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by caslon 5y ago
Is it really clearly unethical? It's just messing with intellectual property laws. Pretty much every interesting innovation in history would involve messing with intellectual property laws, if the West's modern draconian ones we
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by caslon 5y ago
"It never gets better; you know what to do."
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by caslon 5y ago
Plenty of people do (they're some of the most beloved chips of all time), but their peak was pre-1990, so most people don't bring them up in discussions like this.
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by caslon 5y ago
That's not exactly the truth. "Closed and worse" often does better than "open and better." It really just comes down to who has better salesmen. Microsoft, for example, licensed Windows to vendors for decades with t
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by caslon 5y ago
The comment above is talking about ARM's business model, which Intel on Itanic definitely didn't have, Sun didn't have for SPARC (they later freed it, after it was no longer commercially relevant), and MIPS as a company did
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by caslon 5y ago
It's actually only around 60% of the nation that's got a single dose or more. We aren't anywhere close to 98%.
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by caslon 5y ago
I agree in theory, but... we as a nation already crossed that boundary ages ago. Kids can't consent to anything, adults can't do certain drugs, adults also can't drink or smoke if they're under 21, and a lot of this is
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by caslon 5y ago
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28647316 But also, seriously, they already allow sideloading on literally every device they've ever put out. They don't stop you from using adb. Rooting is cool an
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by caslon 5y ago
Just to eliminate any doubt, the same is also the case for the VR-3 and every other Varjo model: A valid Varjo VR subscription is required to use the device Every VR-3 user must have a Varjo account and a valid VR subscription. Read more h
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by caslon 5y ago
Things were a lot lighter.
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by caslon 5y ago
Small correction that I only realized a minute ago (past the edit window): Citra isn't a Switch emulator, if I recall correctly.
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by caslon 5y ago
I said a lie or misconception, and I was right.
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by caslon 5y ago
False. I literally factory reset and made a new Oculus account just to verify that the comments so harshly insisting that I was wrong were in fact wrong, and they are. You've gotta jump through a single hoop, but that hoop isn&#x
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by caslon 5y ago
Honestly, it depends on what your setup is. I would recommend taking a look at the recent Pimax headsets, the Quest 2, and the new Reverb G2 Omnicept, figuring out which features you can't live without (and which price tags you can), t
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by caslon 5y ago
Your Elite Strap? Yeah, they're all pretty awful.
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by caslon 5y ago
The Quest 2 has enough performance to run Citra (a recent Switch emulator) without any slowdowns; you can install just about any .apk on it, and if you want you can literally run Docker. It works pretty much okay for just about any actual
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by caslon 5y ago
What was it for? So... he could have a computer inside of his keyboard.
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by caslon 5y ago
It still is the case. I was alarmed by how many people were insisting I'm wrong, so I factory reset mine and walked through the process with a new, non-FB Oculus account. Still works.
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by caslon 5y ago
Nope! Mine works perfectly fine with Oculus accounts made within the month; I literally just factory reset the thing and made another to verify that the comments saying otherwise were wrong, and yeah, they're wrong.
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by caslon 5y ago
This is either a lie or a heavy misconception; my Quest 2 (the first Oculus headset to "require" a Facebook account; none of the others do), didn't require a Facebook account, and works even with Oculus accounts made within
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by caslon 5y ago
Yeah, that's actually a problem that Palmer mentioned years ago with the Go. It hasn't gotten better since these things hit mass-market.
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by caslon 5y ago
https://store.varjo.com/xr-3 A valid Varjo XR subscription is required to use the device Every XR-3 user must have a Varjo account and a valid XR subscription. Read more here. You could have just checked the store.
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by caslon 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendation!
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by caslon 5y ago
There's actually a mod for this! $10 prescription wireframe glasses, pop the lenses out, 3D-print a facial interface for it. There's a guide for it somewhere.
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by caslon 5y ago
There's no real avenue for a "dumb display" to work as a 6DoF headset, and even back in the DK1, 3DoF days you'd still end up needing some software (mainly drivers) for things like the gyroscope.
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by caslon 5y ago
I think you mean Varjo. It's a pretty ridiculous headset, but the thing also forces you to buy a $2000/month subscription after you purchase it. It's safe to say it's not a really reasonable option. It also doesn'
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by caslon 5y ago
I talked a little about them in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28678568
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by caslon 5y ago
The Elite Strap has some really awful reliability issues; I'd definitely recommend returning it if you can. If you've got a 3D printer, there's a pretty popular project that allows you to adapt the Vive Deluxe Audio Strap t
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by caslon 5y ago
Nope, that's not what they were saying. They did say that they'd eventually cut out the store for people on legacy Oculus accounts, but your headset would still be perfectly usable; you'd still be able to load .apks in like y
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by caslon 5y ago
There are actually a few decent choices for eye tracking now (a company that was just acquired by Bytedance had a pretty good eye-tracking standalone), and there are a few crazy headsets that do all of your listed requirements for 1. and m

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