... there is no subscriber cost other than Amazon Prime, at least for a basic smartphone plan. A lot of cheapskates have no particular allegiance to iOS/Android, and would be starry-eyed by such a deal.
I imagined a little different. I imagined watching the Bloomberg Oculus Rift Business News Cable Channel. Complete with 40 live scrolling tickers, 10 simultaneous real-time stock market charts, 5 talking heads on the side incomprehensibly shouting over each other, 1 giant random talking head in the center saying something inane about company XYZ, and me getting a headache, a headache which was not induced by any system or motion lag.
I've had a couple of cars suffer hydraulic power steering failures in rather inconvenient far out locations. I don't know how reliable electric power steering is, but the competition has set the bar rather low.
What did Facebook do so far? Has the acquisition even been completed?? As far as I've heard, FB has merely given OR more cash resources to use, and have made no business decisions regarding future R&D and marketing of the device.
At least OR headset looks like it will be mostly platform agnostic. (Imagine if they make a compelling demo at E3 show using OR + upcoming Destiny game from Bungee on both PS4 and XBone. That's "shut up and take my money" territory right there.) So... Android games? Are there any good ones that rely on 3D acceleration? I'm assuming that would require doing native development for Android, which still looks like the wild, Wild West of game development.
Right now all of these HMD products are all in prototype phase, with nothing actually available for sale yet. I do not dispute that Facebook/OR probably has the pole position right now, but they really need to release something this calendar year to keep that position. They also better have something impressive to show at E3.
Promoting cheating is little different than promoting theft or fraud. Would we be arguing over copyrights regarding key loggers? Or some software to grab customer info via that SSL bug?
Electronic circumvention does not have much protection under the law (see DMCA), particularly if the purpose of the tool is fraudulent in nature. DeCSS preceded DMCA, I believe, but probably would have been legally vulnerable at the time otherwise.
Copyright is a sideshow in this matter... It's the circumvention that's the main issue. If I installed a key logger on your PC, would you even care if I had obeyed copyright law in obtaining that software? Cheat software in a multiplayer context is no different than key logging malware, in that it has a deleterious effect on the people playing the game.
If I advertise and/or distribute a method to cheat in MLB, I could get hit by a copyright claim (amongst other things), regardless how that method is implemented.
Blizz is doing the right thing here, they are protecting their players. And the law should treat cheat software the way it would treat cash bribes to a soccer referee or baseball umpire.
It hasn't happened quite yet, but soon Ethernet will be bundled along with AV feed in that HDMI cable. Actually preventing Internet access to the TV and other AV equipment will become trickier at that point, particularly for consumers who don't know how to configure their router very well.
Of course they will give out the SDK, and of course you can do whatever you want with it. It's like Apple, though... if you want to distribute your VR IP through the Rift store, probably your IP will have to comply with ToS. Even Google Play Store has that, if perhaps a more forgiving one. And, as far as adult content goes, you think an independent OR company would be any different in their rules? They would still be based in the USA, and still have the same legal and PR concerns. Having seen some of what happens in Second Life, it's clear that VR adult content can get pretty, um, "imaginative", and not putting age blocks on that is taking a huge unnecessary risk.
Let's put it another way: Facebook is platform agnostic, much more so than their competitors. They don't care iOS vs Android, PC vs Mac vs Linux vs consoles, XBox vs PS4 vs Nintendo. If you have a Rift application you want to build, they will shrug at your platform choice and only provide comments about the VR contents itself. Maybe because they are a Social company, they will prefer your VR thingie be multi-user, but I don't see them saying no to anything of decent quality. Even adult content should be ok if it has adequate age restrictions implemented.
Facebook isn't going to do anything that will inhibit this device, not while it still hasn't established a market for itself. They aren't stupid. In the very worst case, they require any avatar/profile to be associated with a FB account, which is a minor privacy annoyance, nothing more.
