It's funny that there's one incident of class violence in the other direction, and think tanks suddenly start pushing drivel like this in attempt to control public perception.
Sadly, those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
It took me longer than I'd like to admit to realise this was satire. Pretty good read, TBH.
How would that even work? Like, small segments in immersive VR? That seems... very specific.
Yes exactly. They did this in theatres where small sections of the movie would be in 3D. There'd be a blinking icon to tell you when to put your 3D glasses on.
The problem with 3d anaglyphs is that there's a tradeoff: To get the depth information across, there's a big loss in colour reproduction. It's fine as a gimmick, but doing the whole movie that way probably isn't the best idea.
VR headsets just have a different set of tradeoffs (hot, sweaty and isolating ;) which make them basically equally undesirable for a good viewing experience.
The idea behind having only sections in 3d is that you only accept the tradeoffs when they're most worthwhile.
It'd actually be kinda cool if there were movies with supplemental VR. That is, mostly 2d but with VR headset sections. I know they had this in the theatres in thr past with red/blue VR glasses, but it'd look so much better with a good VR headset.
The issue is that it's a bit of a hard sell within an already limited market segment. You'd need to already have a largeish TV, and then also a 3D headset on the same PC.
I'd think most VR enthusiasts would have their VR on either a standalone unit or on a gaming PC, not on their HTPC.
As you've said, watching an entire film in VR is kinda ass.
Just embrace being horny on main. :) Unless you're American. Then instead of you coming, they'll be coming for you in the next 4+ years.
Yep, agreed. It's the potential for exploitation that's the main issue.
Don't get me wrong, Vanguard is BS, and I quit playing riot games because of it. However, simply having low level access isn't sufficient to classify it as spyware, otherwise drivers would be spyware. I still haven't seen any evidence that it currently does anything nefarious with that access, which means it's quite unlikely it's being used for mass surveillance.
To me, there are 2 problems: 1) It could be used for targeted attacks, and the likelihood anyone would find out is much lower than in a widespread surveillance scenario. 2) It could be used to deploy a massive bot-net.
I think the US reclassification here is precautionary in nature.
Wait, there's a client that supports user tagging? Which one?
I mean, there's always been speculation that Vanguard is spyware. There's absolutely no need or justification for always-on cheat detection.
The implication is that disproportionately helping black people is somehow problematic. The article itself is actually much more sympathetic. Makes me wonder if it wasn't an editorial decision.
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