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Steam Integration - how is this going to work.
So the big question. If Steam Games can't run because you're blocking apps you don't approve. How are games that use Steam Achievements, Steam Workshop, Steam Matchmaking, etc supposed to work. I re...
Even that simple checkbox is a barrier to the common user causing friction that doesn't need to be there. If you don't understand that, then you don't understand what massive impact these little things can have on user behaviour.
It's obvious from this initial launch that Oculus needs to accept it's another display device on the PC and not their own console or mobile device platform. It needs to graciously coexist with everything else - otherwise it is frankly badly designed PC software.
I think it would only be acceptable if the device was free and paid for by adverts - which is a horrible thought.
The ill advised push to have Oculus Home (that takes up a large HD install and 661MB of RAM running) jump open at any opportunity is very disappointing. The people that don't see this as an issue don't get the nature of the PC platform or what this kind of behaviour leads to for companies in the long term.
We have a major problem of application bloat in the PC space which needs to stop. I hope for major consumer backlash against this sort of thing, along with every application and it's pet dog wanting to install and run badly written auto-updating software that is always running etc. There should be laws protecting consumers from this - I can but dream...
The fun and games with the health and safety warning is annoying too, and of course as soon as users figure out how to hack it off they will. But to be fair there I can understand that this is a new product whose long term health implications are relatively unknown. So I think Oculus can be forgiven that one. But as a developer we need to be able to disable it as it actually makes us spend more time in VR during iteration!
Also to be clear I am not anti Oculus-Home or Oculus having their own store etc. It just needs to be a more optional part of the experience and behave in a manner that respects how we use our PC's.
Hopefully this is all misguided initial teething problems and they will fix this quickly because otherwise I think they did a really good job with the launch.
It's obvious from this initial launch that Oculus needs to accept it's another display device on the PC and not their own console or mobile device platform. It needs to graciously coexist with everything else - otherwise it is frankly badly designed PC software.
I think it would only be acceptable if the device was free and paid for by adverts - which is a horrible thought.
The ill advised push to have Oculus Home (that takes up a large HD install and 661MB of RAM running) jump open at any opportunity is very disappointing. The people that don't see this as an issue don't get the nature of the PC platform or what this kind of behaviour leads to for companies in the long term.
We have a major problem of application bloat in the PC space which needs to stop. I hope for major consumer backlash against this sort of thing, along with every application and it's pet dog wanting to install and run badly written auto-updating software that is always running etc. There should be laws protecting consumers from this - I can but dream...
The fun and games with the health and safety warning is annoying too, and of course as soon as users figure out how to hack it off they will. But to be fair there I can understand that this is a new product whose long term health implications are relatively unknown. So I think Oculus can be forgiven that one. But as a developer we need to be able to disable it as it actually makes us spend more time in VR during iteration!
Also to be clear I am not anti Oculus-Home or Oculus having their own store etc. It just needs to be a more optional part of the experience and behave in a manner that respects how we use our PC's.
Hopefully this is all misguided initial teething problems and they will fix this quickly because otherwise I think they did a really good job with the launch.