It should be possible to track your hands with a Leap Motion type device and have your stuff modeled in game accordingly. Okay, maybe not this year but I can see this happening in the relatively near future.
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Oculus Rift - Dev Kit Discussion [Orders Arriving]
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It should be possible to track your hands with a Leap Motion type device and have your stuff modeled in game accordingly. Okay, maybe not this year but I can see this happening in the relatively near future.
Rise of Flight, on the other hand, would be absolutely epic. No knobs or radars, just you, the throttle, and a flight stick.
Exactly. It's the only way it's possible. But if somebody incorporates that tech, it's be pretty awesome.
although I love the A10, its be more suited to an air combat sim where looking around tracking enemies would be useful. I think a decent hotas setup should be enough for most games
Roller coaster looks fun.
I just copy my reddit post 
Looks really good, but i think the game needs some mouth to mouth advertising and i think 7-8$ for this Game + Alpha/beta is just nothing. And every new game that will come with OR will just help OR to be an success
super new info about OR Support
me said:
Looks really good, but i think the game needs some mouth to mouth advertising and i think 7-8$ for this Game + Alpha/beta is just nothing. And every new game that will come with OR will just help OR to be an success
super new info about OR Support
Diseased Yak
Gold Member
Was just reading that Dear Esther is pretty much the most awesome thing using this. I can't wait to get mine in and try that!
June, I believe.
Has anyone tried this Aurora-Borealis-viewing demo yet?
http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/22255
http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/22255
I just wanted point out that Egosoft, creators of X series confirmed that they want to support Oculus Rift, if not a launch of X:Rebirth, then in patch.
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=334733
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=334733
plagiarize
Banned
Eventually everyone will get it. I plan to put mine on as many heads as possible when it arrives.
13min Portal2 + OR gameplay
This time without Razer Hydra because headtracking does not work in Portal2 with Hydra.
http://youtu.be/ff6ojzy_e_8
And here a 18year old Virutal Boy Horror Game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q_mgIlN0_Q
This time without Razer Hydra because headtracking does not work in Portal2 with Hydra.
http://youtu.be/ff6ojzy_e_8
And here a 18year old Virutal Boy Horror Game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q_mgIlN0_Q
plagiarize
Banned
i'm not sure how Virio produces it's 3D. if you close one eye do you still see double? if seperate gets too much (ie you can see something in one eye, but not the other) you'll get weird double vision effects.
if it's doing some kind of reprojection to produce it's 3D, it could be that when you get close to things whatever technique it's using to fill in the blanks is causing this.
Razer Hydra is $40 on Woot right now. I wonder if it will get even cheaper or if there's an updated model by the time the consumer version of the Rift comes out.
I did. Imho, its cool but I wish it wasn't time lapsed. I don't remember it being 3D either but that wasn't a big deal for me. It basically a video taking up your entire FOV.
I got my Hydra from Woot last time they had this sale. Nice to see they are doing it again, hopefully more people will give it a shot.
I finally got around to making a video using the Hydra with Team Fortress 2:
http://youtu.be/wz_GIWPvEr0
You've been kind of quite since you got it, Durante.
What's your extended impressions on it? Did it live up to your hopes? Or is it something that excites you long term, but has some significant issues ATM because of the screen? Are you keeping it? Or cashing out on ebay till the next revision?
What's your extended impressions on it? Did it live up to your hopes? Or is it something that excites you long term, but has some significant issues ATM because of the screen? Are you keeping it? Or cashing out on ebay till the next revision?
I saw "Processing for Shipping" and then "#8881" and went "Awww yisss"
Then I saw "UK" and now I'm a sad panda.
Did you get a mail about this?
can somebody explain me how OCR will affect eyes? I'm confused - on the one hand screens are extremely close, on the other hand I don't know if the distance works in virtual reality in the same way as in real life. I can't explain it more clear but you probably know what I mean.
I think it doesn't work the same way and eyes still see screens as a flar surface... but I'm really not sure.
I think it doesn't work the same way and eyes still see screens as a flar surface... but I'm really not sure.
Dictator93
Member
Our eyes bi focus, so regardless of it being a flat surface... if our eyes are fed to different informations a 3d composite image will be formed with different areas of focus.
Animation-Imp
Member
There is a problem though,
our eyes tend to focus on one distance, according to the diameter of our pupil a certain amount of objects (closer and further than the distance we focus on) tends to be out of focus or blurry.
With the rift everything is sharp all the time, while our eyes focus constantly on an object just a couple of centimeters away.
I can imagine this could induce problems in the long run. Especially with children, who's vision is still in development.
I'm not sure whether I'm getting confused by the conversation, but because of the optics, your eyes are focusing at infinity. There's less strain then staring at a monitor two feet away. Your eyes are in a relaxed stated.
Didn't realize The Hyneman was a gamer. And a PC gamer at that. No controller for him. Middle finger on W, baby!
Like the guy before said, the way the optics (lenses) work, you're always focusing at infinity which is actually much more relaxing for your eyes than staring at a monitor.
The only problem for children is that their interpupillary distance is too small to use the current Rift. If the consumer Rift has (and it should) physical IPD ajustments, then it'll be just fine.