Automakers get kind of trapped in iterative design on established product lines. Any changes to a car line already selling in the hundreds of thousands obviously has to go through extensive reviews with suppliers, marketers, dealers, etc. Any big change requires Herculean effort (the recent change to all-aluminum body in the F150 is a good example.). But new products, often built on a new key technology, often quickly become engineering playgrounds. The first Prius was like this... Even though the new thing then was hybrid drivetrain, Toyota poured a whole lot of other unrelated ideas into that car, many of which succeeded and migrated to other Toyota product lines.
Agreed. Tesla's key technology is and has always been that electric drivetrain. It took years of work and many iterations to develop that. Everything around that drivetrain in the Model S is elegantly designed but still within reach of what other car companies can do. Batteries are certainly not a key technology for Tesla, as their stated goal for the Gigafactory is to build common batteries cheaper, not necessarily better.
Reminds me of a TV ad. "This is your brain (USB up to 2.0). This is drugs (high speed transceivers). This is your brain on drugs (yeah, bad stuff happens here). Any questions?"
The number one reason to be wary of USB is that half of the hubs and adapters out there barely work right. I can still go to Fry's and find cheap crap that will go wonky even interfacing with just USB 2.0 devices. USB 3.0 is the Wild, Wild West in terms of quality, and they are already jumping the gun to 10 Gbps? I am very afraid. Put it this way: To achieve USB certification, all you have to do is pass a ten minute functional test. Intel's stuff may cost a lot more and may never get great market penetration, but their stuff is almost always rock solid. You get what you pay for.
Parents should still lock up their guns, with or without smart triggers. What is the harm in having one more redundant layer to keep kids from firing those guns though? Even a "good" parent that dutifully locks up their guns immediately after use might have a lapse or two.
The government should be especially concerned with protecting children from stupid parents. If not, then why do we have CPS? This is not endorsing mandatory smart triggers, just saying if availability of effective smart triggers leads to fewer child injuries and deaths, then the government should help make that a reality.
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... there is no subscriber cost other than Amazon Prime, at least for a basic smartphone plan. A lot of cheapskates have no particular allegiance to iOS/Android, and would be starry-eyed by such a deal.
I imagined a little different. I imagined watching the Bloomberg Oculus Rift Business News Cable Channel. Complete with 40 live scrolling tickers, 10 simultaneous real-time stock market charts, 5 talking heads on the side incomprehensibly shouting over each other, 1 giant random talking head in the center saying something inane about company XYZ, and me getting a headache, a headache which was not induced by any system or motion lag.
I've had a couple of cars suffer hydraulic power steering failures in rather inconvenient far out locations. I don't know how reliable electric power steering is, but the competition has set the bar rather low.
The main character has a smartphone which can do more than Angry Birds.
What did Facebook do so far? Has the acquisition even been completed?? As far as I've heard, FB has merely given OR more cash resources to use, and have made no business decisions regarding future R&D and marketing of the device.
At least OR headset looks like it will be mostly platform agnostic. (Imagine if they make a compelling demo at E3 show using OR + upcoming Destiny game from Bungee on both PS4 and XBone. That's "shut up and take my money" territory right there.) So... Android games? Are there any good ones that rely on 3D acceleration? I'm assuming that would require doing native development for Android, which still looks like the wild, Wild West of game development.
Doesn't HMD work better with dual display, one for each eye? Or is that only if you want stereoscopic features?
Right now all of these HMD products are all in prototype phase, with nothing actually available for sale yet. I do not dispute that Facebook/OR probably has the pole position right now, but they really need to release something this calendar year to keep that position. They also better have something impressive to show at E3.
Promoting cheating is little different than promoting theft or fraud. Would we be arguing over copyrights regarding key loggers? Or some software to grab customer info via that SSL bug?
Electronic circumvention does not have much protection under the law (see DMCA), particularly if the purpose of the tool is fraudulent in nature. DeCSS preceded DMCA, I believe, but probably would have been legally vulnerable at the time otherwise.
Copyright is a sideshow in this matter... It's the circumvention that's the main issue. If I installed a key logger on your PC, would you even care if I had obeyed copyright law in obtaining that software? Cheat software in a multiplayer context is no different than key logging malware, in that it has a deleterious effect on the people playing the game.
