Intel Reveals Project Alloy, an All-in-one VR Headset With Mobile Positional Tracking

You realise there’s not situation where you don’t look like a baby throwing his dummy out the pram, right? Do you think the manufacturers just like wires?

“But a having a bulky and useless “PC-Class” module attached to it, instead of going for the other thing everyone is waiting for, you now, actual fucking wireless in 2016?” Having a dense useless idiot commenting on a post about the progression of VR technology demanding things that are currently technologically unfeasible, instead of going for the thing everyone is waiting for you to do, get a fucking education in 2016?

Sorry you feel facts and intelligence are “dragging the human race down” so i’m I’m guessing you have autism as it’s the only explanation for your retarded comments. And just because my little cousin believes in the tooth fairy doesn’t mean she exists, no more than just because you believe the crap your writing makes working wireless hmds a reality. If you want wireless hmds, you’re talking future tech, not current. Valve seems to be the closest as far as im aware as they have claimed they’re working in conjunction with another company (cant remember who) and have a demo due “this fall” but clearly stated its not ready as they still haven’t overcome all the technical difficulties related to the limited transfer rate of data wireless connections have.

I mean, fair enough, you could argue there are already wireless hmds – get google cardboard and stream your pc to your phone. That doesn’t mean its any good and ready for serious use. Go fucking educate yourself before you continue spouting bullshit and making an even bigger fool of yourself than you already have.

BUT, i’d be quite happy to be proven wrong on this. I’m willing to let you prove how right you are and how wrong I am, here’s your chance to prove you’re right -> Go ahead, list the “dozens of tech companies” with these working wireless hmds that are consumer grade technology matching those on the market – but of course we who actually have these things called braincells know that’s not something you can do and that statement was in fact a complete fabrication, but go ahead try, ill wait; BTW I’m expecting a list of at the very least 24 seeing as you’ve stated there’s at least this many.

P.s. do you really think anyone is offended by “loser” – it’s clear as day just reading the first couple of sentences of your misinformed whiny posts that you’re the only one here with no real life friends xD You’re attitude is exactly the same as some spoilt little brat at Christmas crying because Santa’s elves didn’t bring you the fully functional iron man suit you demanded on your list. Grow the fuck up and wake up to reality.

Never said anything is bad about being autistic, i hold nothing against you for it as it’s not like you can help it but it does explain your pathetic bullshit rant.

And yeh you posted a link to one hmd that are TRYING to create a consumer quality wireless headset and have clearly stated themselves THE TECH ISN’T FUCKING READY YET. It’s not “starting a little late” at all, it’s technically unfeasable at this point as has been the entire development cycle of VR headsets so far. Most developers that have released hmds have nearly all stated they’d love it to be wireless but at this point in time, it’s simply not possible to have a quality, consumer level vr experience and it also be wireless. There’s plenty of research into its development – This doesn’t mean they can suddenly pull a working one out a magicians hat. Seriously, stop acting like some spoilt little shit just because you don’t actually have a clue how the real world works. Are you simply suggesting manfacturers and developers should just stop trying to give consumers products they want and are the best of what is currently available in terms of technology because you think they should only release technology that doesn’t even exist yet? Do you think when the first b&w box tvs were released they should have waited instead til the flatscreen 4k 3d hdr tvs were ready instead? Seriously, learn what product & industry progression are.

And, I’m still waiting for these “dozens” of examples, sounds like there are so many you’ll have no problems listing at least 24 with these working wireless consumer grade hmds. So please, go ahead…(oh, and using an example that have themselves admitted that their tech isn’t anything like ready yet isn’t supporting your argument xD It support the fact you’re acting like some spoil brat demanding things that’s not yet possible.)

As for your last paragraph, are you actually that dense? The only ignorant person here is you as you obviously live in some fantasy land…wireless hmd tech is simply not fucking ready yet no matter how much you throw your dummy out the pram over it. It’s being researched, get it into your thick head. It’s not going to suddenly leap a couple of years forward technology wise just because some sad little shit like you is demanding it in the comment section.Neither should the rest of the world not be able to buy things that are the best currently available because you want something that’s simply not possible at this point in time. Grow up

Why do you think Magic Leap is vaporware? It only just received it’s first venture funding in 2014. The Rift was Kickstarted in 2012 and didn’t release until this year.

Magic Leap utilises a well studied technology demonstrated by Nvidia and MIT. In the past two years there has been over $1.5 billion invested in them by companies like Google and Alibaba as recently as February with $800 million invested at that time. In June they partnered with Lucasfilm. They’ve been evaluated by Forbes and the Financial Times at over $4 billion inside of 2016. These are not companies without significant resources to investigate their decisions. What basis do you have for labeling it as vaporware?

