Re:Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its ...
by seanmcdirmid on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:04PM
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Beat Saber is VR’s killer app ATM, especially for non-hardcore gamers and fitness enthusiasts. In fact, I think VR’s main appeal will be to non-gamers, which makes the less powerful GPU on the quest a non issue.
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Re:Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its ...
by dsfyu404ed on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:58PM
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>I think VR’s main appeal will be to non-gamers, which makes the less powerful GPU on the quest a non issue.
Those non-gamers are still want to going to want all sorts of things going on in their VR scenes with framerates high enough that 10% of the population doesn't get motion sick.
Re:Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its ...
by seanmcdirmid on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:30PM
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Ya, but we are almost already their for rhythm games. The biggest problem with the experience is the latency between action and effect (slicing a block to feeling its impact), which seems to push 100 or 200 ms sometimes, the bottleneck seems to be in general processing ATM.
Re:Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its ...
by cat199 on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:49PM
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> VR’s killer app ATM
there is no such thing as a 'killer app' "ATM" - a 'killer app' by definition is one that transforms technology/society and that afterwords, we 'cannot do without' (or at least think so) - eg. personal computers+spreadsheet, smartphones+mobile internet, etc.
If a 'killer app' is 'at the moment', it isn't a killer app because there is a 'next' moment, implying that the previous 'killer app' wasn't 'killer' because we can now do without it
Re:Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its ...
by jonplackett on Friday August 16, 2019 @03:32PM
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That’s exactly what best saber is. I bought an oculus quest purely due to beat saber. Everything else it can do was/is/will be a bonus!
Re:Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its ...
by ekianjo on Saturday August 17, 2019 @12:08AM
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People bought the Wii because they thought it was transformative. Yet people got sick of standing the whole time to play. Same with VR.
Re:Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its ...
by seanmcdirmid on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:57PM
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If someone lost 40 pounds playing beat saber everyday, wouldn’t that be transformative to them?