Pinc: Oculus Rift for the iPhone

Re:Pinc: Oculus Rift for the iPhone by bottled_poe on Monday November 24, 2014 @05:44AM (#8651803)

Perhaps they have lost faith in this world and wish to create an better, virtual world instead. Which save-the-world problems are you talking about exactly? It seems to me that most of the "save the world" problems are political problems that require a human solution as opposed to a technical one.

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Re:Pinc: Oculus Rift for the iPhone by zimpenfish on Monday November 24, 2014 @05:47AM (#8651816)

I would agree - things like global poverty, hunger, climate change, terrorism, malaria, AIDS, etc., all require high-level inter-governmental willing and cooperation.

(Now, to be fair, some of those also involve technical solutions but generally also of the governmental level of investment.)

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Re:Pinc: Oculus Rift for the iPhone by gress on Monday November 24, 2014 @12:09PM (#8653324)

By 'lost faith in this world', you mean they don't understand how to solve the problems they see.

If they don't understand how the solve the problems of this world, what makes them think they'll be able solve the problems of the virtual world they create?

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Re:Pinc: Oculus Rift for the iPhone by TuringTest on Monday November 24, 2014 @12:29PM (#8653441)

You can change the rules of physics in a virtual world. That may help a lot in finding ways to solve problems.

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Re:Pinc: Oculus Rift for the iPhone by gress on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @10:58AM (#8662874)

Are human conflicts solvable by changing the laws of physics?

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Re:Pinc: Oculus Rift for the iPhone by TuringTest on Friday November 28, 2014 @11:27AM (#8671349)

Haven't you seen Cinderella?

This is what Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo does!

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