To Translate : “Net Neutrality is great, as long as it doesn’t impact my company’s stock value. You understand? It is great up until the point when a new disruptive app hits the market like ello or WhatsApp or something like it and I have to get into a bidding war with Google to keep those fuckers from burying my…

Excellent point. I can’t believe people think a whole new medium will flop because in a couple of months it may become available at a 300-500 price-range. When HD came, I spent $4500 on a top of the line 58” HDTV. It had great picture, but was rear projection and big as a house. Now you can get better, bigger picture…

People have already been interested in VR. It’s one of the promises of the future — it’s like flying cars or humanoid robots. As soon as someone can produce a reliable model at a price I can afford - not a price I like, just one I can actually pay - they will be successful and a cultural phenomenon.

I paid something equal to $300 for my racing wheel setup, and that’s still only a fraction of what real racing enthusiasts tend to pay for whole rigs with racing chairs. That too requires a console or a computer to actually run the software, but it doesn’t add nearly as much to the experience as a rift does.

Your analogy would make sense if VR was anything like watching a 3D movie. Most people thought buying glasses and then buying 3D blurays was too much money and hassle for the experience provided (a lot of people don’t even like 3D movies!)

This must be what it was like at the dawn of cinema. “Why would people pay to see moving pictures of a train? I can see a real train for free!”

No one need two or three monitors to play a game but they do anyway, because they want & they can.

in my workout area....way more fun to ride my 'Bike' on another planet than stare at my cement block walls....

Or he will. Look at it this way: over 100 million Wii consoles have been sold worldwide, and the majority of those games require that you actually get off your ass and move around, and many require that you move a lot within a fairly large space. So, it’s not like there’s not a precedent. It’s probably fair to assume…

I have a 12'x15' room in my basement with no furniture just waiting... and waiting...

Because the government, and not you, gets to determine what “law-abiding” means. With over 27,000 federal laws on the books you are guilty as hell of something. Or if not, you soon will be. You DON’T get to have any say in the matter. If the feds want you they’ll find a reason to get you.

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

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