"You can't have VR movement without real-life movement unless you want to eschew one of the very things that makes it VR."
Next you'll be saying you can't play a shooter game with a keyboard and mouse instead of a light gun, unless you want to eschew one of the very things that makes it a shooter.
I forget whether they were talking about racing sim or combat flight sim, but someone on another site said a couple of weeks back that all the top players in the league they were in used VR. Anyone who wanted to be competitive had little choice but to buy a VR headset.
I briefly tried an FPS (forget which one) on a 3D monitor, but I found that everything looked flat if it was more than a few feet away. Whereas standing at the top of the steps outside Dragonsreach in Skyrim in VR, the whole scene looked pretty 3D at least to the walls of Whiterun.
Leap Motion does a decent job. The other day I was in a VR helicopter in Antarctica, leaning around the cockpit to flick switches while I figured out how to start the engine.
The problem is that with only two relatively low-resolution cameras attached to the headset, it can lose track of your hand position fairly easily.
"That's why most of the "AAA" VR games coming out seem to be nothing more than first person shooters where the player is glued to a single spot and cannot freely walk around, which is gay."
No, it's because most devs are too scared of players getting sick to let them move around with a joystick. It's as though the early FPS devs had listened to the people who complained that FPS games made them sick, and switched to games where the player stood in one spot while the bad guys ran toward them.
Fortunately that's changing, as it turns out that it affects fewer people than the alarmists claimed, and there are ways of optimizing movement to reduce the effect on those who feel it (for example, by only using the joystick for forward/backward motion and turning for real).
In a few years, no-one's going to give a crap about whether these treatments are approved by some government, when they can download a file from the Internet that specifies the genetic changes and send it to their Home DNA Modification Kit.
The left can't tolerate anyone who thinks differently to them, because their ideology is their identity. To disagree with them is to claim they're wrong, and they can't be wrong, because they're so much smarter than everyone else that they should be The Great Leader telling everyone what to do.
The right can handle diversity of opinion. The left can't. That's why the left always try to censor or murder anyone who disagrees with them.
"This may sound strange, but people who I've always considered "conservatives"/"Republicans"/"right-wingers" have started to express some of the most positive and hopeful sentiments."
Why would that be strange? We're watching the left self-destruct as they take identity politics to its inevitable conclusion and start to eat each other. I haven't felt this hopeful since the collapse of the USSR.
The right is driven by love of their family, their nation, and their communities. The left is driven by hatred of anyone who's different to them. The only reason you think it's strange is because the left have had better PR, thanks to decades spent infiltrating the media.
If there's one thing the left can't stand, it's diversity.
Sure, they want to eat Mexican food, but they don't want anyone who thinks differently to them. Everyone must be a compliant drone in the hive-mind. Everyone must think and behave the same, or be sent to the death^H^H^H^Hre-education camps.
And, thus, we're heading at an accelerating pace toward civil war.
Pretty much. The left set out in the mid-20th century to take over most of the social institutions across the West. They've succeeded, and strife and hatred is the inevitable consequence.
Along with the collapse of those institutions, of course, because they can't both do their real job and make politics job #1.
The underlying problem is that so much software is farmed out to Indian code-monkeys who have no idea how to program, so they just copy-and-paste whatever they find on the web. They'll have a new job in three months anyway, so why would they care that the software is crap, insecure and unsupportable?
Unfortunately, this normally means hopping onto the sidewalk and driving off at full speed with no concern about how many nuns and small children you run over.
Google is already as good at diagnosis as our local doctors for most ordinary ailments. We only have to go to the doctor to get a piece of paper that allows us to buy the drugs we need.
Doctors are just another gatekeeper about to be made obsolete by technology.
Uh, dude... you're the one asking to come to America. Immigration don't have to prove you wrong. They just have to say 'entry denied, get on the next plane home.'
And, don't forget, lying on an immigration form can get you immediate deportation and a lifetime ban.
Used to be you could pretty much trust Europeans not to come to America to blow things up or murder people. Now they've taken in so many terrists and their supporters, that's no longer the case... I'm quite amazed that Britain is still in the Visa Waiver Program, because it looks more like a third-world country every time I go there.
Don't forget that they'll stop working when the manufacturer goes bust and their 'cloud' server goes away. Or when Amazon's 'cloud' goes down again. Or when the manufacturer stops supporting them and shuts down the 'cloud' server that controls them.
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"You can't have VR movement without real-life movement unless you want to eschew one of the very things that makes it VR."
Next you'll be saying you can't play a shooter game with a keyboard and mouse instead of a light gun, unless you want to eschew one of the very things that makes it a shooter.
I forget whether they were talking about racing sim or combat flight sim, but someone on another site said a couple of weeks back that all the top players in the league they were in used VR. Anyone who wanted to be competitive had little choice but to buy a VR headset.
I briefly tried an FPS (forget which one) on a 3D monitor, but I found that everything looked flat if it was more than a few feet away. Whereas standing at the top of the steps outside Dragonsreach in Skyrim in VR, the whole scene looked pretty 3D at least to the walls of Whiterun.
Leap Motion does a decent job. The other day I was in a VR helicopter in Antarctica, leaning around the cockpit to flick switches while I figured out how to start the engine.
The problem is that with only two relatively low-resolution cameras attached to the headset, it can lose track of your hand position fairly easily.
"That's why most of the "AAA" VR games coming out seem to be nothing more than first person shooters where the player is glued to a single spot and cannot freely walk around, which is gay."
No, it's because most devs are too scared of players getting sick to let them move around with a joystick. It's as though the early FPS devs had listened to the people who complained that FPS games made them sick, and switched to games where the player stood in one spot while the bad guys ran toward them.
Fortunately that's changing, as it turns out that it affects fewer people than the alarmists claimed, and there are ways of optimizing movement to reduce the effect on those who feel it (for example, by only using the joystick for forward/backward motion and turning for real).
"As it is I think it could be good for movies, assuming it made economic sense - which it probably doesn't - but for gaming, just no"
VR is already rapidly taking over the sim market. Once you've played a flight sim or driving sim in VR, it's really hard to go back to a flat screen.
And it's going to spread to more and more gaming markets from there.
In a few years, the cost will be $10 plus a flight to Mexico.
Or $10,000,000 if you want the treatment America.
In a few years, no-one's going to give a crap about whether these treatments are approved by some government, when they can download a file from the Internet that specifies the genetic changes and send it to their Home DNA Modification Kit.
See. Point out that the left can't stand people of differing opinions, and what do the lefties do...?
Yep, you guessed it.
Downvote those opinions.
It's almost like they're a bunch of little robots whose brains have been taken over by hostile meme viruses.
Oh, hang on. That's precisely what they are.
Leftism is the institutionalised denial of reality. This is why they have to live in a 'safe space' where reality can't get to them.
No, though Trump is more centre than right.
The left can't tolerate anyone who thinks differently to them, because their ideology is their identity. To disagree with them is to claim they're wrong, and they can't be wrong, because they're so much smarter than everyone else that they should be The Great Leader telling everyone what to do.
The right can handle diversity of opinion. The left can't. That's why the left always try to censor or murder anyone who disagrees with them.
"This may sound strange, but people who I've always considered "conservatives"/"Republicans"/"right-wingers" have started to express some of the most positive and hopeful sentiments."
Why would that be strange? We're watching the left self-destruct as they take identity politics to its inevitable conclusion and start to eat each other. I haven't felt this hopeful since the collapse of the USSR.
The right is driven by love of their family, their nation, and their communities. The left is driven by hatred of anyone who's different to them. The only reason you think it's strange is because the left have had better PR, thanks to decades spent infiltrating the media.
If there's one thing the left can't stand, it's diversity.
Sure, they want to eat Mexican food, but they don't want anyone who thinks differently to them. Everyone must be a compliant drone in the hive-mind. Everyone must think and behave the same, or be sent to the death^H^H^H^Hre-education camps.
And, thus, we're heading at an accelerating pace toward civil war.
Pretty much. The left set out in the mid-20th century to take over most of the social institutions across the West. They've succeeded, and strife and hatred is the inevitable consequence.
Along with the collapse of those institutions, of course, because they can't both do their real job and make politics job #1.
The underlying problem is that so much software is farmed out to Indian code-monkeys who have no idea how to program, so they just copy-and-paste whatever they find on the web. They'll have a new job in three months anyway, so why would they care that the software is crap, insecure and unsupportable?
"Something as simple as bullet points and modifying paragraphs spacing or adjusting the indentation on the ruler is enough to reveal its many flaws"
How strange. That's exactly what I could have said about Word.
And at least I can figure out where to find things in LibreOffice, whereas I can never tell where anything will be hidden in Word's 'Ribbon'.
Unfortunately, this normally means hopping onto the sidewalk and driving off at full speed with no concern about how many nuns and small children you run over.
And yet, people still use this shit.
How badly does he have to beat you before you finally admit that no, he doesn't love you. Not really.
Patients should be the ones who have the medical records, and provide access to doctors when required.
Google is already as good at diagnosis as our local doctors for most ordinary ailments. We only have to go to the doctor to get a piece of paper that allows us to buy the drugs we need.
Doctors are just another gatekeeper about to be made obsolete by technology.
"Prove me wrong."
Uh, dude... you're the one asking to come to America. Immigration don't have to prove you wrong. They just have to say 'entry denied, get on the next plane home.'
And, don't forget, lying on an immigration form can get you immediate deportation and a lifetime ban.
I presume it will either be part of the ESTA or they'll extend pre-clearance across more of Europe, so checks are done before you board the plane.
Yes. That's kind of the point.
Used to be you could pretty much trust Europeans not to come to America to blow things up or murder people. Now they've taken in so many terrists and their supporters, that's no longer the case... I'm quite amazed that Britain is still in the Visa Waiver Program, because it looks more like a third-world country every time I go there.
Don't forget that they'll stop working when the manufacturer goes bust and their 'cloud' server goes away. Or when Amazon's 'cloud' goes down again. Or when the manufacturer stops supporting them and shuts down the 'cloud' server that controls them.