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Sagebrush posted:i said "decent" graphics card, not ultimate poopsock gamer grade. alyx is very well optimized and you can run it with a 1060. (7 years old) a gtx 1060 still runs about $200+ these days. you're still talking about an extra $450 at the very least
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it only costs $700 to play this videogame! I like alyx but it’s not something anyone outside the Gamer World gives a poo poo about
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Aug 5, 2023 19:26
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cool that the price keeps going up with every subsequent post, good solid argument there but my point was that alyx is the killer app for vr, a genuinely great game and a unique experience you can't have any other way, and it's not that expensive to play (its target market will already have a fancy graphics card, you idiots) and yet even leet gamers aren't running out to buy vr headsets to play it. this is why i think that even if there is a killer app for 3d tv, people won't buy it. killer apps aren't enough.
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Aug 5, 2023 19:36
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l33t gamerz did go out and buy vr headsets to play alyx, then they played it, realised there was never going to be another game with that level of care taken over it again and got rid of them
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Aug 5, 2023 19:42
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also getting a vr headset that you need to maintain a meta/fb account with is loving stupid glasses/headset-less 3d is the way to go
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Beeftweeter posted:also getting a vr headset that you need to maintain a meta/fb account with is loving stupid stop telling me to just go outside
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:stop telling me to just go outside when you do tell them to make the lenticular screens
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Sagebrush posted:alyx is a fantastic game, and all you need is a computer with an ok graphics card and a $250 oculus headset, and vr still definitely has not taken off, so i doubt your hypothesis about a killer app for 3d tv hla is a good game but it's also just a game from a beloved dead franchise, to have the reach i'm talking about you need something like visicalc that people who have never even thought about using the device before will see and want to buy into.
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Sagebrush posted:i said "decent" graphics card, not ultimate poopsock gamer grade. alyx is very well optimized and you can run it with a 1060. (7 years old) Can you really? When it came out I could run it just fine but by the time I did a major overhaul on my pc it barely worked. Though I suspect it was bound by my quad core
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I dont know what you have to pay for a gtx1060 these days, but you can get a Rift S for $100. I know this because I just helped a friend find one on FB Marketplace VR is still not "cheap", but its not like it was in the 20-teens where you needed a monster cutting-edge machine to even think about it. A 6th-gen i5/i7 or thereabouts, a 1060 and a Rift S is not a gigantic ask, especially if you can also use that computer to play like 98% of all of the other PC games in existence
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Sweevo posted:nobody wants 3D. its a dumb gimmick the movie industry pushes every few decades in response to competing trechnology. in the 50s it was to counter rising TV ownership, in the 80s it was home video, and in the 2010s it was streaming. ... I said boo-urns  Honestly, it's pretty hard to actually do well, since it involves thinking about 3D when filming, without deciding to do the stupid jump scare stuff of just blasting poo poo at the audience. The Martian did this pretty well iirc, so did Avatar. Cameron specifically filmed Avatar with the intention of people using 3D glasses, and it shows with how well it was done. The 3D stuff really enhanced without overwhelming the rest. I do remember the lovely Beowulf movie having 3D in it, because one of the scenes had extremely large, pendulous breasts swing way back and forth towards and away from the audience while their owner scrubbed a table or something, which was a stupid goofy gimme of a bit, but it actually worked! Literally all I remember from that lovely movie. All that said, I usually try to grab the 3D screening of a movie. I am the idiot here who actually enjoys it!
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James Camerons Avatar is ugly, garish, and just a bad film. The jungle smurfs are gross, the plot is generic, and can anyone itt remeber a single cathcphrase or line of dialogue? The most ambitious tech demo, but what a stinker of a movie.
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The good Avatars are the Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. 
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axolotl farmer posted:James Camerons Avatar is ugly, garish, and just a bad film. The jungle smurfs are gross, the plot is generic, and can anyone itt remeber a single cathcphrase or line of dialogue? Dances with Yeah, it's a dumb movie, but I wouldn't understate just how good it looked, especially at the time.
