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No wonder: https://twitter.com/iVRy_VR/status/1655543048787378176 https://twitter.com/iVRy_VR/status/1655543048787378176

xeromal 3y ago
I struggle to follow these threads. I have no idea what's going on.
- ganoushoreilly 3y ago
  I think it's part stress of the project and part stress of the spotlight. I would imagine the developer was stressing over how to manage requesting donations and then all the feedback (good and bad) that they were receiving.
  - xeromal 3y ago
    Yeah, I went straight to their profile and found a thread that made sense. Even if they wanted a little money, the thankless work of being a hacker/dev/whatever on a highly anticipated project sucks and drove this guy to take a break. Good on him.
  - Firmwarrior 3y ago
    I could see how he was getting tired of annoying people, but then I managed to navigate to the author's profile, and there's a pinned tweet where he's selling this thing as a product for $20 > Use your Sony #PSVR, Oculus, Pico or Daydream Headset, or Smartphone as a #SteamVR #VR Headset for your PC. Evaluate for free, use In-App Purchase or Steam DLC for "Premium Edition" If he doesn't want to deal with customers, maybe he shouldn't be selling this as a product That said, there's nothing wrong with discontinuing the product if he doesn't feel like working on it any more
    - FumblingBear 3y ago
      To clarify, he isn't selling any of the work that he's doing on the PSVR2 currently. He had a donation page for that work that he has since removed after some minor criticisms. The advertisement is for the iVRy Driver that he developed for some other hardware options. The work he's done on reversing the PSVR2 is unreleased and closed source for now.
    - mikelovenotwar 3y ago
      > there's a pinned tweet where he's selling this thing as a product for $20 That's not what they are selling, 'this thing' is work on the PSVR2 not PSVR, one of the things supported by his existing, available now product.
- McGlockenshire 3y ago
  Two tips to follow twitter threads: 1) Only ever use it from a desktop browser with a sufficiently configured ad blocker. The mobile apps are intentionally designed to pull you out of the thread with only a single line of text delineating where it does so and no way to actually continue with the thread. It's a miserable experience and the people responsible should be ashamed of themselves. They try to pull the same bullshit on the website but it's more obvious there. 2) Twitter has two reply modes. Direct replies are put under the post they're replying to, much like normal linear forum discussions. But then there's retweets. They create a new thread, quoting the previous thread in the topic starter, so to speak... and unlike the standard linear model, the topic starter is done by top posting, with the quoted bit below.

xeromal 3y ago

I struggle to follow these threads. I have no idea what's going on.

ganoushoreilly 3y ago
I think it's part stress of the project and part stress of the spotlight. I would imagine the developer was stressing over how to manage requesting donations and then all the feedback (good and bad) that they were receiving.
- xeromal 3y ago
  Yeah, I went straight to their profile and found a thread that made sense. Even if they wanted a little money, the thankless work of being a hacker/dev/whatever on a highly anticipated project sucks and drove this guy to take a break. Good on him.
- Firmwarrior 3y ago
  I could see how he was getting tired of annoying people, but then I managed to navigate to the author's profile, and there's a pinned tweet where he's selling this thing as a product for $20 > Use your Sony #PSVR, Oculus, Pico or Daydream Headset, or Smartphone as a #SteamVR #VR Headset for your PC. Evaluate for free, use In-App Purchase or Steam DLC for "Premium Edition" If he doesn't want to deal with customers, maybe he shouldn't be selling this as a product That said, there's nothing wrong with discontinuing the product if he doesn't feel like working on it any more
  - FumblingBear 3y ago
    To clarify, he isn't selling any of the work that he's doing on the PSVR2 currently. He had a donation page for that work that he has since removed after some minor criticisms. The advertisement is for the iVRy Driver that he developed for some other hardware options. The work he's done on reversing the PSVR2 is unreleased and closed source for now.
  - mikelovenotwar 3y ago
    > there's a pinned tweet where he's selling this thing as a product for $20 That's not what they are selling, 'this thing' is work on the PSVR2 not PSVR, one of the things supported by his existing, available now product.
McGlockenshire 3y ago
Two tips to follow twitter threads: 1) Only ever use it from a desktop browser with a sufficiently configured ad blocker. The mobile apps are intentionally designed to pull you out of the thread with only a single line of text delineating where it does so and no way to actually continue with the thread. It's a miserable experience and the people responsible should be ashamed of themselves. They try to pull the same bullshit on the website but it's more obvious there. 2) Twitter has two reply modes. Direct replies are put under the post they're replying to, much like normal linear forum discussions. But then there's retweets. They create a new thread, quoting the previous thread in the topic starter, so to speak... and unlike the standard linear model, the topic starter is done by top posting, with the quoted bit below.