Not that big problem on a living room TV, considering the distance I sit off the screen. Either way, beats the hassle of moving the big PC to the living room. Plus, the tech will only improve from here.

I've used it a bit during the beta, and it worked surprisingly well, only requiring me to drop game resolution from my monitor's usual 1080p to 720p in order to play lag-free. My days of routing long cables through the house or carrying the PC box around are gone, pretty much.

I'll say what Nintendo is doing right: it's what they've always done - fun games.

now he needs one of those vests with comoressed air pockets that give physical feedback when being shot.

To be fair, threes does have faces and characters. The whimsical art and sound direction really add to the game's charm, and are another reason why it's far superior to its imitators.

ugh, no dude. Never even touched your hemorrhoids. That's gross.

Ten. In order of most used to least used:

Three ways it could look even better:

There is ONE big difference the upgrade in graphics will do, other than looking gorgeous: The game will be much clearer when playing four-way splitscreen. At 480p, things looked a bit indistinct at a distance, but I'm certain 1080p will help a lot.

Eh. Go back and read again. At no point did I say the project isn't going to go forwards under Facebook. I'm sure they can do much more now, with much more money thrown at them. I'm worried, however, that FB will want to recoup that investment by using the same techniques they already use to make money in all of their…

It was clearly being pushed as gaming-focused hardware, which could be used for other objectives. I was expecting to use it for research on my own field, in fact. The thing is, it was supposed to be a piece of hardware, no strings attached, which you could use for any situation, with a very open ecosystem so anyone…

I never said I had any proof of those things. I said they might happen or are likely to happen, and that it would be a bad thing. The reasoning is: at this point, FB will be thinking "how can we make money off this thing?" and Facebook's usual solution is "data mining and advertising", since that's how they make money…

sorry =(

To be honest, I don't think Nintendo would be a good choice right now, as I stated in the other reply. They have VR experience, hardware experience, and healthy respect for their customers, but they tend to be a bit too closed for their own good.

Admongering is fine in the Facebook environment. It's the datamining and user information brokering that's a problem. If the ads make it into the rift, it'll be a big nuisance. If datamining makes it, it'll be a deal breaker.

goatse moolator.

"Where is this user facing camera? I've not heard of it once."

"How are they going to use the rift to track who you talk to"

Nintendo has over 10 billion dollars in the bank*. It would be a big investment, but considering they have already dabbled in the realms of Virtual Reality and 3D, it wouldn't be uncharacteristic of them. They also need something big to pull back into the hardware arms race, in which they've fallen far behind. The…

The "data mining" is one of the three reasons why I'm concerned about Facebook. I don't trust they'll use my personal information (where I spend my time, who I spend it with, what my interests are) for purely good purposes.