MacNCheezus

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[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 points 10 minutes ago

But they generally have blue and gold armor, no?

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

The protagonist in Halo: Reach wears gray armor with blue accents and he looks just as badass as Master Chief, if not moreso.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (5 children)

It wasn't necessary for both to be green. Master Chief could've had a blue (or a red, or black, or silver) armor and he'd still be the same.

 

They look so damn similar, from the style and color of their armor down to their behavioral traits. Seems like Bungie simply saw the success that Doom had over their Marathon series and thought to themselves "you know what our next game needs? A massively overpowered super soldier in green high tech armor who spouts sarcastic one liners in the face of an overwhelming alien invasion" and went to town with that concept. And it worked like a charm, they cranked out six massively successful games before id/Bethesda decided it was time to reboot the Doom franchise 2016.

Perhaps it was payback for them to give Doomguy the Crucible in the reboot games (which looks a lot like the energy sword from Halo), but I can't help but think these two are essentially the same character.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

The author is looking for a monitor replacement.

Yes, and he's not wrong, as that appears to be the primary use case for these glasses. For full AR, you still need the Beam Pro, which costs half of the price of the glasses alone.

I do love Snow Crash (it was one of my favorite novels growing up), but I think Google Glass was probably much closer to that vision than these are. Personally, all I want is a big fucking screen fixed in space before me that doesn't make me dizzy when I look at it for more than 5 minutes, or wear out my neck muscles too much because the headset is too heavy.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Right, I have a 1600p laptop screen as well and the resolution downgrade was noticeable. What you say about the projection makes sense, unfortunately I haven't seen any specs for the micro OLED displays they use, they only claim that the virtual screen has 1080p, which might be achievable if the displays DO in fact have a higher vertical resolution. It DOES appear that they've increased the size of the displays from 0.55" to 0.68" but there's no information on the native resolution that I can find.

If I saw these glasses in a store somewhere I'd probably try them out but they'd have to be VASTLY better than the ones I tried to convince me to buy them.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I tried a previous incarnation of these and was not impressed. The screen was too dark in bright rooms and the resolution and image sharpness was lacking. Also the response time was rather slow, which made them basically unusable for playing games or watching (which was primarily what I bought them for). Additionally, the virtual screen was not fixed in space but moved around when you moved your head, which gave me vertigo after prolonged use. I ended up returning them after a week.

It appears as if these are at least the second, if not third generation (mine were simply called Air), and the spatial processing chip might help alleviate some of these issues, but I'm disappointed to see that the vertical resolution has not been increased. But at 32:9, it seems that these have twice the horizontal resolution, which would equal two 16:9 screens next to each other.

I wonder if these might be worth giving another try, but I'm loathe to risk it as my Amazon account has been flagged for returning too many purchases before.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 0 points 1 month ago

Next post, AI makes fun of user for not knowing how to code

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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