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Oculus Rift will start taking pre-orders tomorrow at 8:00 Pacific.
If you have a PC that is capable of running VR (I use a i7 5930 at 4.4ghz/32GB DDR4/GTX 980), YOU SHOULD STOP WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING AT 8:00 TOMORROW AND ORDER ONE. I've been using DK2 in Elite Dangerous since the game launched, I can't describe it to you, but it is hands-down the most immersive, incredible, awesome experience you can have in front of a computer. I'm a god damned space pilot; that's the best way I can put it. Alien Isolation? Very pedestrian on a monitor, not bad but kind of like most things, forgettable. Playing on Oculus Rift? Scream-out-loud, intense, "Jesus Christ why did I play this at night, I'm not going to be able to go to sleep now." Dying light? Not a bad game on a monitor, again forgettable. Playing on Oculus Rift "HOLY FUCK I DON'T EVEN LIKE HEIGHTS WHY AM I DOING THIS?!" Assetto Corsa? Yaay, I'm playing a driving game, I kind of like driving games, this one is not bad. On Rift? "Jesus Christ I'm a fucking race car driver, holy shit I can naturally look at the apex of a turn and steer into it, this is fucking great!!" The games for VR will only get better, too. I cannot sing the praises of this thing enough. Yeah Vive might be better, but this one will be available first so I'll wind up getting both. | ||
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I cannot wait to don this fine piece of gadgetry whilst working faction with Muffins for Pandos.
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<Millenial Snowfkake Utopia>
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Oculus Rift is a joke, VR will never be a thing as there is no current technology that can combine your brain with hardware/software. Oculus Rift at best is like going to see a 3d movie, while yes its cool for the first time, it quickly loses its value.
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Calling it VR is just wrong for so many reasons. It doesn't cover even 3 of the human senses, nevermind all 5 senses. Its a fun expansion on the 3D movie gimmick.
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Kirban Manaburn / Speedd Haxx
PKer & Master Trainer and Terrorist of Sullon Zek Kills: 1278, Deaths: 76, Killratio: 16.82 | |||
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I'll be willing to call it VR when you can give me a melee combat game that tracks my RL body as a ragdoll (no canned animations). I'm even willing to settle for no force feedback. You could still do a pretty sweet lightsaber type game where your sword can cut through anything in the environment, although decent fencing will be out of the question until force feedback is doable and I can't even begin to imagine how that would be achieved. And all of this would be better accomplished by using mocap style tracking on a human body, not a clumsy and stupid head gyroscope.
I do like the idea of the monitor taking up my entire field of view tho. I'm excited for that. But the push for novel input devices that is happening alongside Oculus is the actual exciting part of this, and I just don't see anything reasonably priced or particularly interesting coming soon. Enjoy your gay monitor and craning your neck around like an 8 year old trying to get the Wiimote to track properly so you can look at an inferior 3d-rendered anime girl's tits. | ||
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Last edited by James_Joyce; 01-06-2016 at 03:24 AM..
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It would be cool if arcades returned as places to use specialized and expensive VR hardware, but I doubt that the market is there to justify the specialized R&D required to make this particular contraption and the software to go with it if it couldn't be put in every household. I am hoping that the new gaming peripherals like treadmills and reactive rooms and such will trigger the return of meatspace gaming spots though. The dream is something more like a faux sword that can be suspended in midair and have forces applied to it using some kind of an electrical or magnetic field in a charged enclosure. Whether this is even theoretically possible with current tech I don't know enough about physics to say. Calling Tesla & Lune. I just want a game where I get to be a samurai by physically moving my body. I'll call it VR and suck your dick and pay you a year's salary when you make it happen, even if it's primitive as shit and requires me to put on an Iron Man suit. This has been my dream since the beginning of videogames, and playing that stupid camera-controlled fighting game at the Gameworks in Vegas that played canned punching / kicking animations when it saw you punching and kicking. It's really fucking sad that Bushido Blade is still the absolute pinnacle of this genre. | |||
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Last edited by Big_Japan; 01-07-2016 at 05:39 AM..
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#8
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let me know when i can sex with it k
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#9
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Imagine using oculus rift and being mad afterwards. God I feel so sorry for you.
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#10
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Can I play tetris
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