I guess you weren’t around at the time or don’t remember the backlash against the idea that you had to be online, or at least perform online activation, in order to play a single player game - because in 2004, far fewer people had internet, and those that did didn’t have it in every room of the house (Wi-Fi wasn’t…

Source? (No pun intended there) Because, at time of writing, all they had said was that it is called Half-Life: Alyx and that it is a VR game.

I guess he means everyone should just watch video games instead of playing them, which seems to be a thing among youngsters that I’ve never understood.

Rumour consensus is that it’s a prequel to HL2, so it will be following Alyx with whatever she was up to before she found Gordon Freeman - so while he was in suspended animation or wherever the G-Man was keeping him.

The price is a real barrier to entry (especially if you need to upgrade your PC as well), as is the physical space requirement, but I managed to get a pretty good deal on a pre-owned Oculus Rift and have been really enjoying a lot of what I’ve played with it - but I wouldn’t say that it’s an unmissable experience.

Perfect rebuke from Pandaman there.

Yeah I think Jason’s monkey paw analogy was spot on.

My thoughts exactly! The Lab is a lot of fun and I spent way too much time playing fetch with that robot slinky dog (a highlight of my VR experience was when I reached down to pet him and felt the nose of my real life dog, who had obviously wandered over to find out what the hell this stupid headset was for, so that…

Agreed. There are lots of people saying “This is going to be a flop because not enough people will want to buy VR for it” but, while I don’t know how much it’s going to cost to develop, there is enough of an install base across all VR headsets for it to sell pretty well for a VR game, and even if it doesn’t, Valve is…

SteamVR is open - meaning any VR headset currently on the market is compatible with it - and I don’t think there’s been a game yet that works with one headset and not others. For example, I have an Oculus Rift, which works with everything on Steam despite Valve’s headset of choice previously being the HTC Vice and now…

I got my Oculus Rift for $200 - because it was the headset only, being sold as “for parts or not working” on eBay, and I got lucky because it was just the cable that was broken and they’re easy but not cheap to replace, but then I had to buy the sensors and controllers, so it was $300 before I was able to play…

And $2,000 PCs and enough room for a VR setup.

Yeah, that's the short version!

Yeah, I love the drama that can be found in the minutiae of “normal” people’s lives in the Star Wars universe. The world is richer for knowing that powerful beings like Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker exist in it - and for having seen their stories - but not every story needs to be about their kind.

These are the versions that have been in syndication and on Fox’s streaming service for the last however many years so, yeah, they just inherited them and ran with it. For every person who cares about watching things in the correct aspect ratio there’s an average viewer who doesn’t care and someone who’s probably too…

This is not something that’s being applied on-the-fly - i.e. it’s not a case of the original 4:3 versions being stored on the Disney+ servers, but the Disney+ software only showing part of the image when they’re being played.

I liked it to, but my point was that it seemed to only exist to explain/enhance one single scene in Star Wars - because it explains away the parsec issue and also establishes that Han can shoot first.

You know there's a whole rainbow of colours and that not everything is either black or white, right? 

So Solo?