Man, if that steam console thingy came out with support for the retail sku of this, and half life 3 had OR support, that'd be be me sold on it. And buying sick bags in bulk, probably.

Ignore the hatted one for the love of the fuck.

Any new game that had OR in mind in its design should be able to minimise motion sickness massively if not completely, that doesnt have me worried particularly anyways as you get better with it over time, like ive already improved a lot over a few days, it's like riding a bike or something

I found the most jarring parts of hl2 were the short loading periods when the view would freeze but something as simple as having the 'loading' text still moving with your head would make this problem disappear. All the tricks the guys doing this stuff will be learning before the OR goes consumer i could imagine would attend to almost all criticisms, and (imo of course) i just cant see how people wouldnt say this is better than what has gone on before, like inarguably better. It's like you're there! A lot of the time i felt a little weird was feelings id have felt if i was there, some particularly grand scale of something or it's bizarreness (That hovering eye as you get off the train spooked me), or a little shock of vertigo when i dropped some distance. I'm assuming it's going to be hard to go completely wrong with this if they take into account the things that obviously need addressing (lens changing, screen quality (colour cast, resolution, blur and latency), calibration speed, positional awareness regards to body direction). I'm becoming somewhat an evangelist

My Oculus mate was sucking on ginger sweets to combat the old motion sickness.

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I'm a bit worried that the reality of this is not going to match what's in my head, but still really excited about the tech though. Imagining playing Destiny 2 in a few years time and totally being in that world. There was an interesting thread on the gaf today - what would you be willing to pay for the PS4 VR? I'd say.... £250 maybe? Not sure they could go much higher and expect it to sell.

It's better than what was in my head cause.. well.. yeah i dont think i actually considered what a profound thing depth perception is (I keep sounding like a dickhead but hl2 was like being there looking through a cheapo video camera). And i think the price of the consumer oculus is going to be well WELL less pricey than the devkit (Cost me 230 or so i suppose with shipping), possibly sub fifty quid i'd imagine, so if sony go for £250 they'll def price themselves out of the race

Ok fair dos, I assumed it'd much more for some reason. Thought the Rift was way more than that.

By the sounds of it the PS4 one uses the camera for move-quality tracking - so maybe they'll come bundled, which could up things a bit.

Love the update Gunn, keep em coming.

Can you see a utility for kinect with this, for body/head tracking?

OR dev kit is 250 lazy?

Another hour on hl2 in, action starting to get fierce so motion sickness starts coming in a little more, but i'm going to try not be silly and play through it, will see if taking breaks rather than bearing it and getting better with it slowly will go better. There's probably some method to it so i'm gonna work that out. I'm taking in the game far farrrr better than i did on a monitor, story-wise and environment-wise, its odd to see a game thats mostly forgotten for its strengths at the time come so thunderously back into focus, it seems like a new game again, and design decisions that are paled on a monitor come back to being masterly again now you feel in situ, being able to aim exactly where your face is pointing is a boon too. Future parts of the game that used to be 'meh' i'm now ridiculously excited by.

God i'm loving this (Aside from annoying down time while i adapt to it), i think i'll have another session with this tonight and then try a bit of Doom 3 BFG cause there's a patch for it for native OR support and it will be very interesting comparing those two games again in this context

BTW gunn - If you haven't already, you might wanna have a gander at IR's Unity Rift demos:
http://ir-ltd.net/blog/

They're like a Lightstage style capture company, but are doing some cool stuff with VR now it seems: http://vimeo.com/user2608859

Latest implements some SSS stuff from Jimenez

Quake 1 on Oculus is a giggle as well Gunn, I recommend jumping into that brown VR world! Also Doom 3 BFG works a treat, that'll be the tits with your earphones I'm sure.

Can you try Antichamber please Gunn? It's pretty minimal, hardly any textures, but I still reckon it'd be a great on Rift. Not sure why.

In fact this is the thing I am watching with the most interest, the next gen has me excited because it has been so long but this is true next leap stuff IMO.

I really want this to be massive.
I want Sony to make their own and for it do well, I want MS to support this using Kinect to track you as well, I want the devs to add OR modes.
I would buy one in a shot at £300 if the above was the case.

Reading Gunn's posts makes me all the sadder my mate was unable to get anything other than a tech demo working with his Rift. All I wanted to see was Half Life 2...

Come to think of it, Half Life 2 would turn out mack on a rift...