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yes, supported.

However when you see in true 3d, what you can do in a game that’s ’fun", could be something incredibly frustrating in 2d.

A first person view game, is not the same as 3d. For example, you could make a puzze game that you look around to solve, you dip around edges and use the parallax to discover solutions. This kind of game might be fun with the Rift, yet just an exercise in frustration with a controller.

You could also make a stealth game, where hiding behind moving objects from other moving objects could be an element. Keeping out of line of sight with a controller and traditional camera control, would be tedious, where with the Rift would be second nature. If you are designing the game for the Rift, you would use that element. If you had to support all types of displays and input devices, you would leave that element out.

That’s the kind of thing I am talking about.

about 4 hours ago on Oculus VR says plans won't change, as it raises $16 million in venture capital for its virtual reality dreams 1 reply

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I am sure tons of games will support it, but if you are making a game from the ground up with the Oculus Rift in mind, in the end you will have a different game than if you didn’t. It adds such a different element to gaming, that writing to it, is better than just supporting it.

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If you keep it low rez, you only need smart phone support. Using your phone as a controller, when you don’t need the screen on the controller, would be awesome. Tilt it to move, and pan with your head. Seems like a great control scheme.

While I would love high rez over low rez, I am buying this thing as soon as there is a game for it. Any rez, is revolutionary.

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I get how it works, however without an investor you have no product at all, expect in the off chance that the genius developing the product happens to also be the one with the money.

Not a lot of Tony Starks in real life.

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Nice, but a D800 will give you about a 5mp image cropped to the same framing as the V1 at 10mp. So the V1 would be better, because it has twice the pixels, but the quality of each pixel will be a little better on the D800, so the advantage is small.

If I took that same photo with the D800, and cropped it, for the purpose of this web blog, they would look identical, however you get all the advantages of having a D800.

That would me my personal choice.

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packaged apps run in Chrome on any platform, and Chrome on Windows and OSX is just a browser.

about 6 hours ago on Chromebooks soon in three times as many stores, coming to Walmart, Staples, and more 1 reply 2 recommends

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The context of the statement was selling them to Walmart customers. :)

about 6 hours ago on Chromebooks soon in three times as many stores, coming to Walmart, Staples, and more

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Investors are also the ones behind almost every product you have ever owned, so it’s not all bad.

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Mine sure is. I don’t think the issue is that a Chrome Book is just a browser. I think the problem is what people think a browser still is.

It’s just a browser. But that means a lot more then it did two years ago, and it will mean a lot more in two years.

about 9 hours ago on Chromebooks soon in three times as many stores, coming to Walmart, Staples, and more 1 reply 6 recommends

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Goggle is not selling them, Acer is.

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2 of them returned them because it wasn’t what they were expecting it to be.

This I think is going to be a huge problem, if sold at Walmart. A lot of people are going to think it’s a full up laptop.

about 9 hours ago on Chromebooks soon in three times as many stores, coming to Walmart, Staples, and more 1 reply 1 recommend

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I have a chrome book, but I still can not recommend it to anyone, as a primary computer. If it’s the only thing someone is going to own, look elsewhere.

If your willing to do some work for them, they could get a chrome book, and install Linux on it. You can hotkey between the installs, and run Skype from the Linux side.

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They kind of were for developers. They were also an experiment, and not expected t sell. The goal of the Pixel was to show the world that a high end chrome book could be made. To set the bar, in hopes manufactures that can do the same for a lot less would follow suit.

So sales was not the goal of the Pixel. Good thing to, because I doubt it’s sold well.

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Well, I want this:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/11/4421620/virtuix-omni-oculus-rift-virtual-reality-e3

But I want it so while I play games, I get a workout. If I want to play a game because of the game (like finish the next Assassins Creed), I will do that from the couch.

I think most people will.

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Have you done the studies about gamers needs and want?
Have you read the articles about gaming (before Polygon existed) where the authors and then the readers in the comments decried that state of gaming, declaring how boring and repetitive it had become?

The problem is there is a difference in what gamers think they want, and what they want. For example most gamers think they want a star wars game where they can wield a light saber in extremely realistic form. However if that game existed, in practice, almost no one would play it. After the first 30 minutes of swinging a stick around the room, they would just want to sit on the couch with a controller in there hand, and imagine they are a Jedi.

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It’s collecting dust because there were no good games for it since it was an add-on peripheral.

No, no good games were made for it, because you can’t make good games for it. It got a ton of support, it’s just the kind of thing that sounds a lot better then it is.

I have one, and my wife uses it for dance games, but even if I get the XB1, and play a hard core game with that uses it, I most likely will use the far faster and more accurate button combination over moving my arms, or body to play a game.

It’s great for fitness stuff, but that’s about it.

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That I agree with. That hurts taxes, and makes it harder for new and better airlines to exist. However there is at least one choice today (if you fly US domestic). So the solution for the author, is to fly it, and not bitch about the others ones.

The issue you have is more a political one, and less about flying.

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If you think the president has that control, you’re crazy.

1 day ago on President Bush's top intelligence officials nearly resigned over NSA surveillance concerns 2 replies 2 recommends

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It’s easy.. just fly SWA. Who cares if the other ones exist?

1 day ago on Welcome to the circus: aircraft boarding is a microcosm of a broken industry 1 reply

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My god. Thank goodness that never happened.

1 day ago on President Bush's top intelligence officials nearly resigned over NSA surveillance concerns 1 reply 4 recommends

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The problem isn’t from the top, it’s from the bottom.

Obama, who I think is one of the most destructive presidents in history, did not lie to the american people. He told us exactly what he was going to do, and then he did it.

If you replace him, you will just get another person like him elected. We need a smarter country, before we will get a better president.

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