Sure, this sounds cool, but the usefulness of it is pretty minimal. For quite some time now, since the advent of Doom, the most popular input device combination for computer gamers (or at least the professional ones), has been keyboard+mouse, because of the number of buttons and quickness of response. It'd be nigh impossible to perform a rocket jump (aim straight down + fire rocket + jump to blast self into air) and then aim at an enemy on the ground using your head. Try (but carefully!) to move your head one way and then reverse direction and go the other. Now do the same with a mouse. And I don't believe this can be used to click your mouse buttons, either, unless it's got a real good way to pick up on left/right eye blinks as clicks:)
But yes, I will concede that this is "a-cool-thing," and might find a small niche in the gaming market. It reminds me of the arcade gimmick machines where you (and optionally a friend) stand in front of a blue screen and play Tekken by really punching, kicking, and jumping. It was almost impossible to do anything in the game correctly and quickly (ie: forget combos), but it was still damn fun.
I read through the other posts, so I don't believe this has been mentioned before, but I apologize if it has.
I used to work as a computer/service technician at my local Best Buy. Best Buy offers a 3 year "Performance Service Plan," and one of the perks of this plan is just this -- a No-Lemon Guarantee if the computer requires more than 3 repairs within the span of the warranty. In theory, this is an excellent idea, but trying to get a new computer out of BBY's No Lemon law is in the same category of Impossible as wringing blood from a stone. You have to keep the paperwork from each and every repair (even though we keep records of every repair in our database, you still have to hold onto a piece of paper from a repair that was done years ago). And of course, no one at a Best Buy store could authorize a No-Lemon exchange, the unit first had to be shipped out to our certified service center, who then decided whether or not our customer would get a new one.
I have seen person after person get screwed out of a new computer by this system. For example, a ~4 year old Packard Bell came in late last year, from when we used to sell 4 year warranty plans. The sound wasn't working on it, so we sent it out to be authorized for a No-Lemon exchange. Of course, two weeks later we get it back saying that there are software problems and we should restore it. We inform the customer to do this, they do it successfully, come back in after it was done and still no sound. We were all set to send it back out again after verifying for sure it was a bad sound card. But, behold, the warranty ran out when it was last at the service center. Guess what? No new computer. Well, technically they got a new computer after it sat in our back room for 9 months (NOT an exaggeration) as management sorted things out, but I digress.
So has this been off-topic enough? Yes, but the point I'm trying to make is if a company that made someone pay $180-$240 for a warranty can be this screwed up when it comes to issuing replacements for bad products, then imagine if the slow juggernaut of bureaucracy gets to warrant this claim. At least Best Buy had the opportunity to make the customer happy, after all they did pay extra for the service.
Imagine if Best Buy had to do this free of charge, for EVERY customer, not just the ~50% who had warranties.
Oh my god, it just sent my video card information to id! Whatever shall I do???
I bet the government is behind this. In fact, I bet it encodes my email address, social security number, and credit card number (don't forget expiration date!) inside of this information somehow, and sends it directly to the FBI, NSA, and CIA headquarters!
Seriously, we need to chill out about all of this paranoia. Is this harming anyone in/any/ way shape or form?
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Sure, this sounds cool, but the usefulness of it is pretty minimal. For quite some time now, since the advent of Doom, the most popular input device combination for computer gamers (or at least the professional ones), has been keyboard+mouse, because of the number of buttons and quickness of response. It'd be nigh impossible to perform a rocket jump (aim straight down + fire rocket + jump to blast self into air) and then aim at an enemy on the ground using your head. Try (but carefully!) to move your head one way and then reverse direction and go the other. Now do the same with a mouse. And I don't believe this can be used to click your mouse buttons, either, unless it's got a real good way to pick up on left/right eye blinks as clicks :)
But yes, I will concede that this is "a-cool-thing," and might find a small niche in the gaming market. It reminds me of the arcade gimmick machines where you (and optionally a friend) stand in front of a blue screen and play Tekken by really punching, kicking, and jumping. It was almost impossible to do anything in the game correctly and quickly (ie: forget combos), but it was still damn fun.
I read through the other posts, so I don't believe this has been mentioned before, but I apologize if it has.
I used to work as a computer/service technician at my local Best Buy. Best Buy offers a 3 year "Performance Service Plan," and one of the perks of this plan is just this -- a No-Lemon Guarantee if the computer requires more than 3 repairs within the span of the warranty. In theory, this is an excellent idea, but trying to get a new computer out of BBY's No Lemon law is in the same category of Impossible as wringing blood from a stone. You have to keep the paperwork from each and every repair (even though we keep records of every repair in our database, you still have to hold onto a piece of paper from a repair that was done years ago). And of course, no one at a Best Buy store could authorize a No-Lemon exchange, the unit first had to be shipped out to our certified service center, who then decided whether or not our customer would get a new one.
I have seen person after person get screwed out of a new computer by this system. For example, a ~4 year old Packard Bell came in late last year, from when we used to sell 4 year warranty plans. The sound wasn't working on it, so we sent it out to be authorized for a No-Lemon exchange. Of course, two weeks later we get it back saying that there are software problems and we should restore it. We inform the customer to do this, they do it successfully, come back in after it was done and still no sound. We were all set to send it back out again after verifying for sure it was a bad sound card. But, behold, the warranty ran out when it was last at the service center. Guess what? No new computer. Well, technically they got a new computer after it sat in our back room for 9 months (NOT an exaggeration) as management sorted things out, but I digress.
So has this been off-topic enough? Yes, but the point I'm trying to make is if a company that made someone pay $180-$240 for a warranty can be this screwed up when it comes to issuing replacements for bad products, then imagine if the slow juggernaut of bureaucracy gets to warrant this claim. At least Best Buy had the opportunity to make the customer happy, after all they did pay extra for the service.
Imagine if Best Buy had to do this free of charge, for EVERY customer, not just the ~50% who had warranties.
NO!
/any/ way shape or form?
Oh my god, it just sent my video card information to id! Whatever shall I do???
I bet the government is behind this. In fact, I bet it encodes my email address, social security number, and credit card number (don't forget expiration date!) inside of this information somehow, and sends it directly to the FBI, NSA, and CIA headquarters!
Seriously, we need to chill out about all of this paranoia. Is this harming anyone in
This post was mere knee-jerk reaction.