Quoting: CatKillerSo, I think the idea is to use the same kind of tech as game streaming; the computer renders the scene based on position information from the headset, and sends essentially a 360° video stream to the headset, which can be freely navigated using the headset. If there's enough bandwidth, that could be quite interesting.

That does sound far from efficient at all.
It means that the host needs to render 360 instead of 100 degrees, so 3,6 times as much on the turn, and then we need a lot more for up down.
However if it would compile the scene to simple objects and can do a lot of the z axis calculations, and compile/precalculate a lot of the textures, it would make it a lot easier for the HMD.

Whatever they do, I want to know. I was discussing scene compilation/simplification and texture downloading to the HMD to get a split rendering system without a lot of bandwidth usage (like X11 does until chrome came, or network opengl) a few years ago. I am at least glad that Valve proofs I was not a fool ;-).

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I hope that would be the Smach Z reincarnated.

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Quoting: tuubiI'll pass on the multiplayer. For me, these games are almost meditative. I play them to relax, first and foremost. Random strangers on the roads would be counterproductive at best.

That's called road rage ;-).

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This outcome is good for everyone, even for Oracle. Now it's obvious that it's not dangerous to use java interfaces anywhere and hence to use java anywhere.

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Quoting: ArdjeI hope this means I am finally going to be able to use my Oculus DK2.

I think that's the hope, assuming that Monado will support the DK2, then it will then become available as a device through SteamVR?

I need to read up more on Monado, honestly.

I just found this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AdmS3vy7ZE [External Link]
full positional support in openhmd for the DK2.
And now use openhmd in monado, and then use the steamvr plugin... And then see if HL2 looks better...
Last time I saw HL2 in 3D it was rendered in 720x1280 and then upscaled. Pretty crap and very slow.

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I hope this means I am finally going to be able to use my Oculus DK2.

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Quoting: MohandevirI'm just wondering what the AtariOS will be like... From what I understand, it's going to be "hardcoded" (might no be the right expression). Will it be required to boot another OS for any other "features" not included ootb on AtariOS? That wouldn't make it that much "feature rich" for the average Joe.

From the news I got it's a Linux distribution preloaded on the system.
With access to the linux system itself so you can install whatever you want. A bit like steamos.

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Quoting: MohandevirThinking the same, Liam. The concept is cool, but every news that comes out of it is one step closer to DOA. I'm pitying those that backed it and paid for what seems to be an overpriced and under featured experience.

I mean, Anstream? AirConsole? Seriously?

Where is Stadia? Where is Steam Link?

No indies onboard is already bad... Missing on those two is even worse, imo.

You don't need Steam Link, as you can run Steam. They have always said it's a linux box, and running Steam would be possible.
As for Stadia, Stadia needs chrome, so that might be a problem, since Chrome support for linux is bad.
All in all, it's a pretty linux htpc, running an Atari thing, from which you should be able to start Steam, or Kodi, or whatever....
To be clear: it being a native Linux htpc with an AMD is making it a feature rich device already.

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Quoting: Pikolowpa_supplicant works with EAP, at least for eduroam(the worldwide federated university WiFi network). At least when used through network manager, unless Ubuntu has something hardwired to take care of that edge case

EAP is not an edge case. EAP is important for WPS too. So any wireless network controller that does not support authentication through EAP should not be used.
What I do miss though is WPS-push-button.
WPS is probably the only technique that securely can give any client a random 256 bit password.
<RANT>Okay, now we get tons of people that don't know WPS saying how insecure it is. It is not. There is only one variant of WPS that's insecure and that's the let's print a code on the device. Which goes directly against security. And most access points do not give a client a random 256 bit password, they give a shared password.
So WPS is absolutely more secure than a PSK when combined with openwrt.</RANT>

Anyway: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Iwd#Connect_to_a_network_using_WPS/WSC [External Link]
it works it seems..

And eap for eduroam: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Iwd#EAP-PWD [External Link]

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My laptop is good enough according to the specs on the site. I wonder...
(RX580 eGPU and a i7-3610QM clocked at about 60% max in a Thinkpad T430, I game in 4K on this rig, while my steammachine with nvidia (zotac SN970) barely copes with 1080p, thanks Valve for fixing these AMD drivers!).
Because the investment is quite steep for something that might even need an extra 2000 euro investment for a pc that I don't have a place for. The worst part of it all: I have 3 generations of gear-vr, and they all fog up after 5 minutes. (gear vr looks much better than oculus rift dk2 BTW).
How would the index fare on my head? :-(.

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