talk · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
What VR Could, Should, and Almost Certainly Will Be within Two Years (Steam Dev Days 2014)
Steamworks Development · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2014–2017).
SignalTube analysis
Among 7 other talk videos tagged VR, AR & spatial computing, the mean is 2.6 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 2.4 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
33% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2014–2017; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 27 minutes 56 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2014-02-11.
- Channel / speaker
- Steamworks Development
- Verified runtime
- 27m 56s
- YouTube upload date
- 2014-02-11
- Hacker News mention years
- 2014–2017
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in VR, AR & spatial computing. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What VR Could, Should, and Almost Certainly Will Be within Two Years (Steam Dev Days 2014)Current video | 1 | 1 | 33% | — | 27m 56s | 2014-02-11 |
| QuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynotetalk · QuakeCon Official | 6 | 7 | 44% | No recorded overlap | 216m 39s | 2012-08-04 |
| John Carmack Facebook Connect 2021 Keynotetalk · UploadVR | 4 | 2 | 50% | No recorded overlap | 61m 32s | 2021-10-28 |
| John Carmack Tech Talk with UMKC-SCEtalk · UMKC School of Science and Engineering | 3 | 3 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 80m 28s | 2017-05-30 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “VR”. Its short rationale: Source for VR pixel density versus original Quake.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “I Tried VR and It Was Just OK”. Its short rationale: Abrash's basic description of how VR convinces the brain.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Alan Kay at Demo: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental”. Its short rationale: Abrash talk discussing the same optical illusion as Alan Kay.