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Comment Re:Different Planet (Score 1) 214

Are you kidding? I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to get my gaming gear... actually the bank had a TV and Playstation give-away with their mortgage deals, so I ended up with a Playstation and a house. The VR kit was the only big luxury expense, I added that after the Playstation sat around mostly unused for a couple of years.

Comment Re:Problem with VR is that the real world remains (Score 1) 214

I wish the Playstation camera could be accessed as an overlay on demand, so I could see the room behind me. My house makes a lot of noises when the outside temperature changes, and as much as I am aware of what all the creaks and cracks and clicks are caused by, there are still some times I would just like to be able to see wtf is in the room with me.

Comment Re:Same as 3D (Score 1) 214

I guess I am fortunate with my PSVR (so far) as I don't need my glasses with it. Tho I really only need to use them when I read small text up close. I have been a PC gamer for decades, tho my graphics card is outdated by at least 6 years now, while my gaming habit has reduced a lot. Now I am spending more time with No Mans Sky in PSVR, and can easily immerse myself in that for 2 or 3 hours at a time.

There are a few PS titles which get me out of my chair and waving my arms around like a mad man, and yes, you do need a reasonable clear space for this to work. With NMS tho, I sit in a swivel chair and have all the range of motion I need.

There are some niche areas which VR is beginning to make interesting as well, I have a 3D printer and while I am getting quite proficient with CAD for designing things to print, sculpting and mesh-editing apps on the PC have not really inspired my creativity. Now I have SculptVR, which is a voxel based modelling app, which lets me view, rotate, scale and edit at anything from hand-sized to room-sized scales, and the final model can be exported to the 3D printer. This is something which I think is going to occupy at least as much time as I put into gaming. However this is mostly a solo pass-time, I haven't yet tried to get visitors to try it out, tho I think I could interest a few relatives in it when I can print out a solid render of their sculpture within a few hours.

Comment Re:Do users care? (Score 1) 245

That's what I thought. Reading some of the rabid statements above, you would wonder why nobody ever thought of setting up some way for user's to report bugs or contribute improvements, or even request changes to the parts which are most confusing to use.

Seriously? Isn't this one of the main features of Linux, and other open source projects, that people who encounter problems when they use a tool a particular way can contribute to the process of improving and extending that tool? Or, dare I say it, contribute to documentation so others can find an easy solution to an issue. Or use the internet to discuss the bits they are struggling with, resulting in other people just solving your problem for you. It used to be how people behaved in the open source, Linux and BSD communities, did that all stop somewhere along the way?

Comment Re:Blacking out his windows- (Score 1) 39

Don't know about others but the PS VR lets a lot of light in, you have to press it pretty hard to your face to block it all out. I have the lights dimmed at night, but in the evenings after work it's not much fun with the setting sun hitting the windows beside my VR playing area, even with full curtains. The curtains could be replaced I guess, but this hasn't been a priority yet.

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