I’m actually quite interested in money laundering. In many ways it is an important part of our economy, and a main driver of the Grey Market. It’s just that usually money laundering is only a necessity of criminal organizations, as legitimate corporations can simply shelter their money through tax havens, political lobbying, and loopholes effectively enough to avoid the unnecessary risk of full scale illegal action.

I’m not sure when the last time you checked in with Bloom Energy was, but there are actually quite a few companies using their products. The new Apple campus will be powered at least partly by Bloom, and even smaller locations like some Home Depot stores already use their generators. They may not be quite as competitive as Ballard(once considered vaporware long before Bloom) in the on-site(or vehicle) fuel cell sector, but they certainly aren’t failed by any stretch. It still remains true that both Ballard and Bloom have proven fuel cells as a viable alternative going forward. I think they may have just overestimated the appeal and value their technology would offer by the time it came to market versus the advancement of on-site technologies like solar paired with a high efficiency Lithium battery, or perhaps supercapacitors in a few years.

Still, I wonder why you think specifically Magic Leap, such a young company with so many glowing first person reports, and so much investment so recently, would be a fraudulent money laundering operation?

I think perhaps we have different definitions of what money laundering is. In order for money to be dirty, it must have been gained from criminal enterprise. The point of the laundering is to move cash from the Black or Grey market, and into the view of the government, where it can be taxed and spent legitimately. It is very inefficient, and the reason gangsters often engage in an economy of trade, swapping drugs, sex, people, murder, and stolen goods in place of money.

Crucially, a successful business is generally required to launder large amounts of money. It’s extra hard to cook the books on a money pit, and the larger the pit the more attention you draw. Defrauding the government of billions of dollars on their own soil, including the inevitable collateral damage of all the genuine, naive money invested in good faith alongside your knowingly criminal cash, is a great way to end up investigated by a hundred lawyers from a hundred angles, from defrauded investors, tax collectors, and all manner of law enforcement, not to mention your competitors, who would gladly see you fail, and already bring legal action against you at every opportunity.

This is all so incredibly risky that I just don’t see how a company like Google, with a vast, publicly visible tax stream, would also feel the need to not only engage in invisible, illegal fund creation, but also bother to bring that money, through laundering, into full view of the American government within their own borders by defrauding countless people. I can’t even imagine what criminal activities they could engage in that would produce literal billions of dollars in need of laundering, or indeed what methodology they would use to extract or even initially invest such money into a company that ends up failing. It’s so much easier just to create wealth by creating successful businesses and reaping the rewards.

The H1N1 pandemic is an interesting example, and possibly a real one, but I don’t see how it’s analogous. Do you posit that it was also a money laundering scheme? If so, whose money was laundered? It seems more likely to be a simple creation of short term supply in demand, if not a coincidence. The H1N1 virus was and is real, and so is the vaccine. The only thing possibly fabricated was the extent of it’s danger, though it did still kill tens of thousands of people in hundreds of countries, it did not outstrip the regular flu virus in it’s death toll or reach. But it’s still a real virus that kills people, and the vaccine is not vaporware; it delivered as promised.

I notice you also avoid comment on Bloom Energy’s continued progress, and that of their very similar competitor in Ballard. It’s interesting because that’s a much more direct comparison to your argument against Magic Leap. Both examples relied on well know, though hard to harness technologies. Bloom with using fuel cells to create reliable and efficient electricity, and Magic Leap with using Photonic Chips to create convincing lightfields. In both cases the technology is well understood and just requires advancement, and in both cases demonstrations of the technology were completed directly with investors in the beginning and not publicly.

I would point to LucasArts’ involvement with Magic Leap as inscrutable if they weren’t actually presented with and impressed by working technology. They’ve invested no money, just partnered to provide content creation, which they’ve demonstrated publicly themselves. Why would LucasArts and Disney go to this effort if they couldn’t reasonably expect to recoup development costs?

Being misled is a little different than a vast billion dollar criminal conspiracy that involves collusion from parties on all sides for the express purpose of laundering money which by definition itself must have come from illegal enterprises.

I wouldn’t discount out of hand the fact that Magic Leap could be misleading some people, I’m just not sure what the basis is at this stage for being so sure that they are completely misleading everyone involved – especially when there are so many positive eyewitness accounts, and the technology has been proven out by 3rd parties.