Because we love the future don't we?
Drawing in VR!
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http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/10/glean-keane-vr/
One of the advantages of working at a tech company on a 3D engine is that we get all sorts of VR stuff. We have the first two Oculus SDKs and lately we've been experimenting with the Cardboards. The latter has a lot of potential in my opinion. Not having to pay 300$ + plugging 5 cables to the computer and figuring out multiscreen quirks before you can do anything is a real plus, but obviously what you can do on a smartphone is more limited than having a full AAA game running in VR.
I wasn't too impressed by VR on the few experiences I've had (Team Fortress 2, Project Cars, Asseto Corsa, Oculus demos, Euro Truck Simulator 2 (yes, really.)...) I'm waiting for the final Oculus product, and I'm curious to see the HTC/Valve one, but in the meantime, getting a 20$ Cardboard and playing with the VR apps on Android is the most I would do ;D
If the final reviews are good and there's some fun stuff to do with it , i will be up for buying the Project Morpheus VR when it's released next year , a couple of decent games , a music visualizer , some cool apps and i'm sold (well , price point depending).
I finally got to try the Audioquest Nighthawk headphones today. I've always been impressed by Audioquest's high end cables and these , their first headphones , didn't disappoint either. They're extremley comfortable to wear and they sound awesome , .. a deep . rich , immersive sound , sort of speaker-like quality with good soundstage going on. I would've liked to have heard some dance / electronica blasted through them but all that was available on the media player connected to them was Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight and some jazzy classical stuff. They impressed me enough though , not cheap at £500 , so i'd better start saving. The headphones i have at the minute are the Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 (around ear) , great headphones for half the price of the Nighthawks.
Microsoft kindly destroyed the MacBook Pro yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVfOe5mFbAE
Man! You beat me to it! I'll take the 256 w/ 8 GB and D GPU.
I saw the keynote. When i finished watching, I looked at my laptop and said 'your close to retirement'!
When I saw that clipboard removed from the keyboard, I was gasping for air!
http://www.microsoft.com/october2015event/en-us/live-event
Quote from: inchemwetrust on Oct 07, 2015, 15:15
Man! You beat me to it! I'll take the 256 w/ 8 GB and D GPU.
I saw the keynote. When i finished watching, I looked at my laptop and said 'your close to retirement'!
When I saw that clipboard removed from the keyboard, I was gasping for air!
http://www.microsoft.com/october2015event/en-us/live-event
Yeah I was at work with everyone watching over my shoulder, then they all left when it seemed to be over and they showed the video again, this time with the screen detaching (which I suspected, seeing how thin the keyboard was and how thick the screen was, with vent holes like on the Surface), and I screamed "Come back ! It's awesome ! The screen is actually a Surface !".
I won't be getting one though, as I found out I have no use for a laptop anymore. Everything I used to do with a laptop (which is essentially browsing the web, going on Facebook and watching movies when I'm travelling) I can do with an iPad.
If anyone's into high-end digital audio , or just wants better quality sound from their laptop or computer i heartily recommend these two system add-ons / plug-ins ,.. the iFi iPurifier 2 & the AudioQuest Jitterbug. I've had them in my desktop/dac/headphones set up for a while now and they really do work. There's lots of technological wizardry going on in these things (that i don't really understand) but basically the iFi iPurifier 2 makes heavily layered music more clear & defined to listen to , each instrument has breathing space etc, and the AQ Jitterbug acts as a noise filter & removes interference ( jitter ) which improves dynamic contrast & resolution ... making digital music sound better (more analogue).
(http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af290/DJ7FLAME/AQ%20jitterbug_zpsdfysi7g4.png) (http://s1016.photobucket.com/user/DJ7FLAME/media/AQ%20jitterbug_zpsdfysi7g4.png.html) (http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af290/DJ7FLAME/ipurifier2_zpsbpkhwykq.png) (http://s1016.photobucket.com/user/DJ7FLAME/media/ipurifier2_zpsbpkhwykq.png.html)