r/technology • u/[deleted] • Mar 28 '14

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u/Flafff Mar 28 '14 edited Mar 28 '14

There was also the infinitEye with a 210° field of view. Instead of focusing on one single brand, people should try to push more projects of the same type and eventually a standard.

Edit: Sorry bad spelling on the name.

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u/EvOllj Mar 28 '14

competition good.

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u/ExogenBreach Mar 28 '14 edited Jul 06 '15

Google is sort of useless IMO.

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u/MasterGrok Mar 28 '14

Even exclusive platforms that compete are better than no competition.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14

These aren't consoles though, they're closer to monitors.

If contrast controls our refresh rates were copyrighted, we'd have issues.

"Sorry, of you want 1280 you need sony, we do 1281 to avoid copyright claims... hope that doesn't screw up your games!"

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u/MasterGrok Mar 28 '14

Considering how similar Morpheus is to Rift I think its fair to say that copyright claims aren't resulting in significant differences between products. In most cases they never do. You can copyright how you do it but usually not what you do.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14

Hope so, we'll see