It's only 30fps. I've been thinking about getting one of these for development for a few days now, but wouldn't want to hook one up to my media/gaming PC.
I think you're right ModernGeek, Windows currently snaps applications to full-screen or half-screen, I'd expect them to add a corners option eventually if these displays get popular. With so many UIs available for Linux, I expect it to get done there sooner than Windows.
They can't completely control its value, all they can do is leave it alone or destroy its value completely. The price is controlled by the individuals buying and selling bitcoins.
Are you joking, or did you drink gallons of the bitcoin kool-aid? There's no reason that a single bitcoin should be worth more than $1, much less close to $1,000. It's all based on speculators, rather than any inherent value to bitcoins. Why make early-adopters and the founders of a single crypto-currency wealthy, when we can create new crypto-currencies as needed?
If crypto-currencies catch on, bitcoin will just be one of many, and I expect it to be worth a small fraction of the current bubble price caused by speculators rather than people actually using it as money.
>Developers both hardware and software aren't nearly held to a level of accountability to which they should.
I hope you mean companies, rather than actual developers. I don't think employers will be willing to pay their developers the millions or billions that they would deserve for taking on this kind of risk.
With the initial self-driving cars this will be a requirement, but eventually people will realize that the computer is FAR better at driving than a person is because computers never sleep poorly, get angry, or have a bad day where they aren't as focused as usual. The requirement of having a manual driver or even a steering wheel is going to go away eventually.
It would be extremely short-sighted to expect the laws to stay the same as they are now after the technology has become well established.
If you're not the sort of person who would say something awful like "Jew a person down," don't say crap like "What a gyp."
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gyp
>Have they considered making safe places to use this as part of their marketing strategy? Sort of a big open VR gym?
>And in that case, let's make multiplayer games where I can shoot my friends who are being presented to me as orcs. It'll make laser tag look like kinder blocks.
The Rift wouldn't be right for that since it completely blocks your vision, but something like Google Glass with an AR overlay on the whole lens will inevitably be used to create something like Dream Park. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Park
That's because the mod system here works pretty well.
Much of the insanity posted to CNN gets deleted pretty quickly. I've lost count of the number of times I've posted a reply to an awful person and have been notified that their comment has been deleted, but it's not as fast as having the users rate the data as is done here.
Fox of course makes its living by driving the less intelligent Conservatives insane with absurd disinformation, so the awful comments are a feature there, not a bug. The comments at Fox Nation are even worse, often feeling a lot like Stormfront with the constant outbursts of racism in response to the bait the Fox scumbags throw out for the troglodytes.
I didn't know that MSNBC has comments, having spent very little time there, so can't comment on them.
I don't think that normal people post to those sites very often. It's the asshats that MUST impose their worldview on others that you see.
Not even regular Conservatives are as delusional and hateful as the crazies that post under news stories and use the wingnut tags to spew far-right-wing derp to like-minded imbeciles on Twitter.
I think the reality is that we'll fall into three groups. Those with no VR sickness, those who can practice and get over it, and those who will always have VR sickness unless the tracking latency gets down to a few milliseconds.
The eMagin HMD from about a decade ago wasn't "downright sucky." It worked great for stereoscopic vision with head-tracking, thought the FOV and resolution were nowhere near those of the Rift. Playing F.E.A.R. on it was immersive and terrifying. The only problem was that Nvidia dropped support for it shortly after release. It would have easily been worth the $1,000 it cost if it had allowed upgrade of the video driver beyond the version that was current when the HMD was released. Instead Nvidia taught me to never depend on them.
Many of us have no desire to pay for and go to a gym, prefering solitary workouts, so something like this at home is much better for us than something at a gym.
Who says it goes in the living room? I have a space at the back of my home-theater that would be perfect for a VR area. Obviously this isn't for everyone, and I don't expect anything like this to catch on with console gaming any time soon, but it's something that many of us have been waiting for.
Yes, but the technology is just now catching up to the dream so we can have 1080p large field-of-view head-mounted-displays without excessive motion lag.
Assuming that it works similarly to Sony's HMD, it will use lenses to actually make your eyes feel like they're focusing on a distant object. I wish they didn't, since this means I have to wear glasses under the HMD, when normally I just need glasses for driving.
As will I, since he has logs in-hand that demonstrate that the charger was working normally. A poorly wired outlet is a much more likely culprit.
When a smart person believes something because it's supported by the data, a less-informed bystander might mistake their competence for arrogance or hubris.
You speak only for the stereotypical overweight gamer. Some of us keep fit and look for opportunities to be active while gaming.
Going for a serious hike while playing a PC game would be an excellent next step beyond what the Wii and 360+Kinect offer. You miss out on how great it can feel to simply be alive and healthy if you let your body go like so many foolish people do.
Maybe you should smarten up and not stare at the progress bar. There's this new thing called Windows that allows you to use other applications while Steam downloads. There's another thing called "life," which has something to do with being away from the PC, but I'm not really qualified to speak on that topic.
> genuinely wondered why you don't get mildly electrocuted when you touch the completely exposed connectors end of it
Why would you expect to get mildly electrocuted by a low-power DC plug? The only danger w/o the magnetic control is that you'd fry the charger by shorting the plug.
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It's only 30fps. I've been thinking about getting one of these for development for a few days now, but wouldn't want to hook one up to my media/gaming PC.
I think you're right ModernGeek, Windows currently snaps applications to full-screen or half-screen, I'd expect them to add a corners option eventually if these displays get popular. With so many UIs available for Linux, I expect it to get done there sooner than Windows.
