What is the most useless piece of tech that you have ever bought?

Why?

>few games support it
>most are 3rd party dll hacks that don't work great
>the few games it worked well in were neat
>took way too much desk space for what it was
>not strong enough force feedback imo
>no twist

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Why are you asking, Amazon Bot 0.4.7?

Damn, I remember playing a demo with it at school 7 years ago. Completely forgot it was even a thing.

I'm sad it didn't catch on well enough to inspire progress towards good haptic feedback for VR stuff

Nintendo Wii
>Wiimotes are cool but not suitable for long term use
>game discs are low quality and scratch easily
>online interactions are essentially nonexistant (also a plus since trolling/cyberbullying is somewhat impossible)
>anti-piracy didn't work and sometimes got in the way of normal gameplay
>region locking
>WiiWare is rushed to market and half assed
>severely underpowered so non-Nintendo games ran like ass
>currently sitting in my closet with two other Nintendo consoles

>inb4 Oh wait, you guys wanted tech stuff?
>Wii firmware is an unstable clusterfuck
>no redundancy, so one bad update bricks your console
>Nintendo had TV apps completely nailed ten years before IoT was a thing and did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DEVELOP IT FURTHER BEYOND A FEW FUCKING NEWS APPS
>Ninty was dragged kicking and screaming to support Netflix on the Wii
>Homebrew scene was good but the fact that you had to mod it that much exposed all the flaws
>anti-piracy is a joke, the Wii is one of the most easiest to pirate consoles ever made
>did I mention the TV apps? FUCKING HELL HOW THE HELL CAN SOMEONE FUCK UP THAT BADLY?!!

>the only sweat that comes from vr is the face sweat accumulating because your face in a box
In other words you get sweaty because your face has VR gear on it. In other words the VR gear causes you to get sweaty.

Without Prime and in another than English it's just a really expensive alarm clock with no features or the "personality" that the English version has

I just want a "VR" head set that would allow me to play all games in "true" 3D.

I basically want 2 monitors strapped to my head that show slightly different images to my eyes. I don't need anything else.

... that is not a bidirectional cause and effect

>put VR headset on face
>get sweaty

... but that is exactly what the vive does?

the images are shifted an show slightky different views

>Wii is one of the easiest consoles to mod
>what is the 3DS
>what is the Switch (soon - thanks to the pinshort mod)
Nintendo completely fails at software, and the hardware, while durable, is mediocre at best.

Thankfully they still make good games.

anything you out on your head just prevents airflow, it doesn’t make you sweat any more or less than you usually do, that’d determined by your health

>but that is exactly what the vive does?
Not many games support it, unfortunately. There are different hacks, but all work pretty badly according to reviews.

Plus, I don't need all the sensors and motion controllers. I want to sit in my chair with Steam Controller (or even Trackball+keyboard) in my hands and headset on my face.

cardboard is nothing like the vive

>anything you out on your head just prevents airflow
Which prevents cooling which causes sweat

i'd be surprised if it was considering it costs 100x more

I wouldn't

300-disc DVD changer
It promised to be the Coolest Thing Ever, having a video/music jukebox in your home.
Then came iTunes, Winamp, internet DVD rips, and hard drives big enough to hold all that shit and more.
It's just been sitting there for years, I don't even know if it's plugged in or not.

sorry you're silly and bought a second rate headset. Rift master race

literally every single vive and oculus game out there uses split views per eye

they render two cameras with the distance between each eye determined by your IPD setting

seriously, how do you not know this? I’ve had the oculus DK2, and even the earliest demos operate like this

unreal literally ships with this as a preset for hmd, and unity is not far behind

the only VR that doesn’t do the split views per eye is from cellphone headsets, which are utterly fake implementations of vr

cardboard is nothing like a real headset. Playing a shitty phone VR app is like saying PC games suck because mobile games suck. Get a real headset pleb

>takes a lot of time, work, and sweat to set up
Drilling 4 holes in the wall, wew lad. Must be tough for you babby

>have to recalibrate after every first time
I haven't recalibrated the past 5 months and I use the vive at least weekly

>room apparently too small for full experience
Your fault. Yes you need a shitlot of space. Think before you buy. I have a dedicated room just for VR.

>looks blurry inside
Yes, it's still awesome

>get sweaty within 10 minutes of playing
Lol

>I just play other games that don't require so much setting up.
You need a permanent open space for the vive. If you have to move furniture everytime you want to use it it'll obviously collect dust.

>buy a google cardboard chink headset with controller
Phone vr with an untracked controller is 100% toy bs and not anywhere close to a vive experience.
Handtracking + roomscale is where things start to get interesting.

