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would you use a VR headset today from 20yrs ago? I am generally against creating unnecessary e-waste but let's be real, it will likely be better to recycle it
by winrid 2y ago
would you use a VR headset today from 20yrs ago?
I am generally against creating unnecessary e-waste but let's be real, it will likely be better to recycle it and experiment with something else in that time frame...
- bee_rider 2y agoI don’t know, it was Carmack’s hypothetical not mine.
- bostik 2y agoOn the off chance that I would be using VR headsets in the first place - I might. Much in the same way I will happily play a well maintained pinball machine from the last millennium, or an arcade game in a lovingly restored cabinet from 30+ years ago. There is an allure to retro-gaming with MAME (which I love), but for some of us, going properly vintage can have a special meaning.
- vel0city 2y agoI was playing around on a 486 machine the other day. It's not impossible someone might.
- brewtide 2y agoI have 2 Google cardboards on my shelf.
- bigiain 2y agoI have a Samsung Galaxy S6 that is still on Android 7 so I can still use the GearVR headset. I think work still has a carton or two of actual cardboard boxes with plastic lenses that you shove any random phone into, from when we were doing VR meeting stuff back at the beginning of Covid.
- happymellon 2y agoYes? The retro computer museum in Leicester has a few of the Virtuality systems, which are still great fun. Loads of people hack on old hardware.