Cheap by VR standards, doesn't actually need a subscription to use it (it's an offer for subscription service for the VR software store). And yes, it requires additional slots of various types in your machine, something that is common in VR industry when it comes to HMDs.
Duke3D ran fine on 480p iirc. I remember trying one HMD in store back in 1990s with it, and it was one of my favourite games to play over internet back then (remember heat.net?). It had a really weird implementation on where head tracking would use the "look to the side" function of duke3d, that no one used because it was awful. Had to look straight to keep the game coherent.
I disagree. Tech is good enough already. Problem is cost which feeds into lack of software. Few are willing to shell out four digits on hardware BEFORE the costs of the actual headset and its peripherals not to mention software for gaming entertainment. Additionally current VR games are awful in terms of visual fidelity because of the FPS and low latency per frame needed. Current graphics cards sorta kinda can deliver the relevant power, but you will have to pay well into four digits for a system that can deliver, and then shell out for the HMD.
And then come the games that are just lackluster. EVE Valkyrie was a VR launch title, and one of the handful of titles that actually had decent graphical fidelity if you had the GPU and CPU power to throw at it. Most look like PC desktop games from 2000s if you're lucky, and go all the way down to mobile phone game grade crap if you're not. So pretty much the main user base that I see among my contacts are the hardcore sim people. DCS, Eurotruck, etc. Those are the guys who will spend four digits just on their simulator controllers (and I use that term loosely, these people have "battlestations" in the truest meaning of the word) without blinking. And VR software serving them lives by being able to charge them easy 100USD and more per year on update packs with new content, knowing that they will have the hardware to run the games because they will have the GPU and CPU that their favourite game requires to run well enough to give them maximum immersion.
Mass market though? Games like EVE Valkyrie? Not a chance. And without mass market adoption, games aimed at mass market cannot thrive.
Like I noted in my other reply, I didn't realise they went for full VR with this one. Last I saw it, it was like many other AR headsets. A seethrough setup with some kind of a projector, designed to add elements to environment, not create an entire virtual environment. At this point, I usually stop paying attention to the efforts, because I'm not interested in AR.
Ah, nm. They actually made it into a proper VR headset. Had to doublecheck, since I last I saw the dev efforts, it was literally a seethrough AR set, not a fully closed one that can function as VR.
That facade is not just against SJW types. When you're high enough to hierarchy, there's no shortage of people who want to control your action for their own benefits.
Unique part of SJW types is the extremity of their ideological views, often exceeding even ultra-religious fanatics in things like science denial.
AFAIK, a significant portion if not outright majority of active VR gamers are simulator players. Eurotruck, DCS, etc. Those people are in fact sitting down.
The deal breaker is the fact that the visual quality is awful, because of phone grade hardware. When you have powerful PC grade hardware sucking up hundreds of watts of power still being barely sufficient for fairly low quality 3d imaging, low power version is just terrible.
Which is why all those "make your phone into VR device" addons sold really well, got played with for a few days and are now overwhelmingly collecting dust or are in the trash bin. Hardware sells because it's really cheap and makes promises it cannot meet due to utter lack of power.
New upcoming Rift is phone grade low performance VR. This has nothing to do with high performance VR like Rift. You're confusing same brand being used for a completely different product for the same product.
No, it means that high performance VR loses as a whole. Oculus, for all its problems, funded a lot of software development for high performance VR. With them refocusing on crippled low power VR instead, that's even less resources in the niche of high performance VR, and it's a niche that is already suffering severely from lack of software.
Hair splitting. Situation you describe is silence. There is no inherent "social need for conversation". It's ingrained by cultures that have it, such as US culture. The mindless blabber about things that are of no interest to either party, and that are a waste of good silence.
The main problem with Social Justice Warrior mob-style attack is that they function like a pack of hyenas. They will not attack until they sense weakness, but single hyenas will make forays to poke the target for weakness. But they will not make a full out attack until they see a weakness. But once they begin attacking, it's a bloodbath and does not stop until it's a full and unconditional surrender or utter defeat of the target.
This is why it's critically important that when Social Justice Mob attacks you, you never show any weakness and never flinch in the face of the brutal onslaught. Any sign of weakness, like an apology is a mark on you that you're the weak target and everyone in the pack goes after you instead of just a few scout hyenas poking you.
Linus caved with his apology and stepping back. He's now either their slave or a pariah in the eyes of anyone who is either a part of Social Justice Mob or is afraid of them and therefore will not take his side in fear of becoming a target himself.
He's done. That's the sad reality of the polarized world of today.
>Awkward silence occurs when, for whatever social reason, two or more people are thrown together in a situation where conversation is expected and no one says anything.
Which when you're psychologically well balanced person is never. People uncertain of themselves and unbalanced have the burning need to fill the silence with irrelevant chatter.
We're also quite a bit better at it that puritans, so it takes quite a bit longer. As the old saying goes, if you can do something, you may as well do it to the best of your ability.
Slashdot Mirror
In the West, maybe.
In Russia, this lady is one of the head figures of the political opposition. This would have been news regardless.
On the video in the story, she literally says "I'm not allowed to do this, because of a contract".
She knew full well what she was doing.
Cheap by VR standards, doesn't actually need a subscription to use it (it's an offer for subscription service for the VR software store). And yes, it requires additional slots of various types in your machine, something that is common in VR industry when it comes to HMDs.
https://www.vive.com/eu/wirele...
Duke3D ran fine on 480p iirc. I remember trying one HMD in store back in 1990s with it, and it was one of my favourite games to play over internet back then (remember heat.net?). It had a really weird implementation on where head tracking would use the "look to the side" function of duke3d, that no one used because it was awful. Had to look straight to keep the game coherent.
