citation needed.

The 19 million without internet access are extremely unlikely to be interested in next gen video game consoles, as are those that live in areas with access to broadband who choose not to subscribe to it.

Interesting - still so many thing to learn about how to best interface with this sort of thing. Man, I'm dying to try it out in person!

Team Fortress isn't really a game designed with VR in mind, though, this is mostly just a 'look, it's neat' tech demo. Shooters designed for this are going to be very different kinds of games.

I guess we'll see - it seems like a heightened level of video recording in all aspects of our society is almost inevitable, though. Does anybody think twice about cameras all over grocery store and retail stores? At every ATM? On city street corners? Throw in drones and ever-more-sophisticated satellite cameras and…

Well, it's certainly a social phobia that makes people uncomfortable, but so were car phones 20 years ago, or webcams when they first launched. New and unfamiliar technology triggers all our fear-of-change impulses, but once it's ubiquitous, nobody will think twice about it. One guy at a coffee shop with Glass will be…

People said that same kind of stuff about smart phones, too. Lawnmower Man was a loooong time ago.

It's happening now because we finally have the consumer-priced versions of the technology. Tiny high-resolution screens, computers than can render stereoscopic 3D, and low-latency motion tracking for your head. It wasn't possible for $1,000 5 years ago, next year we'll have it for $300. Figuring out the best input…

Yeah, I'm being facetious, but before it launched the comments on Kotaku were filled with Big Brother conspiracies about the Kinect (well, Project Natal at the time) spying on us. Sadly, the old comments aren't archived.

You're more than welcome to - I've got a guest room!

I follow the artist who did that on DeviantArt - here's his page:
http://mr—jack.deviantart.com/

Well, I'm certainly interested in BattleBlock Theater after all these years, and a third playthrough of Borderlands with more leveling sounds pretty fun.

If by 'naive' you mean 'not scared all the time,' then, yeah. The fear you have of being controlled is, in fact, the thing that's controlling you.

Absolutely those sites! Look at what 4chan-spawned Anonymous has done. Look at how Craigslist has redefined aftermarket sales and casual sex. How Facebook brings the internet to the less tech-savvy, or even how porn shapes the way we think of supposedly-deviant sex. Transparency and access have changed all those…

I would not care one tiny bit. That reaction seems completely paranoid to me - do you hang out with people that want to make parody compilations of you or actively craft ways to deceive you? Because you should stop hanging out with them!

In the world I live in I simply don't hang out with assholes. As far as the joint-recording, what decent employer is going to let that sort of unscrupulous and obviously manipulative behavior be rewarded at your expense? Certainly, there will be some bumps in the road, anecdotally, but no business culture can survive…

But who is going to do that? It's an empty fear. Transparency has opened up dialogs just like this, all over the world. Are there examples of it being used for ill? Of course. I'm not espousing specifically Google products, but this is certainly the first major attempt at internet-enabled hands-free recording devices,…

You're projecting a 'bold/asshole' state of mind on this, it's not inherent.

It's just like when Kinect started getting people arrested after MS sent all their secret recordings of your living room to the government.

Why care if you're being recorded, though? What is everybody so afraid of - that you're going to be seen in the background drinking coffee in a video that only the uploader's mom will see? That a houseguest is going to use that footage of you smoking a joint last year to blackmail you at work?