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Omegalazarus t1_jc3nsja wrote

Reply to comment by mccannr1 in Stadia’s pivot to a cloud service has also been shut down | After Stadia's commercial failure, the pivot to Immersive Stream for Games is dead, too. by chrisdh79

Yeah I did a focus group for it in like 2016 or 2017. It was pretty cool. They came to my house and checked out my gaming setup and wanted to check out kind of other stuff that I personally like outside of gaming. Probably trying to understand the demographic and paid me pretty handsomely for the task. Of course they didn't tell me what it was, but they did ask me who I thought would bring this type of console list. Streaming video game tomorrow and I said Netflix or Google.

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Omegalazarus t1_jc3ncr5 wrote

Reply to comment by VideoGamesForU in Stadia’s pivot to a cloud service has also been shut down | After Stadia's commercial failure, the pivot to Immersive Stream for Games is dead, too. by chrisdh79

Is it streaming the game back and forth constantly using more energy than downloading it once? I mean I'm actually asking. I don't know how those things rate up. It just seems to me that a 1 hour of downloading versus say 20 hours of streaming the game over a server...

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hibi_chan t1_jc3fb6i wrote

Reply to comment by schmaydog82 in Tim Cook bets on Apple’s mixed-reality headset to secure his legacy by DarthBuzzard

So like, Apple has more experience making all hardware of every type than any other company, is that it? By being Apple, in your mind they immediately have more experience making say electronic keyboards than an electronic keyboard maker? Because that is basically what you are saying. Oculus has 11 years experience making headsets, Apple has lets see…0 years experience making headsets.

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schmaydog82 t1_jc3dwk0 wrote

Reply to comment by hibi_chan in Tim Cook bets on Apple’s mixed-reality headset to secure his legacy by DarthBuzzard

What in the fuck are you talking about dude? I don’t give a shit about this headset, I was literally just saying what I think he meant by it. Whether it’s the case or not Apple obviously has more experience in the hardware industry and that’s all I was stating. In my opinion this headset will be a flop as far as the consumer market goes.

People always jumping to fanboy lmao, that’s the real straw man

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hibi_chan t1_jc3dlxm wrote

Reply to comment by schmaydog82 in Tim Cook bets on Apple’s mixed-reality headset to secure his legacy by DarthBuzzard

That’s a case by case basis, and a total straw man in this debate. Nothing indicates Facebook has done anything to ruin Oculus in any way, instead they have provided massive amounts of funding for R&D. It’s also not the point I was making not related to the original post. A non hardware company can acquire a hardware company, thus establishing itself in the hardware business without having to build up anything. A hardware company can also make a product that flops, there is no guarantee of success by simply being a hardware company. In this case it is apparent Apple brings nothing to the table. Apples own engineers didn’t even want to launch this product, it was demanded they do. You along with others are simply fanboys of Apple who think that Apple can simply wade into a space without any technological achievements and attain success, and that FB isn’t a hardware company so they don’t know what’s they are doing. And I replied they don’t have to - they paid billions to acquire a company that did and does, making your arguments dumb, insubstantial, and not rooted in fact.

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hibi_chan t1_jc3apoy wrote

Reply to comment by schmaydog82 in Tim Cook bets on Apple’s mixed-reality headset to secure his legacy by DarthBuzzard

Do you not understand what acquisition means, or what Oculus does? Oculus makes hardware, specifically, headsets. They make the best ones in the world by a long shot. The industry was nowhere near the size expected, because vr is simply not popular. Apple brings nothing new to the table, doesn’t have 10 years of vr hardware expertise, the patents, nothing. Their headset has nothing groundbreaking get it? Why do you think copycatting a basically unpopular piece of hardware (at least compared to most mainstream electronics) would be any different here?

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schmaydog82 t1_jc34q0i wrote

Reply to comment by orchid_sprout in Stadia’s pivot to a cloud service has also been shut down | After Stadia's commercial failure, the pivot to Immersive Stream for Games is dead, too. by chrisdh79

I disagree, I think Stadia could have done pretty alright if they just marketed it better. It was truly amazing how well it worked especially compared to other cloud gaming services, and this is coming from someone with a 3080 and a PS5.

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