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After only a couple minutes with the low resolution dev kit, I was sold. I can't wait for this to hit the consumer market.

by thenmar 13y ago

brotchie 13y ago
A friend of mine was an early Kickstarter backer and brought his Rift around to my place try out with a few friends. We tried out Half-Life 2 and as soon as I put the Visor + headphones on I was blown away. My brain's "location neurons" were 100% fooled into thinking I was in the HL2 world. Within a few seconds I had lost the "background" feeling of being in a small room, and accepted I was in a large, open-aired train station (HL2 intro). Unbelievable. The early Oculus DevKit certainly has some issues: no translational tracking gives me strong motion sickness, high persistence display makes the scene blur as I move my head, low resolution produces screen door effect. Regardless of these downsides, after 10-15 seconds of use I accepted that VR will be the "next big thing."
- geoffschmidt 13y ago
  I was really skeptical about Oculus, but I had a chance to try out a demo by Amir Hirsh that combined an Oculus with simple Kinect-based limb tracking. I could look down and see my own hands and they really felt like my hands. I have no idea how this is going to work in practice (are we going to have to play games in large empty warehouses) but it is magical in a way that is hard to describe if you haven't had a chance to try it.
  - Anonymous823 13y ago
    > are we going to have to play games in large empty warehouses Large hamster ball on rollers. Infinite space to walk or run. Also, you don't need to track their motion or feet, you just feed in the data from the rollers, and you know how fast their character is walking or running, and in what direction.
    - jaxomlotus 13y ago
      Omni virtuix is a pretty good approach that doesn't require a hamster wheel. http://www.virtuix.com/ http://www.virtuix.com/
      - tempestn 13y ago
        Yes! This stuff is incredibly exciting. With Omni + Kinect + OR, we're starting to get close to Otherland-style VR. It's going to be interesting.
    - Sikul 13y ago
      I saw a large hamster ball with oculus VR at IndieCade in Los Angeles earlier this year.
  - amirhirsch 13y ago
    The game was Sushi Warrior: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBx3MIAaXTA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBx3MIAaXTA A rar of the game is here, req kinect sdk installation + oculus rift. http://motionos.com/sw2.rar http://motionos.com/sw2.rar
- ekianjo 13y ago
  I haven't tried it with that game, but I heard some very positive comments on people using it with Euro Truck Simulator 2 (already pretty realistic by itself on a screen). Occulus Rift is going to be awesome for all these games where you are supposed to be sitting in a cockpit. For FPS, not so much (unless you have a giant hamster ball and tons of sensors as someone else mentioned).
AJ007 13y ago
Emphasis on the couple of minutes, about how long a normal person can handle the Oculus being feeling nauseous. I had a friend lay flat on the floor for half an hour after a level of Quake 2. Brings back fond memories of my first days playing Wolfenstein 3D and experiencing motion sickness..
- thenmar 13y ago
  I'm part of the happy few who have never gotten motion sickness from anything!

After only a couple minutes with the low resolution dev kit, I was sold. I can't wait for this to hit the consumer market.

by thenmar 13y ago

After only a couple minutes with the low resolution dev kit, I was sold. I can't wait for this to hit the consumer market.

brotchie 13y ago

A friend of mine was an early Kickstarter backer and brought his Rift around to my place try out with a few friends. We tried out Half-Life 2 and as soon as I put the Visor + headphones on I was blown away. My brain's "location neurons" were 100% fooled into thinking I was in the HL2 world. Within a few seconds I had lost the "background" feeling of being in a small room, and accepted I was in a large, open-aired train station (HL2 intro). Unbelievable. The early Oculus DevKit certainly has some issues: no translational tracking gives me strong motion sickness, high persistence display makes the scene blur as I move my head, low resolution produces screen door effect. Regardless of these downsides, after 10-15 seconds of use I accepted that VR will be the "next big thing."

geoffschmidt 13y ago
I was really skeptical about Oculus, but I had a chance to try out a demo by Amir Hirsh that combined an Oculus with simple Kinect-based limb tracking. I could look down and see my own hands and they really felt like my hands. I have no idea how this is going to work in practice (are we going to have to play games in large empty warehouses) but it is magical in a way that is hard to describe if you haven't had a chance to try it.
- Anonymous823 13y ago
  > are we going to have to play games in large empty warehouses Large hamster ball on rollers. Infinite space to walk or run. Also, you don't need to track their motion or feet, you just feed in the data from the rollers, and you know how fast their character is walking or running, and in what direction.
  - jaxomlotus 13y ago
    Omni virtuix is a pretty good approach that doesn't require a hamster wheel. http://www.virtuix.com/ http://www.virtuix.com/
    - tempestn 13y ago
      Yes! This stuff is incredibly exciting. With Omni + Kinect + OR, we're starting to get close to Otherland-style VR. It's going to be interesting.
  - Sikul 13y ago
    I saw a large hamster ball with oculus VR at IndieCade in Los Angeles earlier this year.
- amirhirsch 13y ago
  The game was Sushi Warrior: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBx3MIAaXTA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBx3MIAaXTA A rar of the game is here, req kinect sdk installation + oculus rift. http://motionos.com/sw2.rar http://motionos.com/sw2.rar
ekianjo 13y ago
I haven't tried it with that game, but I heard some very positive comments on people using it with Euro Truck Simulator 2 (already pretty realistic by itself on a screen). Occulus Rift is going to be awesome for all these games where you are supposed to be sitting in a cockpit. For FPS, not so much (unless you have a giant hamster ball and tons of sensors as someone else mentioned).

AJ007 13y ago

Emphasis on the couple of minutes, about how long a normal person can handle the Oculus being feeling nauseous. I had a friend lay flat on the floor for half an hour after a level of Quake 2. Brings back fond memories of my first days playing Wolfenstein 3D and experiencing motion sickness..

thenmar 13y ago
I'm part of the happy few who have never gotten motion sickness from anything!