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by rrdharan 1857 days ago
> I still have not found really good information on how the controllers in the Valve Index actually work.

Isn’t the Occam’s razor explanation here just that that information is not actually available on the web - not that Google is hiding it from you?
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rexreed 1857 days ago
Not in this case:

See the first page of results for DDG's search on how valve index works:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=how+valve+index+works&atb=v...

Compare to Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+valve+index+works

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nl 1857 days ago
On Google I get some Wikipedia extracted information that says:

"The Valve Index Controllers have a joystick, touchpad, two face buttons, a menu button, a trigger, and an array of 87 sensors that allow the controllers to track hand position, finger position, motion, and pressure to create an accurate representation of the user's hand in virtual reality." with a link to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Index

The first raw result is: https://www.pocket-lint.com/ar-vr/news/steam/147913-valve-in...

That's the same link as DDG uses as its first result.

The second Google link is a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD8Y9gcPGzs) that has details about "optics and resolution". The second DDG link is about sprinkers (https://www.sprinklersavings.com/blog/how-an-indexing-valve-...).

Google seems a lot better on this query.

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selfhoster11 1856 days ago
Then they should just come out and say it: "no results found".

Not returning results at all seems to be stigmatised these days for every site.

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Frost1x 1856 days ago
Not being correct is stigmatized in all aspects of society anymore, thanks to ever increasing business leadership mentality invading our culture. Being wrong, failing, etc. is no longer acceptable. You have to provide the appearance of success in the absence of success.

I don't know why we as a culture can't accept that people fail and fail often. A bit more humility would do everyone some good instead of setting constant unrealistic expectations that hampers all aspects of society. It's completely bananas.

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