Gutholtz, it's obviously not a big payday by Facebook standards, but I still think they would want to start getting some real income through the door, if only to show shareholders that VR is already commercially practical for a some basic uses.
Hopefully they let the Rift continue as it is, a practical VR headset for gaming, and spawn a separate (yet inevitably related) model to try and take down whatever it is that Facebook wants to do.
Hopefully they let the Rift continue as it is, a practical VR headset for gaming, and spawn a separate (yet inevitably related) model to try and take down whatever it is that Facebook wants to do.
I can't wait for the sponsor plug when they interview him.
Ough, I don't think I can handle it. Too damn pretty.
How can you be sure it isn't on getting on the keyboard?So I'm going to spew some drunk thoughts...
Firstly, as sim racers, I don't think this is too much to worry about. Oculus has already produced a perfectly functional VR headset for vehicle based games/sims. All we really needed was head tracking in 6 DOF and they gave that to us, plus a resolution increase with the DK2. Soon, if not already, VR headsets are going to be the gold standard for sim racing. With more time and refinement, I imagine VR headsets will be as common as wheel and pedals are for us. This will be Oculus' first big pay day and Facebook would be retarded to screw with that. It may be the only pay day for a while.
Reading Zuckerberg's speech on the acquisition of Oculus, one thing becomes clear. Facebook is going to try to vastly expand the market for VR headsets. He talks about expanding into sporting events and conference calls (the two examples I will latch onto and drunkenly attack from here on) and basically every other form of communication possible. For better or for worse, this is many years away.
First of all, we haven't even developed the technology to yet. I have no doubt that we could produce a 360 degree view of a basketball game from a courtside seat, but has anyone even considered developing that until a few days ago? Probably not. Similarly, what do you visualize on a Oculus conference call? A bunch of people sitting in a board room? That will require either cheap avatars or expensive cameras to record every person's movement to transmit to everyone else. Right now, the tech isn't there. While the Rift is already good to go for gamers, it has very little use for anything Zuckerberg described.
The second issue is immersion. Gamers strive for immersion, other people do not. I often turn on the news just to semi-distract myself while I try to do my homework. I don't want to be completely immersed in the news, I just want to tune in for the 1-2 stories I care about and tune out for the rest. VR headsets aren't worth it when you want to interact with the outside world.
That brings us back to Zuckerberg's examples, how the hell am I suppose to take a conference call or watch a sporting event on a VR headset while I'm trying to do even the simplest of tasks? During the conference call, I'm probably going to have some paper in front of me that I need to look at. While watching a sporting event with my bro, I'm probably going to need to be able to find where I put my beer. There's no way to do either of these things without breaking the immersion of the VR headset.
The simplest way to break immersion is to simply take the headset off. Easy enough for grabbing your beer, but not something you would want to do when you could miss valuable business information. That means we have a second option (which I pulled out of my ass in 30 seconds) in a secondary display. For looking at something outside of your headset, the solution is as simple as dedicating a portion of your display to a camera displaying what is physically in front of you. What about if, say, you're watching a football game and you get a text message? Wouldn't it be convenient if you didn't have to take the headset off to answer it. This is where Facebook comes in.
I imagine on of the first things we shall see on the 'Facebook' VR headsets is the ability to link up with your smart phone. What if you could keep watching the game while receiving an email or text message? A small icon pops up in the bottom of the screen and you indicate that you want to respond to by tapping your phone. From there on, part of your VR display is dedicated to what is appearing on your phone, showing you what keys you are hitting and what message you are sending. Before you know it, you have a while message sent without ever completely turning away from the game. Pretty convenient and probably the future of VR.
Firstly, as sim racers, I don't think this is too much to worry about. Oculus has already produced a perfectly functional VR headset for vehicle based games/sims. All we really needed was head tracking in 6 DOF and they gave that to us, plus a resolution increase with the DK2. Soon, if not already, VR headsets are going to be the gold standard for sim racing. With more time and refinement, I imagine VR headsets will be as common as wheel and pedals are for us. This will be Oculus' first big pay day and Facebook would be retarded to screw with that. It may be the only pay day for a while.
Reading Zuckerberg's speech on the acquisition of Oculus, one thing becomes clear. Facebook is going to try to vastly expand the market for VR headsets. He talks about expanding into sporting events and conference calls (the two examples I will latch onto and drunkenly attack from here on) and basically every other form of communication possible. For better or for worse, this is many years away.
First of all, we haven't even developed the technology to yet. I have no doubt that we could produce a 360 degree view of a basketball game from a courtside seat, but has anyone even considered developing that until a few days ago? Probably not. Similarly, what do you visualize on a Oculus conference call? A bunch of people sitting in a board room? That will require either cheap avatars or expensive cameras to record every person's movement to transmit to everyone else. Right now, the tech isn't there. While the Rift is already good to go for gamers, it has very little use for anything Zuckerberg described.
