Virtual Reality

Just got my shipping notice.

So I finally got to try Oculus Rift at a mobile gaming convention this week. I played a game called Dark Deception, which is basically Pac-Man; in the demo you run around dark hotel hallways collecting purple gems, while trying to avoid the "ghosts," which in this case are bell-hop monkeys with fangs and butcher knives. You can't see where the monkeys are on the minimap, but you can hear them.

It was very intense and every time a monkey got me I would almost jump out of the seat. It was such a simple game with Playstation 1 level graphics, yet the experience was more engaging and realistic than any modern game I've played. It really felt like I was in those hallways, especially since it captures your peripheral vision, and moving your head changes the direction of your gaze in the gaming environment. The audio was also positional, and all these features really do come together to create a legitimate VR experience... definitely not hype. Dark Deception won best indie game at the convention.


This is definitely the future of gaming. What really excites me after experiencing this VR tech; Everquest has some shitty graphics, but on the Oculus Rift it would feel more real than Skyrim.

The Oculus G2 is on its way via UPS and arrives on Thursday, I lit a burner under things today to try and get this done before then.

Cut some angled supports out of 2x6 and upholstered them:




Made a little shelf to support the steering wheel and upholstered it:



Built a little shelf to mount the stick shift:



Mounted the peripherals:





Tomorrow I need to paint the uprights and put on some Ferrari stickers I found on Ebay.

Soygen_sl said:

That's awesome. I've wanted to do something similar for a while(even without an Oculus). Did you follow some kind of plan or wing it, as far as the design? If a plan, do you have a link/source?

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Yep I followed the deathmobile plans off of insidesimracing, they were the easiest ones I found and I had a lot of the parts already sitting around as leftovers from other stuff.

http://www.isrtv.com/forums/topic/46...bile-wood-rig/

I got it painted up and some finishing touches applied today.



I moved it into the theater room to play a few games on the big screen until the Oculus rift shows up.


I had a leftover transducer from the theater build that I bolted beneath the seat.


The next step is to get the new amp rack mounted and the buttkicker hooked up and working.

Some large changes to the SDK seem to have made backwards compatibility a bit of a pain in the ass...

I can see this thing being huge in the home buying market. You could look at 20 houses in the time it would take you to visit 1. Instead of driving all over the fucking place you could just visit the real estate agent and put on the oculous and easily narrow your choice down.

Tuco_sl said:

Yeah but real estate agents will probably be against it because half their game is selling the house to someone. And if you're a seller you'll want the snakiest oilest salesperson on your side.

I do think it'd be cool though and would love to be able to do immersive 3d walk throughs of homes.

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That's why you can only get this at the real estate agents office. That way they can walk around with you while giving you the sales pitch. At least that is how I would set it up. I don't see the average seller haveing access to a 360 camera or whatever they use to completly record the home. I think real estate agents would love it just because they can expose you to more homes faster.

OMFG I JUST GOT IT IN.

I wasn't even expecting it this month..

Quick impressions while I unbox it. Way lighter then the original model.

The case is cardboard now versus the Beautiful Plastic briefcase on the original one. I guess that is where they cut some costs.\

Only 2 sets of lens versus the 3 sets of lens of the original model,

Break out Box is much much smaller, and is designed to flow over the top of the headset. Not sure how I feel about that yet.

The super oculus designed driving seat is missing a stand for the bucket, because I believe all the tests that have been made to make driving games using VR headsets result in massive nausea (one of the SCE honcho said as much when talking about Morpheus and the need to experiment and find what can and can't be done as far as VR games go).