Suekru

Suekru t1_j1hmfen wrote

Light takes 8 minutes from the sun to earth. That implies if you were to travel the speed of light, it would take 8 relative earth minutes for you to make it the distance of the sun is from earth.

But your perspective of time would be almost instantaneously.

1

Suekru t1_j1hl9cw wrote

Reply to comment by Bamnyou in Future of Games by stoneman217

I guess it depends on what you’re into. I don’t have much reason to use it as a TV, and I have a PCVR so I haven’t had experience with battery powered VR’s

1

Suekru t1_j1h5vp0 wrote

Reply to comment by TehMephs in Future of Games by stoneman217

You can fix the fogging by warming the headset up. Which is yet another prep step so it’s annoying but still.

I take a hair dryer and just blow warm air on it for a minute or so. Once it’s warm it doesn’t really fog up anymore.

1

Suekru t1_j1gv0n7 wrote

Reply to comment by b_lett in Future of Games by stoneman217

I really enjoy VR, and I personally don’t find it too uncomfortable. I think one of the main cons is the price to get into it, especially if you don’t know anyone who can let you test their VR headset out.

Another factor is a lot of people play games to relax, but VR really pushes being more active while playing. The wii really tried to do this too, but most people ended up just sitting on the couch casually flicking their wrist instead of being fully engaged like the commercial made it seem.

If you have a VR set and have tried it yet, Boneworks is also another top tier VR game. It’s extremely impressive, especially since it came out before half life alyx

8

Suekru t1_j10m09c wrote

I figured they write it on a plant that could live thousands of years, like a tree. That way they could access the same DNA.

USB sticks, if not plugged in once in a while will eventually lose their data. The time for this is about 10 years or a bit more.

Hard drives might be a better option than a USB stick for long term storage, but they use magnets to store data and eventually they will deteriorate. With that said I have like a 20 year old hard drive that the data on it is still readable, so they can last a while. But I doubt data would be readable after a 100 years. Not impossible, depends on the quality of the drive.

But multiple generation data storage like 1000 years, you’d need to switch the data to a new drive every so often and keep plenty of backups. So the DNA method would be an interesting work around to this problem.

1