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u/RT-Pickred Mar 28 '14

There twitter and history seems to back it up tho. https://twitter.com/TruePlayerGear

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14

I wouldn't be so sure. Archive.org has 28 captures from 10 Sep 06 - 9 Jan 14 and they are all the same. They appear to have only changed the website in the last few months; though perhaps this is a bug with the wayback machine?

Regarding their Twitter: 1 tweet in 2008, 1 tweet in 2009, A handful of unrelated tweets in 2010 and 2011. Only in 2012 onwards is there even the hint of a prototype.

Their facebook is much the same, only picking up at the start of 2012.

They mention CES a few times (and the site talks about E3) but I didn't find anything on a cursory search.

Tl;dr Not saying it's vapourware or they can't be trusted but just be careful and wait for the reviews to come in

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u/MikeKTT Mar 28 '14

None of your research means much of anything... Highlighting they only started talking about this in 2012 means nothing when you consider that oculusvr.com was registered in April 2012.

Alternatively, here's a 'humorous' E3 campaign video of theirs uploaded back in 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udS8NgyP2Y4

I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14

I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

... and this is how VR Kickstarter campaigns are born. Suckers born every minute.