I play Insurgency and the WWII mod they just released for it and I always have to hit the headphone mute button at the end of each round. Because like clockwork you have squeaky-voiced 10 year olds screaming allah akbar and heil hitler directly into their mics. Idiots.

Why I don't play videogames Online... with headphones.

What about an mp3 player is NOT simple? It has play, rr, ff, and you don't have to jog the hell out of it to get to a different song.

Joke is on this guy, his flip phone probably supports mp3.

This guys money is made by other companies losing money. -_- Tape does not have a warm sound, tape has a muffled sound.

People who attribute digital audio to cold infuriate me. If that is what the music is supposed to sound like, then that is what it sounds like. There are ways you can make it warmer with the speakers and headphones used. Atleast now you have a choice!

Now that I'm at home with my headphones it sounds like "I'm going to throw a shoe at you, shut up".

Those off-off-off-Broadway audiences are tough.

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Tuan Ban
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDqqYp2iE_Y

Headphones on loud while looking down as they fiddled with phone.

True, but at 20mph (about what I do in tight situations like that, maybe coasting to 15 for crosswalks), I would have had more time to see her between the cars--and I would have been looking for just that sort of thing. This isn't to say I wouldn't have hit her, because she was probably going too fast to see (my closest calls, have been with kids on longboards, facing away from oncoming traffic, wearing headphones).

OK, so to answer all your demands, what if, just what if he fell asleep in bed with those headphones on, wearing his pistachio jammy pants half fallen down, and this song came on and just jolted him outta bed, onto his feet where he half-hazard put on his shoes without noticing that there was something stuck to one of them, just to get his groove on. I mean it's possible.

The slap bands don't work because the arms are at angles to each other. Slap bands can only rotate in a straight direction (They are basically tape measure metal), so they wouldn't be able to come back to meet in the center like they illustrate. Also they have the motors all prettily lined up and facing directly off the wrist, that would require the material to be able to twist.

For the rotor size, these are fixed pitch rotors. You can change the pitch of the rotor to give you different flight characteristics and in general you have to match the pitch to the motor to be the most efficient. I may have this reversed, but a lower pitch prop gives you more torque and less overall speed, but a higher pitch prop gives more top speed, less torque. Making a prop that can be injection molded at that size that even works is difficult, making one that is super efficient would be even more so. QC would have to be incredibly exacting. As a gauge, the 2" x 2" quad has 1" props. They can lift it and buzz it around pretty well. Those things were a pain to get correct and I have a hard time imagining anyone making them more efficient than they are. In the case of the 2" quad, we didn't even paint the body because we want to limit the impact on flight time from added weight. All molded in color. That's how sensitive these things can be. There are better motors if you are willing to pay, but even then it may not be enough.
Go Pro records in HD, but doesn't actually broadcast anything (plus it is big enough to keep this thing from flying anywhere). If you want to broadcast video you have to do it in 640x480 tops. To do that you need something like an FPV system that broadcasts on a spread spectrum. If you went bluetooth you have an effect range that is pretty small. Wifi requires more power to get a longer range. A video transmitter system would require a separate device to attach to your phone to receive the signal and translate it to a PPM signal for through the headphone jack. But a VTX is pretty heavy as well.
And things may drain just a little bit of power, but it stacks up. At most you have a 250mAh Lipo battery that can fit in there. That isn't going to buy you a bunch of flight/video time.
Video on the phone is going to be subject to interference, so you would want to record on the quad. this would get you HD quality, but also adds weight, which means more battery draw, which means less flight time.
-B

You gotta love Palmer's honesty. "... your gaming headphones are garbage, sorry..." "Traditional game pads are not good virtual reality input devices, you really need something better. Anyone who's ever used a keyboard and mouse can tell you, game pads just don't stack up, they're pretty shitty."

I mean, it's all true of course, and nothing new, but it's refreshing to hear people in his position (something of a leader figure in the industry) to say it out loud. =)

Neat room.

I'm surprised the wireless-HDMI transmitter didn't introduce an unacceptable level of lag. I remember an early Oculus presentation that mentioned the reason they use DVI was because HDMI introduced too much latency.

I like the idea of tricking the participant into walking in circles. Reminds me of Mythbusters episode where they tested "impossible to walk in a straight line while blindfolded".

Next step is to build a room where rods can rise out of the floor to create real life analogs to virtual objects (even stairs). Participant would have to wear some soundproof earbuds/headphones so they wouldn't hear the room "reconfiguring".

How many times did you jump?
I'm wearing headphones so....

That would be my fear. I want it to be like the first time I saw the "pinkies" and I was wearing headphones late at night. Almost fell off the chair. Took a bit to get the heart rate back down after that.

That's the first DJ I've seen actually using Beats headphones.