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> The company believes it has developed revolutionary technology with its Spatial OS operating system ... allowing small developers to create massive simulation
by avaer 9y ago
> The company believes it has developed revolutionary technology with its Spatial OS operating system ... allowing small developers to create massive simulations without much infrastructure of their own.
If that's the case I can't help but feel this is a gross misuse of the VR buzzword in the headline. This is cool stuff, but we call that cloud computing, not VR.
- SomeStupidPoint 9y agoI think they mean VR in the sense of Second Life, not in the sense of Oculus.
- AndrewKemendo 9y agoSecond Life isn't VR. You could potentially use VR to use SL but they are different technologies. This is typical for technology reporting. edit: Someone want to tell me why this comment is getting hammered?
- rl3 9y agoSecond Life is "virtual reality", just not in the common head-mounted display sense.
- Animats 9y agoThere's Oculus Rift support for Second Life.
- SomeStupidPoint 9y agoBecause the older meaning of "virtual reality" is similar in meaning to "cyberspace" and not just a euphemism for "3D immersive display". It meant exactly what the phrase implied -- a virtual reality. Displays like the Oculus are a way to experience a virtual reality, but are not full immersion (eg, tactile feedback) and are not the only way we could theoretically experience one. Things like advanced cockpit or vehicle simulators arguably count. (Think things with a mocked up vehicle interior, but windows are replaced by monitors. Often, these are mounted on systems that provide motion feedback.) That meaning has largely been transitioned to the term "virtual world" (eg, in Second Life's marketing materials) because of the terminology collision around 3D headsets. I personally think this is an abuse of marketing that destroyed a useful term to a reductionist view because they wanted to co-opt the interest and goodwill around the long history of literature on the original meaning. Other people feel differently. In your case, you're being downvoted because you're insisting people only use the reductive new meaning of the term, when it was used perfectly sensibly in the older style in the title. (As it would apply, in calling Second Life "VR", since it's a "virtual reality".)
- stale2002 9y agoOctopus?
- alexilliamson 9y agoOctopus - it's a water animal
- pcr0 9y agoHere's an app idea https://food-hacks.wonderhowto.com/how-to/8-easy-ways-enjoy-eating-octopus-0171317/ https://food-hacks.wonderhowto.com/how-to/8-easy-ways-enjoy-...
- flor1s 9y agoThe goal of the simulations can be for example to render some particle system or create some procedurally generated content for use in a game. Many of their tutorials are focused on including their technology in game engines such as Unity. Hence, I would rather call it cloud computing for VR.
- nikanj 9y agoCloud computing would've gotten you $500m five years ago. Nowadays you need to say VR or AI for those amounts of pre-launch funding.
- dxhdr 9y agoThey have a ways to go before they catch up to 4.5B behemoth Magic Leap!