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Yeah but the folks selling VR and the "journalists" reviewing it are building up those mind blowing expectations. And with all the work OVR has down on their SDK and dev support system I have the expectation that it will be somewhat clean. If it's moderately better than the dev kit versions it should be.
 
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Tuco_sl said:
Yeah but the folks selling VR and the "journalists" reviewing it are building up those mind blowing expectations. And with all the work OVR has down on their SDK and dev support system I have the expectation that it will be somewhat clean. If it's moderately better than the dev kit versions it should be.
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Which kind of lends credence to my point. Its not so bad that consumers should steer clear of VR all together. Regardless of market hype or consumer expectations the platform is going to be good enough to succeed now in 2016 IMO.
 
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Good listing of all the confirmed 88 PS4 VR games:
All 88 Confirmed PlayStation VR Games and What Theyre About

There's a lot of small demonstrations and some goofy games there, but overall it's a great initial set for PS4 VR. No idea which of those games will be out at release or which are vaporware.

The MMO theme park one is fun. An MMO theme park that ties into a 3d beefed up roller coaster tycoon + modability would be amazing.
 
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yeah tried at PSX in 2014 and at CES this year. its ok if you haven't used an oculus/vive at all, but once you have the Morpheus is kind of a joke. Visual display isn't anywhere near as good, the headset doesn't feel as comfy, there is no IPD to adjust for your head/eyes, and the move controllers feel pretty retarded like using the wii. The visuals don't come even close, while you don't really notice pixels per say the hud doesn't feel nearly as immersive, you always just feel like you are watching a screen.

i'm still gonna buy one since i assume there will be some PS4 exclusives that will be fun to try, but not in any rush - probably black friday sale. Also there will be no VR porn since all content will have to go through the PSN store.
 
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I don't think I showed you guys the chair setup I built so I can play Assetta Corso and Elite using the Rift. I built it out of scrap wood from the garage, the base is my old kitchen island that I saved when I remodeled our kitchen. Painted it all black and wrapped some of the pieces in cheap black outdoor carpet from Home Depot. I spent a couple of days crawling around Omaha junkyards looking for a clean carseat to use, finally gave up that quest and just ordered a new seat from Jegs.com. The wheel shifter and pedals are a Logitech set.

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lol thats awesome

also awesome you climbed mt Kilimanjaro, i'm legit jelly of that. hiked around a bit there 10 years ago but was with kids and couldn't fit it in
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I keep a small fire extinguisher on each floor of my house. I thought it might be fun to mod the basement one out to look like a nox bottle.
 
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Looks like Apple just hired some people for VR recently.

I'm not sure how far they can drive it without Jobs making impossible demands that they make possible
 
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With the specs being what they are, you'll probably need a Mac Pro to do any VR related rendering with an Apple product. If anything, they'll probably do something from the consumer / iTunes perspective: Apple TV compatible headsets or something.
 
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One thing I would like to see a company go forward with is interactive media which isn't bound by rendering speeds.

They could have 8k displays that run footage from omnidirectional cameras.

The whole market is so centered around interactive games right now tho, and we are too far away to make that super good.
Maybe Porn will drive some of these more media functions into the main stream.

I've tested the film experiments they put out of for the RIFT with the 360 cameras, and it's pretty cool.
 
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Yeah I like the table with augmented reality. Unfortunately the versions that MS is demoing right now are not good when its just the headset by itself without the huge backpack computer.

They need to figure out how to get the same performance from a standalone unit like in that commerical
 
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SteamVR added a direct mode similar to what PSVR does, allows for the gpu to send another image to be output to a monitor.

http://m.pocketnow.com/2016/02/09/htc-vive-direct-mode
 
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