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I'd be interested in Portal 3 VR
I think most people would run into motion sickness flying around like you did in Portal 1. Releasing all existing Valve games to support VR would be nice. There are unofficial VR mods for Half-Life 1 and 2 already, so people have the option to play it like that. I probably feel sick when playing like that, but still good to have.
 
I'd be interested in Portal 3 VR not that I'd play it... I've never played anything VR or "virtuality" as it was once called. I'm wondering if headset gaming is the future though. Incidentally I'm playing HL2:E1 right now and not really digging the destroyed eastern europe vibe.
 
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Rumors in tech news: Apple is looking into moving parts of their production to Intel (US) for their M-series chips. Currently these are made by TSMC in Taiwan.

While Apple appears to be able to switch hardware platforms, like going from PowerPC to Intels X86, and later to ARM. They now appear to actively move more production back to the US. So, in the future iPhones and iPads might really be made in the US. That will take more effort thought as other parts and their assembly also still happen abroad.

ED might have been a pioneer in trying to do these things in Europe with the Open-Pandora and Pyra. And I guess that will keep being a challenge as I don't get these strong signals from European companies yet.

With the US being more protective and appears to value group cohesion less, do you think it's a good development? Should the EU do the same and support the US iniatives second compared to EU ones?
Or should we focus on getting the US big first compared to, for example, relying on China for our production.
 
Rumors in tech news: Apple is looking into moving parts of their production to Intel (US) for their M-series chips. Currently these are made by TSMC in Taiwan.

While Apple appears to be able to switch hardware platforms, like going from PowerPC to Intels X86, and later to ARM. They now appear to actively move more production back to the US. So, in the future iPhones and iPads might really be made in the US. That will take more effort thought as other parts and their assembly also still happen abroad.

ED might have been a pioneer in trying to do these things in Europe with the Open-Pandora and Pyra. And I guess that will keep being a challenge as I don't get these strong signals from European companies yet.

With the US being more protective and appears to value group cohesion less, do you think it's a good development? Should the EU do the same and support the US iniatives second compared to EU ones?
Or should we focus on getting the US big first compared to, for example, relying on China for our production.
I'm wondering anyways, why we in Europe don't have something like TSMC. Isn't their tooling made in the Netherlands by what was started a daughter company by Philips? And isn't that the only one of its kind? Maybe I'm confusing things.
 
Making chips is very difficult. Only 3 companies are top tier: TSMC, Samsung and Intel. Only they can get 3nm and manufacture for other brands. Everything else is uncompetitive. Especially state controlled chip companies suck, eg Russia's notoriously well funded yet shitty Angstrem-T couldn't even scratch 65nm. A competitive commercial landscape where good companies get more funding and bad companies go broke quickly seems the best way. Europe has crippling capital problems. I think the EU should simultaneously de-regulate and be more protective of the local ecosystem (in the right way). But it doesn't help that Europeans want to use Google and have iPhones.

There is hope: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/...-delays-full-implementation-of-ai-act-to-2027

And: https://www.eu-inc.org/

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I'm wondering anyways, why we in Europe don't have something like TSMC. Isn't their tooling made in the Netherlands by what was started a daughter company by Philips? And isn't that the only one of its kind? Maybe I'm confusing things.
Yes, and the root of the production process is developed in Belgium at Imec. Ireland has an Intel high-end fab. Global Foundries is still in Germany.

The problem with Intel is that they weren't a foundry, so they only made Intel products. While TSMC only made products for others so they only had a focus on having the best process. Now Intel has to play catch-up.
Samsung is somewhere in-between.
High-end fabs are very costly and having the machines to make chips is half of the story. You need a mature stable production process on top of those tools. And to top it off you need to make chips. Which sounds obvious but Intel hardly made chips for others when becoming a foundry, losing them money.
Europe needs to get everything in place to make it work. The full supply line needs to be in the EU including the production of the end product. A Pyra is expensive because it's low volume but also because making it in the EU is more expensive. So EU products need to be competitively priced.
 
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