I believe the BRIO 4K fried my USB ports/hub

I believe the BRIO 4K fried my USB ports/hub

I've had this BRIO 4K webcam for quite a few years now (four-ish?) - and, as far as video and meetings and stuff, it's worked great during that time, which is perhaps why it took me so long to clue in...

Right from the start I had issues getting it to work on some USB ports and thought "it's 4K and just needs more bandwidth/power" and moved it around, and I always eventually found a way where it would then work (months), until it eventually didn't.

I had it plugged into my PC first, but eventually it stopped working, and I moved it to another port, and it worked again. Later on I discovered that first port was actually totally dead for anything, but since I was upgrading boards at the time anyway, I didn't pay much attention.

Then I had it plugged into my OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock for a while, but it again stopped working (plugging it in yielded zero response from the computer), and it wouldn't work on my Dell Thunderbolt Dock (WD22TB4), but then it did work when I attached it to my CalDigit Thunderbolt 4 Element Hub (with it's own power supply) and daisy-chained that to the Dell dock, and that worked for over a year - until eventually the USB-A controller in the CalDigit burned out, and now only low-speed USB2 devices (keyboard, mouse) will work on it's USB ports, not any high-speed USB3 ones. So, then I moved the BRIO back to my old OWC dock and it was working again, until now, and the USB in that has just died too (taking the ethernet port with it). I tried putting it on an IO-gear powered USB-C hub, but that didn't work, and then it worked for an hour on my Anker USB hub and then stopped.

And you know what? I don't know why I've kept shuffling this thing around trying to make it work - when looking back, it's clearly an issue, and I feel like it must be drawing too much power or something, and over time fried the USB port on my PC, fried the USB3 controller in my Element Hub, and now fried the USB in my OWC dock. Can I prove that? No. But it's the only common link - and given that it doesn't want to work at all on half the things it's plugged into.... yeah. That's hundreds and hundreds of dollars of equipment, dead, I believe becase of the BRIO, and it sucks, cuz it's all well out of warranty, but I'm still stuck having to replace it. I'm trashing the BRIO, even though it seemingly works on the face of it.

u/chris_fantastic — 4 days ago

High Resolution Virtual Tourism?

Hi!

I'm interested in virtual tourism. I got into VR back in 2016 with the hope of using it to wander virtual streets in faraway places, and while there is some truly great content out there, sadly, the vast bulk of it isn't nearly the resolution to really make you feel like you're there.

I decided I'd learn to create the type of content I wanted to see, and started stitching ulta-high resolution (currently 100,000x50,000px and 60,000x30,000px) panorama photospheres in PTGui. My goal is to replicate human vision standing in that place, so that people far away, or 100 years from now, can feel like they're standing in these places today. I just do this around where I live, and I'm decidedly amateur at it (the photos and stitching are decidedly imperfect, as this is just a hobby).

The problem I have is - what to do with the output?

I was self-hosting, but took down my website when I de-Googled, as nobody really visited it anyway. I don't really want to manage the hosting/platform myself again - and I would prefer to donate my content, but to the commons, and not some for-profit corporation (Google/Meta).

From looking around, Panoramax and OSM is definitely the type of organization/platform I'd like to contribute to, and one of the few that would have any clue what I'm even talking about, or come close to having the ability to display an equirectangular pano of any size.

But Panoramax (or MapComplete) also doesn't really seem to support high quality virtual tourism as a use-case either?

I'd like to share my work somewhere, and currently, when I die, it will just go to the landfill on my hard drive, and that seems kinda sad. I was hoping people here might have some suggestions?

Thanks!

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u/chris_fantastic — 3 months ago