The second issue is immersion. Gamers strive for immersion, other people do not. I often turn on the news just to semi-distract myself while I try to do my homework. I don't want to be completely immersed in the news, I just want to tune in for the 1-2 stories I care about and tune out for the rest. VR headsets aren't worth it when you want to interact with the outside world.
That brings us back to Zuckerberg's examples, how the hell am I suppose to take a conference call or watch a sporting event on a VR headset while I'm trying to do even the simplest of tasks? During the conference call, I'm probably going to have some paper in front of me that I need to look at. While watching a sporting event with my bro, I'm probably going to need to be able to find where I put my beer. There's no way to do either of these things without breaking the immersion of the VR headset.
The simplest way to break immersion is to simply take the headset off. Easy enough for grabbing your beer, but not something you would want to do when you could miss valuable business information. That means we have a second option (which I pulled out of my ass in 30 seconds) in a secondary display. For looking at something outside of your headset, the solution is as simple as dedicating a portion of your display to a camera displaying what is physically in front of you. What about if, say, you're watching a football game and you get a text message? Wouldn't it be convenient if you didn't have to take the headset off to answer it. This is where Facebook comes in.
I imagine on of the first things we shall see on the 'Facebook' VR headsets is the ability to link up with your smart phone. What if you could keep watching the game while receiving an email or text message? A small icon pops up in the bottom of the screen and you indicate that you want to respond to by tapping your phone. From there on, part of your VR display is dedicated to what is appearing on your phone, showing you what keys you are hitting and what message you are sending. Before you know it, you have a while message sent without ever completely turning away from the game. Pretty convenient and probably the future of VR.
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So it took Reddit 8 days to turn a joke cryptocurrency into $50,000, enough to get a full livery on Josh Wise's car for the Talladega race.
Impressive.
Impressive.
From what I remember of the 2004 US GP, T4 seats are great. Depending on how high you go, you can easily see the whole front straight and the entire first turn complex all the way to the back straight. There's a small hospitality building on the inside of turns 3 and 4 that will block either the straight between turns 4 and 5 or the 5-6 chicane if your seats are low and and you're really far north, but other than that you can pretty much be guaranteed a view of almost half the race track. When I was there, at least, Stand J was packed to the gills because of the viewing opportunity.
The main advantage of general admission would probably be proximity. While grandstand seats in Turn 1 are quite a ways from the track, the spectator mounds (aka golf course) between turns 7,8,9, and 10 can be really close to the track. Same goes for the inside of Turn 1.
The main advantage of general admission would probably be proximity. While grandstand seats in Turn 1 are quite a ways from the track, the spectator mounds (aka golf course) between turns 7,8,9, and 10 can be really close to the track. Same goes for the inside of Turn 1.
Exactly, people are complaining that it isn't ear splitting, but forget that this is still a V6 turbo with straight pipe exhaust. If they don't think it's loud, then they ought to put a straight pipe on their own car and see how quiet it is.
I think it will actually do the sport some good to have quieter cars. Whereas you used to hear the cars miles away from the track, the new sound doesn't travel nearlier as far or strongly. That means less noise complaints around the circuits, nullifying one of the most common 'cons' of an F1 race to the trackside community. Yes, it will still be the loudest event most tracks have, but only by a significantly smaller margin.
Additionally, it could make the sport more accessible to casual fans. They won't need to worry about buying earplugs/headphones just to make sure their eardrums don't rupture and hell, you might even be able to take a toddler to the track without them crying the whole time.
I think it will actually do the sport some good to have quieter cars. Whereas you used to hear the cars miles away from the track, the new sound doesn't travel nearlier as far or strongly. That means less noise complaints around the circuits, nullifying one of the most common 'cons' of an F1 race to the trackside community. Yes, it will still be the loudest event most tracks have, but only by a significantly smaller margin.
Additionally, it could make the sport more accessible to casual fans. They won't need to worry about buying earplugs/headphones just to make sure their eardrums don't rupture and hell, you might even be able to take a toddler to the track without them crying the whole time.
It may have been much worse in person, but I felt like they could've kept racing for another 45 seconds to finish the race. It must've started raining earlier/heavier than it the broadcast let it appear to be.
Australians and the Australian GP might be even more cursed than the Andretti family at Indy.
We take plenty about torque and having trouble putting the power down, but I feel like a lot of drivers were having even more trouble slowing the cars down. Tons of lock ups and missed apexes, allowing for some intense battles and legitimate passing.
Rain sorta snubbed the Williams cars in Q3. I imagine they'll be moving up in the race.
It's not that hard to stay up for the start, but it's a miracle if I'm still awake by lap 15.
Just FYI, Niki Lauda claims the Mercedes engine only outputs 580 HP, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is just Mercedes downplaying their power.
Especially considering how Ferrari claim they are a further 75 HP less than Mercedes.
