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How are you even supposed to control this with just one propeller on top?
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:How are you even supposed to control this with just one propeller on top? Everything on indiegogo is a scam...
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Oh lord, in the comments section the idea guy says that one of their priority right now is a function like "go back home automatically if loosing connection". What about one of your priority being showing a working prototype? These guys are really selling dreams to gullible idiots.
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Sep 17, 2014 10:36
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They would be working for DARPA if they could produce a working prototype.
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I think Lowtax should review that piece of poo poo gender bender twist extreme whatever game. It's a shitton worse than Air Control. Air control is a masterpiece compared to it. *edit: on second thought they'd probably like that, cancel that request. posty has a new favorite as of 11:59 on Sep 17, 2014 |
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Sep 17, 2014 11:56
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Virtual reality has never been so mobile! Strap your iPad to your face and experience full immersion! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/768618350/airvr-virtual-reality-for-ios
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Sep 17, 2014 13:13
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Paladinus posted:Virtual reality has never been so mobile! Strap your iPad to your face and experience full immersion! 
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Sep 17, 2014 13:20
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I'm not saying you should punch people's ipad's directly into their dumb faces but
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Sep 17, 2014 14:57
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The biggest lie cyberpunk ever sold us is that any of this would ever look cool.
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Sep 17, 2014 16:20
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To be fair, it was the 80s/early 90s. What people thought looked cool then...
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My eyes ache just thinking of looking at a screen that close to my face for any period of time longer than a few seconds.
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Sep 17, 2014 16:28
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:The biggest lie cyberpunk ever sold us is that any of this would ever look cool. I was promised invasive biomods and trenchcoats. All we got was beveled edges and fiberglass. This future sucks
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Rosalind posted:My eyes ache just thinking of looking at a screen that close to my face for any period of time longer than a few seconds. it's got bigass lenses that do most of the work, in terms of your own eyes lenses it's more like looking at a screen a normal distance away. Still makes you look like an absolute prick though
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Fatkraken posted:it's got bigass lenses that do most of the work, in terms of your own eyes lenses it's more like looking at a screen a normal distance away. Still makes you look like an absolute prick though Yeah, I'm having to learn to suppress my giggle reaction when there are a dozen people around me wearing Rifts and waving their heads around like Stevie Wonder. It's too bad, too, because putting on a headset and playing a game or something would be a great way to kill time on a flight. The VR cinema thing on the Gear VR really is a great way to watch a movie. (This iPad thing seems like a recipe for vomiting, since the screens aren't low persistence and I think the movement sensors are pretty high latency.)
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Sep 17, 2014 18:48
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On the one hand, it isn't made out of cardboard and tape like Google's thing. On the other hand, .Eh.
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They made very sure that when you wear this abomination everyone will know its an iPad you have strapped to your face. This is the smuggest digital device yet.
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MrAptronym posted:They made very sure that when you wear this abomination everyone will know its an iPad you have strapped to your face. This is the smuggest digital device yet. 
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:How are you even supposed to control this with just one propeller on top? It looks like they were trying to depict a coaxial rotor setup without thinking about how they'll make the mechanics work at that scale. Plus it seems they've got some stiff competition for "world's smallest": http://www.helipal.com/walkera-qr-ladybird-fpv-2-4ghz-green-edition.html?gclid=CJDRrKa56cACFQQQ7AodFzcAtg
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Sep 18, 2014 01:29
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Televisiiiooooooon... Ruuuuules the nation...
