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A decade ago, we were all using AR to refer to what Forbes is calling MR. It's just that AR of the day was somewhat limited. My understanding of the term AR was that it was always meant to refer to everything that was possible with an overlay over reality, including mixed interactions. Meh.

We're calling this a "classic" now? All I remember is disappointment.

Looks worse than any of the existing graphics enhancement packs that have been around for years.

Yeah, it's kinda funny how half of a large enough sample always tends to fall below the mean, isn't it.

If you know it happened to you, then the "glitch" was effectively sandboxed. Not on the same order as what you should be calling a delusion. I would argue that a glitch in the brain has too much explanatory power for its own good. Hell, if you lost a leg in a shark attack, it's probably more...

Have to admire such brilliant scientific reasoning. Who knew they had a falsifiable theory of ghosts that should have been detected? Oh wait, they didn't? Well, crap. I guess anything the LHC failed to detect must also not exist. So much for the existence of dark matter, since we've detected no...

You would first have to ask yourself what "good color accuracy" has represented up to now. Few here have wanted to go down that rabbit hole.

Both right on the mark. If you want to be a successful mobile dev, you need resources beyond what most fledgling indie studios can muster. Multi-platform, free-mium with in-game purchase options out the wazoo, an ad campaign, and an army of Chinese people to exploit game the system for maximum...

Never heard such a claim before. Usually only hear about the likes of Google or Facebook offering top-pay for developers, never game studios.

Waiting for someone to chime in asking how this is any different than a crappy Photoshop filter.

Still enjoying mine. Not to say that it's flawless, of course. If there was a revision with larger face buttons and slightly smaller touch pads, I'd be all over it.

Why is it you can only debate tangential points and do tone policing rather than say anything of substance?

An argument is pretty much dead when you've reached the point of meta-argument. That said, bring on the crap slinging. Fortunately, correlation does not imply causation. Blah, blah, blah, I won't bother quoting it then if you care so little. It is amusing, however, to watch you insist that your...

I feel like I'm playing chess against a pigeon here. Conflate? I have clarified and distinguished everything there is to distinguish. I have a copy of High Dynamic Range Imaging by Reinhard, Ward, Pattanaik, and Debevec on by bookshelf, from 2006. I know damn well the difference between things...

This couldn't be any worse if you actually were trolling. No, you decided that it was all about buzzwords. It's a straw man. Stop bringing it up. Its only relevance to the thread is terms of the stupid misconception that when people in the industry talk about HDR, they're talking about some...

Now w'ere just talking past each other. What did you not understand? We already have higher bit depth. We've had it for a long time. We just haven't been displaying it directly. Sigh. Higher bit depth can represent whatever you need it to represent. That includes both finer accuracy and broader...

If the majority weren't already massively ignorant about the topic, I'd almost suspect you of trolling with that one. So yes, games have to output something like 8-bits per channel, because that's a necessary step on the way to getting an image on a traditional display. That has nothing to do...

So I was correct, and you're mistaking post-processing done on top of HDR as HDR. Bloom is not HDR. On an actual HDR display, the need for some such effects is minimized or eliminated, because real-world optics come into play.

Cite some examples, please. What exactly do you think happens when you're "turning off" off HDR in these games? There are only two possibilities for a "Turn off HDR" button. It either switches to a completely different render path, which is a hell of a lot different than just turning off a...

All this, and no one's even mentioned the subject of linear color space. Exactly. You'd think, on an enthusiast site, more people would know how this works. Games have been doing HDR linear color space for a freaking long time now, tonemapping the result back down to a gamma curve. No, you...

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ I have not waited over a decade to put up with this crap.

They are indeed artistic renderings, because you can't display high-dynamic range on conventional displays. The content may have been HDR at one point (or not), but the content being presented by photographers, by the time you see it, has been downsampled to LDR. Bingo! Because you don't have an...

Oh great, an AI designed to fail to learn from history.

Furthermore, we can finally achieve saturated colors at high luminance, as with the sun shining through stain glass windows, fall leaves, grapes, wine, etc. The colors, man. The colors.

Another detail worth pointing out is that any modern game engine is calculating lighting internally with the equivalent of HDR. Same goes for most modern film production.

I've been trying to explain the concept of HDR displays to peeps for over a decade now, and most still don't get it. The content finally starts showing up, and I've almost lost the patience to bother. Almost. I'm still pissed over Dolby buying out BrightSide way back when. Indeed. If the panel...

Been using mine since Christmas and I don't get the hate. I'm posting with it right now even.

If that's the kind of argument you're going to make, then we may as well have fairies and leprechauns in the next film. I'm sure it can be made into good campy fun and be easily justified.

I wonder if I can get that old X-Files game to run nowadays. Must be in a closet somewhere. Whelp, I know how I'm wasting the rest of my evening. Thanks, FBI!

Well that blows.

Sigh. I need to stop watching that entire review every time someone links to it or I'm never going to accomplish anything with my life. :p

Sex in film is a terrible source of education about safe and responsible sex. I'd be perfectly fine with more real sex ed in school and less sex in films kids might see.

Could have sworn we were doing better in terms of violence and killings in the US, not worse.

Quests, sure. Minecraft would benefit for having some kind of questing system. Story isn't a big draw to a sandbox game, so meh. As for graphics, what exactly does one expect from a game about placing and removing blocks? How much better is a block-based game supposed to look beyond already...

May as well put me on your ignore list, since you're on mine. So here we've established that you believe MS is collecting and storing private / sensitive data. No matter how they're supposedly anonymizing the source, unless they're going through that "complete system data" with fine-toothed...

So the official defense is basically: "You have no privacy, no expectation of privacy, and are stupid and wrong for wanting privacy, but don't worry, everything is anonymous, so you have privacy." Gonna hafta call B.S. on the Microsoft shill logic here.

Yes. The outsourcing efforts haven't delivered as well as we hoped, and we haven't been able to bring in the H1Bs fast enough. How else are we going to flood the market and keep wages stagnant for another 10 to 20 years?

I found it rather poetic, personally.

So basically, "I have no idea how any of this really works, but I can't understand why smart people haven't fixed it yet." Such brilliant analysis.

If religion had any bearing, we wouldn't be having this discussion, because the girls would all be married off, before they turned 12, to 40 year old guys. Note that there's less concern here about the teens actually having sex than there is the fear that some third party might be getting off on...