Tag: oculus
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The Oculus Go
Adi Robertson has a review up of the $200 Oculus Go, a VR HMD with a built-in old-ass (seriously, it’s from 2016) smartphone chipset for people without a Samsung phone: The Oculus Go improves on the Gear VR in one big way: you don’t need a high-end Samsung phone to use it, so the headset…
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Palmer Luckey, Lying Asshole
Palmer Luckey responded to the reports of his fiscal and written support of “shitposting” meme wizards by denying the latter and confirming the former. Palmer Luckey: I am deeply sorry that my actions are negatively impacting the perception of Oculus and its partners.The recent news stories about me do not accurately represent my views. Here’s more…
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Palmer Luckey, Secret Asshole
Gideon Resnick and Ben Collins writing for The Daily Beast: Oculus founder Palmer Luckey financially backed a pro-Trump political organization called Nimble America, a self-described “social welfare 501(c)4 non-profit” in support of the Republican nominee. […] The 24-year-old told The Daily Beast that he had used the pseudonym “NimbleRichMan” on Reddit with a password given…
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The Difference Between Two Realities
Speaking of VR, the two leading virtual reality head-mounted displays (HMD) are very different in how they’re intended to be used. Although the Oculus Rift has head-tracking, it is intended more for playing games in a seated or standing position with extremely limited amounts of head movement. You can think of this as being limited…
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Oculus Rift Pre-orders At Pricey $600
The only head-mounted displays (HMD) for virtual reality games and other activities available last year were pre-release versions for developers only (the $350 Oculus Development Kit 1 & 2, limited quantities of the HTC/SteamVR Vive), through crowdfunding campaigns, or scraped together garbage used to fill in the features and benefits lists of terrible smartphones. This year…