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I'm thinking of getting one for my birthday next month, and I'd be interested in your thoughts.
Never tried VR headsets, so ...
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Before you buy one try a Google Cardboard if you have Android phone... Several of my friends have them I find it all a bit meh! 
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Not specifically tried the Oculus Go, but have played around with some others.
I think your main concern should be:
How much would it bother you (cost wise) if you only tried it once and never picked it up again?
The technology is good and works pretty well. However, some people really struggle with using it. In terms of motion sickness, etc. So it's one of those things where you really do benefit from trying before you buy.
The motion sickness is very dependant on applications to. Personally I can't play it too long with games where you are supposed to be moving around (e.g. in a car). Because the brain expects motion, but the body feels nothing. But a game where you are stationary and only look-around are really good and do feel natural.
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I don't have a Go myself (I have the HTC Vive) but the Go is reasonably priced for someone looking to experience VR for the first time.
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isn't oculus the dude trying to take out spiderman?
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Watching this make me motion sick 
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I don't have the go, but I got the Quest for Christmas from my wife. I love it along with the rest of the family. 10 different family members played it and none of us have yet to experience any VR sickness. The lenses are adjustable to reduce, if not eliminate the effects. The Quest is completely wireless, so we can play it anywhere in the house. The Vader Immortal series is my favorite.
The problems I do have is that after 45 minutes or so, the headset gets quite heavy causing some neck strain. The charge lasts about an hour before it has to recharge, but you can play with it plugged into the wall. The cord is about 15 feet, so it doesn't really cause an issue.
The controllers are really nice. The headset detects them and identifies them in the headset as left or right. The Quest also has a play area detection system. It detects if you are playing in a new area and asks you to set up a "Guardian" boundary. The outside cameras come on and you can see your actual environment in the headset and you draw a circle on the floor. This becomes your play area and warns you , in game, if you breach it.
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I bought one by a lesser-known brand, a couple of years ago, which cost about the same as the Go does now (I wasn't willing to invest in a Rift just to see if I liked it).
It was a lot of fun, for a while, but the novelty soon wears off, and you have to find room under the sink for it.
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I've been digging into a javascript based application lately and tripped across some code that made extensive use of the arity (which is deprecated now), currying capabilities and anonymous functions. Took me a lonnnnnng time to understand what the intent and operation of the code was.
So, out of curiosity, I'm wondering what "advanced" features of people's favorite languages they use on a regular basis, how they use them, and why? Or, which ones do you seldom/never use because....
E.g:
....I like using lambdas in C++ because .... (I can't think of a good example because I avoid them!)
....I avoid lambdas in C++ because they are often used where a simple function would be clearer and more readable (truth in advertising).
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I avoid using var and dynamic in C# because they are normally misused to resemble Dim in VB or shortcut strong typing because the developer is too lazy to think about maintenance...
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I'll toss the ViewBag into that bucket too.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I avoid using var and dynamic in C#
I agree. But I find it interesting how many experienced developers love using var. I feel like I must be missing something.
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ZurdoDev wrote: I agree. But I find it interesting how many experienced developers love using var. I feel like I must be missing something.
I used to hate it but got used to it now.
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ZurdoDev wrote: I agree. But I find it interesting how many experienced developers love using var. I feel like I must be missing something.
If you have a framework of Interfaces then var makes far more sense.
It's very much related to Dependency Injection and flexibility.
Of course, var is abused since any dev can just allow the compiler to set the type for all vars now.
But, this is also the way newer (dynamic) languages go about things (Kotlin, Swift).
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I like var, it removes a lot of unnecessary noise
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RugbyLeague wrote: it removes a lot of unnecessary noise
Like being able to look at the declaration of a variable and know what type of object it is? 
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That's what intellisense is for.
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Hover over each item each time you want to know what is?
If you think that's easier and worth it, I hope you never work on my team. 
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The vast majority of the time when looking at code I don't need to know what everything is - so without var I am presented with a load of noise and redundancy. If I want to know what something is and it isn't immediately obvious then I can hover over it and it tells me and for the purpose of that session I don't need to do that again.
I prefer to concentrate on the code rather than a load of type declaration noise. Admittedly it is a fine line - I don't use var everywhere - int i = 10 never becomes var i = 10, for example. And using var has become something I have adjusted to over time - at first I didn't like it, then I used it to remove redundancy var l = new List<string>() rather than List<string> l = new List<string>(). Now I use it in most places other than the aforementioned value type decls.
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Other than what it was invented for (linq statements and anonymous types) an example of a good use of var is:
var foo = new SomeReallyLongTemplateDeclaration<bar<loo<koo,ka,choo>>>;
Here, you know what type foo is because it's type is readily apparent on the right-hand side of the statement.
Basically if you can readily determine the type from the right-hand side, then it's ok to use var. Otherwise, declare the type instead of using var.
So here, not so good:
var boo = SomeFunction();
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I only use var in cases where the type is either given elsewhere on the line of declaration
var frobables = new List<Frobable>();
var frobables2 = GetFrobables();
or is an intermediate value whose exact type is both nasty looking and whose explicit declaration doesn't add much value.
var temp = db.tableName
.Where(x => )
.Select(x => new
{
x.Property1,
x.Property2,
x.Property3,
x.Property4
});
I only use dynamic in one off code, eg single shot tools or data importers; like the fluffy languages it resembles, for anything that needs to be maintained the long term costs exceed the short term savings.
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And you get far too many who just go "sod it, I can't be assed":
var x = 6;
foreach (var x in y.GetAll())
...
There is a good blog post on it here: The Use and Abuse of the C# “var” Keyword[^]
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idiots can write unreadable code in any language. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I use something called a "debugger". I always knew this was quite a maverick thing to do, but looking at the QA section I didn't realise just how maverick!
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