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what is it like?
Utterly convincing? A bit naff?
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The optics are really good; however, the realism is really dependent on the graphics and audio of the game. There is a price for that though. In order to push high quality graphics to the Oculus, you need a high powered gaming rig. Also, it does take some getting used to. High quality graphics and stereo audio, a good horror game or space sim is worth the price you pay for the equipment. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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I have an i7 with a GTEX mega force or some such, thats what the label says on the cover anyway. Which I think is the recommended spec for these goggles. Dont do games at all, but the nipper is interested in 3D, and it could be a laugh.
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Sounds like a good machine. I would check the graphics card to make sure you have more than 3 gig of video ram and a minimum of 8 gig of ram on the motherboard. If so, then the experience should be awesome. If your not into games, check out the movies rendered for the Oculus. They are amazing.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Yeah, it has that, and SSD too, it is about a year or so old, but hardware hasnt moved on much recently, so it is still a decent machine.
Didnt think of movies, I'll take a look at some. Thanks!
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The exact video is important. If it's not a GTX 1070 or better, you might run into problems.
I have a GTX 1070ti, and I still have to turn down the detail level in X-Plane to get decent performance in VR. Though X-Plane is pretty demanding whether you're using it in VR or not. Other games are less demanding. And the VR version of Google Earth is fun, too.
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Here are two useful links for checking for compatibility with the Oculus Rift:
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Its a pretty top end laptop actually, got a touch screen weirdly. (why on earth you would want one is beyond me). I was looking at the spec yesterday, and it is good enough.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: what is it like?
Have no idea, but I love the name. Oculus is just bad ass sounding. Who cares what it does. 
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Munchies_Matt wrote: what is it like?
Owned by Facebook. Therefore a non-starter.
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I don't know, but when I see someone wearing one it looks creepy. It makes me uneasy, but I'm not sure why.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: what is it like?
Utterly convincing? A bit naff?
It's like being inside of the game, literally, Tron-style. If you have the graphics horsepower and a good game, it's very convincing.
What it's best for are flight/driving sims. You know the kind of folks who spend thousands on realistic flight/driving controllers and arrays of monitors for a wide field of view? VR is perfect for that and actually cheaper than alternatives, but that's a small niche market. Most games don't translate well to VR and there aren't a lot of games made for VR out there, there are a lot of ports but they're generally not very good.
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Not for the first time, I was trying to conduct some online business and put in an email contact address. This was a bank - but other sources match this stupidity.
In this case, it accepted my input on the screen - but their system insists it's an invalid email address. In other cases, the email was rejected at the client side. Why you may ask?
Well, it ends with a four-character extension. It's not .com, .net, or .org, so I guess it cannot be real ? ? ? ".info" is not some johnny-come-lately extension.
WTF's up with these software developers, aside from being dropped on their heads, repeatedly, as infants?
This stupid is layered. It was to send me a verification code. They only had telephone contact options and they wanted my home phone during setup. They have it. I'm not there. Now what? No one, it seems, considered any sort of provision for this or anything other than every user must have a cell-phone welded to their genitalia as their only mode of contact.
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Programmers are cheapest if they come without much professional training. The industry certainly has a preference for those, and still wonders why there are so many security issues.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I usually use my fingers to type
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If you are smarter than them, how come they have your money? 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Well, the genius' have the bank's money for their system.
MEANWHILE, the bank doesn't have my money as they couldn't validate me.
So far, the only thing gotten as a result of this (that I'm aware of) is me having gotten quite annoyed.
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I've had that a couple of times with the .nl extension. God knows which brand of cornflakes packet they get their domain-extension lists from.
Mind you, my favourite was a Dutch satellite data company I used to subscribe to. The name fields of their form were:
- Voornaam (forename)
- Tussenvoegsel (the little bit in the middle, like "de" or "van", that many Dutch folks have)
- Achternaam (surname)
All three fields were mandatory, so say hi to "Mark de Wallace".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What gets my goat is when an email is rejected because the domain is hyphenated. As my domain is: Aaaaa-Bbbbb.com
Most times you can get round this: give them a mailinator address for signup, then change it in to the real one when you're signed up. Works almost every time, as "developers" who are too lazy to check what is and isn't valid where don't bother to check validity on "change to" addresses ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ingenious. There is great wisdom in relying upon stupidity to do stupid things.
A + for your hoard!
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If a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, what would a foolish inconsistency be?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" (1841): Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Beats me why they did not use one of the standard 'approved' regexs[^](the Perl version being a personal favourite) which usually allows for a lot of leeway in email addresses.
Maybe they think validating an email address is easy 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I've recently had my self-hosted email address rejected. I can only guess that it was because it doesn't use https. I've had a number of customers (maybe 2%) now whos email systems refuse it for that reason. One of these days I will actually replace that server and get a cert for it. In the meantime, it's good to have multiple email addresses...just have them use the other one.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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W∴ Balboos wrote: WTF's up with these software developers,
a) Blindly following the specs they were given
OR, if not specified,
b) Given too much credit, thinking that they know what a "valid" email address looks like.
Strictly speaking, in either case, someone has signed off on this, and "these software developers" shouldn't have the authority to do so themselves. So who are you gonna blame?
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