Recent content by McWhiskey

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    Oculus's 'Half-Dome' Headset Offers Wide Field Of View, Better Close-Ups

    Does this incorporate eye tracking at all? IMO Using the eye instead of content would be a far superior approach. The mechanism would have to be lightning quick (maybe unrealistically so.) But being able to choose what you want to focus on and have that adjusted on the fly would be insanely...
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    Tom’s Soapbox: An Argument for Ending the PC Vs. Console Debate

    If someone figures out how to mine effectively with a console the pricing gap will disappear.
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    DICE Makes Changes To 'Star Wars Battlefront II' Crate System

    Does this apply to single player in any way? Imagine having to grind multiplayer content just to finish the story.
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    Microsoft Taught AI How To Beat 'Ms. Pacman'

    The discussion related to AI in cars kind of missed the point of the OP. All of the rebuttals were describing situations outside of the intent of the situation. In fact, they were just reiterating the perceived benefits of AI in ideal scenarios. The question is, what does the AI choose when the...
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    'Star Wars Battlefront II' Arrives November 17

    I really, Really, REALLY hope the single player is good. echo above... can't stand multiplayer... love the graphics.
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    US Sales Of Nintendo Switch, New 'Zelda' Break Company Records

    The "new zelda" helped for sure. But I don't think it is fair to put all of the credit on the one title. The original wii sold with a "new zelda" game.
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    Quantum Internet Edges Closer As Researchers Teleport Photons Six Kilometers Away

    Today is the first day I have heard of an alternate naming scheme for numbers. Right up until moments ago I thought the entire world worked the same way. 1,000 - thousand 1,000,000 - million 1,000,000,000 - billion 10^12 - trillion 10^15 - quadrillion 10^18 - quintillion Meaning 1,000...
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    Google’s DeepMind Creates Another Real-World Breakthrough In Synthetic Speech Generation

    So we fully replace actors visually with cgi. Step 2, replacing them audibly with "cga" is right around the corner. Then actors will be obsolete. But if actors are obsolete, who will we collectively worship?
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    Thermaltake Launches '4K VR' Gaming PC Case

    The very first thing should be praise for Thermaltake for taking a risk. Risks like this push the industry. do something different and hope it catches on. But risks can fail. The issue here is not that it is a bad design. It is a very good design. But it is only for a very specific audience...
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    GTX 970 Owners Get $30 From Settlement With Nvidia, Gigabyte, Asus, EVGA

    Newegg just sent out a notice. The list of cards they reference is far greater than just the 970. Check it out here: http://blog.newegg.com/nvidia-gtx-970-class-action-lawsuit/
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    Train To Be A Jedi from Home: ‘Trials On Tatooine’ is now available on SteamVR

    This is SWEET! But all I can picture are a crazy amount of "star wars kid" type videos hitting YouTube very soon.
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    Nintendo's Next Gaming Console Is The NES Classic Edition

    I wonder if it is hackable. I'd love something like this with a longer game list. I mean their own virtual console has a far longer list. I think it would be awesome to be able to load your own roms into a standalone machine. A solely dedicated OE emulator with official controllers sounds near...
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    A Peek Into The Beautiful World Of 'Obduction' On PC, Oculus Rift

    I'm thinking remakes of the older games will definitely happen. Myst was remade a few times already.