Virtual Reality
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Tuco
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quick, use it this weekend, sell it and order a CV1! you'll break even!
Let us know what your thoughts are on it. My favorite demo is titans of space.
Lenas
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Abefroman
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Hope you got proof of purchase for your drive home or you just made a cops kid real happy.
Brahma
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Ok...This shit is crazy. TOS was awesome!!! How in the hell can people NOT LOVE this? Putting my order in for a Vive.
Attog
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Nah it is a fire extinguisher. I keep one on each floor of the house and I thought it would be fun to paint the one in the basement blue and stick it on the front of the driving rig. I printed out some nitrox stickers from google images and it looks pretty real.
Tuco
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That is really, realy cool. Given microsofts track record it could be snake oil, but illl give them the benefit of the doubt.
I wonder how close theyd be to doing this with two kinects instead of whatever they had.
Tuco
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There's a few ways it can go.
In an ideal world the big VR players will solidify the VR tech in the first couple generations, then come together to make an open platform that allows developers to easily support both HMDs.
It's a lot harder than it sounds though. The performance requirements of these systems are extremely high. Not just the processind needed to power the software, but especially the narrow tolerance for any issues with them like judder, frame drops, motion issues etc. So you can't just slap a port from one to the other together, you really have to try hard to get everything right.
This is combined with the fact that both sides are creating new technologies to push the envelope of what is possible, so it's all cutting edge hardware and software. It's not like this generation of consoles where the hardware is stuff we had in our PCs 3 years ago.
In the next couple gens both Valve/HTC and Oculus really need to focus on their technologies and give standards and universalism a back seat.
To me it's obvious that Valve wants a piece of the VR store pie, and Oculus/facebook does too. How that plays into cross-platform support is unknown.
In an ideal world the big VR players will solidify the VR tech in the first couple generations, then come together to make an open platform that allows developers to easily support both HMDs.
It's a lot harder than it sounds though. The performance requirements of these systems are extremely high. Not just the processind needed to power the software, but especially the narrow tolerance for any issues with them like judder, frame drops, motion issues etc. So you can't just slap a port from one to the other together, you really have to try hard to get everything right.
This is combined with the fact that both sides are creating new technologies to push the envelope of what is possible, so it's all cutting edge hardware and software. It's not like this generation of consoles where the hardware is stuff we had in our PCs 3 years ago.
In the next couple gens both Valve/HTC and Oculus really need to focus on their technologies and give standards and universalism a back seat.
To me it's obvious that Valve wants a piece of the VR store pie, and Oculus/facebook does too. How that plays into cross-platform support is unknown.
I don't know. I was thinking of getting one.
I've jsut started to look into vr. Is it pretty much down to the Rift or Vive? From a compete lack of knowledge point of view, I was thinking Vive because fuck facebook.
Maybe I shoudl just wait a bit and see what AAA games come out and go from there... Need to upgrade PC for it anyway.
I remember the days when I was excited to get parts to build a pc. Now I've had parts for a basic work desktop sitting in a spare room for 6 months because I've been too lazy to put it together...
I think next time, I'm getting someone else to do it.
I remember the days when I was excited to get parts to build a pc. Now I've had parts for a basic work desktop sitting in a spare room for 6 months because I've been too lazy to put it together...
I think next time, I'm getting someone else to do it.
Rezz
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I think you might be in for a wait looking for AAA games for the VR crowd, at least for the immediate future. Adoption rate isn't going to be silly high ($600 usd entry level) and that isn't including having a medium high/high end PC by modern standards to make use of it. If there -are- AAA games available in the near future, I would expect a -much- higher pricetag than $59.99. The adoption rate + development costs are going to make that a slowly expanding market until the price of the headsets drops by roughly half.