I was looking forward to racing in VR but while it's fun, it's nowhere near the same experience as actually hitting the track, you're still missing way too many sensations and feedback from the car.
As for the inner ear, I read a while ago about I think Samsung having some sort of device that could fake it out to some degree and mitigate some of the nausea effects from VR. Not sure if it could work well enough to simulate stronger feedback, or even if it actually works at all.
Windows MR headsets are way easier: unless you want to set up a safe boundary, which is optional, you just plug in two cables and go.And even if you do want it to track the boundary, it's enough to just walk around the perimeter once and that's it. There's currently no wireless solution but no reason it couldn't work with WiGig or something like Vive does.
I have an Odyssey myself and while it's probably one of the best mainstream solutions right now, there are still limitations that get in the way of better immersion:
1. Resolution. Actually it'd be pretty good on the Odyssey already if it used the RGB stripe sub-pixel layout. Screen-door effect isn't too bad, and supposedly the new Odyssey improves that further.
2. Field of view. The 110 or so degrees are usable but still definitely a constraint. Something like the PiMax should be
3. Lenses need to be improved by a lot. Off-center sharpness is garbage on any of the current headsets with fresnel lenses and it's very frustrating.
4. Wireless would be nice, yeah. So would a smaller and lighter headset. Still, even if all this improves, it will still be a niche for quite a while but hopefully bigger than the 1% right now.
As for why VR is as third of what CCP expected, I think Oculus deserves some blame there. They hyped the hell out of the Rift and eventually released the headset at over twice the expected price (and at almost a grand in Europe) with little content and no hand tracking. They also had a bunch of exclusives that effectively reduced the amount of available content early on for the Vive (and eventually WMR). I think there was a big opportunity to give VR a ton of momentum early on, and they blew it.
The Odyssey is a PC headset so you're free to throw a kilowatt of CPU and GPU power at feeding it. You might be confusing it with Gear VR which Samsung also makes and is just a holder for the Galaxy phones.
Eye tracking and foveated rendering already work perfectly fine, they just aren't included in any of the mainstream production headsets yet. I think fixed foveated rendering is also supposed to be supported in Oculus Go and Quest, which only renders full resolution in the sharp central area, and lower res in the periphery where the optics cause a lot of distortion anyway. No reason this can't work on other desktop headsets too, and I think it's supposed to be included in the new Unreal engine.
The good news is that the higher the resolution and FOV gets, the bigger the relative benefit from foveated rendering is. If you have a 4k image and 140 degree FOV, you can still only see about 6 degrees sharply at a time, so everything else can be rendered at potato quality.
Absolutely. Samsung just launched an updated Odyssey+ which isn't a huge upgrade in terms of specs but could be significantly better in practice thanks to better comfort and especially the anti-SDE screen if it actually works. Oculus/Vive fanboys will try to claim that the limited volume of hand tracking is a dealbreaker but outside of a few specific games it's a good tradeoff and doesn't cause any issues.
If a proper gen 2 adds two more cameras, wider FOV and eye tracking, they'd have a serious chance of overtaking all the mainstream competitors. In the end, MS is the only company that actually cares about desktop PC as a platform for all of this, Oculus can keep pushing mobile with their walled gardens and Valve can just keep valving off their steam cash.
Don't really have much to say about the scooters themselves but it's really bizarre how they showed up almost overnight. I've read stories about some American cities bitching about them even here on/. but there wasn't a single shared scooter here (city in central Europe).
Occasionally you'd see some dork ride an electric scooter or one of those unicycles and even those were pretty rare. I went away for three weeks on vacation, and when I got back they're all over the place.
One thing I've noticed before though is that a lot of successful local startups are essentially clones of what's been tried before in the US. One of a major and oldest companies here is a clone of Yahoo, there is also a clone of Groupon, and so on. I'm not really sure how financially successful these scooter companies are, but somebody is probably making money so this might've been a decent opportunity.
I used to laugh at the huge phones too at first but after first using a OnePlus One, which was pretty big at 5.5" at the time, I'm fully converted. Unless you really just use it to make phone calls (who does that nowadays) a larger screen is way more comfortable for emailing, chatting and browsing since you see more than a paragraph at a time. Also useful for watching youtube^H conference calls etc.
Still, the physical dimensions are a downside, and if there was any way to reduce them and get it to easier fit in pockets, that would be great of course.
Commentaries can definitely be a mixed bag. As you mention, some of Breaking Bad is great, but some episodes they're just jerking each other off for an hour about how great they all are and don't actually talk about the motivation behind what's on the screen and what not. Still, it was a shame for all us film nerds that commentaries almost disappeared, because when they're good, there can be some really fascinating insight in them.
Anything with Arnie is going to be fuckingamazing though.
"Shit" wouldn't happen as often as it does if fewer people had guns.This guy was one of the "good people" (i.e. not a gangster or criminal) until he snapped and shot up the place.
