IMAX’s absurd attempt to censor Ars

Re:IMAX’s absurd attempt to censor Ars by waterlesscloud on Friday June 19, 2015 @01:44PM (#9746439)

"The jump up in tech between playing a normal video game and playing with Kinect was X. The jump between a regular game and playing a room scale VR experience is X times 100. It’s like saying, 'I have an IMAX theater in my house.' It’s so much better that we can get away with a cumbersome setup."

You can't see how that quote implies it's up to IMAX standards? Why even use the IMAX name if not to invoke the idea that it's up to their standards?

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Re:IMAX’s absurd attempt to censor Ars by dpark on Friday June 19, 2015 @02:18PM (#9746637)

It's the experience jump. (These are literal words from the quote.) He could have said the improvement is like driving a McLaren P1 to work. It wouldn't mean it's literally supposed to be the same as driving a McLaren.

You're completely missing the point anyway. You keep debating your ridiculous interpretation of the quote and it doesn't matter because even if your interpretation of the quote were correct, there would be no confusion created. Here, I'll say the thing you're pretending the quote says:

"SteamVR looks exactly like an IMAX screen"

No one will read that and think IMAX is selling, licensing, creating, or certifying SteamVR, because there's nothing in there that says that. Nor will anyone thing that SteamVR and IMAX are the same thing, because if they were the same thing, you wouldn't be comparing them.

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Re:IMAX’s absurd attempt to censor Ars by moron4hire on Friday June 19, 2015 @02:13PM (#9746616)

You can't see how claiming to meet the same standards as IMAX is not the same thing as claiming to be IMAX?

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