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I'm a bit of a VR enthusiast, and I'm not a gamer, so I think I can answer some of these. >- Outside of car games, space sims, or any other game where the main

I'm a bit of a VR enthusiast, and I'm not a gamer, so I think I can answer some of these. >- Outside of car games, space sims, or any other game where the main character is mostly sitting down, does VR work well? Very well. The thing I hate most, as a non-gamer, is having to learn all of the confusing controls. I really like that VR games take away most of the complication and allow you to do what feels natural. Probably for the same reasons a lot of people like the Wii. I've been having a lot of fun in games like Vanishing Realms:a first person dungeon crawling RPG http://store.steampowered.com/app/322770/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/322770/ , The Unspoken: where you have magic battles in a New York like setting http://www.insomniacgames.com/games/the-unspoken/ http://www.insomniacgames.com/games/the-unspoken/ , and a bunch of the puzzle type games. >- Apart from games what other applications are there at the moment? Not enough in my opinion, but I've spent the last week using Oculus Medium to make 3D models, and using Quill to make VR paintings. This is actually the area I'm most interested in, and I know that some companies are working behind closed doors at the moment to make more creative tools as well as business and social type tools. -Anyone try replacing their monitor with a VR headset? How'd that go? I do this frequently for consuming movies, but the resolution isn't at a point where I'd recommend it for long periods of time if you're doing text editing. I still occasionally browse and listen to music with the screen set to a gigantic size, but it hasn't replaced my monitors. - Anyone try combining a VR headset plus a kinect? Seems like a natural combination. Several companies and individuals are. This guy has been involved in the VR scene for many years and has some interesting experiments using several kinects to do mixed reality work http://doc-ok.org/?p=965 http://doc-ok.org/?p=965

Animats 10y ago
Anyone try combining a VR headset plus a Kinect? Seems like a natural combination. Microsoft's HoloLens has a Kinect in it. They use it for gesture recognition and mapping the room. The amount of stuff Microsoft crammed into that headgear is insane. Four cameras, a Kinect, a GPU, a specialized GPU for the AR, an IMU, a Windows 10 PC, a projection display, speakers, and a battery. It works pretty well, too, although the projection area is too small.

Animats 10y ago

Anyone try combining a VR headset plus a Kinect? Seems like a natural combination. Microsoft's HoloLens has a Kinect in it. They use it for gesture recognition and mapping the room. The amount of stuff Microsoft crammed into that headgear is insane. Four cameras, a Kinect, a GPU, a specialized GPU for the AR, an IMU, a Windows 10 PC, a projection display, speakers, and a battery. It works pretty well, too, although the projection area is too small.