just in the Humble Bundle this month, so that'll probably happen soon. (I played it on PC Game Pass the first time, I think.)
I wouldn't say I'm a fan of them, but I don't mind them. If there's a game from that list that I really, really want to keep playing, I can just buy that game. In the mean time, I got to enjoy all the other games that were fun for just a short time.
I definitely prefer XB Game Pass instead, though, where the whole catalog is available no matter when you started and whether or not you clicked a button in time.
This is the first I've heard of it. I didn't know Razr made a folding screen phone. I think I'd heard rumors they were making a "flip phone", but didn't imagine it'd be this.
I'm not interested in such fragile displays, or in tiny square displays, so I think this is probably not the phone for me, even if it was in my price range.
It was really unfortunate that they included that. I continued to the end, but those were definitely the worst parts.
That article was posted in Sep 2021 and doesn't seem to have been updated.
I think a lot of stuff could fit their tech, if they were willing to go the extra mile and develop standard game features as well. Pokemon Go could be so much more if they implemented more RPG stuff. Ingress might have reached its limit, I dunno... But everything they've produced since those has been incredibly bare-bones and boring. And they all sounded like they had potential.
They want to do the absolute minimum amount of work to support their main mechanic, and nothing else... And it's killing them.
It's not a deal-breaker for me, since I already own a PS5 and I was already looking to stream those games to my computer anyhow, but haven't got it set up well yet. There's some weird audio stuff going on, at least.
I am also not interested in buying handheld-only games for another underpowered system, so it's fine that it streams them from a powerful device instead. If they manage to get the battery life good enough, I'm going to seriously consider it... But not at launch.
As a developer, the experience is so much better on Android for me. And I oppose the walled garden on a ideological level.
But I have to admit some of the features are compelling. Some of them aren't even really Apple's doing, such as Genshin Impact supporting wireless controllers on IOS14+, but not Android at all. Others are built in, such as the lidar scanning.
They haven't yet tempted me over, though, because phones are incredibly expensive and even if I weren't opposed to the walled garden, I'm pretty invested in the Android ecosystem now.
At some point I plan to borrow someone's iPhone and try Genshin on it, and if that works well... Well, I might just switch anyhow. Or maybe I get sick of that game before that. ;)