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Corporations, not consumers, drive demand for HP's new VR headset
Today, HP is launching the Reverb Virtual Reality Headset Professional Edition. As the name might imply, the audience for this isn't the consumer space, it's the commercial space. The headset will have a near-identical consumer version, but HP's focus is very much on the pro unit because that's where the company has seen the most solid uptake of VR tech. The big VR win isn't gaming or any other consumer applications: it's visualization, for fields such as engineering, architecture, education, and entertainment, combining VR headsets with motion-actuated seating to build virtual rides. The company has also found that novelty items such as its VR backpack have also found a role in the corporate space, with companies using them to allow free movement around virtual worlds and objects.
Accordingly, HP's second-gen headset is built for these enterprise customers in mind. Their demands were pretty uniform and in many ways consistent with consumer demands, with the big ones being more resolution and more comfort. To that end, it now has a resolution of 2160×2160 per eye, using an LCD with a 90Hz refresh rate. The optics have also been improved through the use of aspherical lenses, for a 114-degree (diagonal) field of view. AMOLED screens are common in this space, but HP said that it preferred LCD because LCD panels use full red, green, and blue subpixels rather than the pentile arrangement that remains common for AMOLED.
Also at The Verge.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 20 2019, @09:37PM (34 children)
20% of what? And what business wouldn't squeal like a pig when 20% of their revenue disappears?
1 part in 200 millionth worth at the federal level in the US.
In other words, this is why shit didn't get fixed already.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday March 20 2019, @09:55PM (33 children)
20% of what?
Capital
In other words, this is why shit didn't get fixed already.
Exactly. It's the voters failure in oversight. There's no follow through. Crooked people are constantly reelected.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 20 2019, @10:32PM (32 children)
That's a lot actually.
Welp. Good that we have that all figured out. Internet solves another one.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday March 20 2019, @10:43PM (31 children)
Still only 20%. Piss poor odds. Percentage-wise our vote count could be much more effective in correcting any problems, solving any inadequacies.
Welp. Good that we have that all figured out.
Gotta go with the most plausible. Toss out the bullshit, and see what's left. Since you offer no alternative explanation, I'll assume you agree! :-)
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 21 2019, @04:27AM (30 children)
It's not, but it could be. I still go with that 20% as being far more effective at controlling corporate behavior.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday March 21 2019, @04:41AM (29 children)
Yes, I can agree, your faith is powerful
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 21 2019, @01:24PM (28 children)
Here's my take. First, the more stuff we can pull away from that 200 million steering wheels vehicle (here, the federal level of the US), the better. Sure, there are a few things that need to done at that level, but sorry, the whole mess came about in the first place because of those control dynamics. There's just too little accountability and too much obfuscation due to the size and complexity of the federal government, allowing for a great deal of corruption and rent seeking.
Second, you keep insisting that consumers don't have power. But there are a number of examples of successful boycotts. Perhaps the most notable in modern times are the boycotts of the 1950s US civil rights movement; boycotts associated with India's independence movement in the decades prior to achieving independence in 1948, and the boycotts of apartheid South Africa.
So going with economic botcott strategies that are known to work versus voter failure in oversight decade after decade, I know which one I prefer.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 21 2019, @01:40PM
It's also vague nonsense because we are never told how you came up with that number in the first place. Is it capital that consumers own? Is it capital of all the businesses that deal with consumers (no way)?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday March 21 2019, @04:29PM (26 children)
Again, let's review the situation.
Nah, you go 'head. I can't argue against religion.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 22 2019, @03:36AM (25 children)
You're not. We have all kinds of evidence showing that corporations care a lot about their public image (such as heavy marketing, donating to charities) and retaining market share. While elected officials tend to be serious in the same way, they don't comprise most of the government. The same can't be said of the unelected bureaucracies.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday March 22 2019, @06:01AM (24 children)
The same can't be said of the unelected bureaucracies.
Of course it can. The same mind set controls both. The only difference is the means of exchange, and even there it is minimal. But we have much more control over government than over commerce. It's our only way to regulate commerce. Every day the headlines show where we fail.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 22 2019, @11:47AM (23 children)
The mind set is not the problem. The dynamics of voting is the problem.
There is no means of exchange.
In other words, the "headlines" show the assertion of the first sentence to be incorrect every day.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday March 22 2019, @07:02PM (22 children)
Heh, you're such a goof, but fun to watch...
There is no means of exchange.
Money and votes. Maybe I meant medium. Whatever. Currency is more universal. That's what motivates politics and commerce. Again, the two are really inseparable. Commerce is the seed of politics, politics defines who gets to participate, at what cost.
In other words, the "headlines" show the assertion of the first sentence to be incorrect every day.
Not at all, those two airline wrecks are perfect recent examples of the voters dropping the ball by reelecting corrupt politicians that are mere corporate puppets. You have yet to acknowledge that sickness. Still can't tell if you're for real.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 23 2019, @01:19AM (20 children)
As I noted, the unelected bureaucrats are unelected. You end up such things as the interesting phenomena of bureaucracies increasing their funding by not doing their job (for 9/11 the FBI, ICE, and US intelligence agencies).
I'm not feeling this power of the vote. Your story just keeps getting worse.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday March 23 2019, @02:22AM (19 children)
unelected bureaucrats are unelected
They are appointed by elected officials. Pretty basic shit there, bub.
