Video Game News and Miscellany
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Do I need my own powerplant for that card?
Hell, if it's the same as the last Titan, in less than 2 AMD will put out a similarly performing card for 1/3 the price.
To be fair, Titan was never meant to be a sole gaming card and neither is the Z.[DOUBLEPOST=1395784452,1395784216][/DOUBLEPOST]Well, John Carmack works for Facebook now.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/25/5547474/facebook-acquire-oculus-vr-2-billion
2 fucking billion.
From this:
to 2 billion dollars in 1.5 years. The Oculus Rift story.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/25/5547474/facebook-acquire-oculus-vr-2-billion
2 fucking billion.
From this:
to 2 billion dollars in 1.5 years. The Oculus Rift story.
FarmVille in 3D. Finally.
Downloaded, installed, but my wife isn't home and she'd kill me if I started it without her.
Out of curiosity, how much more powerful is this compared to other cards currently on the market? Is it really a massive jump?[DOUBLEPOST=1395790741,1395790709][/DOUBLEPOST]
Okay, I'm seeing things like this on Facebook, but I don't understand the context. Explain?
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A few posts above that. Facebook bought Oculus Rift. So. VR Farmville for everyone!
Whoops, I missed that. Been busy with nieces tonight.
Wow. It's kind of a shame because it seemed to be generally open-sourced as a lot of game companies were working to implement it into their games.
Notch just pulled the plug on Minecraft for Oculus Rift. From his twitter:
Markus Persson @notch 3h
We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out.
Also, he discusses the topic here:
http://notch.net/2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-the-world/
Markus Persson
We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out.
Also, he discusses the topic here:
http://notch.net/2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-the-world/
Yeah... I think a lot of developers will be pulling out soon. Hell, I'm wondering how many devs will be leaving over this.
What the fuck?
Facebook just killed the dream.
Sell-outs.
The reactions have started.
Markus Persson @notch : We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out.
http://notch.net/2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-the-world/
Hopefully the competition catches up fast.
Facebook just killed the dream.
Sell-outs.
The reactions have started.
Markus Persson @notch : We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out.
http://notch.net/2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-the-world/
Hopefully the competition catches up fast.
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The Oculus founder posted on the hardware's subreddit. People are pretty upset, and he's totally converted to PR-speak in every response and post. Many posts are from developers, Notch included, and it sounds like a lot of pre-orders of the next Oculus are being cancelled based on all this.
In non-VR news, the co-founders of Runic (Torchlight) are leaving the company next month.
The dream for Oculus died. VR isn't dead. As long as a competitor picks up the torch.
What people are most angry about is simply having a Kickstarter to advance this tech, finally get somewhere with it with INCREDIBLE donations but ultimately the dream ends as a pitch to sell the tech that will wither and die (in its intended form) to a tech giant and cash out.
Bastards.
What people are most angry about is simply having a Kickstarter to advance this tech, finally get somewhere with it with INCREDIBLE donations but ultimately the dream ends as a pitch to sell the tech that will wither and die (in its intended form) to a tech giant and cash out.
Bastards.
Do I think Facebook is going to ruin the Oculus? No. But if I had known that the company would have been sold to a tech giant before they even really produced anything, I'd have wanted my money back too. Just on principle. Regardless, the found of Oculus made a smart move for him because now he has billions and he doesn't have to produce ANYTHING.
Whoa, whoa, this was a Kickstarter? I didn't remember that.
That's even more fucked up. Fuck him. He's got billions now; he should be paying back every one of the people who funded the project in the first place.
That's even more fucked up. Fuck him. He's got billions now; he should be paying back every one of the people who funded the project in the first place.
There's a theory that the Lellux guy just copied three comments from one thread and pasted them to another thread, in an attempt to karma whore. Though the three comments in the r/technology thread haven't exactly raked in karma, so I doubt this is true.Also, apparently Facebook is astroturfing reddit with prefab copypasta to try to do damage control.
Well, to be fair, the kickstarter was to create dev units, and the people that kickstarted it got said dev units, so the full terms of the kickstarter were met.