• @HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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    13711 months ago

    Isn’t allowing the porn industry to be able to use your hardware crucial for widespread adoption? Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the fact that Betamax and HDDVD did this was one of the factors for their loss of market share?

  • VulKendov
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    9711 months ago

    Well then WHAT IS EVEN THE POINT I just wanna pretend to have sex with my ai generated girlfriend. But here I am COCKBLOCKED BY TIM FUCKING COOK.

  • @casmael@lemm.ee
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    7411 months ago

    Tbh I can’t think of any applications for this product that don’t involve porn

    • FuglyDuck
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      2511 months ago

      I play elite dangerous in VR as well as several other sims. (Including a proper training sim for RC aircraft with a connected TX.)

      If you go full hog with physical switches and everything positioned perfectly…. It can be extremely immersive technology. Like train surgeons immersive.

        • FuglyDuck
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          811 months ago

          Not really. She knows I’m a nerd. Not that I can afford a set up like that, but, I wouldn’t mind it.

      • @Akasazh@feddit.nl
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        711 months ago

        Train surgeons does sound pretty extreme and immersive, but I feel like I’m about to be disappointed by a typo

        • @Fungah@lemmy.world
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          TIM YOU NEED TO GET THIS TRAIN BELOE 100 KPH OR I WONT BE ABLE TO VLOSE ITS AORTAL VALVE. FO YOU WANT THIS FUCKING TRAIN TO BLEED OUT, MAN? NOW YOU GO GRAB THAT FUCKING ENGINEER AND TELL THAT SON OF A BITCH UNLESS HE WANTS TO EXPLAIN TO THIS TRAIN’S WIFE AND TRAIN CHILDREN THAT HE MURDERED THE MOST IMPORTANT TRAIN IN THEIR TRAIN LIVES HE WILL SLOW. THIS. FUCKING. THING. DOWN. GO, TIM GO!

  • Labototmized
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    2611 months ago

    Im so confused why this wouldn’t work and I didn’t see anywhere in the article the actual reason. Can anyone explain it better? Can you not just play a vr video file? Is it blocking the sites? I’m just confused.

  • @mingistech@lemmy.world
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    2411 months ago

    It works, you just have to adjust a few settings.

    Apps > Safari > advanced > features flags

    And you need to turn these 3 things on WebXR Device API, WebXR Augmented Reality Module, and WebXR Gamepads Module.

  • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    2011 months ago

    Well that’s shit. Even my OG Rift can do that.

    Pretty sure there’s an open standard for VR as well (WebXR), Chrome supports it but Firefox doesn’t.

    • @RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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      411 months ago

      Lots of smartphones can do VR video too, when you add a set of VR goggles that fit it. Just plain goggles with no electronics that hold the phone in front of lenses that you can strap on your face. It’s simple enough that it should be possible on any VR display system actually.

      • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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        611 months ago

        Well I wouldn’t know, but my friend tells me that if you go to https://vr.stripchat.com/ , put on your headset, click the big Enter VR button and then click allow, then you will be connected to a bunch of ladies who definitely are not Russian despite all being quite Russian, but also do not care much for wearing clothes.

        In surprisingly high detail and framerate at that.

  • @wahming
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    1211 months ago

    I’m confused, are there no media player apps for the apple headset? Any such app would allow for playing vr videos

      • @wahming
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        111 months ago

        What’s not in 3D?

        • Maven (famous)
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          511 months ago

          The porn only plays on a flat screen. It doesn’t support 180 or 360 degree video.

          • @wahming
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            111 months ago

            Yeah that’s what I don’t get. Vr porn videos are a thing, so the only way this could be an issue would be if apple isn’t allowing any 3rd party media apps and doesn’t support playing vr videos on their default app. Which is really, really weird for a vr headset

            • Kilgore Trout
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              411 months ago

              Maybe it is weird but Apple is master of limiting users’ choice.

            • Maven (famous)
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              211 months ago

              It’s almost like apple just takes established products and adds a ton of DRM to them until they are unusable for a large amount of the uses the original product had.

  • Uranium3006
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    VR tech is still too new for it to have mass appeal, the tech has to come down in price first before anything will happen in this space

    • HobbitFoot
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      2011 months ago

      VR has been around as a technology for decades.

      We are now at a point where people can walk around with a VR headset in without dying.