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Latest Comments by Gerarderloper
LG are making a VR headset, to be shown off at Valve's GDC booth
27 Feb 2017 at 9:21 pm UTC

Its in Valves and everyone's best interest to promote VR, including more hardware. The whole VR scene is already taken some SERIOUS blows this year with oculus and zenimax nonsense, good chance that platform dies out within a year! (because no one wants to pay 20% tax on their games and headsets in a walled garden scenario!)

Looks like the Serious Sam 4 release date may have been shown in an 'easter egg'
26 Feb 2017 at 4:50 am UTC

unlikely, most early access releases have little idea of when the final build is done, that is even more true with a VR title.

Mesa now has a shader cache in Mesa-git for r600/radeonsi
23 Feb 2017 at 5:32 am UTC Likes: 3

Phoronix saw over double increase in Deus Ex frame rates on his rx470 test. Very nice indeed.

Fumbling around with tanks in War Thunder on Linux, some thoughts
23 Feb 2017 at 5:20 am UTC

Its a good game, I have allot of the tanks and planes but was disappointed with mid tier Japanese editions (their BR is WAY too high for allot of them) so I have taken a LONG break from the game until I see some BR changes or something to that line up.

Most the Tier4 Japan tanks are a hilarious joke in a frustrating way, there is the bulldog and that small recoiless tank which are fun, but that's it!

SteamVR for Linux is now officially in Beta
23 Feb 2017 at 5:17 am UTC

Don't expect much performance from games that are not built for VR such as titles on the oculus store and such that say VR ONLY.

In saying that the Serious Sam VR game should be fine at 4k resolution I would think.. even thought the screen is 1200p, IMO you'd be better up-scaling to 1440p.

SteamVR for Linux is now officially in Beta
23 Feb 2017 at 2:37 am UTC

I dunno how elite performs at 4k but the Vive expects 90fps, so if you can't get that standard with the 1080gtx then yeah its a issue. Its not really designed around VR so I don't even know if it allows for the use of the Nvidia VR boosting tech.

AMD officially announce Ryzen 7 CPUs for launch on March 2nd
22 Feb 2017 at 9:16 pm UTC

I'm wondering what the 1700 is missing in comparison to the rest, I mean if there all vcore and multi unlocked then surely it be the best buy?

SteamVR for Linux is now officially in Beta
22 Feb 2017 at 3:02 pm UTC

I say again, that is how stereoscopic aerial photography works, you have two cameras with slightly different positions that allow for the 3d effect to happen. The work is done by the brain. s3d on PC is done the same way it just comes down to how each slightly varied image is presented to the viewer (such as red/blue, shutter glasses, or in VR sense direct LCD separation.

SteamVR for Linux is now officially in Beta
22 Feb 2017 at 2:17 pm UTC

Was just to get you started so you'd know what headset I'm talking about, there is reviews and videos about the headset and some talk about the rendering system they are using, I can't remember exactly which link.

There is not much different in the image of the left eye vs right, and in a 3d space you can render a slightly wider (ever so slightly) image and offset that image depending on the eye that sees it, this means you can just render a single scene and image.

Its not rocket science! People have been doing it since the 60s if I remember correctly with aerial photography, why people treat it like some magical beast of burden is beyond me!!!!!

SteamVR for Linux is now officially in Beta
22 Feb 2017 at 1:51 pm UTC

They have a driver and software for their headset, that is doing the thing for them. You actually need to look deeper and I won't be holding your hand, if you don't believe me then fine whatever I don't care.