back to article Let's sum up Google's VR strategy so far: Making life less crap for a lonely 20-something

Google wants more for its Daydream virtual reality platform than phone displays framed in cheap cardboard. At its annual outdoor developer festival and tanning experiment, Google I/O, the Chocolate Factory presented minions to talk up the arrival of standalone VR headsets from HTC and Lenovo toward the end of the year. By …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Put down your VR headset and phone. Tie your bandanna, and fill your molotov cocktails.

    It's the only way life is going to get better.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Mazel tov!

    Please, kids. Never, ever, take a bottle and fill it with fuel and something to make it all sticky, like rubber bands and/or liquid detergent, then put a stopper on it and tape storm matches to the side. Don't do that, okay? Thanks. Mazel tov!

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I want...

    Dungeons and dragons VR! It would be rad!

  4. Gene Cash Silver badge

    I've always thought Kerbal Space Program would be great for VR. Sadly, with the state of KSP development these days...

  5. m0rt

    A few things...

    What is it with the Anon Cowards recently? I mean it used to be the case it would allow people to say something controversial or a truth which they don't want linked back to them. Now it seems...well ^ and other articles.

    Also, quoting your own tweets in an article? I know that modern media is sadly self referrential these days, but that is taking the piss. Unless this was the point and I am that subtle humour aware?

    And VR and immersive computing and all this bollocks. I am all for new and exciting technologies, but I am not about creating use cases just because. Find a need, fill it. Don't create artificial situations that fits around your current baby and start to believe your own hyperbole. That way lies derision and memes are born.

  6. Doctor_Wibble
    Trollface

    So, porn and shopping?

    There certainly seems to be a logic here, especially since my facetious remark about smutty VR and electromechanical assistive devices is somewhat nullified by finding out that Lowe's is a DIY store.

    Or something went whoosh but I had to look it up...

    1. DropBear
      Trollface

      Re: So, porn and shopping?

      Sorry but you're not doing 'smutty' properly until you wander into a DIY store only to find yourself seeing "alternative" uses for various bits and pieces...

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: So, porn and shopping?

        Just a DIY store...?

  7. ArrZarr Silver badge
    Unhappy

    Different levels of VR

    VR on a phone/untethered is horribly inferior to the experience you'll get on a proper setup due to all sorts of things - Graphical horsepower and accelerometer drift being the main two.

    We're still at a very immature stage for VR but the main focus for new devices seems to be on these budget sets as opposed to the quality setups which worries me for the progress the concept will make.

    I have an oculus rift (DK2) and I can tell you with sincerity that if you have the means to power it, VR is utterly incredible for certain genres but this won't be the case on an untethered system any time soon.

  8. RyokuMas
    Devil

    "Let's sum up Google's VR strategy so far: Making life less crap for a lonely 20-something"

    Find ways of gathering yet more information about you so that we can stalk you even more effectively.

    TFTFY

  9. sebt
    WTF?

    The Society For the Prevention Of Cruelty To the English Language writes...

    ["Our goal here is really to raise all boats by doing heavy lifting," Bavor said on stage.]

    The question is: if the rats leave a rising boat, does that help the camel dodge the bullet of the boat becoming the straw that breaks its back?

    "Baveur" in French means someone who dribbles. And this veep was blessed by his (?) parents with the forename "Clay".

    Not that I mean to suggest that what comes out of his mouth in any way resembles the dribbling of an amorphous, icky suspension of fungible, unrelated particles. No, in no way whatsoever.

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