{"id":1798,"date":"2014-03-28T13:16:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T13:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2014-03-28T13:16:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T13:16:53","slug":"oculusbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2014\/03\/oculusbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Oculusbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, that made the headlines.<\/p>\n

Money and roadmap wise, it makes sense. For so many other reasons, it\u2019s super weird. Worrisome? We can only speculate.<\/p>\n

Classic game developer paradox: Be angry at capitalism buying your favorite technology out but adore Nintendo, a capitalism champion. Anyway.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m more concerned about VR in itself, seen by a big part of the industry as the savior of the \u201cvideogame bastion\u201d, where players get lost and forget about the real world. The Real Escapism.<\/p>\n

To me, not including audio as part of the built-in experience is already a big design flaw<\/a> (that they can now solve, thanks $$). But I have a bigger concern about Escapism. I think we need less of that, instead of more.<\/p>\n

I feel like I want way more people playing on 7\u201d to 70\u201d tablets than having them plug VR sets. I feel like there\u2019s still so much to do and bring to people before going nuts for something I have been dreaming of ever since the start of those helmets back in the early 90s. It\u2019s not because I dreamed of how cool it could be that \u201cit has to happen\u201d. In today\u2019s society, already battling a terrible plague of people incapable of not looking at their phones while talking to you, I think VR can wait a bit.<\/p>\n

I want 2D. I want sharing. Collaboration, fair competition. Neat games, software, local services etc. I still want to empower people more than making them my bitch, my ultimate bitch with VR. VR is so far away in my head.<\/p>\n

I want less excitement. I want people to chill. I want people to enjoy stuff, games, your game, my sound design, on devices that did not even exist a decade ago.<\/p>\n

So much work to do. VR can wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, that made the headlines. Money and roadmap wise, it makes sense. For so many other reasons, it\u2019s super weird. Worrisome? We can only speculate. Classic game developer paradox: Be angry at capitalism buying your favorite technology out but adore Nintendo, a capitalism champion. Anyway. I\u2019m more concerned about VR in itself, seen by a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}