...The problem with 4K is that 1080p might be considered "good enough" for most consumers and they'll refuse to pay higher prices...
I agree. I'm an empirical test case on this. I'm running a 1080 projector onto a 10' screen, straight from Blu-Ray.
I can already see the film grain (on features shot on film.)
I don't feel like spending more for a new: projector/player/disk library just so I can see the film grain sharper.
and yes, I know 3840 is 2x1920, but still..
But remember that 1080x2 is 2k. But since it's twice as wide too it has to be 4k, right?
Well, sorta.
*Technically '2K' is 2048 × 1080 (native resolution) = 2,211,840 pixels (i.e. 2K)
--or--
'2K' is 1998 × 1080 (flat resolution) = 2,157,840 pixels (also 2K)
1080 x 1920 isn't really 'officially' 2K, although it equals 2,073,600 pixels.
*Per the "Digital Cinema Initiatives"
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nobody in display industry cares about Oculus Rift. For each Oculus Rift there is million phones sold. World is not Slashdot dot org.
I'm sure you're right.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
... fivevif and sixis?
I'm guessing he's referring to the English phrase "sixes and sevens" meaning everything is mixed up or FUBAR.
I first heard this in Gilbert And Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore":
"Fair moon, to thee I sing,
Bright regent of the heavens,
Say, why is everything
Either at sixes or at sevens?"
Probably archaic now...
You bought the burner @ Rite Aid?
Now, if they want to backtrack the phone to the POP, they will have lovely, multiple, security videos of your face.
At least give some random kid $5 bucks to go in the store and buy it for you.
Sort of the opposite of buying beer when you're a minor...
The videos are in third person, but they have confirmed it is 1st person with VR (Oculus support).
Oh, thank goodness! I got worried when I saw those 3rd person videos.
I've been HMD gaming for about 9 years, and I'm also a big Decent fan; so this should be great!
... when self-driving cars become safer than human-driven cars, the public may outlaw the latter...
This may happen incrementally...
Imagine that left 'carpool' lane of the freeway turned into a 'auto-drive' only lane. 180 speed limit. Auto-drive cars merging effortlessly into and out of the lane. People sleeping, texting, eating, watching movies as they zip by.
After a few years, only the right lane is open for 'human driven' cars. They will be stuck behind whoever the slowest driver in their lane is. Their insurance rates will be crazy high.
You won't even need to outlaw human drivers, any more than you need to outlaw people taking a horse and buggy to commute to work these days.
There is an extension to this as well:
The more self-driving cars are on the road, networked together, each able to predict the others behavior, the safer things will get in general.
I'm thinking back in the days when I first got a car so I can go cruising and also for going on dates.
Wouldn't you rather be humping your date in the back seat on the way to the restaurant, rather than sitting up front driving?
...when autonomous vehicles can't decide what they should do and come to a stop, causing others to plow into them...
You realize you're describing a situation where the "plowing into" is being caused by fallible humans who were: following too close, distracted, and/or speeding.
Checkmate, puny human!
...get around parts of a wrecked car, a stalled truck...
These would be an easier solve for a self-driving car than solving for a ped or bike. Neither one is moving.
...and then run a light that was on permanent red...
Once every car is self-driving, you won't need traffic lights. Every car will know where every other car is, they can pre-calculate and "riffle-shuffle" through an intersection.
After a while, people will no more be allowed to have human-drive cars, any more than they are allowed to ride horses down the freeway now.
Give me one example of a deer jumping out in front of an elevator. Or a multi-elevator pileup accident. An elevator hitting black ice?
Do you really think a drunk/sleepy/texting/burger eating/radio adjusting/sneezing/elderly human driver will handle these situations better than a high-speed computer that is never distracted?
And with networked, radar-equiped cars, do you really think there will still be multi-car pileup accidents?
It's too bad they seem to be building it as a 3rd person perspective.
This would be such a great game to play 1st person in 3D-stereo on the Oculus Rift, with maybe a force-feedback controller of some kind.
No, the price stays the same.
I don't work for them or anything, I just was saying I'm happy with their deal.
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