Also, it ran in a Pentium MMX iirc.
I disagree. Tech is good enough already. Problem is cost which feeds into lack of software. Few are willing to shell out four digits on hardware BEFORE the costs of the actual headset and its peripherals not to mention software for gaming entertainment. Additionally current VR games are awful in terms of visual fidelity because of the FPS and low latency per frame needed. Current graphics cards sorta kinda can deliver the relevant power, but you will have to pay well into four digits for a system that can deliver, and then shell out for the HMD.
And then come the games that are just lackluster. EVE Valkyrie was a VR launch title, and one of the handful of titles that actually had decent graphical fidelity if you had the GPU and CPU power to throw at it. Most look like PC desktop games from 2000s if you're lucky, and go all the way down to mobile phone game grade crap if you're not. So pretty much the main user base that I see among my contacts are the hardcore sim people. DCS, Eurotruck, etc. Those are the guys who will spend four digits just on their simulator controllers (and I use that term loosely, these people have "battlestations" in the truest meaning of the word) without blinking. And VR software serving them lives by being able to charge them easy 100USD and more per year on update packs with new content, knowing that they will have the hardware to run the games because they will have the GPU and CPU that their favourite game requires to run well enough to give them maximum immersion.
Mass market though? Games like EVE Valkyrie? Not a chance. And without mass market adoption, games aimed at mass market cannot thrive.
Like I noted in my other reply, I didn't realise they went for full VR with this one. Last I saw it, it was like many other AR headsets. A seethrough setup with some kind of a projector, designed to add elements to environment, not create an entire virtual environment. At this point, I usually stop paying attention to the efforts, because I'm not interested in AR.
Ah, nm. They actually made it into a proper VR headset. Had to doublecheck, since I last I saw the dev efforts, it was literally a seethrough AR set, not a fully closed one that can function as VR.
I'll take a look at it. Thanks for the tip.
Odyssey has nothing to do with VR. It's AR. The only VR Samsung makes is mobile phone one based off oculus' mobile VR tech.
Considering the fact that for last eight years, seven of them went to a much older fellow, would make young guy winning actually news?
That facade is not just against SJW types. When you're high enough to hierarchy, there's no shortage of people who want to control your action for their own benefits.
Unique part of SJW types is the extremity of their ideological views, often exceeding even ultra-religious fanatics in things like science denial.
AFAIK, a significant portion if not outright majority of active VR gamers are simulator players. Eurotruck, DCS, etc. Those people are in fact sitting down.
The deal breaker is the fact that the visual quality is awful, because of phone grade hardware. When you have powerful PC grade hardware sucking up hundreds of watts of power still being barely sufficient for fairly low quality 3d imaging, low power version is just terrible.
Which is why all those "make your phone into VR device" addons sold really well, got played with for a few days and are now overwhelmingly collecting dust or are in the trash bin. Hardware sells because it's really cheap and makes promises it cannot meet due to utter lack of power.
Quest is limited by phone grade hardware, in niche where modern powerful PCs eating hundreds of watts are barely sufficient.
Problem being you already had that for two years. It's called "your phone with that thing you slot phone in and put on your head".
And it's awful, which is why majority will play with it for a few days and then never use it again, other than maybe watching a movie.
New upcoming Rift is phone grade low performance VR. This has nothing to do with high performance VR like Rift. You're confusing same brand being used for a completely different product for the same product.
No, it means that high performance VR loses as a whole. Oculus, for all its problems, funded a lot of software development for high performance VR. With them refocusing on crippled low power VR instead, that's even less resources in the niche of high performance VR, and it's a niche that is already suffering severely from lack of software.
A common misunderstanding of people who think that silence is worse social option than lying about caring about other people.
Hair splitting. Situation you describe is silence. There is no inherent "social need for conversation". It's ingrained by cultures that have it, such as US culture. The mindless blabber about things that are of no interest to either party, and that are a waste of good silence.
Did Linus' project surrender and accept the SJW model of behaviour control?
My understanding is that the answer here is yes. The police for the rules will be the hyenas.
Silence does not call to a conversation if you're stable.
The main problem with Social Justice Warrior mob-style attack is that they function like a pack of hyenas. They will not attack until they sense weakness, but single hyenas will make forays to poke the target for weakness. But they will not make a full out attack until they see a weakness. But once they begin attacking, it's a bloodbath and does not stop until it's a full and unconditional surrender or utter defeat of the target.
This is why it's critically important that when Social Justice Mob attacks you, you never show any weakness and never flinch in the face of the brutal onslaught. Any sign of weakness, like an apology is a mark on you that you're the weak target and everyone in the pack goes after you instead of just a few scout hyenas poking you.
Linus caved with his apology and stepping back. He's now either their slave or a pariah in the eyes of anyone who is either a part of Social Justice Mob or is afraid of them and therefore will not take his side in fear of becoming a target himself.
He's done. That's the sad reality of the polarized world of today.
It's mostly correct. Heavy drinking and fishing trips go hand in hand.
>Awkward silence occurs when, for whatever social reason, two or more people are thrown together in a situation where conversation is expected and no one says anything.
Which when you're psychologically well balanced person is never. People uncertain of themselves and unbalanced have the burning need to fill the silence with irrelevant chatter.
Which unfortunately amounts for most people.
We're also quite a bit better at it that puritans, so it takes quite a bit longer. As the old saying goes, if you can do something, you may as well do it to the best of your ability.