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Nice Project. As someone who already did some reverse engineering of such old games I know the amount of work to be done, but also the fun when it finally works

by s-macke 13y ago

Nice Project. As someone who already did some reverse engineering of such old games I know the amount of work to be done, but also the fun when it finally works. I also think it would be great to play some old games with the Oculus, starting from Elite.

aaronem 13y ago
I don't know about playing the original Elite with a 3D HMD, but if you don't mind a more modern sort of game, you would appear to have several options. For one, there's an open source Elite remake, somewhat infelicitously called Oolite [1], which could probably be extended to support the Oculus Rift. There's also something called "Elite: Dangerous", which is a massively multiplayer Elite-style game-to-be, and which appears already to offer Oculus Rift support in its current combat alpha [2]. And, of course, there's Star Citizen [3], helmed by Chris Roberts of Wing Commander fame; in essence, he came to the Internet two years ago and said "Here's what I always wanted to build. How much is it worth to you to play it?" The answer to that question has turned out to be "thirty-eight million dollars and counting", and the full alpha release is projected for late this year, with increasingly large bits of functionality releasing between now and then; I don't know specifically when Oculus Rift support is planned for addition, but I'd be astonished if they weren't looking into adding it. [1] http://www.oolite.org/ http://www.oolite.org/ [2] http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/12/23/not-so-massively-elites-oculus-rift-support-star-citizen-dela/ http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/12/23/not-so-massively-eli... [3] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/about-the-game https://robertsspaceindustries.com/about-the-game (PS: As an old space sim player who's been displeased by the decade-and-more drought of new titles in the genre, I'm delighted to see such a profusion of new titles. Perhaps space railroading time has come around again.)
- s-macke 13y ago
  Of course I know all these projects. But it would be nice to play with the old wireframe graphics and try if docking becomes easier :) Just for fun of course. But to implement it in oolite would be indeed easier.
Associat0r 13y ago
There is also a great community FAQ http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite:_Dangerous_FAQ http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite:_Dangerous_FAQ

by s-macke 13y ago

aaronem 13y ago

I don't know about playing the original Elite with a 3D HMD, but if you don't mind a more modern sort of game, you would appear to have several options. For one, there's an open source Elite remake, somewhat infelicitously called Oolite [1], which could probably be extended to support the Oculus Rift. There's also something called "Elite: Dangerous", which is a massively multiplayer Elite-style game-to-be, and which appears already to offer Oculus Rift support in its current combat alpha [2]. And, of course, there's Star Citizen [3], helmed by Chris Roberts of Wing Commander fame; in essence, he came to the Internet two years ago and said "Here's what I always wanted to build. How much is it worth to you to play it?" The answer to that question has turned out to be "thirty-eight million dollars and counting", and the full alpha release is projected for late this year, with increasingly large bits of functionality releasing between now and then; I don't know specifically when Oculus Rift support is planned for addition, but I'd be astonished if they weren't looking into adding it. [1] http://www.oolite.org/ http://www.oolite.org/ [2] http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/12/23/not-so-massively-elites-oculus-rift-support-star-citizen-dela/ http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/12/23/not-so-massively-eli... [3] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/about-the-game https://robertsspaceindustries.com/about-the-game (PS: As an old space sim player who's been displeased by the decade-and-more drought of new titles in the genre, I'm delighted to see such a profusion of new titles. Perhaps space railroading time has come around again.)

s-macke 13y ago
Of course I know all these projects. But it would be nice to play with the old wireframe graphics and try if docking becomes easier :) Just for fun of course. But to implement it in oolite would be indeed easier.

Associat0r 13y ago

There is also a great community FAQ http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite:_Dangerous_FAQ http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite:_Dangerous_FAQ