Yes, almost all funerals in Japan involve cremations. Land is too valuable there to spend on large fields of graves and crypts, but it’s also an important part of the culture. Families typically have shared graves, so each one of those tombstones isn’t an individual person but the resting place of an entire family…

I’m not talking about the width across the face, I’m talking how high off the face it is. It becoming more compact in that direction would make it less unwieldy and awkward-looking. I guarantee that HMDs will get smaller in that dimension as the display technology improves (and gets cheaper), reducing the need for the…

Seems pretty clear that the size of the lens assembly is a big part of the Oculus’ size coming off your face. The displays in particular are why it is as big as it is, so hopefully better displays in the future will allow it to drop down to an even less goofy size.

But Jecht, they’re claiming she IS a pedophile! They can’t possibly be bad people!

So, in short:

So what you’re trying to say here is that everyone’s an asshole, so we might as well have fun at it?

So much pantsu.

Yeah, being able to switch seamlessly between using a headset and playing without (without restarting the software) is going to be very important, especially for games that expect players to commit to longer play sessions.

And certainly The Shadow.

Considering how surprisingly comprehensive this list, I’m surprised the Shadow doesn’t appear anywhere on this list. He’s a venerable pulp/radio hero who’s had plenty of cinema appearances. If The Phantom has a place on this list, The Shadow absolutely should be here too.

I think the most important titles for HMDs in the near future are going to be the ones that have support both with and without the headsets, like Elite.

I’m wondering if VR will be a good option for people who WANT to get into video games but cannot because the basic motor skills involved in competently working game controllers are too difficult for them to develop.

But someone says there’s a conspiracy, so there MUST be one! There’s even a movie about it! How can thousands of progressive suburban mothers be WRONG?

The thing I hate most about “blue aliens” and similar makeup effects where you just paint someone’s skin a different color is that it completely fails to take into account the effect blood and melanin patterns have on the color of our skin. There’s no way someone looks like Night Crawler and still has pink lips.

Doesn’t look realistic at all. You won’t get me with a “dinosaur” with no plumage.

The head might be animatronic, I guess. It’s either that or good ol’ fashioned puppetry.

Well, space. And Rayleigh scattering

Atmospheric diffraction and gravitational lensing aside (and, OK, half a dozen other forms of diffraction), light generally travels in a straight line. So, that day you were looking out over the horizon, you weren’t looking at Portugal. You also weren’t looking at South America, or Australia, or any other place on the…

Basically when the school tried to put the kid’s full name into their database listing of students, it caused the school’s database to delete itself because of a command the mother had embedded into Bobby’s name.

It seems like Youtube could do with putting together a profit sharing option that is intermediate to the two current responses. Certainly both sides of this deserve some compensation.