Half Life Alyx
After a couple of defective Reverb G2 headsets I finally got one that works (crosses fingers) and ventured into the oasis of VR.
Initially I was very hesitant to get into VR, with my only previous experience being when I played Dactyl nightmare, at the mall, in the early 90s as...
Well it looks like the third times the charm ... /crosses fingers. The third headset arrived late yesterday and it has had zero problems so far. No going black, no one eye cutting out, no 4-1 or 7-14 errors.
I was able to complete Alyx and move on to Medal of Honour without any crashes what so...
Nope, there was no foam inside the video card box. The video card was inside an anti-static sleeve, which was inside a thin bubble wrap sleeve. The card was free to bounce around inside the video card box and the video card box was free to bounce around inside the shipping box.
Well it works ... so I guess that is all that matters, but I did want to share pictures of the EVGA packing job for the replacement for my RMA'd 2080 ti.
Inside the box the video card was in an anti-static sleeve inside a thin bubble wrap sleeve. There is no visible damage aside from some...
So I just received a second Reverb G2 .... and its not working properly either. One eye cuts out at times, both go black, HL Alyx crashes as soon as I get in. Just incredibly disappointed
Such a piece of shit
I just wanted to add a further warning, as my experience with HP support has been absolutely terrible.
My first phone call and request to return the product happened on Jan 21st. Since then I have made 9 calls, spanning a call time of 2 hours and 37 minutes, and have made 4 separate requests...
The person I spoke to about the return said it would take 4-6 weeks for a replacement vs the 10 or so days to get a full refund so I opted for that.
I do find the timeline she quoted as curious ... I puchased the headset direct from HP Canada on the 14th and it arrived on the 18th ... but a...
The Reverb G2 sure was amazing ... for 5 days. Unfortunately mine is now dead.
I contacted HP and spoke with a tech guy, who told me that the breakout / box cord is failing for a lot of people and because it (the cord) is so far backordered he suggested I just return my G2 as it would probably...
It cost me a set of AirPods pro but I slipped a VR system by the wife. The HP Reverb G2 just arrived today. I was surprised how quickly it got here. I ordered directly from HP Canada and it was delivered 2 days later.
My previous VR experience was limited to the VR I tried at the mall back in...
I really should have paid closer attention to the dimensions of this before I printed it (14.41" x 20.67" x 17.24")... but it turned out amazing. It took weeks to print all the parts for the hydralisk but it is finally complete. There are some issues on part fitment in the tail, which I will...
A Stanford study, published last year found that working more than 50 hours per week results in a sharp decline in productivity. The same studies suggest that, for most people, working more than 55 hours a week drops productivity so much that it is nearly pointless. The study also found that...
My Thrustmaster HOTAS X is working great for this game. I have been able to map everything I have required so far to buttons, hat switch (POV) for power management, 5th axis for left/right auxiliary, on the HOTAS.
Tbh I was surprised by the amount of hype for the 30 series cards on this forum. So many posters were drinking the Kool-Aid marketing hype. I find this curious as I constantly see posts where members are very adamant about not pre-ordering games and waiting for reviews.
I am really impressed with the print quality of this machine. I really didn’t have to do much calibration in order to produce prints which surpassed what I was doing with the Stratasys UPrint SE a few years ago. The crazy thing is UPrint SE + wash station was ~30k CAD when my work purchased one.
So this arrived today
I'm a CNC milling enthusiast first, but 3D printing has always interested me. I have built a number of large format (4'x4'-8'x16") 3-axis milling machines in the past and I use and maintain my own home machine. The problem is I live in the great white north eh? and the...
The FF human torch is a reboot of the original human torch which was used to create vision:
"Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, Johnny Storm is a renovation of Carl Burgos's original character, the android Human Torch, created for Timely Comics in 1939"
Ya ... how about no.
“ A storyline in the Avengers, dealing with the secret background of its android member, the Vision, gradually revealed that the Torch's body had been found by a renegade robot named Ultron 5 and modified to become the Vision, his mind wiped of past memories and his powers...
The movies took a bunch of liberties ... but if I remember correctly from when I was young and collecting comics... Vision was created using the body of the human torch.
Its just amazing to me that people cannot only see that the supremely wealthy have privatized the profits and socialized the loses, but they actually support it ... to their own determent. And yet people still claim they live within a capitalist system.
The biggest tragedy of the current economic system is that corporations have convinced the general public to support unethical behavior like paying employees peanuts while they rake in billions and then they turn around and don't pay taxes on those billions.
Activision Blizzard Inc recorded a profit of $4.395B in 2018. The fact that employees are going hungry, and choosing not to have kids is disgusting ... and really should be criminal.
Just to add to this Activision Blizzard inc is an incredible tax dodger. Activision Blizzard paid out...
The NBA is likely the only league that will be able to run this year. The webcam fan thing, that the NBA has, is kinda interesting. They also have crowd noise that reflects both what is happening in the game and which team is the designated “home” team. I watched the Raptors vs Lakers last night...
Gatorade and 1 volt = Ferromagnetism
https://phys.org/news/2020-07-gold-valuable.html
In the study, the researchers used a technique called electrolyte gating. They took the non-magnetic iron sulfide material and put it in a device in contact with an ionic solution, or electrolyte, comparable...