sounds intriguing, although maybe they need to add a 'peril sensitive sunglasses' mode whereby the visuals and audio fade to black/static (or maybe switch to a nice relaxing scene) if the player reacts too violently?

Funnily enough it just makes it sound even more awesome to me, I can't wait to try it with something like Machine for Pigs

Outlast is amazing with this thing, just been trying the last few days to tune it properly to my liking, half life 2 has been the most impressive thing so far however, its native support means the implementation has been designed for the game and with binaural stereo on, its very easy to panic when things get intense and its very easy to to get freaked out and forget its a videogame sometimes.. you forget the things cant actually get you

The sad thing is you cant currently get Machine For Pigs working properly on an OR because theres no opengl hack for the OR, but i hope it does at some point, because im no playing that game with no OR

Experiments begin anew today, going to start with kane and lynch and modern warfare 3, two very different fps games, then i'll hunt around for slightly more abstract efforts and see how they go down, Antichambers definitely a good idea

Also i'll take suggestions for any racing games and of you'd like a comment on, ill try the latest f1 game first however

Did anyone see the now-removed-from-youtube advert for this thing?

well ive got the latest grid coming, ill try get gp4 but itll take a while, i had the bright idea of seeing what simulations might be like with this so il2 modded up and war thunder (that has native OR support) will have a go too

MW3 was puke inducing and entirely unconvincing with the hacky approach to OR, so a nooope to that

I've always maintained this universe is a simulation of times past. I wonder what year it is in the original universe?

Haha i liked that dynamite

Gazelle - i genuinely do wonder, it's like that episode in Red Dwarf with the suicide squid, are we playing the game correctly?

And an interesting note regarding the OR's main detractor - the motion sickness. I just made my fiancee play hl2 for a bit from the beginning, not only was she completely amazed by it, like she'd never experienced anything like that in her life, and was incredibly excited about what the future holds for 'interactive experiences' using the oculus (i refuse to consider it a gaming peripheral, its no more a gaming peripheral than a monitor is), but she experienced absolutely no motion sickness even through sections where i was feeling like i was getting a bit pukey. The conclusion is the degree to how sick it makes you is very individual, and it seems i was very prone to it but after a few days use it's becoming less and less problematic, so, like riding a bike, you might fall off a few times but it's worth sticking with because it's really not long until you've trained your mind into it.

As i've used it more, i've become more aware of what you need to do to make it more pleasant - particularly with the hacky ways to retrofit old games to suit it, like tridef and vireio, is to move your head as you move the mouse in a mouselook situ so the in-game vision movements correspond to your head movements, and in the setup of these is the observation that the main variable in the experience is your IPD (inter pupilary distance), and i suppose FOV(field of view) being it's lesser brother (With a FOV of 105 being ideal). It's the distance between your eyes which governs depth perception, and something that's quite profound and why you can tell something that is closer looks larger, and the entire strength of the oculus. None of the hacky efforts seem to calculate convergence directly based on this which may be where they fail to produce an implementation as convincing as half life 2's efforts by valve - you have to use team fortress 2's calibration app to calculate this (in inches) and put it into half life 2 to get it but it makes the experience fit your eyes perfectly.

Interestingly assuming you wear glasses/contact lenses and are hence aquainted with your optician, they should be able to give you this measurement quite easily, and worth bearing in mind next time you visit them. If you dont wear glasses, you might want to call an optician anyways and see if they'll charge for getting this measurement, because as an adult it will never change and be the leading basis by which you adjust this sort of equipment to your eyes. The oculus rift makers have already stated that they don't wish children to use this equipment as they are growing and their ipd will constantly change but as their eyes are developing, they shouldnt be strained by incorrectly calibrated optical equipment.

Although i wonder if the calculation of this will be automated in the consumer version of the oculus

Of course, the game's only being played by whoever you define as 'me'

LazyGunn wrote:

Of course, the game's only being played by whoever you define as 'me'

Not at all, consciousness is just a side effect of simulating the systems.

I haven't been this excited since the wait for Ocarina. 

How's the LCD motion blur? I can imagine that breaks the immersiveness when you're moving? It's pretty much inherent in all LCD technology so unless they switch to something else I can see it being a problem. OLED perhaps.

Also this...



Is an incredible concept (posted already? It's on the Occulus Rift site, anyway).
Especially when compared to this...



I always thought that film was ahead of it's time...

dynamiteReady wrote:

Actually... Thinking about HL2 on the Rift (or any FPS), do the traditional controls now feel conspicuous? I suppose it wouldn't in a racing game, or something where you maintain a fixed playing position, but surely, if this thing's really doing such a great job of rendering a synthetic environment for the user, then your natural inclination would be to poke, kick, and run at things... Is that a big part of the experience?

Half-life 2's implementation offers 5 different control schemes that suit the OR loads better than traditional fps controls (unless your very careful how you move your head with mouselook a fps becomes a pukefest unless its adapted), i cant remember which one i settled with but it was the one that worked best with a gamepad, i def found a gamepad much better for playing than a mouse and keyboard in terms of removing annoying distractions. And initially yes! Wanting to poke things is initially something that occurs to you, a mate who tried mine out today couldnt get his head around, after getting off the train in hl2, just being in a train station and waving his hands around in front of him and not seeing them. And he's not even a simpleton.

Regarding LCD blur, there is blur there and its very noticable but there's a list of shortcomings with the current panel that they'll no doubt be addressing in the consumer release (they're very aware of current shortcomings of the device and arent stupid and seem very dedicated to the spirit of it rather than crazy profiteering), i have no idea about that stuff though so i wouldnt know what the final panel would be. I'm hoping something crazy like some 4k thing, not that many computers would like that at all

Oh yes.