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<tr><td><b>Created:</b></td><td><i>7/30/2017 10:47 AM</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Updated:</b></td><td><i>7/30/2017 10:47 AM</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Author:</b></td><td><i>David Patrone</i></td></tr>
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<span><div>I have spent a ridiculous amount of time, a sinful and shameful amount of fruitless time, energy and brainpower searching for, loading, testing and tweaking uncountable apps, UI, themes, launchers, settings, devices and websites until just the sight of the google play icon churls my stomach, as badly as the sticky-sweet candy counter and noisome popcorn stench triggers my self loathing on the way out of the cinema after a double matinee binge of milkduds & twizzlers swimming in a gallon of coke that were finished before that annoying, screaing baby and the cellphones.. ugh, thank god for amazon prime but what I mean is</div><div>after all of this; and, I still have not found a single piece of hardware or software that has provided me with a complete or even a satisfying experience.</div><div><br/></div><div>following are some of the sublimely frustrating shortcomings I have experienced which have me wondering if there isn't some massive conspiracy where developers are keeping a suitable solution from the mainstream consumer in an attempt to use dissatisfaction to keep us chained, like the approval-hungry cheerleaders that we are, sitting in darkened virtual spaces, crying for the lights to come back on.</div><div><br/></div><div>I picked up a middle-ground headset that fits well and included headphones, similar to the BOBOZ4 and it has the stereo plug into the phone jack, volume control and the capacitive button; which, BTW should have been made much more clear how necessary this thing is. I mean, OK you can use a magnet but C'Mon! it's like they want you to suffer for your noobiness in this uncontrollable paradise, looking left and right, unable to even exit the app.. the door is a flip down door, the lenses work great, for some reason they company never came up with a QR code of their own and that was a PITA but whatever,</div><div><br/></div><div>then, after I get through a learning curve which was unnecessarily long due to my insistence beginning this endeavor with an old, rooted Nexus running KitKat on an old kernel which thoroughly kicked my stubborn butt until I finally broke down and loaded the apps on my S6 Edge. I mean everything from buying a BTLE controller (I learned the hard way that my nexus is not equipped with BTLE) so that every time an app crashes or I have to switch between apps, I have to do this delicate dance of the short cords, unplugging the headset and taking this off and opening the door and the phone falls out and what's the point of not tethering when you have to keep it pluggeed in for charging anyway. Then I went off on a tangent where I'm still upgrading it to nougat and I'm trying desperately not to get wrapped up in learning to code cause the last time that happened I was sure the CIA and the rest of the alphabet were after me.</div><div><br/></div><div>by this time even my dog is worried about me cause I've stopped asking her for advice and I'm talking to inanimate objects and even she knows that kind of behavior is just plain crazy.</div><div><br/></div><div>Here is my proposition, or question, or plea I guess you could call it:</div><div>why the hell can't someone make a doggone launcher or theme or whatever that just treats the entire phone like VR, stereo view or whatever we are gong to call it (because the terms we come up with in the next month could shape the rest of our lives.</div><div>the difference between, VR, 360, stereo, horizontal spit, desktop, mirroring, casting, pushing, remote view, remote control....</div><div>The inaccurate , dare I say perverse misapplication of these terms has nearly broken my spirit. Seriously.</div><div><br/></div><div>Why are you writing VR apps which aren't able to be set up or adjusted from within the VR environment? Why are you writing apps that don't have EXIT buttons? Why aren't you writing apps that allow us to access two videos or video and a web browser? Whay aren't we writing apps that combine AR and VR in amazing ways that allow us to toggle back and forth wothout removing the headset and getting all tangled?</div><div>WHY are we complaining about tethering to a PC when we're still keeping our phones plugged into the wall?</div><div>why don't we have FANS built in to the headsets or external attachable blowers to keep the phones cool?</div><div>Why why why? Why aren't we setting up virtual command centers and taking over the world instead of riding fake rollercoasters and sitting alone in huge, empty theaters? What is that all about anyway, why is it that I want to be in a huge, empty theatre in VR when my actual body can get walked in on at any time in RR without me even knowing? do you have any idea how quiet my brother's kids are? I have never been so paranoid!!! I had to install IP cams to toggle too. I never heard so many Squeeks down the hall and on the roofl You know back when I was a little geek, they used to do this thing with my underwear that felt just like this headset does and when the lights go out I swear I can almost detect the aroma of a suffocatingly small gym locker... and the snickergiggles, which should not be confused with a delicious mid-day snack... MEN AND WOMEN OF EARTH WE ARE GOING BACKWARDS HERE!!!</div><div><br/></div><div>Someone please take us past these dark days and into the</div><div>warm lap of a working Immersive User Interface!!</div><div><br/></div><div>David Patrone</div><div>napkindiaries</div></span>
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