>they're all unimmersive boring crap with janky mechanics
no shit

>3D 360 video feels like I'm inside a flat sphere
Because thats what it is. 360° video has nothing to do with VR or 3D. It doesnot contain any 3D information.

>constantly aware of the fact I'm in my room with a dumb looking headset strapped to my head
I'm assuming you shower with your clothes on so nobody sees you naked

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>literally every single vive and oculus game
Cool, except I want it for all my 3D games. Or at least for majority. There was somewhat similar tech in the early 2000's and there are some projects currently, but they vary in results. nVidia was trying something like that, but suddenly stopped.

>seriously, how do you not know this?
Once again, I'm interested in having games work like that and not glorified tech demos. If I wanted vendor lock and exclusives, I'd buy PlayStation.

>seriously considering paying 400 bucks for a pair of meme goggles that will inevitably be obsoleted in a matter of months by either rapid advancement in VR or VR itself becoming dead
>seriously considering paying 400 bucks to play 3 games
>expecting the novelty to not run out in a day

Sony Dash
Sony NSX-46GT

2017 macbook air
thought it would be great for med school, but I always keep just going back to my heavier, slower thinkpad T61 even though it has a worse screen and dogshit battery life.
I'm thinking of selling the mac, but I've never sold anything this expensive in person or have I ever used ebay so yeah kms

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>disc changer with disks
What the fuck

... you want a technology to be retroactively applied to your backlog of games?

when there is no way to achieve the true 3d effect w/ split views per eye without a secondary camera in game?

that it requires developer access or hooks into emulators?

sounds like you’ve never used the oculus or vive, or nvidia’s 3d vision

nvidia’s 3D vision only worked in a select few games and only because they worked with developers to render two cameras... but the effect sucked because the tv was still just far away from you and never had full immersion

oculus and vive, and proper dev support to make a proper port achieves exactly that

i have the dk2, played smash bros in a vr fork of dolphin (and the game really fell apart at the seams that it broke immersion, but it was still cool)

I’ve made sketches in ue4 for school

ive also played re7 on the psvr

i also wear glasses and vr literally works without contacts on, everything is just out of focus and blurry, but it still conveys depth

just download letgo on your phone and get some college girl to buy it off of you

take the retail price and slash $250, they’ll come running because it’s a better deal than student discount

I live in NYC
it will be niggers and spics, not a college girl

hello

reddo

Amazon Alexa. Literally just a fuckin gimmick that you think is kinda cool for the first week then never talk to it ever again

>I haven't recalibrated the past 5 months and I use the vive at least weekly

he’s talking about “recalibrating” as the aligning controllers to arm/head rigs ingame

like character avatars in vrchat or realigning center position

Low end NAS. Worse than my ghetto build server in every aspect.

even back when dvds were common, every year a larger capacity HDD was being released, and every year the existing HDDs were coming down in price

why the fuck would you have bought into the dvd ecosystem, when it was clear as day that computer storage was going to be the norm?

like, the only thing you should have ever done with dvds and cds was a binder and sleeves... that’s it

it’ll be a college girl, old people and cheapskates dont use letgo

90% of all the shit on letgo are dresses and shoes

This is actually really fucking cute.

Something like this? Looks bloody awesome, wait 10 years and sell it as "vintage".

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>... you want a technology to be retroactively applied to your backlog of games?
Yes.

>when there is no way to achieve the true 3d effect w/ split views per eye without a secondary camera in game?
Even some basic conversion would be nice.
Look at "TriDef", "VorpX" and "VireIO". They claim to do that without developer support.

>that it requires developer access or hooks into emulators?
What?

>sounds like you’ve never used the oculus or vive, or nvidia’s 3d vision
True. I'm not going to buy something I don't need to play a couple of "games".

>nvidia’s 3D vision only worked in a select few games and only because they worked with developers to render two cameras... but the effect sucked because the tv was still just far away from you and never had full immersion
Well, this should not be a Problem with current headsets.

>oculus and vive, and proper dev support to make a proper port achieves exactly that
And how many games have that?

Once again, it may be neat piece of tech, same way some people enjoy the Nintendo Wii, but it's not what I care about. I have motion controllers and movement tracking.
I'd enjoy eye tracking and dynamic DoF and focus, but even that is not here yet. (Last time I interacted with eye tracking tech it was giant and costed more than 10 grand.

