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[gngf123]

A user on the Giantbomb forums downloaded Gameboy emulator someone made with Unity, and tried it out with the Rift. It uses render to texture to put it on a surface, in his case it looks like he put a simple room together and built a simple Gameboy model:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wby8pMrYYaM

http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/gen...eboy-emulator-inside-the-oculus-rift-1483472/

Thought it was pretty cool. Maybe that's how we'll emulate things in the future for the full experience.

 

[Qassim]

This is perfect, because you can control your lighting conditions in your virtual world and don't have to sit by a lamp to play it.

 

[Venfayth]

When's the Virtualboy emulator coming out?

 

[Dark Octave]

That room is kinda scary. They should have the grudge chick slowly come out of that TV or from behind the wall as you're playing.

 

[gngf123]

When's the Virtualboy emulator coming out?

Already there: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/04/27/oculus-rift-already-has-a-virtual-boy-emulator/

 

[Whitechocolatekrispies]

Yo dawg ...?

 

[Somnid]

Interesting. I had to do something kinda like this for a project (not VR but more simulation than emulation of a device). I'd love to see what a more abstract variant could be, like if you really wanted an optimized gameboy experience with a VR helmet (ie just play the game).

 

[Palmer_v1]

... Looks pretty cool to me. Now I want one that lets 16 people sit in one room playing Halo. You can strategically move your character to block their view when trying to snipe.

 

[DieH@rd]

SNES in VR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sytBH9vfO9U

 

[hoverboarder]

This takes the joke about gaming to the next level. Like, "why play a football video game when you can go outside and play real football?"

Then this is like, "why play a simulation of playing a Gameboy when you can just play a Gameboy?"

Love it.

 

[Luigi87]

One part of me asks why... But the other part responds... Why not?

It's pretty cool, kind of surreal... The room is unsettling.

 

[Venfayth]

One part of me asks why... But the other part responds... Why not?

It's pretty cool, kind of surreal... The room is unsettling.

Need a random monster to come out and sneak up behind you.

 

[AcademicSaucer]

why is it that when a new piece of tech is out, people try to emulate old nintendo games on it ...

 

[KojiKnight]

Taking emulation to a whole new level... Those guys that love emulating screen curvature can do so more realistically now!

 

[Szadek]

Yes!Now we can play Tetris with Oculus Rift.

 

[Luigi87]

Need a random monster to come out and sneak up behind you.

That would be brilliantly sadistic.

 

[Symax]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2457637,00.asp

do we want to be Game Boy or do we want to be iPhone or Android?

CEO Brendan Iribe

 

[MormaPope]

My mind is blown by this, so odd but comforting for some reason.

 

[Tobor]

You guys realize what this means, right?

We can design our childhood bedrooms and living rooms in virtual space and play games the way we used to. Awesome and sad at the same time.

 

[Piercedveil]

SNES in VR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sytBH9vfO9U

That is awesome.

 

[Kinsei]

The lack of hands holding the Gameboy kills it for me. Hopefully it gets added in in the future.

 

[ichtyander]

You guys realize what this means, right?

We can design our childhood bedrooms and living rooms in virtual space and play games the way we used to. Awesome and sad at the same time.

I know, right? Sounds just like Ready Player One.

I've seen the SNES video before and it never occured to me that you could recreate an arcade parlor full of cabinets, pinball machines, with all of the sounds. Just walk around, see an arcade you like, insert a coin and away you go. The ultimate emulator frontend.

 

[cyberheater]

You guys realize what this means, right?

We can design our childhood bedrooms and living rooms in virtual space and play games the way we used to. Awesome and sad at the same time.

Do you every wonder if you're in a super advance version already?

 

[RumblingRosco]

Playing a game while you're playing a game while you're in a house inside your house.

God damn, technology is awesome.

 

[KaiserBecks]

Somebody needs to combine this (and the SNES one) with a 90s kid's room. "Nostalgia Simulator", right in the feels.

 

[Anteater]

You guys realize what this means, right?

That this will become a

Spoiler

virtual

reality

 

[shaneskim]

Looking forward to the "Show us your virtual gaming setup 2014" thread

 

[Tain]

Waaaaay down the line (like when we have 6000hz headsets that are high-res enough to perfectly recreate CRT displays) this concept could be really cool.

