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Google 參戰，下星期發表全新 Android VR 設備！

Google 參戰，下星期發表全新 Android VR 設備！

其實之前講過幾遍，今年是 VR 設備的年代，好幾家生產商都推出自家的 VR 產品。今年上半年已有幾款產品發佈，甚至開始銷售，包括有 Oculus Rift、HTC Vive 及 PlayStation VR 等。但其實如果大家有印象的話，最早推出 VR 設備的是 Google 的 Cardboard，而且因為價格十分吸引，所以銷售高達 5 百萬部。

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VR gaming is going to be amazing, but given that most people aren’t interested in console gaming there’s no reason to believe that adding a VR headset to the mix is going to change things

Peter Rojas, Eight Questions about Virtual Reality in 2016

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I have yet to see a truly great “VR-native” experience for sharing and consuming other people’s VR creations.

Peter Rojas, Eight Questions about Virtual Reality in 2016

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It feels like we’re on the cusp of an entirely new world of immersive computing, but VR as an industry is still completely wide open in a way which more established markets like mobile and desktop computing are not.

Peter Rojas, Eight Questions about Virtual Reality in 2016

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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

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It's good to be back - published on: Technology Companies List

You may have seen the announcement earlier today that AOL is acquiring gdgt and that Ryan Block and I are going to be rejoining the company. A lot of you may have no idea who I am, but I’m the guy who created Engadget and for a while there was the only person who wrote for it. When we left Engadget in 2008 to start gdgt we left on exceptionally good terms. AOL even invested …

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You can see the Listing Profile on: http://technologycompanieslist.com/its-good-to-be-back/

It's good to be back

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Somehow my life has become one long series of emails, conference calls, and emails to set up conference calls.

Peter Rojas