RedJimi

Reading the ToS can be really frightening if you don't understand why it's written the way it is. It's everywhere, it's required, it's good. Difficult as this ToS may be, it's still always overruled by the local law as it is meant to protect them from being sued by unruly and unreasonable people.

If you have a problem with it, you also have a problem with other ToS using the same wordings. Please, stop using Nvidia, AMD, Facebook, Youtube, Reddit, Google and ... surprise, Gizmodo.

@liquiddragon: I agree. The gaming aspect is overblown for some, hence the dismay and said "surprise" at how lackluster it is. We don't even have a set terminology to describe all the forms of VR content. Yes, some of them are very "gamey", but there's so very little to play, so it wouldn't do anybody a favor to call it a game.

What to call this stuff, then, I wonder. "Presentuous movie", "Computer Generated Environment Experience of Virtual Nature"(CGEEVN or "c'geevan"), "Living paintings", "Empirical art", "Slice of life -VR", ...?

On the topic: As an almost graduated IT engineer I would say that the Rift seems like a very, very lovely toy. Ideally, my classmates and I would gather together and develop a Virtual World that would just good enough. We would jack in and never get out again.

@flippyandnod: May be a matter of usage data to provide for devs? That's what I would do, keep most of the eggs in the same basket and sdk to see what's what. I wonder if they'll allow easy access for Vive later... time will tell.

@bernard_bernoulli: Haptic gloves is a-ok, but 1st adopters go bareskin. http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Codex/Technology#Computers:_Haptic_Adaptive_Interface

This.

I feel like Microsoft and Sony are pulling the "lesser" Wii-U in a sled, doing the real next-gen advances.

Every now and then lag causes my ghost/tank fly up in a random direction. Funny, but the glitches seem to be the salt of multiplayer for me. Slayer = competition and lollygagging.

If I were into PS-stuff, i'd go for the new one. I mean, look at the Skyrim at ps3. That machine is at its end. My 360 slim has a few years to it, so i won't get a new platform anytime soon. I've barricaded myself with so many good games yet to be played that I think I'll survive well over the launch titles. :)

Greetings from Finland, and trouble with videos here also. I usually take the video I want to watch, open a new ff/chrome/ie windows for it and open it in ten tabs at a time. Then I press them all to play and wait a moment. If a non-dysfunct commercial is selected for one, it starts to play. Normally I have to do it a few times to get the video started. Lately it's gotten a bit worse and the youtube channel seems to be the only way to watch those vids. :/ There seems to be no real solution and I'm guessing the commercials are broken.

My reasoning here is that if I'm going to get a bunch of Xbox games (I will) and if I'm an active facebook user (yes), then synergy wouldn't hurt. There isn't a lot of it and that little is barely any good, but I'm not an idealist here, I can play fb-games. Facebook's own games are ugly, begging money and attention and always in "beta" until they are cut down, but those games are not my concern here. I play Xbox games, and since I rotate facebook apps, I might as well let that guide my pickings.

I've heard that Mass Effect 3 had a "Mission Command" app, but it seems inactive and down from here. Ubisoft put out "Project Legacy" for AC:Brotherhood, and it was tasteful if not entirely useful. Ubisoft has it's own weird bonus currency for unlocking stuff (Uplay), as many of you already might know. As some of you implied, force-spamming applets need to DIE. Non-intrusive game applets need our support.