All I want is regular games with regular controls in 3D.

i soft modded my wii and it replaced my NES/SNES/N64/GC and outputs 480p with the $5 component cable, equivalent gamecube cable is $150+ lol...

what do you mean TV apps? netflix and shit is on the wii, its not even on the switch still 10+ years alter :^)

>everything is just out of focus and blurry,
I'd puke right there. Out of focus stuff IRN makes me instantly sick.

I fooled myself that I would better myself. It worked for about 2 months

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Lumia 530.

A tablet

>Look at "TriDef", "VorpX" and "VireIO". They claim to do that without developer support.

and those hooks modify source files and largely dont work because as soon as a menu pops up, the entire thing falls apart

you have to intentionally port a game to VR in order to get the full immersive experience, you can’t just slap in a game onto a HMD and call it a day

>All I want is regular games with regular controls in 3D.

you’ve never even played a VR game, how are you so sure about the regular controls thing?

having an vr hmd camera system and the same analog aiming system with your thumbsticks or m+kb doesn’t work... people get motion sickness when HMD camera movements and thumbstick aiming fight with each other, and throwing one out requires a full redesign of game mechanics to accomodate the difference

that’s why we have the vr motion controllers, they give pointer precision, without adding copious amounts of neckstrain trying to use the center of your face to aim

it’s not feasible

Probably this thing.

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I'm also with op, just interested in headset as 3D monitor with head tracking while everything else stays the same - wasd+mouse.

Guess it would be trivial to implement something like that to games like GTA/BF.

Well, you and I are opposites. I've got a 4G enabled Nexus 9, I do everything on it. It's got front firing speakers, LineageOS without any Google integration, I read the news on it, browse 4chinz, shitpost occasionally, watch movies, read books and draw on it with a crappy stylus I bought. Phone is for phone calls only, and the occasional SMS.

>those hooks modify source files and largely dont work
Considering we don't have too many game engines today, I see no real problem with that.

>you have to intentionally port a game to VR in order to get the full immersive experience, you can’t just slap in a game onto a HMD and call it a day
Okay, explain me this: how can we have 3D ports for films, that are completely 2D but not for games that actually provide 3D information for every model?

>you’ve never even played a VR game, how are you so sure about the regular controls thing?
Because I hate to unnecessary move my hands. I prefer to rest them on my lap (controller) or the table (trackball+keyboard).

>having an vr hmd camera system and the same analog aiming system with your thumbsticks or m+kb doesn’t work...
Why?
>people get motion sickness when HMD camera movements
I have already said, that I don't want that. I actively don't want head tracking.
As I've said, I want eye tracking for focus change, but that's it.
> and thumbstick aiming fight with each other, and throwing one out requires a full redesign of game mechanics to accomodate the difference
1. Remove all the motion tracking tech
2. Use regular controls.
3. Profit

>that’s why we have the vr motion controllers, they give pointer precision, without adding copious amounts of neckstrain trying to use the center of your face to aim
Just don't move your head, ffs.

>it’s not feasible
Yes it is.

Or (if you really want head tracking), use it for special games. As example: Skyrim head movement mod. There you can move the body with regular controls but control the head with your own head.

Can't say I ever bought anything that is completely useless. I'm usually smart about purchases.

The Philips blender is one of the least used pieces of tech I got, relative to its price. But it's still useful sometimes.

Also, I think I went a bit overboard with spending too much money on audio equipment when cheaper and simpler devices would have been fine too. Still not useless, and eventually it might prove more useful in time.

what
Never heard of that.
Nah, in some games (Beat Saber, Drunkn Bar Fight VR) you can adjust things like playerheight but the games save the setting and its literally done in seconds.

nigga you have no idea what you are talking about. Get some proper vr experience first.

A microphone.
I keep telling everyone I don't have one still.

>nigga you have no idea what you are talking about.
Nice counter-argument.
> Get some proper vr experience first.
I will when it has what I want. Right now "proper experience" is quite shit.

a t420, the screen is so fucking bad i went back to my x230 in couple of days

I think you just need to lose some weight

That's the point, people like buy shit they don't know how to use or have no use for (or either are poor and have buyers remorse because a fully belly would have been a better idea).
This whole thread is "look how stupid I am" circlejerk.

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you can do that now with virtual desktop plus the sbs 3d reshade shader. it's depth buffer 3d instead of geometry though.

Thanks!
Even basic stereoscopic would have been awesome.

PSP, I bought it because it was advanced for its time, but it ultimately had no games (that I gave a shit about)

This!
Store it for 15 years and it might be worth something. Its cool but useless tech for sure.

