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Heratiki, do games w Meta Quest 3 review impressions - one of VR gaming's best options

Except the need to be tied to Meta makes it almost the worst.

BURN,

Also since it’s meta PCVR is a complete second class citizen and won’t work as well due to technical limitations.

I’d still recommend a Reverb G2 to anyone who wants standalone PCVR with minimal setup needed. It’s far from perfect and the tracking is worse than the quest (tried both side by side), but it’s a great headset.

Heratiki,

I have a PSVR 2 and I’m happy with it even being locked into Sony’s platform. I’d like to try out the Reverb for sure so I’ll put it on my list. I’m hoping software updates can get the tracking dialed in.

ulkesh, do gaming w Unity CEO John Riccitiello 'retiring' from company weeks after pricing controversy
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Good. Whoever thought he would be a good CEO at Unity should also be fired. Time to clean house and promote people who have a fucking clue.

Cylusthevirus, (edited )
@Cylusthevirus@kbin.social avatar

Pretty sure that's these people, right?

https://i.imgur.com/hVeDn48.png

Edit: Actually this guy signed onto Unity in 2014 Unity was still privately held. It went public in September of 2020. Unity's founder, David Helgason is still on their board and served as some sort of Senior Executive whatever position at Unity. Dude still has a 4% share of their stock.

So anyway, probably this David Helgason character who hired him. And/or whoever else (including Riccitiello!?) who was on the board at the time.

The relationship between CEOs and boards of directors is so fucked up and incestuous...

In any case and in retrospect, Johnny boy was 100% hired to cue them for up for the eventual IPO and boy did he ever. It's amazing how fast companies go down hill when they become publicly traded.

ag_roberston_author,
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Look how many of them are from private equity funds. No wonder they chose him in the first place.

Cylusthevirus,
@Cylusthevirus@kbin.social avatar

"Know who should make big decisions about running our software company? Finance lizards, obviously!"

GhostMatter,

They get those people to help boost the credibility of the IPO and their experience in managing acquisitions and such.

ag_roberston_author,
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After the IPO, a companies only goal is earning money for shareholders.

Thalestr, do gaming w Meta Quest 3 review impressions - one of VR gaming's best options
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I cannot trust any publication that “reviews” a product like this without taking at least a little time to go over the legitimately harmful business practices against the customer.

shiveyarbles, do gaming w Meta Quest 3 review impressions - one of VR gaming's best options

Sounds cool… Oh it’s Meta, fuck Zuck

GammaGames, do gaming w Meta Quest 3 review impressions - one of VR gaming's best options

This meaning that glasses wearers will be able to use the headset from the off without having to buy extra spacers

Finally! Now if only they’d support a wider ipd

SheeEttin, do gaming w Unity CEO John Riccitiello 'retiring' from company weeks after pricing controversy

And they’re also rolling back all those changes, right?

RightHandOfIkaros, (edited )

Yes, they rolled back much of the changes. The new numbers are dialed back.

Amir,
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No

Kolanaki, do games w Zelda boss explains why Breath of the Wild's Guardians and Sheikah tech disappeared
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TL;DR - “Magic.”

jesusrp98,
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Laziness

iegod,

Something not turning out how you wanted doesn’t make anyone lazy you sack of potatoes.

DigitalPaperTrail,

the entire game can be a monumental task, but you can zoom into a very specific part and decide to phone that part in

Annoyed_Crabby, do games w 295K Minecraft fans criticise lack of new content in Stop the Mob Vote petition

Nice, mob vote is stupid and easily manipulated and also divide the fandom like british divide and conquer their colony.

Just ask the fans how they feel about Phantom.

Tibert, do games w DF Weekly: Is AMD's FSR 3 frame generation actually useful for consoles?

Yes and no.

Fsr frame gen was just released. Dlss frame gen wasn’t perfect either at release (even now it still has ui issues).

Fsr frame gen for me looks pretty impressive for a rushed release. I’ll need to see how it evolves and if amd can solve the antilag+ latency with frame gen and enhance smoothness.

I also want to see how amd can enhance fsr upscaling image quality, as currently the worse image quality compared to dlss frame gen is because of fsr beeing less good than dlss upscaling.

Here is the hardware unboxed analysis of fsr 3 : youtu.be/jnUCYHvorrk?si=RXUZMBJXLelM-h2O

For consoles, well it’s another reason for devs to create unoptimised games, while giving the 60 fps console players could “finally” experience, and want with the curent gen.

However on another side it’s also a way to get better smoothness (well see), at at negligible (for console players) image quality loss. Most console players play on a TV, pretty far from it. So quality won’t affect them much.

Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow,

Guarantee you the FSR-DLSS gap will be filled shortly after AMD has competitive AI coprocessors on their cards. People say a lot about all the training DLSS does on NVIDIAs cloud blah blah but the real reason it’s better is because it runs on hardware that is otherwise idle and so can just do more without eating into latency or performance. It’s the same reason XeSS on Intel GPUs is better than FSR.

What would really be impressive is if AMD can get FSR to leverage the AI cores on all three cards. If the goal of being “open” is trying to nullify NVIDIAs advantage then that would go a long way to killing DLSS as a point of distinction.

