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People getting developer kits and doing nothing with them I reckon is a common enough problem that could be addressed simply by setting up a market place for pe
by malandrew 12y ago
People getting developer kits and doing nothing with them I reckon is a common enough problem that could be addressed simply by setting up a market place for people who got a device to sell to someone who might do something with it.
For example, I bought an Oculus DK2. I've pretty much not done anything with it because I didn't realize at the time how much computing power I needed to really have fun with the DK2. When I received it and tried it out with my MacBook Pro, I was like "this is really cool and I'd love to play with this more, but I'm not shelling out at least a couple of hundred if not almost a thousand dollars for a desktop with a reasonably powerful GPU that would make the Oculus fun to play with.
LeapMotion was another device where I knew several people that had pre-ordered one and ended up doing nothing with it. One of my colleagues has had a Myo sitting on her desk practically unused.
Companies making hardware for developers need to find a way to figure out who is actively working with their devices and contact those that are not to let them know that there is a way to sell their unused devices to someone else who might want to develop for it.