When you vote for corrupt people that let airplane manufacturers sign their own certs, there's a good chance a defective and dangerous product will go out the door. That's just part of the show. You cannot blame the people you (re)elect.
I'm not feeling this power of the vote.
Of course not. It's a reflection on you. You deny the power, to evade responsibility. You spend your life making up excuses.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 23 2019, @04:13AM (18 children)
Except when they're not appointed by elected officials which is most of them.
Versus people who won't fly on a 737 MAX-8 till they feel safe again? I know who has more impact on the bottom line.
Pretty much can't blame anyone but a nebulous voter. It's a recipe for lack of accountability.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday March 23 2019, @04:57AM (17 children)
All bureaucracies are subject to oversight. We only have to exercise it. But, as you said:
Exactly! That is where the power is, in the *cloud*, er, crowd...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 23 2019, @01:27PM (16 children)
Oversight which can be easily diluted by large size and great opacity, having permanent emergencies, and buying off voters with entitlements - all tricks used in modern democracies BTW.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday March 23 2019, @07:15PM (15 children)
buying off voters with entitlements
If the voters are selling... It's still on them
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 23 2019, @10:20PM (14 children)
The voters have been selling for decades. Sorry, it's not a religious belief to note that the very reason you're complaining is in large part because voters haven't been doing their job for some time in a number of countries. Meanwhile we have considerable choice over what we purchase in real time. And businesses already are very responsive to the needs of their customers at the point of sale. And businesses are easier to sue for redress in a number of ways (no sovereign immunity, ownership and profit motive means it hurts them not taxpayers, and their power is directly curbed by a successful lawsuit). Sorry, I don't consider businesses in the present environment to have an excessive amount of power, much less consider businesses to collectively have more power than governments.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday March 24 2019, @02:50AM (13 children)
Business is the government. It is their rules we live by.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday March 24 2019, @03:55AM (12 children)
Such as discrimination law, environmental and workplace safety laws all which drives up business costs? Or an out of control US intelligence system that undermines the ability of IT businesses to sell their products?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday March 24 2019, @05:02AM (11 children)
Such as discrimination law, environmental and workplace safety laws all which drives up business costs?
Big business writes those laws to restrict competition. They can just pass the costs on to the customer
Either way, the voter decides, through the people they elect.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday March 24 2019, @03:07PM (10 children)
Sure they do. Who really got religion here? These things I pointed out are enormous costs. Big business, if it were up to them, has cheaper ways to get what they want.
Same song and dance. You've already pointed problems with that approach.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday March 24 2019, @11:09PM (9 children)
Yes, their lobbyists write the laws, the politician signs it off, or his opposition will suddenly have more funding in the next campaign. And the gullible voters will swing their way. This is how shit works. Your denials are entirely based on religion, and maybe personal profit.
It doesn't matter what the problems are.. Only the voters can solve them. There is nobody else. Our votes are much more powerful than our dollars.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday March 24 2019, @11:36PM (8 children)
So why again is that superior to boycotts? The denials don't seem to be coming from me.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday March 24 2019, @11:45PM (7 children)
The denials don't seem to be coming from me.
Of course they are. Votes can have far more value than dollars and be far more influential in legislation to keep the merchants honest, but the voters are giving them away for nothing, so, we are where we are.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 25 2019, @03:15AM (6 children)
"Can have". I see the same weasel language used over and over again.
In other words, the vote "can have", but doesn't.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday March 25 2019, @04:07AM (5 children)
The vote has the value we give it, just like money and gold. People value money more than votes. Still it's the voters' issue to deal with. That does not change. The voters do have the power. And come to think of it, even by not using it, they still are. They have given full consent to things as they are. So I stand corrected. The voters have all the power, even through passive neglect.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 25 2019, @04:23AM (4 children)
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday March 25 2019, @05:17AM (3 children)
Boycotting has more value to businesses than your vote does.
You have proven nothing of the sort.
The vote still has more power than our dollars. We just don't have enough to make a difference like we can with our vote.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 25 2019, @11:41AM (2 children)
Again, I showed boycotts that worked and plenty of companies that are extremely sensitive to buyer opinion. Meanwhile I've shown government bureaucracies that are near immune to public sentiment and actually got rewarded for not doing their jobs.
What I think is particularly silly about this assertion is you have repeatedly stated that it has more power, but that power is not being used. Power is power only if it is used when one needs/wants it to be used. Here, the situation is greatly suboptimal with the alleged powerful corporations and government corruption. That's exactly the sort of situation that voting is meant to address. It's not addressing it. Meanwhile, people make purchasing decisions every day. That power is used to better their circumstances and hence, is real power.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday March 25 2019, @03:12PM (1 child)
Silly? That would be you in your appeal to you-know-who.
But, what might work is to zero out all personal debt and a boycott against borrowing money from the banks. There is a decent reserve there we can control. It would have a good domino effect on everyone else. Still the vote is better, everybody is equal. Power is distributed evenly. Privilege is reduced. That's the whole point, equality. Maybe that's why you don't like it.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday March 26 2019, @03:03AM
Who would that be, eh? Reason?
Why zero out all personal debt? Do you believe in honoring commitments?
I already do that. You ought to think about it too.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 23 2019, @02:16AM
Remember an election is a one time meeting of an enormous committee.