Wednesday, February 4, 2026

AR'nt you worried?

 On the topic of AI. 

Most of the world has just gotten in on the conversation. 
Where as, the nerds?  
We've been debating this since the Mechanical Turk. 
Magicians, Engineers, Philosophers. 
 Have all looked at the issue from every perspective you can think of. 

And, arguably, video game enthusiasts have been living it since the 80's.  
Ever since pac man ate the first pellet. 

Which is why I'm looking at the VR/AR industry and going.  
Really guys?  
I mean I know we've been waiting for battery and processing power and size to catch up with the dream of it.   
But we're there kids. 
School kids backpack contents are about to change history and the way we learn. 

1stly. 
VR Gaming.  
This is to the C suite dick weeds.  

You can't invest in a new tech, no matter how promising, and expect the first or even 10th generation to be profitable. 
Just look at the battlefield left behind Nintendo and Sony in that regard. 

Look, VR gaming you took from the approach of every other style of gaming.  
Which means you didn't pay attention to what the gamers wanted.   
The most succesful VR games.  
Most played VR games. 
VR Games that every enthusiest out there will tell you.  
Flat to VR.   
A good flat game is a Steller VR game.  
A good VR game is a shit flat screen game. 
Build games with the "M&K, controller, or VR?" when someone asks how they play.  

That's called accessibility.   

People shit on Sony for not "supporting" the PSVR2.  
Sony's is and always has been a hardware company first. 
Nintendo is and always has been a trading card company first. 
That's why they "won the console" wars. 

Arguably, without having all the treadmills, and haptic suits and all the other expensive B.S. if a dev takes full advantage of what the PSVR2 hardware has to offer it is exactly the VR experience 80's kids were promised by sci-fi movies and t.v. shows back in the day. 

 If they don't?  It's just like any other port.
  A fair to middling game on mid range consumer hardware. 

That said. 
Headset's are cool but backpacks are better. 
Especially if you're a kid at a museum. 

Patent Pending.  

But don't worry kids, that patent will be an open source file when it's all done. 

Now I just have to figure out the cooling system.