Waiting for your Oculus to arrive? Yeah, it's going to be some time Early purchasers of the new Oculus are going to have wait to get their hands on it thanks to an unexplained delivery delay. The product's launch last week was timed to coincide with its shipment to customers who have paid $599 for the virtual reality headset. But when a few days later nothing arrived in the mail, users started …
"Never touch version 1.0 of anything."
This is really version 3, the initial DK1 was revised into the DK2, which was then revised and made into this CV1. It's the first properly commercial version, but it's not the first version. Developers, and really anyone who wanted one and bought a developer kit, has had access to them for a couple of years to iron out any serious bugs.
Facebook will know even more about you than they do already
Do you really want that?
Sure you will look like ... so cool but also a dork but a cool dork.
Exactly how long will it be before children start watching pron with this?
Come on now. How long eh?
anon coz I don't want Facebork to know who I am ever.
Unlikely.
I mean... it is unlikely that many p0rn production studios have worked out the best position to place the 360 degree camera during filming.
At least when they do, we'll have the answer to the question of how many people are on set watching, during production.
So Facebook bought Oculus but forgot to include their "pound of flesh" on every item they offer. So they are delaying shipments until they can change the firmware to comply with their tracking mandates.
Now ALL YOUR WORLDS BELONG TO SUCKERBERG! (Including the virtual ones)
"Concern has also been raised about the always-on nature of the headset. The OVRServer_x64.exe function can be used to keep connections with the Facebook server when the headset is not in use..."
I'll bet that this becomes the norm with the Samsung, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Google, and inevitably, Apple* variants...if and when they arrive. And, as such, I probably won't bother with them, so I'll be condemned to reality, however grim.
When did privacy become a commodity?
*The original, and best, apparently.
There is nothing wrong with your VR set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your VR set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to – The Facebook Limits.
1) Just attach the headset to your dog when you aren't using it. That should make a hash of Facebook's ad-serving and tracking. :)
2) Supposedly, there have been complaints about long-lasting skin marks and creases, left by wearing the headset. I don't know if that takes long hours of use to appear, but it is being christened "Rift Rash" on the internet.
For any given value of 'you' that is, not directed at redpawn personally, I have nothing to hide, but it's still none of your damn business!
Having said that, I don't aspire to a position of power over others' lives and agree with regard to politicians.
In fact, I think Pratchett was on the right track when he suggested (in 'The Last Continent') that all politicians need locking up:
"We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they're elected. Don't you?"
"Why?"
"It saves time."
It used to be there was one born every minute but there were less people then.
Some people see all this as evidence of how advanced we are others (you know who you are) see it as evidence of something else altogether.
Fortunately I am a totally insignificant organism whose life span relative to the universe is so short it can only be measured by a not as yet invented quantum clock. That's the good news. The bad news is that most of what I have to do in life is incredibly boring. No wonder people want those damn goggles. I guess it beats adopting ideologies, religious conversions, political involvement, various drugs and the host of other things people do to pass the time, maybe.
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