Thread: Magic Leap One augmented reality goggles finally revealed
Super duper late to the party (I'm embarrassed to admit that I just go around to signing up for Reset Era) but if you have any questions about my time with Magic Leap on my face, let me know and I'll try to answer them.
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Thread: Magic Leap One augmented reality goggles finally revealed
A little context first. I've tried and own most of the major VR stuff and tried HoloLens both at its reveal and later at its first E3 showing, but not since. The headset is by far the most comfortable and the Lightpack solution slipped into my jeans pocket and I forgot about it after a few minutes. My sense, keeping in mind that I could compare Magic Leap side-by-side with anything else, is that it looked much better than an overlay. Certainly much better than any AR experienced through a phone. In terms of HoloLens, there's quite a gap between when I saw the two, but I feel like Magic Leap offered a more substantive visual. It felt more real, if that makes sense. I didn't get to try any Magic Leap games, which was a bummer, but the stuff I did try was very promising. It's also worth noting all of this took place in a very, very controlled environment. The demo room was large, dim and free of real world distraction.
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Thread: My boss used a racial slur in rapid succession yesterday.
Interesting, I hadn't heard any of that. I do know that the film has a very complicated history () including its release in segregated Atlanta.
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Thread: My boss used a racial slur in rapid succession yesterday.
It's amazing how racist some old cartoons are. Equally amazing, how they weren't (at least publicly) considered racist at the time and shown to kids. I grew up watching some of this sort of stuff without having any idea. Shows and movies like Song of the South, Heckle and Jeckle, Popeye, Dumbo, Jungle Book, some Loony Tunes. The key, though, is that most people these days get that yes, this was some super racists shit. There's a reason Disney buried Song of the South. And it was a good one.
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Thread: My boss used a racial slur in rapid succession yesterday.
Also, this discussion reminds me a bit of this:
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Thread: What Could Be Panic Button's New Port for The Switch?
Just adding source behind this discussion: The announcement is expected next month.
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Thread: Brian Crecente joins Variety as New Video Games Editor
Hey everyone (but MutantMagnet :/ :\ :<) Thanks for the kind words. I think Variety's decision to expand to full-blown gaming coverage is fantastic. I start Monday. It may have been lost in the PR that went out, but I'll continue to oversee big semi-regular features for Rolling Stone, like my GLOBAL EXCLUSIVE ON MAGIC LEAP'S UNVEILING (coughMutantMagnetcough) :D :D In terms of Glixel the brand. I believe it won't live on at Rolling Stone and it's not coming over to Variety. Social channels will maybe stay alive though. Worth noting that PMC owns both Variety and Rolling Stone. See you at PAX East?
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Thread: Brian Crecente joins Variety as New Video Games Editor
I'll likely not be linking to other site's news coverage at Variety.
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Thread: Brian Crecente joins Variety as New Video Games Editor
Still working on it and Variety.
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Thread: Brian Crecente joins Variety as New Video Games Editor
Thanks for more of the nice comments everyone. You can find the Variety gaming stuff here: Still rolling things out slowly as I get my sea legs, figure out the CMS and such. But we will have reviews. Our first is God of War, written by Arthur.
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Thread: Brian Crecente joins Variety as New Video Games Editor
Yes
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Thread: Final Deployment 4: Queen battle Walktrough (Adult Swim Parody)
Here's an interview with the people behind it (same as the creators of Too Many Cooks):
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Thread: Wristwatches |OT| Keeping time with class
Is it too nerdy to talk about digital and smartwatches here? Do we need another thread for that?
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Thread: Wristwatches |OT| Keeping time with class
I am a huge digital watch nerd. Well, I'm not huge (yet) but my nerdom for digital watches is. While I love mechanical watches (my great grandfather was a watch repairman long long ago), my interest in digital watches started when my parents decided to give me a Casio GM-10 as a sort of sorry-we're-getting-divorced present. It was stolen shortly after I moved from S. Korea to Texas, but I owned it long enough to fall in love with the Casio design and in particular watches that did things beyond telling time. I have a pretty substantial collection of smartwatches and a few gaming watches. (I also wrote a fun story about the long, long history of gaming on your wrist back when I was at Polygon.) These days I'm also into hybrids, which are often mechanical watches with some neat low-end smart watch features. I absolutely love the Kronaby watches.
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Thread: Nintendo First-Party Thread
Grabbed a Nintendo Labo kit at a store selling it early if you have any questions. Dropped pics here:
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Thread: Nintendo First-Party Thread
I'm going to write something, maybe not a review, but something. It seems fine. It's well put together, but also feels very much geared to young players. It's got a strong STEM feel to it for me, which is great for parents of tweens. I'm not entirely sure yet if it will attract an older audience, but maybe they don't want or need to. No one else in the store looking for it and I've not heard much about concerns over supplies when asking around.
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