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Cake day: June 25th, 2024

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  • I genuinely hate what VR has become. They’re signing this tech’s death warranty and they should know that. After over a decade we’ve just about plateaued in terms of developing objectively better headsets, and fucked any chance of having a PCVR/peripheral headset that actually looks good, has good tracking, and works universally with whatever the fuck you want too hook up to it without being $1500 or more.

    Not to mention locomotion hasn’t made any real progress and we’ve actually scrapped a lot of promising looking haptics tech that could have been a standard feature of VR controllers. We’ve also lost any hope of 3rd party controller support.

    We’re cooked, and I don’t see this going anywhere good. Keep what you have for novelty’s sake and future ‘collector’s’ value, but don’t bother looking forward to a future of VR or AR beyond gimmicky shit like google glasses and whatever the fuck Cuckerberg is doing.





  • This does pretty much exactly what it should, and I like that it’s just a set-and-forget, one-time-run thing. I don’t know if this is just Steam, but Steam specifically is still pretty pervasive about yanking all focus away from whatever I’m doing multiple times in a row.

    I tested by slowly dragging a window around on my second screen while Steam opened up on my first. Sure enough, three times my cursor just slipped off as the window came to a grinding halt and forced me to start the click-and-drag again, just to kick me off again until Steam was satisfied its presence was thoroughly announced.

    I know this whole thing sounds like such a petty gripe, but words can’t describe how absolutely aggravating this is when it happens regularly. If I ever worked with someone who behaved like this, I’d be going hands-on in no time and making sure they never come within eye-sight of me again.