I rather have my nice, large, solid-wood, comfy, king-sized bed with a high end tempur-pedic mattress, my handmade armorie, and a nice, solid wood desk. Sleeping on cheap-particle board and foam as an adult seems like the most useless idea to me.

Easy for me to say from my comfy chair in Canada, but I'd consider damaging that machine so that nobody could use it again. It would probably be as simple as taking a plug out of the back and bending all the pins over and walking out.

Either way, the election's effectively over, and Obama won. I'll eat my electronic hat if I'm wrong.

Oh shit, I forgot about the cyberpuck, which sounds like a robotic Shakespeare character. <- boom goes the dynamite.
And the whole 1280 x 800 smacks of bs to me in the same way Forte's claims of 512x460 did: adding together the per-eye resolution. Granted, they seem to be upfront about the vertical resolution of 800 (which isn't great for 2012 either) but that horizontal res? Boolshit! It might be 1280 for an iguana with eyes on either side of it's head, looking at different shit per eyeball all its life. But for we humans, each eyeball pretty much looks at the same thing, not accounting for parallax of course. So I'd say the actual horizontal resolution might approach 800, depending on how much they want each eye to "share" as it were. So it's essentially a giant square.

Naysaying/partypooping aside, it still looks promising. There's nothing quite like moving your head around to observe a virtual world: it affords the kind of immersion you can't touch with a standard monitor setup, I don't care how big it is. <- that's what she never says. Boom again!

>> ^probie:

>> ^shuac:
Back in '96, I bought a Forte VFX-1 which was a VR headset with stereoscopic vision, very comfy over-the-ear headphones, and motion tracking. All for about $1000.
Each eyeball had it's own little LCD screen (263x230) and I can tell you that it looked like pure ass. Despite it's shortcomings, I played the original System Shock with it and I still have very fond memories of skulking through Citadel station with that thing strapped to my melon.
While I'm not interested in contributing to a kickstarter campaign (after all, that's why we have venture capitalists), I may be interested in a finished retail product.

Ha! I, too, bought a VFX-1 headset. (Had to buy a separate Number Nine S3 Virge card as well so the interface cable would work). I never did play SS1 on it, but I did roll through Quake 1 and all of it's mission packs, as well as used it for Looking Glass' Flight Unlimited. I never used the Cyberpuck controller, as it wasn't very intuitive to me. Once GLQuake came out (which had to run at nothing less than 512x384) that was the final nail in the coffin. But fun times while it lasted.

>> ^shuac:

Back in '96, I bought a Forte VFX-1 which was a VR headset with stereoscopic vision, very comfy over-the-ear headphones, and motion tracking. All for about $1000.
Each eyeball had it's own little LCD screen (263x230) and I can tell you that it looked like pure ass. Despite it's shortcomings, I played the original System Shock with it and I still have very fond memories of skulking through Citadel station with that thing strapped to my melon.
While I'm not interested in contributing to a kickstarter campaign (after all, that's why we have venture capitalists), I may be interested in a finished retail product.


Ha! I, too, bought a VFX-1 headset. (Had to buy a separate Number Nine S3 Virge card as well so the interface cable would work). I never did play SS1 on it, but I did roll through Quake 1 and all of it's mission packs, as well as used it for Looking Glass' Flight Unlimited. I never used the Cyberpuck controller, as it wasn't very intuitive to me. Once GLQuake came out (which had to run at nothing less than 512x384) that was the final nail in the coffin. But fun times while it lasted.

Back in '96, I bought a Forte VFX-1 which was a VR headset with stereoscopic vision, very comfy over-the-ear headphones, and motion tracking. All for about $1000.

Each eyeball had it's own little LCD screen (263x230) and I can tell you that it looked like pure ass. Despite it's shortcomings, I played the original System Shock with it and I still have very fond memories of skulking through Citadel station with that thing strapped to my melon.

While I'm not interested in contributing to a kickstarter campaign (after all, that's why we have venture capitalists), I may be interested in a finished retail product.

Guess that's more comfy than a bed of nails, huh?

>> ^Deano:

Aren't you supposed to go headfirst? Being whipped around like that does not look comfy!


Stephen once said that he couldn't even dive into a swimming pool. I know some people like this who are totally devoid of any sort of "body knowledge" or their spacial relation to the world. They jump in feet first cause they don't trust themselves or the thing they're doing.

Aren't you supposed to go headfirst? Being whipped around like that does not look comfy!

Bit late to this but currently I'm using a new tool www.papyrs.com. I've never been that comfy with "traditional" wiki software. This is easy to use, no markup language, you just drag and drop widgets onto pages.

What made me actually sub to it was the ability to create custom forms to collect data. I've not seen this before and it's a killer feature. I've got one page for recording my timesheets and then I can see a list of the submitted forms which in turn can be exported to Excel via CSV. You can also create reports based on submitted form data.

No idea if this is anything of use to you but I like to share stuff that I think is good.

>> ^mxxcon:

Are you kidding me?! I wish i lived like that! Plenty of food, comfy, secure, warm, there's a small hole to push out my poop!
This is the definition of heaven!
and 'fear' and 'terrible' are kinda inappropriate tags here.


Holy shit you can say that again.

*nochannel

*nature
I literally did say *wtf

Are you kidding me?! I wish i lived like that! Plenty of food, comfy, secure, warm, there's a small hole to push out my poop!
This is the definition of heaven!
and 'fear' and 'terrible' are kinda inappropriate tags here.

* gets popcorn and a comfy Chair.

Q: What's better than a comfy pillow to lay on?
A: Two comfy pillows to lay on!

Maybe Bieber knows that he's making enough money as it is.. And the fact that if this kind of law would've been made ten years ago, he would be poor.. Make fretilized eggs a person, make corporations persons, take away all the rights to express yourself, make suing corporations illegal and see what happens.. Dystopia, my friend, here we come, i hope you're ready and have a lot of comfy cells for all of us!

The only people who have the right to shed a tear and forgive this poor excuse of a human being are those who suffered by him. Suffer being such a sterile word in this context. If they choose instead to put a bullet in his head - I am not going to judge them for it.

It certainly wasn't my child who's head got blown off by one of his snipers. It wasn't my father taken away in the middle of the night.

I didn't feel bad for him at all. The barbaric ugliness and violence of the situation, however, disturbed me greatly. It was terrible. Just a few min prior I was sitting on my comfy sofa enjoying a movie in my nice safe home.

After this post I am going to play a video game.

My wife is sleeping in the bedroom next to me.

The kids are fine too. Maybe I'll take them to the park tomorrow.