Oneironaut
Neo Member
Palmer has said that he doesn't recommend the Oculus Rift for children under 16 years of age because of worries like this.
My ideal Rift game would just be a walking simulator. You would walk on a treadmill of some sort and as you walked in the real world, you would move through a virtual world like Skyrim or Mass Effect's Citadel. I already love walking, even if I mostly walk through the same park with the same scenery every day. If I had something like this, I would probably end up walking until my feet fell off.
That said, I don't know if I like the look of the Omni. It looks like the kind of thing that you would have to learn how to use, instead of it feeling perfectly natural. If it does get to that point where it feels so natural that people don't even need to be told how to use it, it will be awesome.
Source?
He was asked at his GDC 2013 talk and he mentioned very young children shouldn't use it because of their narrow IPD. IIRC, he never mentioned a specific age, let alone 16 freaking years old.
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And here's a more complete list of the changes:
New Features
- Added initial magnetometer-based yaw drift correction. Press X and Z keys to calibrate in OculusWorldDemo.
- Added support for chromatic aberration correction.
- Added Mac OSX support to C++ OculusWorldDemo and Unity integration.
- Redesigned SDK internals to make use of portable HID abstraction layer.
- Added motion prediction to OculusWorldDemo app, it can be toggled with P key.
- Exposed new properties in OVRCameraController to toggle prediction, chromatic aberration, etc.
- Added 64-bit Windows support.
- Fixed deferred rendering shadow issues with Rift integration.
- Modified StereoConfig to adjust projection center based on lens centers instead of IPD; this approach is correct considering collimated light.
- Fixed renderer crash triggered on HD3000 when mip-maps were dropped.
- Fixed occasional USB re-opening issues when USB connector is plugged back in.
- Adjusted reported distance between lens centers to 63.5 mm.
Same but attached to a bike. I'd love to cycle through the Grand Canyon, or Yellowstone park
I experienced the Oculus for the first time today (colleague at work ordered one and he brought it to work).
Man, I am pretty damn exited!
There are some obvious problems with it (Low resolution/Low refresh rate/lack of positional tracking and the screen door effect.)
Those things can be improved but I don't think they will be solved before the first consumer model, probably will take like 3 to 5 years before we are able to enjoy games that have the same pixel density as you looking at your 1080p monitor. (Hopefully we will be able to output high graphical fidelity at high resolutions at 120+ fps by then)
Also the FOV is not wide enough, I think this can be fixed with better optics and screens.
Other then that, the experience is really compelling. Being able to accurately guess where in space a certain object is positioned is huge, and the sense of distance and scale is amazing!
VR has a bright future ahead. Technology getting pushed because of mobile development will result in allot of those problems being smoothed out in the coming years. amazing stuff!
Man, I am pretty damn exited!
There are some obvious problems with it (Low resolution/Low refresh rate/lack of positional tracking and the screen door effect.)
Those things can be improved but I don't think they will be solved before the first consumer model, probably will take like 3 to 5 years before we are able to enjoy games that have the same pixel density as you looking at your 1080p monitor. (Hopefully we will be able to output high graphical fidelity at high resolutions at 120+ fps by then)
Also the FOV is not wide enough, I think this can be fixed with better optics and screens.
Other then that, the experience is really compelling. Being able to accurately guess where in space a certain object is positioned is huge, and the sense of distance and scale is amazing!
VR has a bright future ahead. Technology getting pushed because of mobile development will result in allot of those problems being smoothed out in the coming years. amazing stuff!
I'm not getting excited for some time I think; order #44,932 here. But I ordered really late though. January 28th to be precise.
Pretty funny video of a Norwegian Newspaper who had their non-gaming journos test the Occulus.
Talk in Norwegian but it's pretty funny to see their reactions even if you don't understand what they say
Talk in Norwegian but it's pretty funny to see their reactions even if you don't understand what they say
iceatcs
Junior Member
Don't seem it have been posted.
Theme Park Studio Kickstarter will plan to add Oculus Rift support.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...o-create-the-ultimate-theme-park/posts/460459
It will going prefect VR on rollercoaster POV ride, or any rides. Motion sickness big time!
Theme Park Studio Kickstarter will plan to add Oculus Rift support.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...o-create-the-ultimate-theme-park/posts/460459
It will going prefect VR on rollercoaster POV ride, or any rides. Motion sickness big time!
Cymatic Bruce plays DOOM 3 BFG + OR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roc-yApBY4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roc-yApBY4k
Mister_Bubbles
Member
Did we ever find out why John Carmack has not been associating himself with the Rift any more / what happened to the planned Doom 3 Rift implementation?
Watch the link in the post above yours.
They're on a rollercoaster demo and the reactions are great.Pretty funny video of a Norwegian Newspaper who had their non-gaming journos test the Occulus.
Talk in Norwegian but it's pretty funny to see their reactions even if you don't understand what they say
Pretty funny video of a Norwegian Newspaper who had their non-gaming journos test the Occulus.
Talk in Norwegian but it's pretty funny to see their reactions even if you don't understand what they say
Circulating this to my non-gamer friends. Brilliant.
iceatcs
Junior Member
Yeah they are awesome, esp that lady crazy around. Lol I really cannot wait my order to ship. #8730~Watch the link in the post above yours.