Sony VR Headset/Project Morpheus/PlayStation VR
Just with MS's claims ? Nothing with the eye toy ? Move ? Wii controls ? hell go all the way back to the power glove and i'm sure you can go even further.
Tkumpathenurpahl
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The Eyetoy was interesting but was never able to do anything other than green screen you into your TV, so it was merely an elaborate mirror. The Kinect just did more of the same but in higher fidelity. Both were solutions in search of a problem, and both were dreadful because they robbed you of a reliable, tactile input device that had been developed over decades.
The Move is to the Wiimote what Kinect was to the Eyetoy: higher fidelity pointlessness. Although it may turn out to be worthwhile with VR.
The accessories listed above were only input devices, and they never really found a purpose. VR is a new form of output that also tracks your vision as an input. It inherently solves the issue of not being entirely immersed in a game/world, but doesn't necessitate the loss of established forms of input.
Skepticism's fine, but not on the basis of tenuously associated accessories.
The Move is to the Wiimote what Kinect was to the Eyetoy: higher fidelity pointlessness. Although it may turn out to be worthwhile with VR.
The accessories listed above were only input devices, and they never really found a purpose. VR is a new form of output that also tracks your vision as an input. It inherently solves the issue of not being entirely immersed in a game/world, but doesn't necessitate the loss of established forms of input.
Skepticism's fine, but not on the basis of tenuously associated accessories.
The problem is in their implementation.
Have you tried kinect party? It is the easiest to pick up, most creative, most fun, most engaging kinect gaming ever.
It also works super reliable, super well. Heck, the tracking still work even when the kids gets too close and starting to looks like a black blob.
Developers need to be like Nintendo. Don't go angry at the hardware. Just develop stuff that encompass the uniqueness and strength of your hardware. Working around the weakness.
For Psvr, Sony has put lots of guidelines to work around the weakness. Some developers also did something themselves to work around the weakness, like ubisoft with eagle flight (virtual nose + lower fov).
Bandai Namco take the advantages of the surreal feeling of VR to bring "intimacy". Heck, according to a few media, summer lesson goes into "uncomfortable" due to the real perceived feeling of getting too close to virtual woman.
Statik Institute cleverly took advantage the way people handle dualshock4 in VR. By making their hands "bounded" in VR.
Have you tried kinect party? It is the easiest to pick up, most creative, most fun, most engaging kinect gaming ever.
It also works super reliable, super well. Heck, the tracking still work even when the kids gets too close and starting to looks like a black blob.
Developers need to be like Nintendo. Don't go angry at the hardware. Just develop stuff that encompass the uniqueness and strength of your hardware. Working around the weakness.
For Psvr, Sony has put lots of guidelines to work around the weakness. Some developers also did something themselves to work around the weakness, like ubisoft with eagle flight (virtual nose + lower fov).
Bandai Namco take the advantages of the surreal feeling of VR to bring "intimacy". Heck, according to a few media, summer lesson goes into "uncomfortable" due to the real perceived feeling of getting too close to virtual woman.
Statik Institute cleverly took advantage the way people handle dualshock4 in VR. By making their hands "bounded" in VR.
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VR is an entirely different experience. You only have to watch the reactions of people experiencing. This is not like a higher resolution, higher frame rate or better shaders. It's that level of immersion where you feel you may fall 1,000ft and you believe that because your completely enveloped in the game world, you're not just looking at a 2D image on a rectangle.
Out of curiosity, what VR games have you played so far?
My gf did the oculus experience demo. She walked all around the forest trying to touch everything. Then it moved on to the sky scraper and she got extremely scared. After that the dinosaur made her jump.
VR is a completely different experience and its quite amazing. Its one of the most immersive additions to gaming I've ever experienced.
I'm not a sony fan as you guys can tell but the headset is well put together and its not a bad first experience. Do yourselves a favor and get an appointment to demo the ps vr or rift at a near by best buy.
None.
But I'm not in a hurry to don $600 helmets that cuts me off from the real world in order for more immersion.
And are you sure the "entirely different experience" you refer to isn't nausea and the taste of your semi-digested lunch coming back up?
Best Buy has demos? I'll go try to find it.
cheapchips
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I liked the tech but I didn't engage with any the games in the same way as Wii fit or Warioware. Seems like VR will give them a new lease of life though.
VR is the most immersive, pretty much by definition.
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This is my experience of VR as well.
And that's cool. But for those of us chasing more immersive experiences, VR is absolutely game changing. Its the technology that can fool your senses so well that it's really easy to forget that you're in a safe environment.
None.
But I'm not in a hurry to don $600 helmets that cuts me off from the real world in order for more immersion.
And are you sure the "entirely different experience" you refer to isn't nausea and the taste of your semi-digested lunch coming back up?
Best Buy has demos? I'll go try to find it.
Before you go head-on on Psvr, pleaaaaase don't try cardboard.
It's highly potential as vr poison.
My only experience with VR is a cardboard demo. Totally unconvincing. The fov was very narrow and I found it almost impossible to focus on the picure. I should not have any physical handicaps that prevent me from seeing VR correctly ( I do wear -5 contacts and have started to suffer from slight presbyopia in recent years, maybe the latter can affect seeing in VR.)
I've decided to keep myself a VR virgin until PSVR which I've already preordered. I can only hope I'll be pleasantly surprised.
ugh october! is still so far awaaaaaaay
Speaking of VR virginity, just the other day I tried an actually well recorded VR porn video using a good player (MobileVRPlayer on iOS), and although the girls are totally not my type, it certainly had something. For instance the sound was really good with nice little details such as that they come up to your ear and whisper something in there. The VR player got all the dimensions right so that no matter if they were close or far everything kept looking normal proportions which is otherwise very often not the case. Again the resolution could use about an 8x increase, but it was still really good.
Tkumpathenurpahl
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Ewwwww.
I have glasses/contacts with ~-3 (also large astigmatism on one eye)
looking at VR with contact lenses/glasses didnt work for me (then again my are not designed for near vision) I can see perfect (except for astigmatism in one eye) without correction in the ~10cm range, so just view VR without any eye correction, perhaps try that. Can you read a book without contactlens/glasses then you're good to go
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