Especially considering how Ferrari claim they are a further 75 HP less than Mercedes.
I think it actually shoots flames, but I'm only basing that off the fact that other cars can do it.
There were a few short shots where you could see the P1 shooting flames, albeit briefly. The closest to the Porsche's blue flame that I can think of is the Lamborghini Aventador power lap(S17, Ep6). Pulling out of Chicago there's a sustained blue flame coming out of the exhaust and you can see it faintly at a few other points throughout the lap. I'm sure there was some wonderful editing done to bring out the blue, but those flames were very real.
edit: Also, I think it's pretty obvious that the P1 will beat the 918 and then the LaFerrari will beat both.
There were a few short shots where you could see the P1 shooting flames, albeit briefly. The closest to the Porsche's blue flame that I can think of is the Lamborghini Aventador power lap(S17, Ep6). Pulling out of Chicago there's a sustained blue flame coming out of the exhaust and you can see it faintly at a few other points throughout the lap. I'm sure there was some wonderful editing done to bring out the blue, but those flames were very real.
edit: Also, I think it's pretty obvious that the P1 will beat the 918 and then the LaFerrari will beat both.
I don't know, but it made things happen in my pants. HNNNNGGGGGG.
Anyway, the 2-part special should be epic. Cheap car challenge + 3rd world road trip + Top Gear tries to build something. It has the potential to trump anything they've ever done before.
1. Who will win drivers' world championship: Hamilton
2. Which team will win constructors' world championship: Mercedes
3. Who is the last finisher in Australian gp including dnf, retire, disqualified, last to drive over the s/f line: Chilton
4. Will 13 or more cars finish the Australina gp race (within 2 laps of the winner) : Yes
5. Who will score more points in 2014. Bottas or Massa: Massa
6. Who will score more points in 2014. Grosjean or Maldonado: Grosjean
7. Who will score more points in 2014. Räikkönen or Alonso: Alonso
8. What is the best race finishing result for Magnussen in 2014: 1st
9. Do you think Ricciardo will win at least one race in 2014: No
10. First driver you think will lose his drive during 2013 (miss at least one race): Perez
11. Will Caterham or Marussia score points in 2013: No
12. Who will win the pole position on the Sochi qualifying: Rosberg
13. Out of all sauber, force india, toro rosso and williams WHICH DRIVER will score the most points during the season: Massa
14. Out of Sauber, Force india, Toro rosso and Williams WHICH TEAM scores the most points during 2014 season: Williams
15: Do you think Simona de Silvestro will drive 2014 spec F1 car during 2014 season (free practise, testing or city run or whatever): Yes
16: Winner of Australian gp: Rosberg
17. Winner of Monaco gp: Alonso
18. How many points will the dwc winning driver have at the end of the season: 296
2. Which team will win constructors' world championship: Mercedes
3. Who is the last finisher in Australian gp including dnf, retire, disqualified, last to drive over the s/f line: Chilton
4. Will 13 or more cars finish the Australina gp race (within 2 laps of the winner) : Yes
5. Who will score more points in 2014. Bottas or Massa: Massa
6. Who will score more points in 2014. Grosjean or Maldonado: Grosjean
7. Who will score more points in 2014. Räikkönen or Alonso: Alonso
8. What is the best race finishing result for Magnussen in 2014: 1st
9. Do you think Ricciardo will win at least one race in 2014: No
10. First driver you think will lose his drive during 2013 (miss at least one race): Perez
11. Will Caterham or Marussia score points in 2013: No
12. Who will win the pole position on the Sochi qualifying: Rosberg
13. Out of all sauber, force india, toro rosso and williams WHICH DRIVER will score the most points during the season: Massa
14. Out of Sauber, Force india, Toro rosso and Williams WHICH TEAM scores the most points during 2014 season: Williams
15: Do you think Simona de Silvestro will drive 2014 spec F1 car during 2014 season (free practise, testing or city run or whatever): Yes
16: Winner of Australian gp: Rosberg
17. Winner of Monaco gp: Alonso
18. How many points will the dwc winning driver have at the end of the season: 296
Coming from a man that looks like that? Pfft, takes one to know one I guess.
Just dropping in to say, even after 6 years, this is still my desktop background.
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Yea, it's clear that the package can create some great racing. I think it's just a matter of pressuring the drivers/teams to create more risks. When there was a chance of rain ending the race, everyone started pushing for the front and that created pack racing.
The cold weather definitely helped too, 204 mph even with the restrictor plates.
The cold weather definitely helped too, 204 mph even with the restrictor plates.
That garbage bag will be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Of course he does everything he can to win, I'm just surprised we didn't see the high line try to hold their ground at all. They seemed much more forgiving than usual, but maybe that's just the difference between Trucks and Cup.
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Good strategy by Peters, but honestly, I feel like he was just asking for a wreck with all that defensive driving. I'm (surprisingly) happy that Kyle won.
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