alt Hacker News"Your phone knows its position in space"
Mistakes happen, but in a video about gyroscopes it's hard to forgive mistaking position and orientation. That's the kind of thing that warrants a delete and re-upload.
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tonmoy • today at 4:45 PM
Doesn’t the phone need to know the orientation to measure the position (along with acceleration and possibly magnetic field strength and dir)?
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neuronic • today at 4:29 PM
It's the new age of illiteracy. Few people seem to care about the fact that words have meaning. I cannot be the only one noticing a downward trend here and I'm talking about real life and not some social media slop discussions.
On this note, thank you for pointing it out.
Later in the video it correctly uses ‘movement in space’ (showing changing (x,y,z)) and ‘orientation’ separately when talking about use of accels and gyros respectively. The ‘position’ in the introduction is glossing over this before getting into details. You could argue with the presentation decision, but it’s not ignorance.
The video talks about accels in a few places, and how they are required for pose estimates.