I guess my PS3
Bought it used and played the four games I cared about on it and have only been using it as a DVD/BD player ever since
I mean, I still use that all the time but I could have just gotten a BD player for a fraction of the cost

By that time something in the internals is bound to go to hell and the price will drop significantly
These colossal CD/DVD changers are known to get catastrophic failures sooner or later and they're absolute hell to work on

there's not much to go wrong in one of those, it's just a big revolving tray and an arm that puts the selected disc into the drive. Way more shit to break in a tape deck and those are usually just a couple belts.

USB numpad/calculator

I thought this was one of those Virtual Reality Porn Masturbators

Has got to be my 2015 i7 macbook pro I sold on ebay for a loss. Battery life was pretty good but god was the performance and OS absolute horseshit. When I put it even under moderate load all cpu cores would tank to base frequency and dip below that even when plugged into a wall charger. God forbid I did anything massively resource intensive like gaymen. Video encoding was pretty much unbearable even for 720p H264 transcodes. I also hated how fucking slow this thing would charge. Even when you left it alone in a dark corner by itself with the AC on full blast it would take fucking hours to charge. Most of the time I used this piece of shit hooked up the wall and used it on the go maybe like 3 times.

Fuck me, I really wish I could go back in time and have never touched such a shitty piece of technology that made my daily life a living hell and makes me triggered whenever I see apple shills on this board. Worse of all I got that shit on credit so it took years to pay it off.

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A watch; especially nowadays.

>Worse of all I got that shit on credit so it took years to pay it off

HHAHAHAAHAHAHA OH MAN
Don't use credit. With banks, you lose

I could have had 3 gaymen pcs by now, have sold them and probably would have made like 2K in profit. :(

Man when you fuck up, you fuck up hard sometimes.

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Bought this piece of shit in a sale years ago. Idea was to use it as a media centre / console emulator for the TV, but shit was slow and infected with AIDS. Concept didn't really come of age until the Nvidia Shield TV, which does the job quite nicely.

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Raspberry Pi

Speaking of which: DO NOT get 30 year loans you massive cucks. It's literally hundreds of thousands of dollars better to rent out your basement to a family and live on the top floor for a meager 10 years than it is to live by yourself with your family. Hell I know some families who all made minimum wage make bank by doing just that and splitting the money.

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"get sweaty in 10 min"
You are horribly out of shape dude holy fuck how fat are you

VRs biggest flaws are the focus on motion controls and refusing to let people walk instead of teleport because some cunts get motion sickness.

As long as it won't loose the motion controlls it's nothing but a gimmick to me.

thats what you get for not knowing what you wanted in the first place before buying things

Right now sims are the only thing worth buying vr for, since you can keep using them pretty much forever, unlike those hollow gimmicky 30 minute games, plus simulators already have inmersion devices that vr becomes the final step in inmersion.

youtube.com/watch?v=EHgSMuu3UCY

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For me, it's the McChicken.

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Samsung Dex station for my Galaxy S8.
To be fair I bought it used for less than half of the new price and it came with an original charger, but ultimately I tried it out once, tought "ebin" and then put it in the drawer forever.

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Man these things used to be so good but mcdonalds gave up along the way. Now it's no different than frozen chicken patties and some stale bread you can buy yourself for like 10¢ per sandwich.

USB stick

>Tapwave Zodiac
Holy shit and I thought I was the only one. I bought this cunt from a liquidator in 2006 for $180, which is pretty good considering it was selling for $400 just a few years earlier. It was kind of fun to be able to play Doom II and Duke Nukem on your PDA, but it was so hopelessly outclassed by the PSP it wasn't even funny. And the iPhone was just around the corner. Still, wouldn't call it "useless", because it was still a pretty damn good device for PIM and even watching videos. Just overpriced relative to Palm's offerings.

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For me it's probably the 32 GB Blackberry Playbook. Paid a really good price for it; $149 syrupbux during Blackberry's Christmas 2011 fire sale. But it had

>no expansion slots
>no apps
>shit resolution
>no AC3 support
>no support for Hi10p MKV files
>shit battery life
>no ability to access email or calendar without being paired to a Blackberry smartphone

At first I envisioned using it as an alternative to my big, lumbering Thinkpad T61p, but it found itself in a drawer after about a year. I tried to sell it but people were giving me stupidly low offers ($40) and I figured it would be better to just keep the damn thing.

Funny, my 2014 Macbook Air can keep the turbo going for quite some time and charges up pretty quick. Is Apple actually getting worse?

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A guitar... haha... why...

you need to factor in the inflation of the US dollar.
$1,000 30 years ago is very different than $1,000 today

I guess so, from dongles to rootgate to having virtually 0 protection against the most basic of 0-days they should have known a decade ago. It's all a fucking shitshow.