Re:Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality demo [video]
by Wintamute on Friday October 07, 2016 @07:23AM
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Why judge on the limitations of first gen hardware? How many nascent technologies and industries would have been dismissed if we'd done that? Or is it the possibility of creating a fully immersive new medium for creative expression, potentially a new artificial substrate of reality, that doesn't excite you?
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality demo [video]
by ItendToDisagree on Friday October 07, 2016 @07:39AM
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uh... We're easily on 3rd-4th gen hardware at this point.
1st gen: Those VR stations that used to be in malls 2nd gen: Shitty headsets you could attach to a genesis/snes 3rd gen: Occulus (you may be considering this first gen?) 4th gen: vive/fove/[Sony/Samsung/Google]VR
Re:Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality demo [video]
by Wintamute on Friday October 07, 2016 @10:14AM
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Do you think the average mass consumer that is considering purchasing a GearVR cares that _technically_ it's a 4th gen VR product because of the Nintendo Virtual Boy in 1995? I don't think so ...