Office 365 can also be used on a 10 year old PC. You don't really want to do that either, though.
Yes, it is possible to run VR on a rig that's below spec. It works. But with a VERY low frame rate you'll get sick, trust me. Your experience will be one that convinces you that you'll NEVER EVER try that shit again.
VR as a tool would be great, but I doubt there would be many companies that have the resources (and the willingness to spend them) to develop such a tool. I could see some usability in travel agencies ("see your vacation location right here!") and furniture stores ("see what our table and couch would look like in your living room!"), but the cost of developing something like this would be beyond what they would willingly spend on it.
Funny enough IKEA actually has such a tool. It's available on Steam for free, too. Take a look and tell me whether you still think it's a good idea...
Such models will simply not fly. Instead what you'll probably get to see is pages where you can buy a contingent of pages of various sites. Content providers would become members of these content payment services and you could buy subscriptions to tens, hundreds or thousands of pages to read from participating content providers.
Such a model could actually more easily fly than you'd probably expect, considering that most content providers are already concentrated in very few corporations providing them.
Nah, we prefer to listen to liars who tell us what we want to hear, that we can continue driving the SUVs and use more fossil fuel per year than what formed in a million of years.
That's the general attitude here. On/., and the west in general. Who gives half a fuck about Indians? There's so many of them anyway, a few million of them dying, so what? I got my air condition, I got my office job, why should I not continue driving my SUV just so some Indian pariah can survive?
Welcome to the wonderful Christian world of compassion. You may vomit now.
Have you read TFS? They don't make it mandatory to make IoT devices patchable or even at least secure the moment they get shipped, all they do is say that if you want to sell your crap to the government it has to be.
So no, the Intelligently Designed Internet Of Things Systems can still be sold to their acronym.
If I find out that a page is very often one of my top 10 results, 4 bucks a month is a bargain! I would probably not pay it for a page that is only once the top result for something I just wanted to know out of curiosity and don't really need the info, but if a page is often what I'm looking for, why not pay for it?
First, the equipment costs about as much as a cheap gaming computer and you need it ON TOP of a cutting edge gaming computer. In other words, if you don't have a computer to plug your VR kit into, 2500-3000 is the price tag you're looking at. If you do have a top notch gaming rig, it's still another 500-800 bucks.
And there is very, very little support from AAA studios (read: ZERO). This in turn means that there are very, very few high quality games available for VR and an unimaginably huge mountain of gimmicky Flashgame knock-offs that some Indie Dev slapped together. They're not really bad per se, but it means that certain genres are overrepresented to the extreme. In other words, what idle-clicker games are to mobiles and zombie shooters are to PC gaming, tower defense is to VR.
There is also very, very little experience what works and what doesn't work in VR. And even less experience with what can only be done sensibly in VR. So far most games mimic what has been done on computer and console gaming for years, and usually they rely on the "shiny" effect of the new, because the games are by no means as polished, user friendly and graphically impressive as their Non-VR computer/console counterparts.
The studios that dared to venture into VR usually treat it as an afterthought rather than a focus, adapting their old games to VR to give them a sales boost, especially on the PS4 with the various racing games that try to gain a new following with the added VR gimmick.
Is it really the "fastest growing skill"? Or, as I'd read it, the highest in-demand skill? I can only say I wish it weren't. At least not yet. AAA studios are not buying into it yet and will probably treat it rather as a quick-buck deal rather than something they want to jump onto and ride as the new platform now that PC and console gaming has pretty much gone stale, with endless streams of essentially identical games being pumped out left and right. There simply is no "VR genre" born yet, we don't know yet what games do and which don't work on VR. There is simply not enough data available so far.
Jumping onto it now will probably lead to VR failing miserably, because the ROI simply isn't there yet for AAA titles (the market size just isn't big enough yet, and the willingness to spend upwards of 100 bucks for a game certainly is not there, not even with people who paid 800 for the VR kit) and large studios tend to shy away from venues that burned them. Even if later it could prove promising.
On the other hand, with VR being basically the playground of mediocre Indie-Games, with the once-in-a-blue-moon gem surfacing, there isn't much incentive to buy the hardware either. Let's be honest, why buy a 800 bucks VR kit so I can play a point-and-click get-out-of-the-room Flash game, with the "awesome new" gimmick of being IN the room instead of seeing it on the screen?
Great idea. That way we will finally get to see whether people actually want to see the shit that BLOWS YOUR MIND or whether they just click it because it's free and they got time to waste.
What makes you think I wouldn't pay for content? Actually, I do.
Believe it or not, in the old days, when content was delivered on this stuff called paper, that was generally the way you got information, by paying for it. And believe it or not, back then they even had the audacity to make you pay for it AND stuff it with ads, too.
Now I can actually pay for content and not be subjected to ads, and funny enough it seems to be working out still.
There is no such thing as "well behaving ads". At the very least, they cost my bandwidth. If I am interested in your products, I will go and search for them.
Sorry, but they poisoned that particular well by dumping too much toxic trash into it, so nobody wants to drink a drop from it anymore.
You want to advertise, fine. You want me to read them, no. No chance. The advertising industry abused us far too long to be granted ANY kind of tolerance anymore.
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Office 365 can also be used on a 10 year old PC. You don't really want to do that either, though.
Yes, it is possible to run VR on a rig that's below spec. It works. But with a VERY low frame rate you'll get sick, trust me. Your experience will be one that convinces you that you'll NEVER EVER try that shit again.
VR as a tool would be great, but I doubt there would be many companies that have the resources (and the willingness to spend them) to develop such a tool. I could see some usability in travel agencies ("see your vacation location right here!") and furniture stores ("see what our table and couch would look like in your living room!"), but the cost of developing something like this would be beyond what they would willingly spend on it.
