Editorial: “Look at Your Life, Look at Your Choices”

The universe seems to be telling me that I need to look at my life and my choices:

While getting dressed for work today, I ripped the only wearable pair of pants I had for work, which necessitated an emergency trip to the local Mr. Big & Tall (and yes, I’m both) for several new pair of dress slacks. And, to add insult to injury, I discovered that I have gone up a pant size.

Despite the lovingly-crafted, beautifully-worded mission statement I wrote when I went on a Seven Habits of Highly Effective People bender several years ago, my life is still seriously out-of-balance. I spend too much time working (both at my paying job and on this blog), and too little time attending to all the other things that need my attention.

I need to haul my raggedy ass back to Weight Watchers before I gain even more weight. I need to clean my Red Cross disaster area of an apartment before the dust bunnies attack me. And yes, I need to take a serious look at my life, and a hard look at the choices I am making.

I’m just a stupid bitch. And it’s not like I am lacking in sassy gay friends, in either my real life or my virtual one 😉

What I do need to do (and let’s face it, I’m not alone in this) is listen to my inner Sassy Gay Friend…and become my own Sassy Gay Friend.

Editorial: Why I Think the Oculus Quest Will Be THE Major Virtual Reality Headset of 2020

I’m calling it now, exactly one month before Christmas: this year’s hottest gifts will be Baby Yoda toys and the Oculus Quest.

The Baby Yoda thing is patently obvious (I mean, look at him!), but the Quest? Why do I think this?

Because with the release of the Oculus Link software, the Oculus Quest can now be used both as a standalone VR headset, and as a VR headset connected to a gaming PC to run Oculus Rift titles and apps.

Although I have said that I prefer my Oculus Rift to the Quest/Link setup, and (to be honest) if I were starting over again completely from scratch, I would probably buy the more powerful Valve Index, I do think that the Oculus Quest is going to be the first truly successful consumer VR hardware in 2020.

It’s very attractively priced, and Facebook has already reported that they are selling Quests as fast as they can make them. The company is slowly but steadily expanding the number of apps on their Oculus Quest store. When Facebook loosens their tight curatorial control on the Quest store, and make it easier for developers to submit apps (which I expect to happen next year), we can expect sales of the Quest to boom.

And it will become a virtuous circle: the more popular the Quest becomes, the more developers will create apps for it. The more apps available, the more Quests Facebook will sell.

Mark my words: 2020 will be the Year of the Quest.