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Creator of Minecraft Develops Experimental VR Project (roadtovr.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Despite his on-again off-again relationship with VR headset maker Oculus, the creator of Minecraft, Markus "Notch" Persson, has developed an experimental virtual reality project that leverages WebVR technology to run directly within a browser using a Rift DK2 headset. Notch contributed $10,000 to Oculus' 2012 Kickstarter, and even traveled from Europe to visit the company in its early days. After Facebook's $2 billion acquisition of Oculus in 2014, his enthusiasm dwindled, saying "I definitely want to be a part of VR, but I will not work with Facebook." One month before selling his own company to Microsoft for a similar sum, he said he was "officially over being upset about Facebook buying Oculus."
But I am still not over having to setup a facebook account to login to sites that cba to make their own login page.
Or the fact it takes 3 months for their support team to remove your email address from their system.
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he said he was "officially over being upset about Facebook buying Oculus."
Yea, when you're about to be bought out by the company who you said you'd never make software for certain things they make ... and then you change your mind for a billion dollars ... you gotta kinda shut your fucking mouth about the other sell-outs that did the same thing you're about to do ... don'tcha?
Notch is a sell-out douche, plan and simple.
But you know what, for a billion dollars ... I'm a sell-out douche too. Everyone has their price.
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... presented by Inigo Quilez and Pol Jeremias, last year at GDC. Shadertoy had this for more than a year (if you want to warm up your GPU : https://www.shadertoy.com).
. I've been hearing about it for (at least) the last 20 years and it's still not in widespread use. Sometimes technologies just don't catch on.
Nah. The issue is that the technologies haven't caught up. The reason this round has more traction than the one back in the 90's is the tracking and the displays have gotten significantly better. This could be fad, it could fade out, but people will still want it. So a few years later a new innovation in technology will raise it all over again. This will keep happening until the right ingredients come along to make it a hit. Just like what happened with mobile phones, PDAs (smart phones to all you youngsters out there), and now smartwatches.
Here's a fun fact: We'll see more talk about 3D TVs in the years to come. Not because people just like to babble about it, but because we do see in stereo. It'll never go away. We'll always want volumetric imaging, commonly referred to around here as holograms. We'll always want voice control of our appliances. It's a matter of technology, not a flaw in the premise.
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He will sell out to Microsoft, a convicted abusive monopolist, right there next to AT&T and Standard Oil, but Facebook is a bridge too far? What a tool.
Good-bye
Opening up the GPU to random sites on the Internet is going to be quite the gold rush for hax0rs everywhere.
That's a pretty serious allegiation that would be easy to prove since the source code for Infiniminer was leaked and the source code for Minecraft was reversed - yet nobody came up with this but you.
Do you have any proof or we can just assume that you are spewing bullshit?
I would think helping out Humble Bundle (with money and with spreading the word) in itself classifies as giving back to the indie scene.
Oh, yeah, we all know the story of the extrovert Notch who has pushed himself into the limelight... oh, wait, no, it's something you have fabricated.
Frankly, if you dislike someone, just say so, but do not make up shit and especially do not make up shit that is obviously not true.
Real life is overrated.