Comment Good for HMD's (Score 1) 28
This would be great for HMD's too. You could design them to be worn without having to accommodate glasses.
This would be great for HMD's too. You could design them to be worn without having to accommodate glasses.
A total of 1920x1080 for both eyes might be passable, but NOT when that 1920x1080 isn't actually 1920x1080.
The Note 3 has a pentile display - you're getting significantly reduced chroma resolution.
This version is just a DK.
Oculus is working on a 4K:
Manufacturers of high quality colour LCD/AMOLED displays will laugh at you if you ask for a custom design in quantities of less than 1,000,000. Even for the final version it will be hard for them to justify signing a contract for 1 million displays up front, not being certain of sales volume. Off-the-shelf displays are pretty much their only choice.
Facebook bought Oculus Rift for $2Bil. I don't think they will have any problem coming up with enough capital to buy 1Mil displays @ wholesale.
Even if they don't sell 1Mil units; FB will laugh and take it as a write off.
"[...] until our lease runs out."
This makes selling the equipment an even better ROI.
People who are savvy will buy online, or from a trusted source. Only people who have no clue will but from Home Depot. If you're reading this, would you buy a MakerBot from HD? Of course not.
Most of the people who work there don't know a 2x4 from a hammer; this will just be a fucking disaster.
The lady at the MakerBot display was a 'MakerBot' person, not a HD employee.
Of course, I don't know if this will always be the case...
Put it in a vending machine like case and sell the printing service by time/volume maybe?
Couple it with a 3d scanner, so I can scan in some part I need copied / remade right there. But also make it possible to remotely queue jobs and then pick them up at the store later when they're finished.
That's a great idea. People could pre-order, pre-pay online with a credit card. The machine would give them an estimated pick-up time.
When it's done printing the part, it could push it onto one of those locked shelves like they have on sandwich machines.
When you stick your credit card in the machine, it would unlock your window.
I don't see home depot as servicing the target market for these products. On a story I heard this morning, it seems like people think they can go home and print gaskets or a screw...
Actually, at the Home Depot 3D printer demo they are handing out a sample nut and bolt (with finger nubs to tighten them, not hex heads.)
I'm not sure I'd use them to bolt my house together, but them seem fairly sturdy.
Hmm, My immediate thought actually is that there's a fucking huge overlap. Print your own cornicing for your house... Print your own bath plugs...
True...
I actually wandered into the demo at the HD near me.
The rest of my shopping as I wandered through the store, every time I saw some plastic part, I was thinking, "I could print THAT, and THAT, and part of THAT..."
Time to patten the laptop keyboard password protector
Or just go with a fingerprint reader.
... I don't see anything "novel" or even better than what we have had already. Maybe if fits a niche I'm not aware of or care much about.
I think the advantage here is that this could be used be someone freestanding in a VR space.
The 3Dconnexion type devices (and I use one) is, like a mouse or keyboard, for someone with a desk surface in front of them.
about 600 tons of fireworks on New Years, the weight of about 5 adult blue whales
Thanks for a new unit of measurement: adult blue whales of fireworks. Comparing fireworks to adult blue whales really helps make your number something I can relate to in my everyday life.
Good point.
Think of 600 tons as 27.3 Viking Longboats, each boat loaded with 160 Aardvarks.
You use your phone to make calls? When were you born grampa, the 20th century?
That does it. I'm slamming down the receiver on you.
...as long as that guy is in the pit playing the theater organ live while the movie plays, it'll be fine.
There's no way a 'recorded' music & sound effects score playing along with the movie could ever sound as good.
Instead of being like a giant battery to power the city, instead it is a evil giant CAPACITOR?
...or if we build it and a sexually ambiguous Jaye Davidson shows up?
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire
