https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And does that seem like the kind of POS junker the GP was talking about?

Yes lets take inexperienced drivers and put them in an unreliable vehicle. What a BRILLIANT plan.

Any word on when we'll get a flatpanel that isn't like watching an oil painting smear around in realtime?

The film industry also handles ratings internally and despite the bullshit brought to light by "this film not yet rated" is still largely doing an acceptable job of it. It's nonsense to take potshots at the gaming industry over this.

Or rather, its nonsense if you take it at face value. Really it's transparently obvious that this is just astroturfing. It's a sad attempt at appearing to care about "ethical" issues betrayed by their utter inability to drop the moralistic, censorious, and authoritarian Jack Thompson 2.0 rhetoric even for long enough to get one good lie out.

They'll drool all over it and then call the customers who have problems with it "entitled wailing hyper-consumers" for wanting a product that actually works and isn't a buggy piece of shit missing half the advertised features.

No, it wasn't. At the time it had already been done almost a decade prior by Battlefield and Tribes.

Use of "statists" unironically...

Of course it doesn't. Just like the EPA has nothing to do with the environment, and the FDA isn't necessary at all for food safety.

If Uber were a food company they would be one of the ones written about by Upton Sinclair.

if their product is so superior they should have no problems complying with basic licensing requirements that exist for very serious reasons.

It's got nothing to do with your straw boogeyman and everything to do with the fact that when a majority of people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. Evidently you didn't learn this lesson from any of the many other violent revolutions against rich aristocracies in history.

That's the point everyone keeps missing. We don't need some high tech pod with a billion circuits and electronics, we need modular low-tech pods with diesel generators, solar panels, and sanitation facilities. People keep trying to throw technology at places like Africa... this isn't star trek. We don't have replicators and magic wave-this-to-fix-it beams that can maintain high tech stuff without any local support infrastructure. Anything going to something like the Ebola outbreak needs to be fixable with duct tape and wrenches.

It wants its projector/webcam games back.

We've had wiimote/nunchuck style controllers for VR going back to the bulky arcade VR systems of the mid-90s, accessories are really not the problem. The true killer here is the lag between input and render. For almost any PC game unless I'm getting unplayable performance the response time between me moving the mouse and my screen moving with it is effectively instant. Every VR system I've ever seen though has a substantial lag time between moving and your view updating. That's just not going to work.