If I advertise and/or distribute a method to cheat in MLB, I could get hit by a copyright claim (amongst other things), regardless how that method is implemented.
It's cheating, whether it's in the form of software, or a cash bribe to the refs. I think cheating is worth very little in terms of free speech value.
Blizz is doing the right thing here, they are protecting their players. And the law should treat cheat software the way it would treat cash bribes to a soccer referee or baseball umpire.
Please. In the context of this article, call them "virtual realities", not "beliefs".
It hasn't happened quite yet, but soon Ethernet will be bundled along with AV feed in that HDMI cable. Actually preventing Internet access to the TV and other AV equipment will become trickier at that point, particularly for consumers who don't know how to configure their router very well.
Of course they will give out the SDK, and of course you can do whatever you want with it. It's like Apple, though... if you want to distribute your VR IP through the Rift store, probably your IP will have to comply with ToS. Even Google Play Store has that, if perhaps a more forgiving one. And, as far as adult content goes, you think an independent OR company would be any different in their rules? They would still be based in the USA, and still have the same legal and PR concerns. Having seen some of what happens in Second Life, it's clear that VR adult content can get pretty, um, "imaginative", and not putting age blocks on that is taking a huge unnecessary risk.
Let's put it another way: Facebook is platform agnostic, much more so than their competitors. They don't care iOS vs Android, PC vs Mac vs Linux vs consoles, XBox vs PS4 vs Nintendo. If you have a Rift application you want to build, they will shrug at your platform choice and only provide comments about the VR contents itself. Maybe because they are a Social company, they will prefer your VR thingie be multi-user, but I don't see them saying no to anything of decent quality. Even adult content should be ok if it has adequate age restrictions implemented.
Facebook isn't going to do anything that will inhibit this device, not while it still hasn't established a market for itself. They aren't stupid. In the very worst case, they require any avatar/profile to be associated with a FB account, which is a minor privacy annoyance, nothing more.
Automakers get kind of trapped in iterative design on established product lines. Any changes to a car line already selling in the hundreds of thousands obviously has to go through extensive reviews with suppliers, marketers, dealers, etc. Any big change requires Herculean effort (the recent change to all-aluminum body in the F150 is a good example.). But new products, often built on a new key technology, often quickly become engineering playgrounds. The first Prius was like this... Even though the new thing then was hybrid drivetrain, Toyota poured a whole lot of other unrelated ideas into that car, many of which succeeded and migrated to other Toyota product lines.
Agreed. Tesla's key technology is and has always been that electric drivetrain. It took years of work and many iterations to develop that. Everything around that drivetrain in the Model S is elegantly designed but still within reach of what other car companies can do. Batteries are certainly not a key technology for Tesla, as their stated goal for the Gigafactory is to build common batteries cheaper, not necessarily better.
Reminds me of a TV ad. "This is your brain (USB up to 2.0). This is drugs (high speed transceivers). This is your brain on drugs (yeah, bad stuff happens here). Any questions?"
The number one reason to be wary of USB is that half of the hubs and adapters out there barely work right. I can still go to Fry's and find cheap crap that will go wonky even interfacing with just USB 2.0 devices. USB 3.0 is the Wild, Wild West in terms of quality, and they are already jumping the gun to 10 Gbps? I am very afraid. Put it this way: To achieve USB certification, all you have to do is pass a ten minute functional test. Intel's stuff may cost a lot more and may never get great market penetration, but their stuff is almost always rock solid. You get what you pay for.
Parents should still lock up their guns, with or without smart triggers. What is the harm in having one more redundant layer to keep kids from firing those guns though? Even a "good" parent that dutifully locks up their guns immediately after use might have a lapse or two.
The government should be especially concerned with protecting children from stupid parents. If not, then why do we have CPS? This is not endorsing mandatory smart triggers, just saying if availability of effective smart triggers leads to fewer child injuries and deaths, then the government should help make that a reality.