Facebook buys Oculus Rift

[Wolfeman]

Potato / Potatoe.

I still believe much of the angst is due more to the fact that it's cool to hate FB and follow the crowd behavior than logic but to each his own I guess. No one was upset during the two rounds of venture capital raising after the kickstart campaign but now they are. Even tho the VC's would influence development to a point and FB has demonstrated a mostly hands off approach to the companies it has bought.

I grew up in the 80's. I saw VR when it was first a reality and I saw it die for the most part. With the exception of one game I find in arcades from time to time it died. We see VR in a lot of places but not immersive VR. If it stayed focused on video games it was doomed to die again or become like 3D TV. A passing fad. I saw it die once. I'd like to see it live this time.

 

[The Mighty Gerbil]

I guess I've just come to assume that contemporary science fiction and fantasy is written predominantly by angry atheists. Read enough George R.R. Martin's works and you'll come to wonder if a Catholic priest ran over his pet dog when he was a kid or something. When people call Martin "the modern Tolkien," I want to wretch; Tolkien's faith featured heavily (though not, in my opinion, heavy-handedly) in his work whereas Martin's bald nihilism in A Song of Ice and Fire leads me to recommend Christians avoid the series entirely.

The author's world view will find its way into the story and Firefly was no exception. I had just hoped (based on early episodes) that it wouldn't be nearly so antagonistic toward Christianity as later episodes revealed. In fact, early on, I thought it was cool that there was finally a sci-fi story where Christianity had survived in the future and was still being preached among new colonies on new planets. I also thought the shepherd character was actually interesting before he started prattling on about "believing in something" rather than specifics.

I'm encouraged whenever I remember that (in my opinion and, I imagine, many others') two of the greatest fantasy series of the twentieth century (The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia) were written by Christian authors whose faith permeated their stories.

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/Agree. That was pretty much my Firefly experience too.

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I still believe much of the angst is due more to the fact that it's cool to hate FB and follow the crowd behavior than logic but to each his own I guess.

I'm not sure how much people actually hate Facebook considering it's success but it's probably a cool thing to snub popular things like you said. For me I don't like Facebook because it's more eye rolling, people are too into themselves and each other social media. I don't want to post intimate details of my life to complete strangers and I don't want to read intimate details on strangers. I think I dislike twitter more though. No one needs a blow by blow of what celebrities ate and when they use the bathroom. I also dislike cell phones, like the aforementioned things they do have their uses but leave me alone already. I don't want to be found 24/7 and long for days you didn't have to have one (or even a beeper) to compete in business.

I grew up in the 80's. I saw VR when it was first a reality and I saw it die for the most part. With the exception of one game I find in arcades from time to time it died. We see VR in a lot of places but not immersive VR. If it stayed focused on video games it was doomed to die again or become like 3D TV. A passing fad. I saw it die once. I'd like to see it live this time.

I remember trying Virtual Boy's Mario Tennis in a Blockbuster and thinking no one is going to want to play several hundred dollars for one color, poor depth of field and a headache (plus it was tennis, TENNIS, not Zelda -_- ). I thought VR died in the 80's because the tech wasn't there (or more so the industry wasn't developed enough to make the tech but different subject). Jules Verne wrote Earth to Moon in 1865 and people were enamored with the idea but look how long it took to advance to the point we could do it. Certainly a more diverse usage will only help promote VR but I think VR could make it on games alone if it had too. It's just a question of how good it is and how much does one have to pay for it.

 

[Wolfeman]

For me I don't like Facebook because it's more eye rolling, people are too into themselves and each other social media. I don't want to post intimate details of my life to complete strangers and I don't want to read intimate details on strangers.

I use FB just to connect with family and a very few friends. In all I have about 25 "friends" on FB including family. You can set up FB to screen out a lot of things you don't want to see and set it up so only the people you want see the things you want to share. We also have a FB page for our family as missionaries. It's very helpful for those who want to follow us without having to go to our website. Finally, it's also very helpful when researching churches before I call them.

It's very popular and very main stream which is why I call FB hate, Hipster rage.

 

[The Mighty Gerbil]

I use FB just to connect with family and a very few friends. In all I have about 25 "friends" on FB including family. You can set up FB to screen out a lot of things you don't want to see and set it up so only the people you want see the things you want to share. We also have a FB page for our family as missionaries. It's very helpful for those who want to follow us without having to go to our website. Finally, it's also very helpful when researching churches before I call them.

It's very popular and very main stream which is why I call FB hate, Hipster rage.

Nods, right it does have it's uses like I said but that doesn't mean I have to like it. It's not like it's a venomous hate it's just an eye rolling whatever .