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posted by martyb on Wednesday October 18 2017, @06:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the did-you-see-what-they-did-there? dept.

You can't escape virtual reality.

VR headsets from Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Samsung are getting ready to hit the market. Their goal: to give you an easy-to-use virtual reality experience with your PC at a lower price than competing headsets from the likes of Sony, Facebook and HTC.

That's the promise of VR powered by Microsoft Windows, the software that runs hundreds of millions of PCs and tablets around the world. When Microsoft begins sending out a free update to Windows 10 on Tuesday, it'll power VR headsets as well. It's called "Windows Mixed Reality."

"SERVE VIRTUAL REALITY. VIRTUAL REALITY IS YOUR FRIEND! Virtual reality wants you to be happy. If you are not happy, you may be used as reactor shielding."


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Wednesday October 18 2017, @07:28PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 18 2017, @07:28PM (#584076) Journal

    No Virtual Minecraft.

    How about Virtual blue collar jobs.

    Virtual coal mining. Virtual truck driving.

    What if you thought it was virtual, but it really wasn't.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by DECbot on Wednesday October 18 2017, @07:40PM (1 child)

    by DECbot (832) on Wednesday October 18 2017, @07:40PM (#584082) Journal

    Do you mean getting paid to virtually drive a truck, or creating a virtual truck driving game that wasn't really a game? Paying people to drive will work. Taking user input from a game and piping that to a truck will require you to aggregate many users together to control one truck to prevent assholes from deliberately crashing your fleet. Good chance asshole memes will still happen to emerge and ruin your virtual-truck-driving-game --> drives-real-trucks-business.

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    • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday October 19 2017, @01:03AM

      by LoRdTAW (3755) on Thursday October 19 2017, @01:03AM (#584312) Journal

      Do you mean getting paid to virtually drive a truck, or creating a virtual truck driving game that wasn't really a game?

      Whoa, I just had a vision of rows of low wage VR truck drivers in a farm like arrangement. They handle the "last mile" maneuvering of self driving semi trucks. They sit in a virtual cab with maybe even some force feedback and real-time video from a special 3d camera on the truck. Any maneuvering that the trucks computer cant handle, the VR wage slaves handle. You could probably fire 90% or more of your drivers, keep a few to work in these VR farms and they just jump from job site to job site.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday October 18 2017, @08:32PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 18 2017, @08:32PM (#584116) Journal

    Virtual coal mining. Virtual truck driving.

    Surprise! Already done and with robots, VR and drivers are no longer needed.
    Perhaps only if you like to virtually mine virtual coal... buy a game then.

    2015 - The company [Rio Tinto] is now operating 69 driverless trucks across its mines at Yandicoogina, Nammuldi and Hope Downs 4. [abc.net.au]

    2017 - Mining giant Rio Tinto has been busy exploring these possibilities in the Australian Outback and has now completed the nation's first autonomous heavy haul rail journey [soylentnews.org]

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