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Oh, yeah, got SotC working, is was a complete pain in the butt but an education, apparently the ps2 didn't have a 'z' in the generally understood sense so making stereo images for it was very hard, but i found a suitable plugin for psxe2 and with a lot of faff it worked! And very nice it looked too, obv no headtracking but all those big things looked very big

LazyGunn wrote:

Oh, yeah, got SotC working, is was a complete pain in the butt but an education, apparently the ps2 didn't have a 'z' in the generally understood sense so making stereo images for it was very hard, but i found a suitable plugin for psxe2 and with a lot of faff it worked! And very nice it looked too, obv no headtracking but all those big things looked very big

Colour me surprised it worked, I was half convinced all the bloom and stuff they did would have screwed it up. Nice to know it does, though; that's definitely a reason I'd consider getting one eventually.

AJ wrote:

LazyGunn wrote:

Oh, yeah, got SotC working, is was a complete pain in the butt but an education, apparently the ps2 didn't have a 'z' in the generally understood sense so making stereo images for it was very hard, but i found a suitable plugin for psxe2 and with a lot of faff it worked! And very nice it looked too, obv no headtracking but all those big things looked very big

Colour me surprised it worked, I was half convinced all the bloom and stuff they did would have screwed it up. Nice to know it does, though; that's definitely a reason I'd consider getting one eventually.

It is currently a pain in the butt i must say although now i've got it figured it wouldn't be too hard to explain the how to, but you do probs need a decent machine and you wont get any headtracking so you'd just have to enjoy the bigness of everything, although it was impressive. When the camera swoops down with the bird by those mountains it was pretty cool.

More big means more depth and that's Occulus Sense

Well, i'd say we're probs a year or so from a consumer release, not sure, would love to see their current hd model and if it has head translation tracking as well as rotation, but its something theyve both said they want to get right and not much else at all. Regarding games made for it, it's going to be quite a journey as motion sickness is definitely an issue for the first week or two and thats going to need adressing in traditional games design terms if we're going to see traditional games on it, and it has a particular effect on visuals that it can complement wonderfully (Dear Esther) or completely undermine (Dark Souls). And that's just one of plenty of issues the device can pose, also solving those issues makes the device more useful. It is going to be a big deal though and i can see there being flavours by all makers on all platforms, much like monitors aren't only being made by one company. Of course each one will have to either develop or license the technology but yes I can see it being widely adopted after its creases are rubbed out

Funny you should say but my preoccupation with making skyrim play ball has ended up with me spending the day getting visual studio and downloading the latest source for the main free answer to retrofitting existing games with the rift and compiling it myself. It just got done 30 mins ago but not tested it yet, hopefully though it should let me play skyrim with the pad and then i can actually settled down and enjoy the game. M&K just isnt too fun with it, pad is miles better, so it's interesting convergence with valve's latest controller efforts, everything's coming together.

I'll keep you informed!

I got the bad working with a lil program called xpadder by the way, my skyrim looks lovely and i think i'm going to get stuck into it all today, god willing

I've also had a go on Dirt 3, which although i couldnt get to work in directx 11, still looks brilliant in 9 and cockpit cam with headtracking is genuinely thrilling (And zero motion sickness strangely). I think i'll be playing that a bunch too

That thing looks sweet, its been brought up before, but it doesnt project a retail price or how it will compete with whatever hd unit the oculus guys have going atm, acemuzzy got confirmation that such a thing exists. In the end however it beams into your eyes the main problems are those related to extended use - game compatibility, adaptation to non-analogous game-irl motion and suchlike. I'd love to spunk money on such a thing but oculus' mission was to put this stuff in everyones hands affordably, there have been other 3d hmds that do the same thing for a bit but cost a grand+

Just like buses

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/castar-the-most-versatile-ar-and-vr-system

This future-matrix shit is coming along rather splendidly. I was getting concerned my retirement plans would stay a mere pipe dream.

For sure, i just thought the 'wand' looked a bit dorky

http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/18/oculus-rift-john-carmack-interview/

You da man, Carmack. Although I just predicted a consumer price bump

I've never understood how those things work. Do you go super fast, or does it actually take hours and hours to finish a route?

AJ wrote:

I've never understood how those things work. Do you go super fast, or does it actually take hours and hours to finish a route?

It's an accelerated time of day, you might be ably to make it real time though, not sure. But no, you don't go super fast. It's actually pretty great.

I guess it's like a game of FIFA, where you do a whole match in 20 minutes. You're not running round speeded up like little men in some black & white film from the thirties.