Sanctus, do games w 295K Minecraft fans criticise lack of new content in Stop the Mob Vote petition
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They could add they Aether. I’m not going to lie though, the beauty of minecraft is not the content. Its the emergent systems from redstone and the like. Unless I am mistaken and Notch intended for people to make functioning RAM and computers inside minecraft.

pimento64, do games w Zelda boss explains why Breath of the Wild's Guardians and Sheikah tech disappeared

That has got to be one of the most miserable jobs you can do with a white collar. Imagine trying to asspull Watsonian explanations for questions that only have Doylist answers to people who will mail you anthrax if you just tell them the truth, which is that Nintendo doesn’t give a shit about lore.

sugar_in_your_tea, (edited )

Yup. I’m a fan of lore in a lot of series, but that’s not why I play Zelda.

I play Zelda because it’s fun. I like the creative puzzles that aren’t super hard, but hard enough to require a little bit of thinking. I like that there’s progression, but no leveling system, so a lot of the progression is learning to use new tools. I like the silly side quests.

I’ve never really been interested in Zelda lore, so I’m honestly okay with things not quite lining up. I guess I see each entry as a separate universe where Link saves Zelda in a different way each time. Zelda games rarely have direct sequels, and I think that was the real mistake this time around. Just let me fight Ganon or whatever in a new cycle every time, I don’t need any kind of story coherency.

InEnduringGrowStrong,
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Planescape: Zelda where all Zelda universe coalesce into the city of doors. Wait, wrong franchise.

Chozo,

Lore has always been on the back burner when it comes to the Zelda franchise, and I imagine is a major part of why Nintendo so rarely makes any direct sequels to Zelda games in the first place, because they really don't seem to like continuity when it comes to Zelda. The only reason Nintendo even wrote Hyrule Historia and established an "official" timeline for the series (which didn't even make sense at the time, and makes even less sense with the games released after) is because fans wouldn't shut up about it.

TKRyer, do gaming w Unity CEO John Riccitiello 'retiring' from company weeks after pricing controversy

Anyone know how much this dude makes?

Fogle,

Probably enough to retire after a year

Fizz, do games w RuneScape ends Hero Pass following pay-to-win criticisms
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The worst thing about jagex is their management. They are so out of touch and only see runescape as something to squeeze money from. They should be happy they have generated as much revenue as they have from such an old game. Last I checked it was pulling in hundreds of millions in profit.

mindbleach,

From a game that looks like the Atari Jaguar got a modem.

Oh right, and the other one, which looks like the most anticipated MMO of 2009.

tha_frontline, do games w CD Projekt Red devs unionise after its third round of layoffs in three months

I don’t know how unions work in Poland, but here in Germany you should organize, when there are lay offs in your company.

Unions can bargain better conditions for the lay offs like higher gratuities (is there something like this on the states?) or create a point system, who gets laid off first (based on family status, age, the likelihood of finding another job…).

So: unions always make sense :)

sadreality,

Theoretically yes but union power has been eroded to the point where most wage slaves think they don't need a union yo bargain, we are all family here 🤡

shifty51,

If I work hard and enrich the company, they will surely share their success with me /s

aSingularFemboyHooter,

Man am I tired of being shafted for not having kids, the when it comes to holidays, covering for other staff and things, employees with kids always take priority and employees without don’t have an ‘excuse’. Extending that to layoffs is extremely toxic and punitive to younger workers.

tha_frontline,

I don’t have kids either, but to me it’s logical, that that this has to be taken to account. I mean, those are people who are dependent on the situation, it’s not like they could do anything on their own. I’m happy, that at least this is something, where humanity comes into play. And again: I don’t have children and I don’t want them in the future.

And like I said, there are also other points, like age, or how long the people are working for the company.

What would be your points, to decide if someone has to be fired? And no, firing no one at all is not an option in this scenario ;)

restingboredface,

(based on family status)

I’m all for unions, but identifying layoff targets based on these things seems like a sure way for the system to get abused. Single people and people without kids get stuck filling in for people with families already-taking layoffs for them is asking a lot.

Definitely agree on the spirit of your comment though- unionizing is pretty much always a good idea.

EdanGrey,

I feel like this would be considered descrimination

LinkOpensChest_wav, do gaming w Unity CEO John Riccitiello 'retiring' from company weeks after pricing controversy
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  • AdmiralShat, (edited )

    My only argument against your opinion, is that he actually has a trackable history of poor performance as a CEO and a trackable record of very bad monetization schemes. He’s the reason EA is the way it is.

    This isn’t the first company he’s ruined the reputation of.

    Granted, the board that elected him is still there. That’s an issue that will persist for a while.

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  • abir_vandergriff,

    He joined Unity in 2014. I don’t believe for a second that a board of investors agreed on anything for that long.

    tias,

    My only argument against your opinion, is that he actually has a trackable history of poor performance as a CEO and a trackable record of very bad monetization schemes.

    …which could be because he has offered this service to many boards in the past.

    zipzoopaboop,

    Him being fired is a necessary step for unity to regain an ounce of trust

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