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If I get performance issue while playing your retro-styled indie game, I'm going to shove the ENTIRE Michael Abrash black book up your ass.

this message is directed at nobody in particular. FOR NOW.

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¿De qué color ves estas píldoras?

¿De qué color ves estas píldoras?

¿Se acuerdan del famoso vestido de dos colores? Pues un nuevo fenómeno viral ha invadido las redes sociales y esta vez se trata de dos píldoras colocadas sobre un par de manos.

El mundo vuelve a estar dividido por una foto. Una mano amarilla sostiene una píldora y otra mano color celeste muestra otra cápsula. Pero el problema recae en el color de las grajeas, ya que algunos ven a ambas grises y…

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The Vision.

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Here’s the one VR concept that the smartest people at Oculus admit they’re nowhere near figuring out

We finally have a workable virtual-reality platform, but plenty of obstacles are between us and a Star Trek-style holodeck. If you reach out to touch a table, you’ll feel the molecules of that piece of furniture push against your hand. Do the same thing in virtual reality, and you’ll feel nothing. This is a problem — and […] http://goo.gl/4MrvU0 #Playistic

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Announcing Oculus Connect 2 and Mobile VR Jam Finalists

Announcing Oculus Connect 2 and Mobile VR Jam Finalists

Announcing Oculus Connect 2, Sept. 23-25 in Hollywood, CA

We’re excited to announce our second annual developer conference, Oculus Connect 2, where engineers, designers, and creatives from around the world come together to learn about the future of the Oculus platform and push virtual reality forward.

This year’s Connect will feature keynotes from Brendan Iribe, Michael Abrash, and John Carmack,…

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Teka-Teki Menebak Warna Pil, Setelah Kontroversi Warna Gaun

Teka-Teki Menebak Warna Pil, Setelah Kontroversi Warna Gaun

Beberapa waktu lalu kita dihebohkan dengan sebuah gaun bergaris-garis yang berwarna ‘saru’. Sebagian menyebut gaun tersebut berwarna putih dengan garis-garis keemasan, dan sebagian lagi menyebut gaun tersebut berwarna biru bergaris hitam. Hingga saat ini netizen masih belum satu suara soal warna gaun mini tersebut.

Sebuah percobaanpun dilakukan oleh Michael Abrash, seorang ilmuwan yang bekerja di…

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Facebook's Oculus Plans Still More Virtual Than Reality

Thursday, nine months after Facebook acquired virtual reality company Oculus for $2 billion, the social media giant finally delivered the first fruit of a collaboration CEO Mark Zuckerberg claims will someday create a new communication platform that “allows us all to experience the impossible.” B...

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Facebook's Magic Trick: Occulus VR

I realized a few weeks ago that Facebook's acquisition of WhatApp acted as a diversionary tactic, albeit unintentional, from the more compelling acquisition: Occulus VR. Buying Occulus at $2 billion makes Facebook the leading force in Virtual Reality.

I can imagine a world in which social interactions online are truly immersive, and three-dimensional. In other words, you don't type to me on a keyboard, as I am doing now. Instead, we interact constantly in a virtual world. It all begins with gaming, but I believe that is just the tip of the iceberg. Online shopping, vacationing, social mediation, etc. will all be explored in VR. Occulus' new Chief Scientist Michael Abrash calls VR the "final platform". I tend to agree. At the very least, it is a platform that will radically revolutionize how we interact with computers.

As an aside, I think that Google Glass, and related devices, are interesting in relation to Occulus, because they augment reality. They foreshadow what is to come. Put differently, they serve as John the Baptist.

I must admit, though, that the road ahead will not be easy. Abrash points out that it will require a tremendous amount of hard engineering (in both the software and hardware arenas). I agree wholeheartedly. Occulus is still in its early stages, and a lot  more will need to be done before Virtual Reality is, well, a reality.

As an aside, I attended a STEM conference today and no one was thinking seriously about VR, and that troubles me. Why? I, like many programmers, suffer from mild wrist pain from time to time. My doctor says it may develop into full-fledged Carpal Tunnel Syndrome if I don't perform the exercises he recommends. (By the way, I do!) You see, creating new methods for interacting with my computer is not some luxury. For some, typing is not an option, for a variety of reasons. Pressing those terrible little keys on the board or screen are not an option. In fact, I hope someday that people will back and laugh at us, as we laugh as the folks who used typewriters.

You do realize that I'm writing this to you on a glorified keyboard?

We can do better. We deserve better. This is why the HCI research really fascinates me. This is why I agree with Peter Rojas' argument that VR may be the next "reset button in the computing world" that we need.

I am a bit afraid, and anxious as I write this because I, we, have been promised Virtual Reality for quite some time. Remember those cheesy 80s and 90s sci-fi action movies starring (Insert your favorite buff, accented, action hero). Instead, to borrow the Founders Fund's maxim, we got 140 characters. The point here is this: we need to be amazed again. We need to be excited about 3D technologies as we all once were, when 3D glasses were not so abysmally unimportant. We desperately need to be like this 90 year old grandmother (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAC5SeNH8jw).

I am hoping that Occulus will not be disappointing.

Please let me know what you're thinking about.

Cheers,

Osa