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Re:Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its ... by cat199 on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:49PM (#20717628)
> 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

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Re:Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its ... by jonplackett on Friday August 16, 2019 @03:32PM (#20718831)
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!
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Re:Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its ... by ekianjo on Saturday August 17, 2019 @12:08AM (#20721967)
People bought the Wii because they thought it was transformative. Yet people got sick of standing the whole time to play. Same with VR.
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Re:Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its ... by seanmcdirmid on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:57PM (#20717722)
If someone lost 40 pounds playing beat saber everyday, wouldn’t that be transformative to them?
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