This has been a fairly interesting week in computer news, first of all, a number of articles about Intel stopping motherboard manufactuers from allowing overclocking on their non K series CPUs. I can certainly see why Intel would want to stop people from overclocking their cheaper lines of CPUs, They want people to buy the […]
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This is interesting, the popular VLC Media player is now 15 years old. I use VLC very often, it is probably one of the most flexible media players out there. I use it almost every day as it’s my default media player on all of my operating systems. I don’t have much else to say
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There’s an interesting article on Ars Technica about a man who spent 48 hours in VR with no ill effects. From the article, it appears that he was using the Vive, which allows movment around a larger space. I personally like to spend a fair amount of time in VR, though I only go for
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Here’s an interesting video on Doom I havn’t watched the entire video yet, it’s almost an hour long! From what I’ve seen, it’s very cool though.
I feel that they certainly do have some points in their video… VR does certainly have some hurdles to get over, the first VR craze will show us some examples of the hurdles that will need to be overcome. I’m sad that VR didn’t take off in the 90s, but at least it appears to
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I find it interesting that Palmer Luckey said that Linux support is on their roadmap, He also had some … choice words on Apple… Well, from what I’ve seen, Apple computers aren’t built to play games, so it does make a bit of sense, most Macs don’t have the hardware to push gaming VR headsets.
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Earlier today the Oculus CV1 preorders opened on oculus.com, to much complaining of the $599 price tag. I have pre-ordered mine, as I really do like my DK2 and DK1. I find it interesting that people are so agitated about the high price of this new device. Of course a high-end device like this will
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Well, this got me to keep on working on making my new build work the way that I want it to… My new build is almost complete, though I wasn’t able to do much work on it during my week off, seeing this reminded me of why I decided to make a new build in
7 Gamers, 1 CPU – Ultimate Virtualized Gaming Build Log Read More »
Ian Murdock, the person that founded the Debian Linux distrobution of Linux, and the creator of the apt-get program has passed away at the age of 42. It is a sad day when a person that has made a popular distro of Linux passes away. I use Ubuntu as my primary distro, which is based
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I was waiting for the Vive to become available during this season, but it was recently pushed back, they are now saying that the Vive will be released in April of 2016. It’s a bit saddening that people have to wait for a longer time before they can recieve the first ‘Consumer Ready’ VR Headsets.
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