How are they ridiculous? It's basically a campaign PR expense and thus should be treated as any other contribution. Has nothing to do with team sports.
To make a CHUD-understandable example: if Obama was paying off the Kenyan doctor that oversaw his birth during the campaign, the same rules would've applied. Nothing to do with team sports.
We can't have you playing the shooter because you might see how trivial it is to mow down dozens of unarmed people in a matter of few minutes no matter what the police or anyone else does.
Yeah it would've been best if this was in addition to regular visits. I would bet that it would reduce in-person meetings a bit as well since they're a pain in the ass. E.g. instead of weekly visitation, do video calls a few times a week and in-person every other week or so. Would be a win-win for everyone.
No not really (except the torture part). What's bad is appointing the current CIA director to the Secretary of State position, even though he himself was hardly a career CIA guy. Who the hell would want to do diplomacy with a man whose agency spied and likely performed covert ops against your country?
>I read what you wrote, and found myself agreeing. And then I remembered enjoying "Back to the Future", "Robocop", "Conan the Barbarian", "The Princess Bride". "Escape from New York", etc.
>So, speaking for myself, I've found that the things I really liked when I was younger do not hold up all that well to closer examination.
Yeah it's just you, all of those movies are still amazing. And the first time I saw Escape from New York was just a few years ago so it's not just nostalgia. Seriously, go watch Robocop right now, because there's way more to it than you remember liking as a kid.
I haven't seen Wonder Woman or Black Panther, but even the supposedly good Marvel movies have been a disappointment. The little character moments when Iron Man or Thor just screwing around are pretty fun but my main issue with them really is the action. They usually set up these enormous stakes and huge battles but there's no emotional weight because you know they won't genocide the Asgardians and nothing will happen to Thor. So you end up with Jackie Chan fighting an unarmed guy with a ladder being 100% more entertaining because you know he's really doing it and can get hurt and the stakes are realistic.
But the "app" is probably just some prepackaged JS running in the Edge engine, or something like that. JimBob's not going to be implementing his own rendering or scripting engine.
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I was looking forward to racing in VR but while it's fun, it's nowhere near the same experience as actually hitting the track, you're still missing way too many sensations and feedback from the car.
As for the inner ear, I read a while ago about I think Samsung having some sort of device that could fake it out to some degree and mitigate some of the nausea effects from VR. Not sure if it could work well enough to simulate stronger feedback, or even if it actually works at all.
Windows MR headsets are way easier: unless you want to set up a safe boundary, which is optional, you just plug in two cables and go.And even if you do want it to track the boundary, it's enough to just walk around the perimeter once and that's it. There's currently no wireless solution but no reason it couldn't work with WiGig or something like Vive does.
I have an Odyssey myself and while it's probably one of the best mainstream solutions right now, there are still limitations that get in the way of better immersion:
1. Resolution. Actually it'd be pretty good on the Odyssey already if it used the RGB stripe sub-pixel layout. Screen-door effect isn't too bad, and supposedly the new Odyssey improves that further.
2. Field of view. The 110 or so degrees are usable but still definitely a constraint. Something like the PiMax should be
3. Lenses need to be improved by a lot. Off-center sharpness is garbage on any of the current headsets with fresnel lenses and it's very frustrating.
4. Wireless would be nice, yeah. So would a smaller and lighter headset. Still, even if all this improves, it will still be a niche for quite a while but hopefully bigger than the 1% right now.
As for why VR is as third of what CCP expected, I think Oculus deserves some blame there. They hyped the hell out of the Rift and eventually released the headset at over twice the expected price (and at almost a grand in Europe) with little content and no hand tracking. They also had a bunch of exclusives that effectively reduced the amount of available content early on for the Vive (and eventually WMR). I think there was a big opportunity to give VR a ton of momentum early on, and they blew it.
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https://www.samsung.com/us/com...
"Mixed Reality" is just MS branding for the whole thing, this is just a VR headset.
The Odyssey is a PC headset so you're free to throw a kilowatt of CPU and GPU power at feeding it. You might be confusing it with Gear VR which Samsung also makes and is just a holder for the Galaxy phones.
Eye tracking and foveated rendering already work perfectly fine, they just aren't included in any of the mainstream production headsets yet. I think fixed foveated rendering is also supposed to be supported in Oculus Go and Quest, which only renders full resolution in the sharp central area, and lower res in the periphery where the optics cause a lot of distortion anyway. No reason this can't work on other desktop headsets too, and I think it's supposed to be included in the new Unreal engine.
The good news is that the higher the resolution and FOV gets, the bigger the relative benefit from foveated rendering is. If you have a 4k image and 140 degree FOV, you can still only see about 6 degrees sharply at a time, so everything else can be rendered at potato quality.
