mistercrayon wrote:

For me VR needs to be portable and some how avoid being immersion breaking and functional. This would mean I could easily use vr in any room I want (i.e. I don't want to play only in my bedroom - where I principally keep my computer -or living room - for more shared experiences - but I only have the cash for one computer really). It also needs to feel good but I want to be safe too. Walking round feels necessary to cancel nausea for me but obv walking around a furniture free room is unteneble.

That just sounds like AR. 

I don't think there's going to be one future for this stuff. Previously you had arcade cabinets, then home consoles / computers, then handhelds, then web games and then smartphone games. They all still exist to some extent and all have sort of different requirements and use cases. 

With immersive stuff, there's at least three modes, but they're all coming at once. I think they'll all even out into the rough separation we have between causal and more hardcore platforms around now. I just wonder what I'm going to be playing the Elder Scrolls 7 on, or GTA 7, or Plants v Zombies 12. 

There's sat-down VR which is the least complicated, offers the best prospect of completely exploring an imaginary environment with no restrictions. The headsets may get slimmer, wireless and cheaper but that's still going to be a stationary experience. This is your Elder Scrolls platform.  

Full room VR doesn't seem like its got much hope of mass adoption outside of a niche, or maybe a renaissance of arcades / holosuites. 

Then there's AR which will be projected / displayed onto your surroundings. You're not going to be dungeon crawling with this tech, or parachuting from a plane into a gunfight. But this is the area with the most potential. I keep thinking of that pinball VR thing where a guy just had a VR pinball game but had a plain wooden board with buttons to make it feel real, and he could look around and see the angles on his shots much better. But from board games, tv, theatre and a million other things, that's where I see the mass take up coming once the tech is there. Probably in four to five years when the techs better and people have got their heads around it. Any sort of future tech AR glasses would probably have a VR mode anyway.  

That was a bit of a brain shit. Apologies.

This thread has got me looking for PSVR bargains but there just isn't any to be had.

Kernowgaz wrote:

Just get it , it's amazing and there's already lots a great games . It's a pity you've already hammered Resident Evil.

I might have it mentioned it before but Werewolves Within is stunning .

Which games though dude? I'd want proper experiences akin to Resi, I can only see more kind of mini game type things.

Eve Valkyrie , RIGS, Battlezone and Driveclub. Admittedly most are experiences or 3-4 hour games .

£324 with camera. Tempting.

Don't do it!

You know it'll only get played for a few hours and then be an expensive dust gatherer.

Trust in Gabe. Wait two years.

Kernowgaz wrote:

Fuck Switch

Well realllllly I'm buying the means to play BotW.

We all know, if this was xbone VR cocha would have elbowed both his grans in the face to get to Game on day 1 of release, even if the only game for it was E3 audience simulator - the demo

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g.man wrote:

This is a fun little thing...

That was in the other VR thread.

It's a work of true genius.
Hope someone sponsors that dude.

I may have just bought PSVR, a camera and 2 move wands...£350 delivered total.

And a second on how long before he buys it again...

Verecocha wrote:

I may have just bought PSVR, a camera and 2 move wands...£350 delivered total.

Good deal , where from ? You've GOT to buy Werewolves Within - I order you !!!