Oculus Ready PCs

Oculus Ready PCs - For real?

Looking at the specs, remembering the things said about VR - these are definitely not good....

If you are trying to play with your VR on a computer that makes it lag, you will feel naucious and puke. And at this very moment the worst Graphics card you can use for the features being created for VR is the Graphics card in this package!

The computer does not seem to have SSD-drive and it has only 8Gb memory. Wait a few months for prices to drop when the new stuff comes out that is actually made to handle VR or just buy better stuff now that will last longer.

Here is a question. Why would you want to buy this shit then? It will most likely not be able to run the games in like 6 months time and you would have to buy a new computer!

Big name in business claims that PS4 will have most titles for VR

Will PS4 VR have the best start?

A lot of people will have to choose between Oculus Rift, HTC VR, Vive Pre or Sony PS4 VR. One big name in the business, working for gamestop claims that Play Station 4 will be at the top when it comes to the amount of games.

However, the article that I read made a good point though. Gamestop in the U.S sell mostly console games. Which would actually make them profit from more console players buying the Sony VR. Since they would purchase more Play Station 4 games in the future.

He is primarily talking about the number of games. Not whether or not they will be the best games. 

Another thing that speaks in the favor of Sony is the rumours of the price being close to what the Play Station 4 cost. Unless there has come any new information about it, it sounds like it would be cheaper than the competition. 
If you already own a Play Station 4 at least. And that is a big part of it all. You will most likely continue on the path on which you were already on. 

Let the competition continue! May the consumers profit by the different alternatives battling it out trying to give us the best product! 

The future is here - VR!

VR is here! We are doomed!

If you have ever played Fallout, you will know of what I am talking. A big world where it is just toxic gas everywhere. The world is not what it used to be.

That is my prediction about this VR thing. Virtual Reality will allow us to completely neglect reality. Then the world will begin to fall into the universe that is Fallout. A bit drastic perhaps. But believe me, a lot of people will get really addicted by this VR business. And while the real world is a place of disaster and toxic enviroments we will all sit indoors using a Virtual Reality device to live our lives.

Imagine yourself sitting in your appartment and just enjoying the most beautiful enviroments, being super strong with magical powers and you feel almighty. 
You consider the idea of removing the device covering your eyes and go out in the real world for a while to live the normal life. 

The first thing that happen is that you realise that you need to empty the trashcan and take out the garbage. Since you have to leave the compartment either way, you might as well pick up some food. 

On your way to the supermarket you find yourself bombarded with newspaper headlines about war and misery. The weather is cold and wet. You are cold since you did not wear enough clothes. Then you ask yourself. 

Why would I leave the virtual world ever again?!

Is this going to happen in the next year or two? No, not so soon. When the technology is perfected though, the temptation of staying in the Virtual Reality world will be strong. Too strong for some people I'd say. 

My buddy Bas is already having mixed feelings towards the news about VR being released. He also sees this future, and how he will struggle to resist using this technology too much. 

We will be talking a lot about the subject of these Virtual Reality devices on the podcast. Since there will be a few different ones, we would like to get some good information out there to help you guys decide which one to purchase. 

Something I can tell you right now, is that maybe you should wait with buying any computer equipment. Since the entire industry is waiting to see how this VR business will affect the world of gaming, we should wait too. 

In order for the companies to be able to sell these new games using the technology of VR, they need to make sure that the gamers can afford the machines for it. Which means, hopefully the prices will drop on the gaming computers in the near future.

And most of all, there will be new hardware released that is built to handle these new VR games.

Paint.Net is an amazing freeware

Paint.Net is a great program

I do like the free softwares out there. And over the years I have used quite a few. The one I am currently into is Paint.Net (Find it here).

By reading real quick on their website it seems that it was first supposed to be a free version of Microsoft Paint. But it did grow however and is now more like Adobe Photoshop. 

Yes I know, it does not have all the features that Photoshop has. But for me, a simple man who basically just wants to work with different layers. This program is great!

Every time I will edit something like birthday invitations or such I am using this program. And now when I am doing this whole blog, podcast and streaming thing. I have started to use it to create different logos and banners. 

There are new ones about to arrive soon. Since putting up the current ones I have been playing around,  testing different options with Paint.Net. I have finally found a style that I will enjoy using in the near future.

I haven't really spent much time learning the program. Since I used Photoshop back in school and around that time I kind of knew how this program worked directly.

I still find new hotkeys that makes my work a lot easier.

So no matter if you are editing photos to mess with your friends or if you are doing a job for your company - I recommend that you try this program out.

Windows 10 First Impression

Windows 10 seems nice but not working properly

So I have been doubting Windows 10 and whether or not it is for me. I have had a few issues with my laptop that runs Windows 7 anyway, so I figured I might just as well upgrade it to Windows 10 and format.

There seems to be a problem to format the computer though. So right now I am just disappointed in this damn operating system. If it is a powerful system, why can't it just reset my damn drives and install Windows 10 again? 
Which is how it is supposed to work...

Post-format

I managed to get the disc formatted by using the super cleansing formula. Windows 10 is running really smoothly at the moment. But that might just be the empty drives not being full of shit.

I have barely used Windows 8 before. I went straight from Windows 7. That means there is a biiiig difference now. The menus and all was remade a lot going into the Windows 8 and even more so now into the Windows 10.

The short amount of time I spent with the Windows 8 was horrible. This Windows 10, I think is easier for me to understand. It has more similarity with Windows 7. The parts of the 7 that was good. 

Have Microsoft actually managed to release a good version?

Ever since the Internet labeled their Windows NT, Windows Nice Try back around year 2000. Microsoft has not always been popular when releasing their new operating systems. And some made the point that releasing Windows 10 for free would be a way to win a lot of confidence back.

A company as big as Microsoft being friendly. How sweet. But would that really be reason enough? In my point of view, there has to be some way they will get a huge profit from this.

How about the fact that millions over millions of people have already installed the system. By releasing it for free they made sure that they will be the biggest company in this market. And here is the thing that we have spoken about a lot at The Fit Gamer Podcast. 

Xbox is Microsoft. Streaming video games is huge nowadays. If Microsoft controls the world of the PC, they will control the streaming business basically. To manage your stream properly, you basically want a PC to do it on. 

Even though you can stream straight from your PlayStation 4. What if Microsoft shuts Sony out? The PlayStation will not be fully compatible with the PC the way the Xbox will be. Playing their cards right, they can take over the console gaming in a few years.

That was a bit off topic I guess. But offers like these makes you wonder what they are really about. 

The first year is free and then you have to pay for it? 

That is one of the things I have heard. Don't really know how it will work out though. I don't think they can freeze 100 million computers in a year if they don't pay. However, they might stop giving away updates and make some really huge updates available at that point in time.

Having a operating system that you can't update will be a security risk immediately.