Funny enough IKEA actually has such a tool. It's available on Steam for free, too. Take a look and tell me whether you still think it's a good idea...
Such models will simply not fly. Instead what you'll probably get to see is pages where you can buy a contingent of pages of various sites. Content providers would become members of these content payment services and you could buy subscriptions to tens, hundreds or thousands of pages to read from participating content providers.
Such a model could actually more easily fly than you'd probably expect, considering that most content providers are already concentrated in very few corporations providing them.
Nah, we prefer to listen to liars who tell us what we want to hear, that we can continue driving the SUVs and use more fossil fuel per year than what formed in a million of years.
That's the general attitude here. On /., and the west in general. Who gives half a fuck about Indians? There's so many of them anyway, a few million of them dying, so what? I got my air condition, I got my office job, why should I not continue driving my SUV just so some Indian pariah can survive?
Welcome to the wonderful Christian world of compassion. You may vomit now.
And since it's trivial to crack an egg, it should be quite doable to create one.
I know you're joking, but I still think Darwin should create an award system for moving there. I could even imagine a cool sounding name for it.
Then don't use them. All they affect is your ability to sell to the US government.
Don't worry. This only applies if they want to sell to the government. If they only want to sell you their junk, they're fine.
Yes. For themselves. Not for us.
Have you read TFS? They don't make it mandatory to make IoT devices patchable or even at least secure the moment they get shipped, all they do is say that if you want to sell your crap to the government it has to be.
So no, the Intelligently Designed Internet Of Things Systems can still be sold to their acronym.
If I find out that a page is very often one of my top 10 results, 4 bucks a month is a bargain! I would probably not pay it for a page that is only once the top result for something I just wanted to know out of curiosity and don't really need the info, but if a page is often what I'm looking for, why not pay for it?
And every file ever downloaded in a torrent would have been bought.
You think people would visit the pages they visit if they had to pay for them?
First, the equipment costs about as much as a cheap gaming computer and you need it ON TOP of a cutting edge gaming computer. In other words, if you don't have a computer to plug your VR kit into, 2500-3000 is the price tag you're looking at. If you do have a top notch gaming rig, it's still another 500-800 bucks.
And there is very, very little support from AAA studios (read: ZERO). This in turn means that there are very, very few high quality games available for VR and an unimaginably huge mountain of gimmicky Flashgame knock-offs that some Indie Dev slapped together. They're not really bad per se, but it means that certain genres are overrepresented to the extreme. In other words, what idle-clicker games are to mobiles and zombie shooters are to PC gaming, tower defense is to VR.
There is also very, very little experience what works and what doesn't work in VR. And even less experience with what can only be done sensibly in VR. So far most games mimic what has been done on computer and console gaming for years, and usually they rely on the "shiny" effect of the new, because the games are by no means as polished, user friendly and graphically impressive as their Non-VR computer/console counterparts.
The studios that dared to venture into VR usually treat it as an afterthought rather than a focus, adapting their old games to VR to give them a sales boost, especially on the PS4 with the various racing games that try to gain a new following with the added VR gimmick.
Is it really the "fastest growing skill"? Or, as I'd read it, the highest in-demand skill? I can only say I wish it weren't. At least not yet. AAA studios are not buying into it yet and will probably treat it rather as a quick-buck deal rather than something they want to jump onto and ride as the new platform now that PC and console gaming has pretty much gone stale, with endless streams of essentially identical games being pumped out left and right. There simply is no "VR genre" born yet, we don't know yet what games do and which don't work on VR. There is simply not enough data available so far.
Jumping onto it now will probably lead to VR failing miserably, because the ROI simply isn't there yet for AAA titles (the market size just isn't big enough yet, and the willingness to spend upwards of 100 bucks for a game certainly is not there, not even with people who paid 800 for the VR kit) and large studios tend to shy away from venues that burned them. Even if later it could prove promising.
On the other hand, with VR being basically the playground of mediocre Indie-Games, with the once-in-a-blue-moon gem surfacing, there isn't much incentive to buy the hardware either. Let's be honest, why buy a 800 bucks VR kit so I can play a point-and-click get-out-of-the-room Flash game, with the "awesome new" gimmick of being IN the room instead of seeing it on the screen?
I don't want anything locking onto me. Ask any military pilot what a great feeling it is.
Great idea. That way we will finally get to see whether people actually want to see the shit that BLOWS YOUR MIND or whether they just click it because it's free and they got time to waste.
What makes you think I wouldn't pay for content? Actually, I do.
Believe it or not, in the old days, when content was delivered on this stuff called paper, that was generally the way you got information, by paying for it. And believe it or not, back then they even had the audacity to make you pay for it AND stuff it with ads, too.
Now I can actually pay for content and not be subjected to ads, and funny enough it seems to be working out still.
Let me pay for the content I like.
I also make "enormous" money (compared to someone in, say, Bangladesh), that doesn't mean I throw silver dollars around when I walk down the street.
I am not here to prop up a business model I do not support. Get one that I do support or make room for someone that does.
How do you hide the Echo listening device by hacking it?
The new ad blocker inside Chrome won't block every ad you see on the web
Stopped reading there. Not good enough.
NEXT!
There is no such thing as "well behaving ads". At the very least, they cost my bandwidth. If I am interested in your products, I will go and search for them.
Sorry, but they poisoned that particular well by dumping too much toxic trash into it, so nobody wants to drink a drop from it anymore.
You want to advertise, fine. You want me to read them, no. No chance. The advertising industry abused us far too long to be granted ANY kind of tolerance anymore.
Advertisers, to play with something poisonous!
...he plans to die?
He's a shining example for most CEOs I know, that much I have to give him.