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Cockmaster posted:It looks like they were trying to depict a coaxial rotor setup without thinking about how they'll make the mechanics work at that scale. To be totally honest, a lot of $35 mall kiosk RC helicopters approach a scale not enormously far from that (a main body a little bit smaller than a large smartphone, not counting rotors) and have coaxial rotors. I bought one in China that even works with my iPhone. It's not unreasonable to think that you couldn't build a far more expensive version with a built-in camera and rough autopilot like the brand new Parrot drone. Of course, it would never have that form factor, it would never fly remotely as high as the promo video seems to suggest, and its battery life would probably be in the >3 minute range, so... Paladinus posted:Virtual reality has never been so mobile! Strap your iPad to your face and experience full immersion! All obvious jokes aside, I really struggle to see how this is so egregious or even unfeasible to do. Google Cardboard is essentially the same concept, except that it's a DIY kit and you've got a Samsung GS5 strapped to your head instead. Hell, even DodoCase has their own cross-platform version. With the right lenses and software, it's not unreasonable to think that a bigger tablet screen couldn't be used to give a bigger FOV and immersion effect. I mean, sure don't wear it outside but it's not that offensive to me.
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Sep 18, 2014 20:22
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don't forget to strap a potty to your butt
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Well, it's official, Neal Stephenson's 500k kickstarter is officially dead. 500k to come up with the conclusion that "it wasn't very fun to play." http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/19/6531001/neal-stephenson-swordfighting-game-is-officially-dead
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"The game industry was too shortsighted to appreciate our amazing game. Also, it required a nonexistent and complicated controller. And it wasn't any fun. But, publishers!  "
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Ks updated their terms and conditions regarding what is an acceptable project. Anyone know what's new?
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So it seems Indiegogo is going to experiment with allowing campaigns with no set end date: http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/17/indiegogo-forever-funding/ This would be a pretty intriguing concept if it weren't coming from a site which has explicitly stopped giving a gently caress about overt scams.
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"look at how much money we could have made if we allowed star citizen to be funded beyond the campaign end date..." e: I just got Kickstarter and Indiegogo mixed up. Explosive Tampons has a new favorite as of 05:25 on Sep 20, 2014 |
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Cockmaster posted:So it seems Indiegogo is going to experiment with allowing campaigns with no set end date: So they're trying to be Patreon?
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Yes but with a dumber name
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Fauxtool posted:Ks updated their terms and conditions regarding what is an acceptable project. Anyone know what's new? According to the Kickstarter blog post about the update: quote:So what’s different? To begin with, we simplified the language, subtracted lots of legal jargon, and made the terms as straightforward and to-the-point as we could. We encourage you to read the full update here. It looks like the main change is this section: quote:
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Otisburg posted:I'm the donut mouth. He never recovered from Superman 64. 
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The difference is now Kickstarter is breaking their silence on projects that don't do what they say will and saying they should do what they say they will
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Alan Smithee posted:The difference is now Kickstarter is breaking their silence on projects that don't do what they say will and saying they should do what they say they will They're not going as far as to take any responsibility themselves if the creators don't complete their projects and/or send out the pledge rewards but they vaguely mentioned "they may be subject to legal action by backers" which is at least a step up from their previous stance of "Eh, you win some you lose some, caveat emptor."
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:They're not going as far as to take any responsibility themselves if the creators don't complete their projects and/or send out the pledge rewards but they vaguely mentioned "they may be subject to legal action by backers" which is at least a step up from their previous stance of "Eh, you win some you lose some, caveat emptor." Kickstarter's trying to distance itself from any sort of liability as the means by which said funding was possible because of incidents like this: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...o-deliver.shtml On one hand, Kickstarter's part of the same parasite economy that Uber and AirBnB take part in, risking little to nothing and gaining a lot through others, but they've made it possible for things like Wasteland and Shadowrun to get new games that wouldn't have happened otherwise since they aren't going to sell millions of copies and so big publishers won't give them the time of day.
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Fraud is still illegal. It just requires more legwork on the part of more people in this case.
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Alan Smithee posted:Fraud is still illegal. It just requires more legwork on the part of more people in this case. What I mean is that operating for airbnb or uber is more often than not completely illegal. Kickstarter isn't natively illegal like that.
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neongrey posted:To be fair, it was the 80s/early 90s. What people thought looked cool then...  I thought 80s cyber punk looked really neat
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