First Look at Arc VR Performance

A770 vs. RTX 3060 VR Reverb G2 Performance Charted Although Intel’s A770 drivers installed easily and we set up our Valve Index, SteamVR refused to recognize the Index and Intel confirmed lack of Arc driver support. Fortunately, we were able …

Social Media

The Hunted Can Become the Hunter The world of new media (widgets, social apps, sites, services) looks like a beautiful marketing hunting grounds for everyone looking to move consumer/business products and especially the burgeoning entertainment arena. It’s like shooting fish …

Alone Time

Make the Most of Your Time Alone with Others Every Friday afternoon for nearly 15 years we’d put the office in the rearview mirror, go to the boat, and sail San Francisco Bay or up/down the coast for the weekend. …

Intel’s Arc Cards do Not Work with Native SteamVR Headsets

No Path to the Metaverse for Intel Arc SteamVR Gamers We received an Intel Arc A770 from JPR and were eager to put it through its paces. The drivers installed easily and we set up our Valve Index hoping that …

Choices

Options Can Stimulate Viewer, Profit Growth We really don’t get why snooty folks are so adamant that they would never consider signing up for a streaming service that included ads. First off, you/we grew up with legacy TV that was …

The Hellhound RX 7900 XTX Takes on the RTX 4080 with 50 VR & PC Games

The Hellhound RX 7900 XTX takes on the RTX 4080 in more than 50 VR & PC Games , GPGPU & SPEC Workstation Benchmarks The $999 Hellhound RX 7900 XTX arrived at BTR for evaluation last week from PowerColor. We …

Is the RTX 4080 FE Worth $1200 Today? – 50+ Game Analysis

The $1199 RTX 4080 Founders Edition Performance of 50+ Games, VR, Pro Apps, & More Although the $1199 RTX 4080 Founders Edition has been out for nearly a month, a lingering bad case of COVID-19 caused BTR’s Part 1 VR …

Question Reality

The Virtual World May Be Different, May Take Longer Than We Expect We don’t want to brag but we were active in the Web 3.0 world before folks decided to slap a name on it and say it will be …

Reset

The industry Needs to Pause, Consider the Viewing Public The artful master of linguistics and baseball legend Yogi Berra has been quoted as saying, “When you come to a fork in the road, Take It!” Great advice … keep moving …

34 inches at 175 Hz—see more faster with Alienware 34 Curved QD-OLED Gaming Monitor

34 inches at 175 Hz—see more faster with Alienware Curved QD-OLED Gaming Monitor (AW3423DW) -Plus amazing blacks with quantum dots Alienware’s 34-inch curved QD-OLED gaming monitor (AW3423DW) was the first and may be the only true gaming quantum dot OLED …

Dream Streams

Course Adjustments for the Major Content Developers/Deliverers For the past three weeks, we’ve had a consistent set of dreams (sometimes nightmares) trying to figure out how the sc***ed up personal/home content production/distribution industry is going to get back on the …

The RTX 4080 VR Performance Review

The $1199 RTX 4080 Founders Edition VR Performance Review plus SPEC, Pro Apps, Workstation & GPGPU (Part 1) BTR received a $1199 RTX 4080 Founders Edition (FE) from Nvidia but are late because we got a bad case of COVID-19 …