Going to be? The vast majority of appliances are still sold without this nonsense.

There was at least one company selling this sort of thing as a product back then. It was more efficient than conventional electric heating, if I’m not mistaken, even without the income from mining.

Doesn’t look like there are issues with AMD cards:

Source:

https://youtu.be/hplfPjlnGMc

Edit:

It even runs on a low-end integrated AMD GPU (above 30 FPS with FSR set to performance):

https://youtu.be/TbkHG7XjXCA

Bloodborne can already be completely in an emulator, by the way. Runs and looks better than on PS4, which is not saying much, but still. If you have a decent system (I’m assuming you do, given your purchase of recent AAA games), go for it.

Were you expecting him to execute half of Wall Street on day one?

It’s a very barebones and buggy game right now. Might want to give it another year or two before buying, since it can’t even hope to compete with “the” life sim at the moment, let alone stand on its own feet. Right now, it’s just a foundation upon which a good game could be built.

As for the controversy, there isn’t one, of course, apart from manufactured nonsense. The usual “outrage” about the game allowing players to create people that exist in real life, but that conservatives want to kill.

Yup. Noticed this with plenty of “fans” opening thread after thread of hateful drivel on Steam forums, e.g. for Paralives. These people are clearly not interested in the game. Some even confessed to having been incited by alt-right streamers.

Thanks for the info, I wasn’t up to date on Linux support.

If you want to dip your toes in VR (and have a Windows PC), get a used WMR headset. As mentioned in my other comment, a former Microsoft engineer made these usable again by releasing a custom driver after official support was removed from Windows.

These headsets all have high-res displays (perfect for flight sims and sim racing - you can easily read instrument panels), even the cheapest ones - and some higher-end models come with excellent OLED panels. Hardware requirements are very low and most PCVR games work just fine out of the box. Setup is incredibly quick and easy, with just a single cable with HDMI and USB at the other end (you also need a decent Bluetooth-adapter for the controllers). You can get one of these headsets - they were produced by a variety of manufacturers under license - connected and running in less than five minutes, including defining the borders of your play area. There’s no breakout box, no adapters, no external trackers or additional power supplies.

Their main disadvantage are the somewhat clunky controllers that rely on camera-based tracking in combination with built-in sensors. Fine for quick movements everywhere and precise movements in front of the cameras, but the tracking is nowhere near as reliable as on more expensive or newer headsets (expect to briefly - a second or less - lose tracking about once every three or four hours of playing). It’s still more than good enough for pretty much every VR game though, including the likes of Beat Saber, HL Alyx, competitive VR shooters, Skyrim VR (probably the best VR game there is), etc.

Controllers use standard AA batteries, by the way, which means there are no old and decaying built-in batteries to worry about. I’d get rechargeable ones.

Prices were incredibly low already compared to other headsets when they were new. Used - since most consider them obsolete after the official loss of support - they are a bargain. You can find a working Lenovo Explorer with controllers (the cheapest recommended option) for less than 100 bucks on ebay, easily. A fancier headset, like the Samsung Odyssey+ with its gorgeous OLED panel, can be had for maybe 20 or 30 bucks more. Do not buy these without controllers.

I would not claim that WMR headsets are or ever were the best there is in terms of VR hardware, but if you’re just curious and want to get a taste of it and if you then want to casually play the occasional VR game, they are more than good enough for that.

Really important: DO NOT, under any circumstances, use the hinge to flip up the headset. The hinge is a weak point shared by all of these and it WILL break. Just take the entire headset off if you need to look around. Takes just as long and won’t damage the fragile plastic hinge. Otherwise, these are very robust. I’ve smashed the controllers into walls, furniture and an unsuspecting family member without damaging them (and I’ve also bumped into stuff with the headset when I foolishly turned off boundaries - nothing happened).

Happy to help!

All of them. Here’s the driver:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3824490/Oasis_Driver_for_Windows_Mixed_Reality/

Really the only downside is that Intel GPUs don’t work. I modified the driver of my laptop’s underpowered iGPU back in the day to get my Lenovo Explorer to work on it (just barely).

Eh? I expected it to be in roughly the same price range as the Index and I don’t think that’s unreasonable for a high-end device.

In case you still have it laying around, a former Microsoft engineer released a free driver to Steam that makes these usable again, despite Windows having dropped support. It’ll get installed automatically the moment you connect it to your computer.

The only times it has failed on me was because either the storage device or RAM were faulty. It’s definitely worth it to check both for errors every once in a while, as financially devastating as it is to replace either.

If you have a higher-end phone, you can likely connect it to a screen with an adapter or a docking station.

You can emulate most of the series on a phone these days though.

The old version. It’s an experience closer to release, but safer.

Not too likely at this point. The game is relatively old and few people still care about it. Not enough clout for someone to take another shot at it.

It’s also been heavily discounted already, which means there’s even less of an incentive.

Eh, it’s really not a bad game. The villain is highly charismatic, visuals are very good, gunplay is as fun as in FC3 and 4 again and the world is large and detailed. It’s a solid power fantasy, far better than FC5 in my eyes.

Hypervisor is much riskier on Windows and more complex to use. Empress is a conventional crack.

However, Empress’ crack is based on an old build of the game, with much less content and fewer bugfixes.