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axolotl farmer posted:The good Avatars are the Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. those are animes and thus are extremely bad, and no adults should be caught watching them I mean Cameron's Avatar is also bad, boring and has so much CGI it should be treated as a cartoon
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avatar and korra are great though the james cameron movies were fun to watch too. not everything needs to be a meditation on the
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i read that they had to edit out all the giant blue cat buttholes before they released the film
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My abiding memories of Avatar are not noticing it had started and thinking this trailer was weirdly long, and the projection was out of focus or some poo poo so it gave me a stonking all-day headache
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laserghost posted:those are animes and thus are extremely bad, didn’t you get the update that anime is actually blood now?
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axolotl farmer posted:James Camerons Avatar is ugly, garish, and just a bad film. The jungle smurfs are gross, the plot is generic, and can anyone itt remeber a single cathcphrase or line of dialogue? Volmarias posted:Dances with to the catchphrase part, i also can't remember one from dances with wolves  the studio wanted a summer blockbuster and got it, but it didn't match the budding mcu format so it stands out as especially unmemorable it reminds me of how dune '84 was positioned as the next star wars with toys etc. but avatar wasn't particularly bad or from a canonical source, so it had no fandom to prop it up over time Achmed Jones posted:avatar and korra are great though 
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i remember reading a review of the avatar porn parody, i think it was either a horrors of porn or a fleshbot article
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axolotl farmer posted:didn’t you get the update that anime is actually blood now? .. anime is what now? 
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Roosevelt posted:i read that they had to edit out all the giant blue cat buttholes before they released the film Goatse'd by James Cameron's cat - in 3D!
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axolotl farmer posted:and can anyone itt remeber a single cathcphrase or line of dialogue? unobtanium lmao
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axolotl farmer posted:can anyone itt remeber a single cathcphrase or line of dialogue? "Yerr an avatar now Sully"
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Internet Old One posted:Am I the only person who liked my 3dtv? it was my roommate's but i enjoyed it, it was a passive 3d set too so we just wore glasses we stole from the 3d imax
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wasn't there a set that allowed glasses-less 3d but you had to sit exactly in designated spots? nothing like getting the family apart for movie night
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the 3ds is the only truly good in-home 3d display tech that isn’t a VR helmet and they completely wasted that tech by not porting ANY virtual boy games to it. a fact that I’m still mad about today.
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Iirc 3DS has a really neat port of Space Harrier, with great use of the 3D effect
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axolotl farmer posted:James Camerons Avatar is ugly, garish, and just a bad film. The jungle smurfs are gross, the plot is generic, and can anyone itt remeber a single cathcphrase or line of dialogue? *takes a dump on a special plant* "My jake!"
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Beve Stuscemi posted:the 3ds is the only truly good in-home 3d display tech that isn’t a VR helmet the 3ds would have been a great virtual boy bundle pack vehicle and now i'm mad. it's only what, 15 games in the states? and a bunch are nintendo properties!
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when i watch tv at home i want to also fiddle with my phone or a tablet, be able to see and eat from my snacks, see the cat, etc. 3d poo poo i have to wear for the "immersive experience" makes watching a show as much of a commitment as going to a.theater and if I had the time and energy for that tonight, I'd just... go to the theater.
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Agile Vector posted:the 3ds would have been a great virtual boy bundle pack vehicle and now i'm mad. it's only what, 15 games in the states? and a bunch are nintendo properties! nintendo memory-holed the virtual boy pretty hard, they didn't even reference it in another of their games until 2013 and you can count the number of callbacks since then on one hand.
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axolotl farmer posted:James Camerons Avatar is ugly, garish, and just a bad film. The jungle smurfs are gross, the plot is generic, and can anyone itt remeber a single cathcphrase or line of dialogue? i see you, axolotl farmer
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remember when htc and lg made some 3d phones
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axolotl farmer posted:James Camerons Avatar is ugly, garish, and just a bad film. The jungle smurfs are gross, the plot is generic, and can anyone itt remeber a single cathcphrase or line of dialogue?
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these people saying that avatar is smurfs underwater as if the snorks don't exist. uncultured buffoons
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i think i remember more from the avatar plinkett review than from the movie itself
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rotor posted:i see you, axolotl farmer
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I liked the part where Sigourney Weaver's character shouts "get away from her, you bitch"
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