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Several occasions. Sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly. Palmer often makes the case that Occulus would be an open-ish platform. When discussing VR porn he said it wouldn't be sold/promoted on the Oculus store, but wouldn't be blocked. At times he compared the Rift to a monitor, that'd...

What's odd is that the graph that places the gtx 1080 above the titan x has an axis entitled "relative game performance" where the 1080 scres around 4.3-4.4, and the Titan X scores 3.6-3.7. That'd imply a 22% advantage for the 1080 over the Titan, not "twice the performance". It does use a lot...

Anything to get your target number of W10 installs, huh Microsoft? If it means allowing the Chinese government to install back-doors, spy on their citizens so be it... never mind if you're helping the Chinese gov supress dissention and persecute political opposition, who the hell cares... china...

I doubt you'd want such a thick/heavy glove on for adult content... washable or not. This is interesting for more mainstream uses, but the problem with all these is developer/headset ecosystem support. Let's face it, VR is still in it's infancy (pre-birth, actually) and developers are taking...

I got into ED thinking of VR, it's no surprise... although you'll have a more traditional gaming experience on Valkyre, with more action and goals, ED is sort of like Truck Simulator for space... although it features combat and you can focus on that, the sort of vast explorative aspect of it...

There are a few things that make this an interesting moment for AMD, and the market knows it... it's stocks have been going up. Contrary to older CPU's, Zen is a brand new architecture, built from the ground up for what the market is asking for... energy efficiency and performance. They'll no...

I'm positively surprised that this is coming out at the same time on PS4 and PC... I also didn't expect it to come to GOG, which is a great thing. We'll soon see if VR is going to be a meaningful option for the game.

Ugh, just watched the video. There's other stuff, like the fact that you jump when hit, carts bolt and deadstop all of a sudden and the fact that you have to point with your head to do anything, from placing torches to pressing buttons to mining blocks. This is a VERY agile and frenetic game and...

In Minecraft or in general? Seems obvious that the principal factor is movement by controller, instead of some analog of walking or some way of detaching your movement from your body like a platform, cockpit or vehicle. Speed of movement is also an issue and acceleration moreso, your body...

If I make a purse that has a 3 number lock on it and sell it, I can't be ordered to create the means to disable said lock. I sell devices with their features, I'm not responsible for what people put in it nor am I required to spend research and time for my company to make my own products unsafe...

Windows has some policies that have helped curb piracy. A LOT of piracy happens when people need the OS, don't have the means to buy it at full price and have the technical skills needed to get and run a pirate copy. Eventually MS figured out that giving discounts to students might be a good...

Even trying it out is no garantee that you'll get a proper demo. I just did for the first time and it was aweful. It was an Oculus DK2 and some Razer 7.1 headsets. There was a little cart on the shopping mall and the first thing that should have tipped me off is that they weren't using the...

The biggest obstacle for Fove is software support and compatible games and the like. The tracking technology is compelling, it both adds to immersion and reduces hardware requirements, two big necessities in VR (Palmer said we'll only get lifelike graphics with something like 16k displays the...

I'm sorry, but this article is close to useless for most of Tom's readers. "Most people will leave settings at default/auto" my tush. This is a hardware & tech site, most of us read these articles to gauge the relative performance of hardware on a particular software. For the comparison to be...