funkystudent
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That kid really shouldnt be playing Assassins creed and Call of Duty.
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Oculus Rift "KILLER" 3DHead to appear at CES
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CyberPunked
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This is hilarious
Looks like Pyramid Head, frightening
I mean on a serious note, Oculus is setting themselves up to do well against any potential competitors purely by creating an ecosystem around the device even before it has released.
They're building up a base of support that as it grows is harder to dislodge. Sony is a potentially good competitor purely because they already have a large game development ecosystem of their own, but I think at this point, I think it would be difficult for another startup to pose any real immediate threat to Oculus.
They're building up a base of support that as it grows is harder to dislodge. Sony is a potentially good competitor purely because they already have a large game development ecosystem of their own, but I think at this point, I think it would be difficult for another startup to pose any real immediate threat to Oculus.
Cthulhu_Steev
Member
That little 'awwwwwwwwwww' lean-back when he gets tackled is ace.
So it won't look out of place in a gamer's living room alongside their glowing PC cases and Razer mice.
Even the CV mockup? I'm no optics engineer, but I can't imagine they can reduce the space between the glass and the screen much more than the mockup shows. What affordable alternatives could they have by the release of CV1?
That's not a real Oculus Rift. :/
Either way, the important thing is to make sure it is light overall and has good weight distribution. That's where the main comfort factor is going to come from.
Looks like the poor kid is a contestant on the TV show Knightmare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightmare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jls0kCeadQs
For those in the US who've never seen it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightmare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jls0kCeadQs
Chance Hale
Member
Yeah it seems you are both correct. It's completely bizarro/absurd though. Mindblowing in all the wrong ways, and parts of my brain still refuses to believe this actually exist.
HolyBaikal
Banned
I agree. :<
Buggy Loop
Member
What im afraid will happen if these wannabe cash grab VRs multiply and attract consumers (though i doubt it from the look of things), is that it'll give the consumer a bad impression. There's a reason why OR have put so much work on believability, refresh rates/lag, software support, the consumer experience and word of mouth will make or break the thing. If other devices are sub par with refresh rates/lag and users complain of motion sickness, does not work well with 3rd person games, i fear we'll get another 90's VR flop.
cyberheater
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I disagree.
If any standard emerges around the 'single screen with warping reversed via software' (i.e the oculus approach and seemingly the morpheus way too), then any competitor using a similar system should be able to get good software support on PC, because it should be relatively easy to make it interoperable.
And software developers will want their games to work on as many VR headsets as possible.
(real headsets obviously, not this trash)
Lack of VR optics. This is just gonna be a display in front of you, basically. With 3D, its going to be a 3D display in front of you. That's not what VR is.
Oh I'm not suggesting that Oculus is developing some kind of lock in, but getting in early with a development infrastructure, a community, etc will keep them at the forefront of VR on PC for quite a reasonable amount of time, I suspect.
My comment wasn't that others couldn't make VR headsets and have them compatible with pretty much all VR games, it was more that Oculus has the all round package (well before practically anyone else) that should help them hold on to mind-share and marketshare for a reasonable amount of time.
Boaty McBoatface
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU-...feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_388202685
Best promotional vid ever.
The girl coming out of nowhere and screaming "OH SH**" had me on the floor laughing.
Best promotional vid ever.
The girl coming out of nowhere and screaming "OH SH**" had me on the floor laughing.
There's an old version and then an updated version. The updated one doesn't look quite as big as the GIF's going around, but is still big.
Compsiox
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So wait, the kid is stepping to the right and the player character makes a movement to the left?
C'mon you didn't even try.
a secret-boss
Banned
Ur reading way too much to it
Isn't that just a matter of having a large enough FoV so you don't notice the edge of the display area?
Compsiox
Banned
Ew. Just ew.
Alx
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Well if there is head tracking and the scene adapts to those motions, then technically it is VR. The optics don't really define what is VR or not. They can make a difference between good and bad rendition, but you can have VR with regular optics and narrow field of view.
This sort of specious, reductionist thinking is precisely what this company is hoping to pray upon. Strapping an IMU to your head is not headtracking, stereoscopy isn't a critical component of virtual reality. Most importantly, you've just glossed over how they attempt to accomplish what you described, which reveals that they don't actually do what they claim to do.
First, and most importantly, this thing does not do accurate headtracking to the degree people mean when they say "virtual reality." When people speak of virtual reality, they imply an attempt a mimicking 1:1 positional tracking as closely as possible. When you move your head to the left in real life, your camera in the virtual world should move left in said world as closely as possible relative to your IRL motion, as an example.
This isn't doing anything like that. For one, this is mapping gamepad emulation to head acceleration, not positioning. First, it's important to note that gamepads do not select a camera orientation, they affect a camera's acceleration. When I flick a stick to the left on a gamepad, I am not selecting a position for the camera relative to the stick's position in the socket, I am telling the game's camera to accelerate to the left by the amount I have tilted the stick, and then waiting a fraction of time until my camera has rotated to the position I desire, at which point I let go of the stick so it decelerates back to 0 velocity. This is an important software distinction, one that is accounted for by programmers when designing the game.
You check for positional tracking with VR headset hardware differently than you check for camera acceleration settings with a controller. The underlaying math involved in transformation from one position to another vs linear interpolation (as a controller does) is entirely different.
Further, this thing doesn't do a good job of translating the head movement it does read into useful input. This is because the software of these games it claims it works with would have no idea what is trying to be done. Another user already put it succinctly:
The way this works is akin to the glovepie modules I described earlier in this topic:
This isn't positional tracking, this is an IMU on your head watching your head accelerate and trying to map that to taps on the gamepad. That's not correct. VR is specifically written software working in concert with hardware. There is no magic bullet hardware solution which will automatically translate non-VR software into VR software. We already have something close to that in the realm of PC: Injection drivers which take over other input systems to map them to relevant analogs in the headset hardware. i.e mapping mouselook to headtracking. Nobody uses injection drivers because they highlight the need for software to specifically take advantage of said hardware.
Gloss over the details of what makes VR actually VR leads you to garbage definitions wherein any video game software can be considered virtual reality by taking the most extremely literal interpretations of the words "virtual" and "reality."
zeioIIDX
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Wonder if that's an attempt to make the kid look "rad" or if those are clothes he wears on any given day lol. I mean, those shoes...
Anyway, this seems like total vaporware to me as others have said. On the website, apparently you can buy it now...I didn't try adding anything to the cart so I have no idea how far it lets you go but I honestly can't see how they would call this an OR Killer while being able to keep a straight face. There is just no way at all.
This is like some Conan O'Brian skit.
Aces&Eights
Member
Another early prototype
What in the fuck?!? lol, once you have been branded as a screen watcher....
maniac-kun
Member
Yea only $1000 what a great price.
The price is the least of its problems. More troubling is that it won't work as implied.
Fixed2BeBroken
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Another early prototype
LOL, WHAT IS GOING ON HERE
McHuj
Member
"Private" split screen play.
The TV screen has leaped out and cocooned the second player.
My nephew is about his age and looks exactly like this every single day. Even the bushy hair. Make this kid blonde and I would believe it's him.
Zuhzuhzombie!!
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Compsiox
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The fact that it's actually 1 person in both those photos makes you seem retarded.
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These guys?
I agree!!