• Labototmized@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Im so confused why this wouldn’t work and I didn’t see anywhere in the article the actual reason. Can anyone explain it better? Can you not just play a vr video file? Is it blocking the sites? I’m just confused.

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      8 months ago

      My understanding is that it allows you to play planar video from a website, but not (yet?) side-loaded videos that are spherical/hemispherical. And the latter is what these people really wanted for this application.

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        8 months ago

        side-loaded videos

        Fucking Apple lol, just let people play video files, this should be basic minimum functionality

        • Pistcow@lemm.ee
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          8 months ago

          I mean, they just got type-c. Remember when the first iPhone couldn’t send picture texts?

    • finestnothing@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      They’ll just monitor everything you watch or do on it and detect anything NSFW.

      I wish this was a /s but I can definitely see it happening since they’d have to ban the whole Internet to keep any sites with NSFW content from playing

  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Isn’t allowing the porn industry to be able to use your hardware crucial for widespread adoption? Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the fact that Betamax and HDDVD did this was one of the factors for their loss of market share?

  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    8 months ago

    Well that’s shit. Even my OG Rift can do that.

    Pretty sure there’s an open standard for VR as well (WebXR), Chrome supports it but Firefox doesn’t.

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Lots of smartphones can do VR video too, when you add a set of VR goggles that fit it. Just plain goggles with no electronics that hold the phone in front of lenses that you can strap on your face. It’s simple enough that it should be possible on any VR display system actually.

  • VulKendov@reddthat.com
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    8 months ago

    Well then WHAT IS EVEN THE POINT I just wanna pretend to have sex with my ai generated girlfriend. But here I am COCKBLOCKED BY TIM FUCKING COOK.