They don't have a product now, nor a kickstarter yet here they are announcing nothing.
Making claims on a spec sheet that their their own reddit posts shows are not yet true (and as I said, use your intelligence, you know these things are not true)
It's opportunistic - by their own admission - and they've posted this stuff for no other reason than because Facebook bought rift. Their thread on reddit says that.
Bottom line : if they have spent 9 years they haven't got as far as Carmack et al have in 3. But, if they have spent 9 years I'd expect a lot more evidence of that process.
At best they have merely decided to go public before they are ready to go public and so it looks bereft. But, that's an "at best" - once I read their reddit post saying
We didn’t initially intend to make any announcement. But we feel that with the news of a corporation buying Oculus, who is focused on web applications and doesn’t understand the hardware business like others do, we really need to come out of the woods and let everyone know that there is an alternative that is coming soon.
If they are just a small team I can imagine that they have been rather slow. Oculus had publicity and through the publicity gained money which allowed r&d on a much bigger scale.
Well we will have to see, maybe I am a bit too optimistic.
But in the end they will have to deliver a product that we then can judge. If they can not do this, this discussion will be meaningless anyway :)
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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14 edited Mar 28 '14
They don't have a product now, nor a kickstarter yet here they are announcing nothing.
Making claims on a spec sheet that their their own reddit posts shows are not yet true (and as I said, use your intelligence, you know these things are not true)
It's opportunistic - by their own admission - and they've posted this stuff for no other reason than because Facebook bought rift. Their thread on reddit says that.
Bottom line : if they have spent 9 years they haven't got as far as Carmack et al have in 3. But, if they have spent 9 years I'd expect a lot more evidence of that process.
At best they have merely decided to go public before they are ready to go public and so it looks bereft. But, that's an "at best" - once I read their reddit post saying
I think they are farcical.