Absolutely. Samsung just launched an updated Odyssey+ which isn't a huge upgrade in terms of specs but could be significantly better in practice thanks to better comfort and especially the anti-SDE screen if it actually works. Oculus/Vive fanboys will try to claim that the limited volume of hand tracking is a dealbreaker but outside of a few specific games it's a good tradeoff and doesn't cause any issues.
If a proper gen 2 adds two more cameras, wider FOV and eye tracking, they'd have a serious chance of overtaking all the mainstream competitors. In the end, MS is the only company that actually cares about desktop PC as a platform for all of this, Oculus can keep pushing mobile with their walled gardens and Valve can just keep valving off their steam cash.
Don't really have much to say about the scooters themselves but it's really bizarre how they showed up almost overnight. I've read stories about some American cities bitching about them even here on /. but there wasn't a single shared scooter here (city in central Europe).
Occasionally you'd see some dork ride an electric scooter or one of those unicycles and even those were pretty rare. I went away for three weeks on vacation, and when I got back they're all over the place.
One thing I've noticed before though is that a lot of successful local startups are essentially clones of what's been tried before in the US. One of a major and oldest companies here is a clone of Yahoo, there is also a clone of Groupon, and so on. I'm not really sure how financially successful these scooter companies are, but somebody is probably making money so this might've been a decent opportunity.
And I just ordered a Note9 yesterday.
I used to laugh at the huge phones too at first but after first using a OnePlus One, which was pretty big at 5.5" at the time, I'm fully converted. Unless you really just use it to make phone calls (who does that nowadays) a larger screen is way more comfortable for emailing, chatting and browsing since you see more than a paragraph at a time. Also useful for watching youtube^H conference calls etc.
Still, the physical dimensions are a downside, and if there was any way to reduce them and get it to easier fit in pockets, that would be great of course.
Commentaries can definitely be a mixed bag. As you mention, some of Breaking Bad is great, but some episodes they're just jerking each other off for an hour about how great they all are and don't actually talk about the motivation behind what's on the screen and what not. Still, it was a shame for all us film nerds that commentaries almost disappeared, because when they're good, there can be some really fascinating insight in them.
Anything with Arnie is going to be fucking amazing though.
Where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.
"Shit" wouldn't happen as often as it does if fewer people had guns.This guy was one of the "good people" (i.e. not a gangster or criminal) until he snapped and shot up the place.
How are they ridiculous? It's basically a campaign PR expense and thus should be treated as any other contribution. Has nothing to do with team sports.
To make a CHUD-understandable example: if Obama was paying off the Kenyan doctor that oversaw his birth during the campaign, the same rules would've applied. Nothing to do with team sports.
I'm not a crook! I mean RIGGED WITCH HUNT!!!
You need the protein to get fuckin swole, dude!
No, it's somewhat ambiguous. It could still work without being officially supported by Valve.
Apple's solution puts delicate springy contacts on the device side which is way worse.
Look, I think we can all agree that Java was a huge mistake, but it's been twenty years, I think it's time to just accept it for what it is.
We can't have you playing the shooter because you might see how trivial it is to mow down dozens of unarmed people in a matter of few minutes no matter what the police or anyone else does.
Yeah it would've been best if this was in addition to regular visits. I would bet that it would reduce in-person meetings a bit as well since they're a pain in the ass. E.g. instead of weekly visitation, do video calls a few times a week and in-person every other week or so. Would be a win-win for everyone.
No not really (except the torture part). What's bad is appointing the current CIA director to the Secretary of State position, even though he himself was hardly a career CIA guy. Who the hell would want to do diplomacy with a man whose agency spied and likely performed covert ops against your country?
>I read what you wrote, and found myself agreeing. And then I remembered enjoying "Back to the Future", "Robocop", "Conan the Barbarian", "The Princess Bride". "Escape from New York", etc.
>So, speaking for myself, I've found that the things I really liked when I was younger do not hold up all that well to closer examination.
Yeah it's just you, all of those movies are still amazing. And the first time I saw Escape from New York was just a few years ago so it's not just nostalgia. Seriously, go watch Robocop right now, because there's way more to it than you remember liking as a kid.
I haven't seen Wonder Woman or Black Panther, but even the supposedly good Marvel movies have been a disappointment. The little character moments when Iron Man or Thor just screwing around are pretty fun but my main issue with them really is the action. They usually set up these enormous stakes and huge battles but there's no emotional weight because you know they won't genocide the Asgardians and nothing will happen to Thor. So you end up with Jackie Chan fighting an unarmed guy with a ladder being 100% more entertaining because you know he's really doing it and can get hurt and the stakes are realistic.
But the "app" is probably just some prepackaged JS running in the Edge engine, or something like that. JimBob's not going to be implementing his own rendering or scripting engine.
There's also a live feed from the car. It's pretty amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The feed drops out on every barge landing, and the quote is a bit ambiguous, but it seems that this time it's dead, yeah.