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Comment Re:Going to have to wait on major improvements (Score 1) 47

I skipped the 1st gen but I have both the GearVR and DK2, and most experiences I can do for several hours with no ill effects. Others I can't do for more than a few seconds without my stomach getting queasy. And it's not always the swinging and unrealistic motions that would make the average person puke if they moved like that in real life, but sometimes it's simple movement that can cause it while swinging from tree to tree like spiderman in Windlands doesn't bother me in the least.

Comment Re:Why does resolution matter? (Score 1) 47

With the Rift or any VR headset it isn't quite so much the resolution as the PPI(pixels per inch) of the display. right now they are around ~386ppi. I read somewhere that around 750ppi should make it almost invisible. Sharp just announced 4k 5.5inch displays with greater than 800ppi. Samsung is rumored to also have one nearing release and expected to be in the note 5 along with a new gear vr and in the initial Oculus Consumer version.

Comment Re:I wonder how this would be for software develop (Score 1) 47

Ive done a small amount of coding in the current DK2 with this, mostly just to say I did. It is very possible but at the current res it is not as comfortable as it should be. That said it isn't like it needs an order of magnitude improvement. Double would make it good, triple would make it a replacement.

Comment Re:I wonder how this would be for software develop (Score 1) 47

It's rendered in VR so it doesn't really matter what the resolution of the display is the HMD(head mounted device) can show it at any distance. the problem with the low res HMD (more a problem with ppi which is loosely tied to the resolution) is that it wont be rendered very clear and it'll have a lot of SDE (screen door effect, like you're looking at the display through a screen door). I use it to view my 5760x108 triple head display and it works pretty well. you can quickly and easily zoom in and out and I can wrap the display in a full 360 around my head.

Comment Re:They're from the government and they're gonna h (Score 1) 130

So you're saying that putting someone in jail rightly or wrongly is worse then the millions of people that died or were murdered during a bad government, but hey it was overthrown and is all better now.

wow, just wow... your hatred of successes is palpable. Even the worst corporations in history pale in comparison to even just the bad governments. And even at that those "worst corporations" wouldn't have been able to exist if not for the support of those bad governments.

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