They can't completely control its value, all they can do is leave it alone or destroy its value completely. The price is controlled by the individuals buying and selling bitcoins.
Are you joking, or did you drink gallons of the bitcoin kool-aid? There's no reason that a single bitcoin should be worth more than $1, much less close to $1,000. It's all based on speculators, rather than any inherent value to bitcoins. Why make early-adopters and the founders of a single crypto-currency wealthy, when we can create new crypto-currencies as needed?
If crypto-currencies catch on, bitcoin will just be one of many, and I expect it to be worth a small fraction of the current bubble price caused by speculators rather than people actually using it as money.
>Developers both hardware and software aren't nearly held to a level of accountability to which they should.
I hope you mean companies, rather than actual developers. I don't think employers will be willing to pay their developers the millions or billions that they would deserve for taking on this kind of risk.
With the initial self-driving cars this will be a requirement, but eventually people will realize that the computer is FAR better at driving than a person is because computers never sleep poorly, get angry, or have a bad day where they aren't as focused as usual. The requirement of having a manual driver or even a steering wheel is going to go away eventually.
It would be extremely short-sighted to expect the laws to stay the same as they are now after the technology has become well established.
Or you could read all three books (or their summaries). I loved that film, but there's a lot more to the story.
Colossus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(novel)
The Fall of Colossus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_Colossus
Colossus and the Crab http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_and_the_Crab
If you're not the sort of person who would say something awful like "Jew a person down," don't say crap like "What a gyp." http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gyp
Wired has created a Bitcoin gap with their constant Bitcoin articles, and Slashdot is just trying to catch up.
>Have they considered making safe places to use this as part of their marketing strategy? Sort of a big open VR gym?
>And in that case, let's make multiplayer games where I can shoot my friends who are being presented to me as orcs. It'll make laser tag look like kinder blocks.
The Rift wouldn't be right for that since it completely blocks your vision, but something like Google Glass with an AR overlay on the whole lens will inevitably be used to create something like Dream Park. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Park
That's because the mod system here works pretty well.
Much of the insanity posted to CNN gets deleted pretty quickly. I've lost count of the number of times I've posted a reply to an awful person and have been notified that their comment has been deleted, but it's not as fast as having the users rate the data as is done here.
Fox of course makes its living by driving the less intelligent Conservatives insane with absurd disinformation, so the awful comments are a feature there, not a bug. The comments at Fox Nation are even worse, often feeling a lot like Stormfront with the constant outbursts of racism in response to the bait the Fox scumbags throw out for the troglodytes.
I didn't know that MSNBC has comments, having spent very little time there, so can't comment on them.
I don't think that normal people post to those sites very often. It's the asshats that MUST impose their worldview on others that you see.
Not even regular Conservatives are as delusional and hateful as the crazies that post under news stories and use the wingnut tags to spew far-right-wing derp to like-minded imbeciles on Twitter.
I think the reality is that we'll fall into three groups. Those with no VR sickness, those who can practice and get over it, and those who will always have VR sickness unless the tracking latency gets down to a few milliseconds.
The eMagin HMD from about a decade ago wasn't "downright sucky." It worked great for stereoscopic vision with head-tracking, thought the FOV and resolution were nowhere near those of the Rift. Playing F.E.A.R. on it was immersive and terrifying. The only problem was that Nvidia dropped support for it shortly after release. It would have easily been worth the $1,000 it cost if it had allowed upgrade of the video driver beyond the version that was current when the HMD was released. Instead Nvidia taught me to never depend on them.
No he doesn't, and you badly misspelled "has."
Not for "our" benefit, unless we're Russians or Chinese. Personally I'm American, and consider Snowden a traitor.
The BBC has plenty of experience with Christmas invasions. I expect a police-box was involved in dealing with the problem.
You're thinking of Bill & Ted. The Doctor does not have a phone booth.
Many of us have no desire to pay for and go to a gym, prefering solitary workouts, so something like this at home is much better for us than something at a gym.
Who says it goes in the living room? I have a space at the back of my home-theater that would be perfect for a VR area. Obviously this isn't for everyone, and I don't expect anything like this to catch on with console gaming any time soon, but it's something that many of us have been waiting for.
Yes, but the technology is just now catching up to the dream so we can have 1080p large field-of-view head-mounted-displays without excessive motion lag.
Assuming that it works similarly to Sony's HMD, it will use lenses to actually make your eyes feel like they're focusing on a distant object. I wish they didn't, since this means I have to wear glasses under the HMD, when normally I just need glasses for driving.
As will I, since he has logs in-hand that demonstrate that the charger was working normally. A poorly wired outlet is a much more likely culprit.
When a smart person believes something because it's supported by the data, a less-informed bystander might mistake their competence for arrogance or hubris.
You speak only for the stereotypical overweight gamer. Some of us keep fit and look for opportunities to be active while gaming.
Going for a serious hike while playing a PC game would be an excellent next step beyond what the Wii and 360+Kinect offer. You miss out on how great it can feel to simply be alive and healthy if you let your body go like so many foolish people do.
Maybe you should smarten up and not stare at the progress bar. There's this new thing called Windows that allows you to use other applications while Steam downloads. There's another thing called "life," which has something to do with being away from the PC, but I'm not really qualified to speak on that topic.
> genuinely wondered why you don't get mildly electrocuted when you touch the completely exposed connectors end of it
Why would you expect to get mildly electrocuted by a low-power DC plug? The only danger w/o the magnetic control is that you'd fry the charger by shorting the plug.