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by cybwraith 6y ago
Its understandable since this is BBC, but it also ignores the dramatic financial impact being hospitalized for COVID19 can have on the average family in the US. It could be 0.0001% fatality regardless of demographic, and people in the US sh
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by cybwraith 6y ago
Yeah the cross-platform ease and great VR support is what keeps me there. I've done my own game engines in the past and really enjoyed it, but that was when I was purely focused on PC gaming.
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by cybwraith 6y ago
If the software engineers have the legal capability a current professional engineer certification does to tell the project manager 'no', that might work. Its still less about engineering capability, and more about leverage and pro
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by cybwraith 6y ago
You think this was an engineering decision? These failing systems were probably contracted to a politically connected company that subcontracted to lowest bidder. Not only that, but that usually these systems were created with COBOL means t
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by cybwraith 6y ago
VR games, and simulation games tend to have high single-core CPU speed requirements for smooth play. Mostly though this is due to outdated engines (in the case of sims) or inexperienced/indie devs using premade engines like Unity and U
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by cybwraith 7y ago
Its current big downside (which I hope they address in an upcoming version) is that it lacks occlusion culling. So while it does have half decent VR support, for example, the performance in anything but very simple scenes is quite poor.
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by cybwraith 7y ago
The PSVR is basically the worst "high end" VR headset out there, and is on the underpowered PS4 hardware, with poor controller tracking and lots of motion blur and downsampling to make the games even run. You really ought to try a
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by cybwraith 7y ago
This would actually be pretty solvable in a well-done VR arcade, but I agree that in-home true haptics are a big barrier for certain game genres and interaction types. Any direct-contact/resistance based interaction is going to feel we
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by cybwraith 7y ago
Since we're in the early days theres quite a bit of experimentation. While there is usually traditional move/strafe on the left joystick, some games have options like: Point-to-teleport (worst option, IMO, but good for people rea
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by cybwraith 7y ago
Varifocal VR headsets are in the R&D stage. A year or two ago Oculus showed off a headset called Half-dome that had varifocal displays. It'll get there.
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by cybwraith 7y ago
It'll get there. Oculus Quest is $400 and games can be had for pretty reasonable prices. In a few years I wouldn't be surprised to see an even more streamlined Quest reintroduced at $200.
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by cybwraith 7y ago
E:D is more realistic in the sense that space is "boring". Missions are shoot things, deliver this, patrol that. Systems are far apart (to scale, actually) and travel and navigation is important and takes time. The game has nearly
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by cybwraith 7y ago
The PSVR is the lowest-resolution "high end" VR headset out there, and is on the underpowered PS4 hardware, with poor controller tracking and lots of motion blur and downsampling to make the games even run. You really ought to try
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by cybwraith 7y ago
And we're "weeks/days" from the much-anticipated Xplane Vulkan update!
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by cybwraith 7y ago
Flight/Driving Sims are another amazing genre for VR. Counterintuitively, I think large-scale strategy games are pretty awesome candidates for VR. Third person games are also pretty amazing. If you have VR and haven't tried the fr
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by cybwraith 7y ago
Not all astigmatism is easily corrected with glasses/contacts. I suggest reading up on irregular astigmatism: https://www.warreneyecarecenter.com/better-vision-correction...
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by cybwraith 7y ago
I like it! I think it should also add in "If you commute 2 hours/day, 5 days per week, you'll spend X weeks sitting in a car."
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by cybwraith 7y ago
The oculus ones... minimally. Other companies though, yes. The HP Reverb is especially good for things like flight sims
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by cybwraith 7y ago
I have to disagree with the author's premise. The home run is boring in its current form. When it was a relatively rare sight it was more exciting and impactful. Because the home run is so much more prevalent (and other reasons of co
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by cybwraith 7y ago
No mention of VR support yet. If this comes out without support it will be quite sad. Xplane 11 in VR is amazing (if you can get the framerate of that old engine high enough)
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by cybwraith 8y ago
Dukto is great!
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by cybwraith 8y ago
I was surprised about this too. I've recently switched back to buying hardcovers of older books on ebay that I know I'll re-read (library for everything else). In my opinion, a hardcover book is easier to read both in terms of hol
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by cybwraith 8y ago
> “We’ve been treated like adults and I think as a result everyone is behaving like adults,” said Tammy Barker, a branch manager who was part of the trial that cut the working week from from 37.5 hours to 30 I imagine most of these studi
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by cybwraith 8y ago
Xenko is also looking promising
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by cybwraith 8y ago
> And actually talk to those same people in IRC afterwards. Nowadays, there are so many players everywhere that it's very difficult to have a sense of connection to the people, as most times you might never see the same players agai
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by cybwraith 8y ago
I would say not really. For one thing, the early days of gaming held onto many elements from arcades where games were meant to be consumed in somewhat bite-sized chunks (Atari, NES, etc). A big factor for multiplayer games is the somewhat m
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by cybwraith 9y ago
My take on it as far as truck drivers is that the pay for truck drivers (as they are today) will likely drop as the skill required to drive one drops from partial automation. Similar to how airline pilots of today's advanced jets are t
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by cybwraith 9y ago
Again: > your server replying 200 OK should implicitly be considered permission to access that resource I do see your point and how you could disagree with my statement above. However, if the store owner forgets you next time and says &q
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by cybwraith 9y ago
That's not a great analogy. The store owner can't just get your arrested/charged with a crime if they don't tell you that you aren't allowed first. Http lacks such a human mechanism. The closest thing I can think of