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I'm amazed that all of these VR players are dropping the world's easiest to hold ball. Just give people a damn VR headset with the same compute flexibility as
by andrewmcwatters 3y ago
I'm amazed that all of these VR players are dropping the world's easiest to hold ball.
Just give people a damn VR headset with the same compute flexibility as a Windows, macOS, or Linux desktop and do away with these stupid walled gardens.
The units would fly off the shelf because, whoa! You could actually do something with the damn devices.
- nomel 3y agoFor standalone, Quest 3 was the first generation that really had enough CPU to open the settings menu, at the same time as another app, and not result in a stuttery mess. Until very recently, it has definitely been limited by compute.
- GuB-42 3y agoVR needs low latency and a lot of computing power. It is hard to make it flexible. That's why, a few generations ago at least, game consoles are so much more efficient. Consoles have fixed and specialized hardware, and developers can tune their games to take advantage of every single bit. No need to accommodate for different specs, no costly abstraction layers, no random tasks running in the background,...