Yeah, they already kind of last forever if you take care of them. No need to pay any more money. I used a logitech mx1000 for about 10 years, it didn't fully die, but it was getting there. That was through my world of warcraft years. Since then I've been on a logitech g500s, also about 10 years now. I still only have to clean it about once every 2 years when it starts double clicking or not holding a click randomly. Turns out without world of warcraft they last even longer. To "clean" it, I just mash the buttons for about 10 seconds then shake the mouse upside down. Do that a couple times, then wipe up what fell out. Good as new for another 2 years or so.
Tarquinn2049
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It's a bit of a blend of it has always been a big deal, and that it is indeed more of a big deal still now because of how easy, accessible, and believable the AI can be. Like even nowadays, Photoshop hits only one point of that triangle. But it was even less capable back in the day. It could hit half of one of those points at any given time.
Basically, a nude generated by a good AI has to be proven false. Because it doesn't always immediately seem as such at first. If you have seen obvious AI fakes, they are just that, obvious. There are many non-obvious ones that you might have seen and not known they were fake. That is, of course, assuming you have looked.
The other reason it can be more of a big deal now is that kids have been doing it of other kids. And since the results can be believable, the parents didn't know they were fake to start with. So it would blow up as if it was real before finding out it was AI. And anything involving that is gonna be a big deal.
I put in "pr" and he came up. Elon definitely blocked it himself at some point and just forgot.
Being locked out only happened when it was a facebook account, that was the whole reason they went back to Oculus accounts. People would do dumb stuff on facebook and get banned, not knowing they would lose their games from that too. And despite the accounts being linked, they were still handled by two different departments, with poorly trained staff. You'd occasionally get someone that could restore your purchases, but the vast majority didn't know how and passed the buck and blamed the other team.
It was just a huge unnecessary headache. It doesn't happen anymore. You can be a huge jerk all you like on the internet and it won't cost your games anymore, it'll just cost what it normally costs.
As for headsets that work like monitors, it would be the ones that have HDMI or Display Port, ideally display port at this point as the res and framerate is getting up there and display port is more likely to be up to date on your hardware. They don't have their own games and can't be used wirelessly, but they should work for pcvr still.
This one seems to be one of the more popular options, but it also kinda sounds like it sucks. But, no account needed apparently. Not sure the value is worth the cost.
The current version of "meta" account is just reverted back to an Oculus account but renamed. It has the same functionality it used to when it was called an Oculus account. And specifically is missing all the functionality of a facebook account. You can optionally also have a facebook account connected to it if you want the social features, but you don't need them.
As far as I know there are no headsets that don't require an account, as buying games is entirely digital now. The account is how they know what games you have purchased. The only reason to not have an account is if they want to attract users that want to sideload games only and not get them from a store. There isn't much incentive on their end to provide that experience, especially since all the other headsets they are competing with are using the "game console" model, of selling the hardware at a loss, and making it up with software sales. Trying to be the one company that has to profit off the hardware sales too makes your headset look like a bad idea to buy. Even if some people would want that, the VR market isn't big enough yet for that to be a viable option. Too many people are just looking for the cheapest up front purchase, no matter what they have to sign to get that price.
Maybe 5-10 years from now it would be worth doing, but it's hard to say for sure if it ever will be. Imagine trying to launch a new console now that was similarly powerful to the current consoles, but costed 50% more. The upside being that it could run the games of both (somehow legally). That console may sound like a good idea to some of us, but how many? Enough? Probably not. Even selling hardware for profit doesn't mean profit from day 1, you need to sell enough to cover research, development, and manufacturing. Not to mention the salaries of all your employees. So, they might need to sell a million units before they are out of the hole.
Edit: there are VR headsets that are basically just monitors. You probably don't need an account for some of those. But they also are pretty limited in usefulness.
Wow, they really stretched what could have been a single sentence out.
I think I got an Allen Turner with a desk I bought from Ikea... Should I throw it out? The desk too?
To be fair, if they are doing it because he is rich, then he is indeed tricking them. Even with all the reasons why he should be rich; owning a bunch of buildings, rarely paying anyone that does anything for him, being born rich... he actually still isn't. He's so bad with money that despite all that, he's overall in the hole most of the time. Which is why he so vehemently defends any financial info coming out about him. It's a point of pride to him that people think he is rich.
He knows he's gonna get it wrong, so he wants people to think it's because he doesn't care, not because he simply can't learn it.
It turns out I don't have any spirituality then. I don't think the universe has any connection to good or bad things happening.
If it helps, my beard was super patchy underneath the 3 feet of hair that completely covers it up if it still is. Growing facial hair for most people is about being able to get through the patchy part. Movember helps if you want social cover. By the end of that month, if it still looks bad, you can decide then if it's worth continuing or shave it off when everyone else does. Secretly, that is pretty much the whole point of movember, a socially sanctioned event where no matter how bad it looks, you aren't supposed to shave it off. And it's for awareness of men's health issues. But mostly the first thing, hehe.
I mean, that was an issue in the first month or so. Though I could see if the automated tools people use for this specific purpose might not stay up to date. I haven't specifically interacted with those. But proper AI tools have in-filling to correct mistakes like that, you can keep the rest of the image and just "reroll" a section of it until whatever you didn't like about it is fixed. Super quick and easy.