VR Debate and experiences!

[Duby]

Hey Greenies

 

It seems that VR is going to be a big thing in the near future and within the next year or so we will see the first generation of consumer products. Some may know I am a big VR fan and I thought it would be a nice idea to make a topic for people to ask questions and share their experiences!

 

So I guess I will go first and with the most obvious choice for a game near the top of the list. 

 

HalfLife2!

 

Visually and the feel, its a totally different experience to looking at it on a monitor. It is awesome! I kinda felt really ill after playing 20 mins though. But for a port this was pretty fantastic and a really nice way to look at such a detailed game, in a more detailed environment. 

 

[Jeremiah]

I tried the Oculus Rift DK2 yesterday, it's amazing but the resolution still need big improvements.

[Duby]

Indeed it does! Did you also find that the range in which you can move your head around wasn't enough? I kept going out of bounds when trying to explore objects.

[Jeremiah]

Really? You can look all the way back, I think it's one of the best features.

[Duby]

I meant with the positional tracker. The range needs to be bigger. ><

[Jeremiah]

Ah right, yes but of course still development phase. We'll see some big things upcoming years though.

[Duby]

I hope so! What demo's did you try out?

[Jeremiah]

I played Project Cars on it.

[Duby]

Ooh? Never heard of it. What is it about?

[SkyBlue]

how much costs an Oculus Rift on this days? Do i need a good pc for it? 

 

I have a laptop with this: 

 

• AMD Radeon HD 7670M
• Intel® Core i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.5GHz
• 4 GB RAM

[Duby]

Its more of what games/demo's you are trying to run. You could just about run some basic games on low specs. Its around £300 But honestly unless you really want to develop content for it I would wait for next summers release of CV1.

 

If you can go to a convention and try it out, do it!

[lame shot]

imagine bhoppin with it

[Duby]

Hmm I wonder if I could get css working for it. I mean if hl2 l4d portal work then why not right.

[SkyBlue]

 

 

If you can go to a convention and try it out, do it!

 

Mexico its starting to born in gaming environment, we dont have too many conventions about this stuff, the most are just a lot of consoles connected to play xbox games, cod, guitar hero or dance dance revolution :/

[Duby]

I see, it does kinda suck then from your point of view. I am sure you will come across one! I mean its going to be the next big thing, that's for sure¬! Otherwise buy one now if you are going to make something or wait until next year for CV1. ^^

[Braindawg]

you are aware that every Source game is now compatible with the Oculus Rift right? 

[Duby]

Ya but games not designed for the rift and are ported will always be inferior. 

 

I may try out portal soon and see what its like. 

[AfuSensi]

I need to get me one aswell, very exciting technology,

[Braindawg]

the DK1 has very poor support for SteamVR which is very saddening, I'll probably just get the CV1 when it comes out 

[Duby]

I do wonder what the dk1 is like. Then again I want to try cv1 more! xD

My VR sickness is pretty much gone now so working with UE4 for long periods of time is pretty good. ^^