So you think a good way to control the population is to let a bunch of poor people die from a horrible disease? Including children? For f*** sake, please help the population control and kill yourself.
that one of the best things to stop the spread of these diseases, is education. Vaccines won't remove poverty and promote more infrastructure to 3rd world countries.
Someone like Carmack would not go to a startup company as a simple employee. He must have some serious stakes in the success of Oculus VR. If you want a good similar potential example, look at Eric Schmidt's $8 billion fortune. He wasn't the founder, you know.
What does it matter what you look like while you're doing VR? Seriously, who gives a crap?!
In the future you'll probably do VR while lying on a bed or attached to a special chair anyway.
If by smarmy and arrogant you mean trying to imagine a society with less suffering and cruelty to animals, then by all means include me in that category.
But if that tower one day crumbles and drops you into a forest
You can't live by that assumption. If sh!t happens, then you deal with it.
The fact is, as it is today, we don't exactly live as predators or hunters. We buy things at supermarkets, that are the remains of captive animals, that mostly likely were never wild or free, but instead lived in a cubicle not much larger then they were for all their lives. Maybe it's me, but I don't see anything natural in this.
We're no remotely close to the maximum resolution we will need. If you want your entire living room wall be a TV, how many pixels would it be enough for you to have maximum crispiness? Probably in the 10's of thousands horizontal ones. What if you're using an HMD like the Oculus Rift, which covers your entire vision with a display? How much would be enough in order for it to as detailed as real life?
We have a long way to go before we start talking about end of the resolution race.
FYI. Most networks are planning the adoption of 8K transmitions by 2020.
I think to myself, why don't you put it in a chip already so I can play games with real time ray-tracing at 4K resolution?! I wish I had technical knowledge to understand how far all these discoveries are from being implemented in a commercial CPU or a GPU. My ignorance frustrates me!!!
...in research and development, gone to waste! Now any company can use such marvel of technological achievement, without paying a dime. The world is not fair!
If only this wasn't being developed by Disney; the most evil, money grubbing company that exists. They probably secured the patent for this for the next 800 years and will sue anyone who tries to use air-based haptics this century.
Having said that, it doesn't lessen my love for their work one tiny bit. I don't see why OSC's personal views on marriage should influence people's perception of his work when it's not even mentioned in it.
I don't trust the opinions of all journalists, but I do trust some. Also, there are currently over 6000 DK's out there, and I have communications with many of the people who have them. And NONE, absolutely NONE have found the Oculus Rift a bad experience. Most, even agreeing that the current 720p resolution is low, still have an amazing experience , being immersed in Virtual Reality. I have no doubt the consumer version will spread like wildfire when it's released.
About the HMZ, it's absolutely a whole different animal. It's not a VR device. Not only it lacks head tracking, but it also has an extremely small FOV, is very heavy and costs nearly 3x what the Oculus does.
Don't knock it off before you try it. People who tried the the 1080 version loved it (pretty much all the screen-door effect is gone). Plus, there's no point having a 4K or 8K resolution with our current level of graphics processing power, since one of the main requirements for a good VR is at least 60fps. These will come in a few years. Until then, people will enjoy the hell out of playing video games from within, instead of watching it through a rectangle.
There are a lot of things that will help reducing motion sickness. One of the main ones is perfect tracking, which means both low latency and positional tracking. These are two things that will likely be solved for the consumer version. Another thing that will help a lot, is related to the content you'll play. Games that have very unrealistic motion (I.E. super fast running and jumping) will tend to induce more sickness, while others that have more realistic motion, will be less likely to.
Also, from what I've been hearing, the more you get used to the experience, the less likely you are to get sick. I've seen some people create an immunity to sickness after the the first 2 or 3 days using it.
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No one would believe it anyway after this article.
So you think a good way to control the population is to let a bunch of poor people die from a horrible disease? Including children? For f*** sake, please help the population control and kill yourself.
