It's all fun and games until someone ramps up the vestibulator shocking voltage to brain-frying levels (ok so it probably can't fry your brain)! I feel like convincing people to try virtual reality goggles is a little more likely to gain acceptance than convincing people to pad on some electrodes.
A lot of people have themselves to blame for overhyping the dev kit and interpreting those positive impressions as proof that the Oculus Rift is ready for prime time. Granted, I haven't read all of the coverage out there, but the general sentiment is virtual reality is finally here, and it's awesome simply because it's virtual reality, but it obviously still has a long way to go. Software support was obviously going to be limited, too. I think a good chunk of buyers are going to be disappointed because they made themselves believe this was the equivalent of a consumer product.
Yeah definitely. Im constantly checking my email and this board to see shipping confirmations. It seems like they shipped out a few last week just so they could say they had met their shipping target. I know they are busy with GDC and they are not an Amazon warehouse, but I feel like a little more communication would help. I know that I'm just being impatient. I'm just incredibly excited to try this thing!
Lol, I just read up on that a bit, it sounds like something straight out of Kojima's mind:
This sounds essentially like a remote control for people. I have my doubts this would ever be allowed for use in commercial products.
I know for sure that guy at work who bought his rift didn't either.
It's not a remote control for people, it's just a control for your inner ear. Which is exactly what is needed for even better VR
That's what article author who tried it called it actually, but no matter what, I think we'll have to wait for it to become available in these types of devices before they become suitable for longer term comfortable use. Even with something like this you'd potentially have problem where you have the camera control decoupled from your head movement (to get back to my example where you move the head one way but rotate the view the other way.It's not a remote control for people, it's just a control for your inner ear. Which is exactly what is needed for even better VR
We tried it in HL2, and it was noticeable there as well, but now that you mention it, It was more noticeable in the demo, maybe because it has brighter and contrasty colors. I don't remember noticing it that much in TF2, but I was more paying attention to playing the game than the visuals there.
I came to post the exact same thing. Good to see I'm not alone in seeing the potential. But seriously, someone needs to do it.
May also help to adjust the user's virtual height with his real one.
My understanding is that this is not true. If you have a source or further information, or a quote from the SDK agreement, by all means link it, but as far as I read in the SDK license, you can use the SDK for whatever, and it explicitly calls out examples of things that are not considered derivative software (for example, making a game that uses the SDK).
Hey, I'm quite impressed by it, but it's not like it doesn't have faults. I don't think I'd want to use it for everyday game playing, but it's great for tinkering.
I disagree - all the negatives have been out in the open ever since we knew about the device. The creator of the thing discusses flaws and what needs improving in almost every interview.
The thing is that you don't need to use SDK code, I thought? I haven't yet downloaded the library but it appeared to just be a C/C++ library that you link with and use, like any sort of standard software library.
well, this is the devkit discussion thread. these impressions will be coming every week now from all tech guys
(especially when its still the devkit, not the final product)
