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Google and HTC both independently failed to match Oculus. I don’t think an open source implementation at this stage would work at all.
How hard did google really try, though?
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At this point it's clear that Facebook have "won" VR. At least for the current generation that's mostly focused on gaming. The original Oculus Quest is already really good, and was constantly sold out for almost its entire lifetime, and now Facebook are selling a near-4K resolution headset with a top-of-the-line Snapdragon XR2 for $299. I have been considering starting an open firmware project for the Oculus Quest 2…
> At this point it's clear that Facebook have "won" VR. Eh, it doesn't look clear at all to me. It looks like its main advantage is slightly higher resolution than Valve Index and wirelessness. On the other hand from what I read Quest 2 only now will finally get 90Hz - this is what even old Vive provided. And Index goes beyond that - up to 120 and 144Hz. Also I wonder how Quest's screen quality compares to Index, bes…
As someone already pointed out, that's a nice problem to have! For me, I considered the Index but the cost of upgrading my PC + the Rift S still came out a couple hundred £ cheaper plus I don't have to dedicate space to it.
Is it possible to use a VR headset as a daily-driver desktop environment? I'm interested in programming inside a VR desktop; not programming for VR, but putting on a VR headset and writing code in a text editor inside a VR environment. This is too nuanced for a search engine to return any meaningful results. I was never that interested in VR until this idea occurred to me, so I don't know if the technology is there y…
My opinions are: It gets uncomfortable fairly quickly, I didn't want to use it more than an hour. The DPI is much lower than my 2K desktop monitor. It gets hot under the VR headset. In most conditions I prefer a Desktop or even a laptop. I think one place where it might be cool is the airplane since even laptops are uncomfortable.
Please, anyone, desperately anyone, literally anyone, please, for the love of god, make a competing headset that doesn’t have this deep Facebook integration bullshit. I do not want to see this become the Oasis.
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So in other words... please invest billions of dollars developing a headset of similar quality so I don't have to log in with Facebook?
It’s not just logging in. This thing is covered in cameras, sensors, and microphones. I don’t trust Facebook with my name, much less with detailed information about everything in my house. Absolutely fuuuuuck that. I’d rather miss out on VR entirely than create a FB account and give that despicable company any data.
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Heavens you are a little bitch. Ignorant too. Fine I'll muster a reply to this horseshit. You don't fucking deserve it you turd.
Yikes. Posting like this will get you banned on HN, and we've already had to warn you about this multiple times. I'm not going to ban you right now because you've also posted good comments, but please use HN as intended going forward. That means thoughtful, substantive comments, curious conversation, and no more flamewars. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In this case, I agree fully. I was fed up arguing with someone who insists on being a downer at every turn & who recognizes no good-side, no upside, who denied every contribution blanketly. That doesn't excuse. Perhaps that kind of outburst does merit a lifetime ban forever & ever, but in my opinion, issuing a lifetime ban for this sort of thing is grossly immoral & radically intolerant. Yes, it is a mistake, yes it should be punished. But to exercise the death penalty in this case speaks extremely ill of moderation & process on the internet, not in any way unique to Hacker News, but in a manner we see pervasively & which is extremely damaging to us all.
I think you should re-assess your policies & system. I rarely even notice that my posts have been flagged. Moderation happens invisibly. I would like to see a way to view my flagged posts, so I can understand what is happening to my content. And so I can reflect better. Because right now, you've warning me that I've been warned before, but that does not process. Simply raising the fact that moderation has occurred is important, first step to making this moderation into feedback.
Second, this is the only time I can remember having any feedback to inform me. I appreciate that I was offered a grant here, that I did get feedback. My post on Larry Wall being made into fiat dictator of social media moderation was incredibly on target & hilarious, yet flagged. Ok? I don't get it.
But most of all, this threat to be banned: I find it grossly immoral that the threat of punishment online is forever. People should get banned for months, years, but banning people forever is absurd, vindictive, & cruel. I think you & all sites should seek a system that works for justice, to correct problems, to encourage behavior. This threat of being banned causes me pause, and I knew I was breaking the rules even without having read them in decades, but it also is just so disgusting, so vile, makes me so sad to be here. Living under the threat of the guillotine, feeling like the punishment is radically out of line, that screwing up is unforgivable: this is cruelty that makes me radically aware that these rules, they are judged by fiat & there is no system or process for enforcement, that I contribute here only under the pleasure of ya'll & that ya'll offer me nothing of my own. There should be a system for justice, because this threat feels unjust & it hurts.
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It’s not just logging in. This thing is covered in cameras, sensors, and microphones. I don’t trust Facebook with my name, much less with detailed information about everything in my house. Absolutely fuuuuuck that. I’d rather miss out on VR entirely than create a FB account and give that despicable company any data.
The amount of trouble they would get in if they were using that sensor data is astronomical. It’s not rational
>Information about your environment, physical movements, and dimensions when you use an XR device.
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Yikes. Posting like this will get you banned on HN, and we've already had to warn you about this multiple times. I'm not going to ban you right now because you've also posted good comments, but please use HN as intended going forward. That means thoughtful, substantive comments, curious conversation, and no more flamewars. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've seen post flagged, but to my knowledge I've never seen an explanation or communication for why. In this case, I agree fully. I was fed up arguing with someone who insists on being a downer at every turn & who recognizes no good-side, no upside, who denied every contribution blanketly. That doesn't excuse. Perhaps that kind of outburst does merit a lifetime ban forever & ever, but in my opinion, issuing a lifetim…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24423885
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15324842
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13264446
Obviously, though, it shouldn't take moderators to tell you that comments like "Heavens you are a little bitch" and "You don't fucking deserve it you turd" are unacceptable.
People can trivially make a new account after getting banned, and frequently do, so I think words like "cruelty", "disgusting", "vile" and "guillotine" are a tad overwrought.
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I develop avatars for the Quest in VRChat. The Quest is using very underwhelming hardware compared to PC, as it can only handle very strict standards, such as 10,000 Polygons to a character. While PC can handle significantly more. As a quest user in vrchat you're significantly limited on your experience because your hardare cannot handle anything more than the bare minimum of avatars. We don't consider it a real VR e…
Agreed - VRChat is very limited in Quest. But that might be the fault of the app, not the platform. Rec Room works pretty well, basically the same experience on Quest and desktop.
It's the platform, not vrchat.