He was the best. :)
that one of the best things to stop the spread of these diseases, is education. Vaccines won't remove poverty and promote more infrastructure to 3rd world countries.
Someone like Carmack would not go to a startup company as a simple employee. He must have some serious stakes in the success of Oculus VR. If you want a good similar potential example, look at Eric Schmidt's $8 billion fortune. He wasn't the founder, you know.
What does it matter what you look like while you're doing VR? Seriously, who gives a crap?! In the future you'll probably do VR while lying on a bed or attached to a special chair anyway.
If the campaign was taken over by bots?
Duh!
That is the story of my life, being from Brazil. Sigh!
If by smarmy and arrogant you mean trying to imagine a society with less suffering and cruelty to animals, then by all means include me in that category.
But if that tower one day crumbles and drops you into a forest
You can't live by that assumption. If sh!t happens, then you deal with it. The fact is, as it is today, we don't exactly live as predators or hunters. We buy things at supermarkets, that are the remains of captive animals, that mostly likely were never wild or free, but instead lived in a cubicle not much larger then they were for all their lives. Maybe it's me, but I don't see anything natural in this.
People will look back at us and find it disgusting we ate corpses.
We're no remotely close to the maximum resolution we will need. If you want your entire living room wall be a TV, how many pixels would it be enough for you to have maximum crispiness? Probably in the 10's of thousands horizontal ones. What if you're using an HMD like the Oculus Rift, which covers your entire vision with a display? How much would be enough in order for it to as detailed as real life? We have a long way to go before we start talking about end of the resolution race. FYI. Most networks are planning the adoption of 8K transmitions by 2020.
I think to myself, why don't you put it in a chip already so I can play games with real time ray-tracing at 4K resolution?! I wish I had technical knowledge to understand how far all these discoveries are from being implemented in a commercial CPU or a GPU. My ignorance frustrates me!!!
...in research and development, gone to waste! Now any company can use such marvel of technological achievement, without paying a dime. The world is not fair!
That's so typical!!! Using cheap foreign labor, and taking jobs of decent American hard-working torturers!
If only this wasn't being developed by Disney; the most evil, money grubbing company that exists. They probably secured the patent for this for the next 800 years and will sue anyone who tries to use air-based haptics this century.
about the singularity!
Having said that, it doesn't lessen my love for their work one tiny bit. I don't see why OSC's personal views on marriage should influence people's perception of his work when it's not even mentioned in it.
has to say about this.
I don't trust the opinions of all journalists, but I do trust some. Also, there are currently over 6000 DK's out there, and I have communications with many of the people who have them. And NONE, absolutely NONE have found the Oculus Rift a bad experience. Most, even agreeing that the current 720p resolution is low, still have an amazing experience , being immersed in Virtual Reality. I have no doubt the consumer version will spread like wildfire when it's released. About the HMZ, it's absolutely a whole different animal. It's not a VR device. Not only it lacks head tracking, but it also has an extremely small FOV, is very heavy and costs nearly 3x what the Oculus does.
Don't knock it off before you try it. People who tried the the 1080 version loved it (pretty much all the screen-door effect is gone). Plus, there's no point having a 4K or 8K resolution with our current level of graphics processing power, since one of the main requirements for a good VR is at least 60fps. These will come in a few years. Until then, people will enjoy the hell out of playing video games from within, instead of watching it through a rectangle.
There are a lot of things that will help reducing motion sickness. One of the main ones is perfect tracking, which means both low latency and positional tracking. These are two things that will likely be solved for the consumer version. Another thing that will help a lot, is related to the content you'll play. Games that have very unrealistic motion (I.E. super fast running and jumping) will tend to induce more sickness, while others that have more realistic motion, will be less likely to. Also, from what I've been hearing, the more you get used to the experience, the less likely you are to get sick. I've seen some people create an immunity to sickness after the the first 2 or 3 days using it.
Next thing you know, robots will beat us at Foosball! We can't let this happen!
to automatically synchronize the cardinal grammeters?