Right now it's a pretty cute novelty for a few minutes before booting up a traditional emulator or a physical Game Boy, it would seem.

All I can think about is complete game libraries Matrix-style.

 

[Zaph]

Won't be perfect until there's a mini game to convince your mum to give you £3, followed by walking down the street to the corner shop to buy batteries.

 

[Coconut]

Oh man and I can program people yelling at each other in the background so u can relive all those great moments of a loveless family unit that I got to experience as a kid...

 

[finsternIRL]

Hey guys, I made this! You can cross reference my username with the GB post if you like. I'm kind of thinking of making some sort of "Game Room", like an arcade filled with all your favourite games that you and your friends ca... wait.

Nah, I saw the Unity emulator and have read Ready Player One, so I knew what I had to do. The room is just some stupidly high poly architectural rendering I got from googling royalty free 3d apartment model.

I think its dumb, but in the good way, if I get around to fixing my Razer Hydra I'll get around to implementing some dumb / cool natural motion on the Gameboy, like you're really holding it, you could even use the buttons on it to simulate pressing them! Someone even suggested rigging a dead Gameboy's buttons up to an arduino and taping a Hydra to the back of it for ultimate immersion!

If you have a Rift of your own you can download a working version from my site, you can get the Unity scene from Github and check out the guy who wrote the actual plugin on the plugins wiki.

Any and all suggestions are welcome and please feel free to add code to either project!

 

[Crayons]

This is surreal

 

[MicroByter]

Wow, if you do the "cross eye" method to watch the video, it looks pretty cool!

 

[revolverjgw]

An arcade emulator where you walk from machine to machine is going to be so awesome

 

[Tain]

Does this actually emulate GB in Unity? Or is it externalized?

How tough would it be to get a generic app's output as a texture in an engine like UE4 or Unity?

sounds like a Durante question

 

[someguyinahat]

why is it that when a new piece of tech is out, people try to emulate old nintendo games on it ...

People like the familiar. Same reason that when shown Google Street View, the first thing people look for is their own house.

 

[PGamer]

Now imagine a theatre sized screen in VR combined with emulators that can render in ultra HD resolutions. The future of VR is going to be very interesting even for traditional games.

 

[akaoni]

I guess with this now we really can 'go back!'... Only a matter of time before people have virtual Oculus arcades

 

[Tagyhag]

Maybe they should work on a super cozy simulator. Small cabin with a roaring fire while it's snowing outside, and your choice of systems to play.

 

[Tobor]

An arcade emulator where you walk from machine to machine is going to be so awesome

Indeed.

And don't forget Pinball! Pinball game emulation is perfect for VR. You'll finally able to see the table as intended.

 

[SmithnCo]

An arcade emulator where you walk from machine to machine is going to be so awesome

Oh hell yes.

 

[SquiddyCracker]

The whole game-in-a-game thing could be used for great effect in horror games.
Or inception styled games, with multiple layers.

 

[Spaaaaaaaaace]

We need virtual boy inside oculus rift.

 

[Newboi]

We need virtual boy inside oculus rift.

That's like physically torturing someone with simulated torture...

 

[Atomski]

Need like a virtual mother in the other room yelling at me to do my homework.

 

[Graphics Horse]

Emulators in Unity? Science has gone too far.

Already there: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/04/27/oculus-rift-already-has-a-virtual-boy-emulator/

Not bad, Needs to be in a virtual room tho where you need to keep your head still for it to work..

How long until Virtual 3DS?

 

[Deleted member 10571]

The whole game-in-a-game thing could be used for great effect in horror games.
Or inception styled games, with multiple layers.

There's a horror game that uses exactly that method for rift, there was a video on GAF once but I forgot the name :/

 

[L.O.R.D]

this was the first thing in my mind
imagine , playng DS games on OR , while you already have a DS

 

[Hot Coldman]

Oh, it's a "Playing a Game Boy Simulator". Fantastic. Now do a horror mod where you keep get interrupted by noises around the room.

 

[tokkun]

This reminds me a lot of Playstation Home. You think it might be fun to have your avatar go to a virtual theater to watch a trailer or go to a virtual arcade to play a pinball game, but once you've done it once you immediately realize that it's a whole lot better just to do those things directly on your PC.