demosthenes
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Yes, this was shown to make playing Scout in TF2 really hard in a demo.
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Mirror's Edge (PC) modded for Oculus Rift support
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Yes, this was shown to make playing Scout in TF2 really hard in a demo.
No. And yes, it is key.
Like I said this isn't proper support. Hell, it's not even a Mirror's Edge mod, it's a driver hack that'll work with just about any DirectX 9 game as far as I know.
demosthenes
Member
Oh, so it's different for native support? I guess that makes sense b/c this is just a mod.
Ghost_Protocol
Member
I feel like we're getting closer and closer to the Sword Art Online end times with this tech. The instant a great MMO releases with support is the beginning of the end of the human race.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
Nope, it almost stretches your entire field of vision. What youre seeing on the split video does not represent how it appears on the headset at all.
Exactly. Well it IS the same image, but without the optics it's not representative. Like you said. Why did I post again?
ThatsMytrunks
Member
I need that shit with my SystemShock/Bioshock
I guess. But a FOV of 60 is still a FOV of 60, Rift or not.
OldAsUrSock
Banned
Dishonored would be so awesome with this support.
Amazing.
lybertyboy
Thinks the Evil Empire is just misunderstood.
It's already supported via the driver.
I'm new be nice
Member
How is he achieving stereoscopic 3D? Is he using the Nvidia 3D vision drivers or does the Oculus Rift support its own version of separate camera angles?
I'm waiting for the adult entertainment industry to catch on it. The possibilities are endless.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Yeah THIS is the kind of game that will sell it. You're gonna be scared of heights, man!
iceatcs
Junior Member
Not really entire, but most of vision like 60 to 70% of your eye FOV. You will still see the black edge border.
Still, lot better than >10% from your eye to screen.
Then you haven't paid attention.
First: this game doesn't even support the Rift, and second: you were just trolling anyway. Tsk tsk!
This hacked in support really doesn't fully represent the possibilities of the Rift. The FoV is off, and the way it interacts with the moments when the game forces your view in a specific direction/movement is really bad.
Still, it gives an outlook on what can be possible. But for a real Rift demo you still need to try the Tuscany one (the new, updated one with great IQ).
Still, it gives an outlook on what can be possible. But for a real Rift demo you still need to try the Tuscany one (the new, updated one with great IQ).
Funny you should mention that, The Gallery: Six Elements is strongly inspired by Myst and it looks very promising. It's designed from the ground up for VR with support for the Rift and [facultative] independent hand tracking with the Razer Hydra.
Durante, how does it look with your unit? In your hands or, after traveling around the world, finaly in AU(if I am not mistaken)?
AND was fully funded with some days left(ed: 43hours)! I can't wait for that one. Glad he reached and over-reached his KS.
grimshawish
Banned
My interest in Rift has gone from not at all too suddenly intrigued. Maybe I was wrong and it wasn't the device making me uninterested but the software support.
I got it last monday already actually, it was surprisingly quick once they figured out in Australia that Innsbruck is, in fact, in Austria.
I wrote some impressions here.
And head tracking through hacked mouse emulation is fubar. I wish he would have made that clearer in his Vireio videos.
Great, thanks for the link. Australia and Austria, man...I don't get it. It is so close to eachother.
Yeah, it really is, for many reasons. I'm currently also trying to mod support into a game, but I'm manipulating the camera directly at the DirectX level (vertex shader parameters). This has multiple advantages:
- you can get the correct FoV (which is out of reach of settings for most games -- if they even have FoV settings)
- you are not "locked in" to a view when the game decides to do so
- you get the fastest possible response time -- no need to go through the games' input loop to incorporate new sensor data
However, sadly it has some extremely hard to circumvent problems:
- it's much harder to do. You need to figure out which parameters in which vertex shaders represent the camera/perspective matrix, and manipulate all of them accordingly, and do that in all render calls of the program. And also for (potential) tertiary values influenced by the view matrix.
- even if you manage all the above, you are basically fucked if the game does any culling in software, since that will still use the unchanged original FoV
Considering all this, the only way to get really good support in existing games is actually modifying their own camera handling in the binary. Which is a hard and labor-intensive task. A really bad combination, since the way you could usually deal with a labor-intensive issue in a situation like that -- by distributing it over tons of people with open source -- doesn't work nearly as well when the task in question requires a skill set very few people have.
ElectricBlue187
Member
And the game isn't set up to support free head movement. I don't think I could enjoy a rift game without that
You don't say... would you say an appropriate title would be... PREPARE TO OCULUS RIFT EDITION?
Except, as I point out in that post, there are many very hard hurdles, that might in fact be impossible to overcome. So don't get excited.
As Cliffy said in an interview, horror games might be too intense! They'd have to dial down a bit. I don't usually play horror games, but I think that one scene in Bioshock would kill people if they were using the rift ... I literally jumped.
Mirror's edge would be so cool if it gets official support. I think some of the tricks they use, like tilting the camera when you walk on the wall or when you're trying to balance on a cable would be the main motion sickness inducers. They'd need to get creative to get those to work.
I really hope the rift starts changing the way the characters move in game. They all use motion capture to make it realistic, but then in game, characters move at 2x speed and they have no sign of inertia! You watch players changing directions instantly in COD/BF/Halo. And the zombies in Left 4 Dead are the exact opposite of most movie sluggish zombies ...
Mirror's edge would be so cool if it gets official support. I think some of the tricks they use, like tilting the camera when you walk on the wall or when you're trying to balance on a cable would be the main motion sickness inducers. They'd need to get creative to get those to work.
I really hope the rift starts changing the way the characters move in game. They all use motion capture to make it realistic, but then in game, characters move at 2x speed and they have no sign of inertia! You watch players changing directions instantly in COD/BF/Halo. And the zombies in Left 4 Dead are the exact opposite of most movie sluggish zombies ...
ElectricKaibutsu
Member
Wow, I really want to try this now.
Schobeleth
Member
DO WANT. My question is how it'll look, like if it'll feel weird.