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OnePerEyeM8
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Oculus Rift + dr00gz 2
#19223878 - 12/03/13 07:42 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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It's exam week, which means it's time for me to indulge in my favorite and most effective distraction - the Shroomery! 
So I'm here to ask: is anyone else as giga-stoked about the Oculus Rift as I am? I haven't actually gotten to try one out, but I've watched at least a couple hundred videos of tech demos and people's feedback/impressions, and I'm completely on board with the view that this is actually, finally, honest to beelz, the dawn of true VR.
Even with the first iteration of the devkit, with it's laughably low resolution and sometimes puke-inducing latency issues, the feedback is phenomenal. People actually FEEL like they're somewhere else, to the point that they instinctively reach out in an attempt to physically interact with what they're seeing. I've read that some forms of in-game movement - like accelerating and falling - actually induce a real feeling of motion in a lot of people. That's some illusion if you ask me.
Like, check this shit out:
Gary Jules is cool and all, I think that's a good song for showing off the demo, and this would definitely be totally awesome as is... but imagine that with some Shpongle and maybe a gram of cubes. I want to experience that. Honestly, I'd be curious as to what kind of psychonaut wouldn't want to have a safety-guaranteed psychedelic experience in outer space.
There's a handful of Oculus Rift space sims in development, which will undoubtedly be pretty cool. But I think I'm probably more excited at the potential of slower paced psychedelic VR adventures. Tripping spheres while strolling across the planes of Skyrim? How about surviving the night in Minecraft on a couple hits of white on white, especially with a couple friends? Even just driving around on Planetside 2 would be completely surreal.
Not to mention flying planes, captaining deep sea submersibles, and surviving zombie infested woodlands.
For the sake of clarity: I'm not advocating that any of this won't be ridiculously cool without psychedelics; it's just an idea that seems pretty damn exciting to me and I haven't seen much discussion of it anywhere. Also, I'm sure dissociatives would pair with VR experiences exceptionally well too, but for me psychs are what come to mind first.
 
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I can not wait to try this! 
My buddies boss got one, and they got Brutal DooM working on it; some guy programmed a port to the Oculus, said it is insane!!
Hahaha! Finally! DooM in real life!!
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Re: Oculus Rift + dr00gz [Re: GrimTroll]
#19224650 - 12/03/13 10:18 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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GrimTroll said: I can not wait to try this! 
My buddies boss got one, and they got Brutal DooM working on it; some guy programmed a port to the Oculus, said it is insane!!
Hahaha! Finally! DooM in real life!!
That's awesome! I watched a video of it a minute ago and holy shit, that acceleration looks like assured
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teknix
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Damn, they got Carmack so it is probably gonna be awesome!
Great song btw.
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but when will they actually SELL oculus rifts? seeing other people use it just makes me jealous..
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How much will these be?
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OnePerEyeM8
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teknix said: Damn, they got Carmack so it is probably gonna be awesome!
Great song btw.
Word! Plus he just resigned from Id Software so he can focus even more of his time on Oculus.
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mushroom_sandwich said: but when will they actually SELL oculus rifts? seeing other people use it just makes me jealous.. 
Haha me too. There still isn't a precise release date, but sometime in Q3 of 2014. So basically next summer or early fall. And $300 or less is what they say, Azure.
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oh god 300??? I mean I'll still obviously get it but that's pretty expensive.. will it be able to play games that have existed before the oculus?
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You've got to look at it compared to other monitors and HDTVS; essentially what you're getting is a screen big enough to fill up your entire field of view. And yeah, even games that haven't been modded to work as VR with the Rift- you'll be able to play in 2D as if you were looking at a big flatscreen.
I'm not sure if that exact app works with games or just movies, but they've said it will be something similar.
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I can't fucking wait
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mushroom_sandwich said: oh god 300??? I mean I'll still obviously get it but that's pretty expensive.. will it be able to play games that have existed before the oculus?
$300 is expensive for full a complete virtual reality experience with two displays? Seems pretty damned reasonable to me.
I definitely would love to try it out. Looks really cool.
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Re: Oculus Rift + dr00gz [Re: pwnasaurus]
#19228206 - 12/04/13 06:52 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah for sure, it has full head-tracking in case that isn't apparent. It looks like there's a chance that the consumer version might come with even more motion tracking capabilities from what's been going around lately.
Hanging out with Shroomery members in VR could be kind of rad.
Check out how these guys turned Reddit into a 3D environment. I could totally see that being applied to forums. Like hallways where each room is a thread/topic or something.
On second thought that would probably turn out kind of lame and SecondLifey.
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I just want to play Elder scrolls and Fallout man. And every other first person game ever.
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OnePerEyeM8
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Dude, without a doubt. After seeing this guy's video I decided I would avoid playing Bioshock Infinite until the Rift comes out, and also avoid wearing scarves indoors always.
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damn i'm intrigued. the device itself isn't doing the processing/graphics though is it? it can't be for <300$. so do you connect it to a PC and it basically serves as your monitor?
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I played virtual boy on shrooms once.. This should be pretty sweet though.
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OnePerEyeM8
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lovesexdubstep said: damn i'm intrigued. the device itself isn't doing the processing/graphics though is it? it can't be for <300$. so do you connect it to a PC and it basically serves as your monitor?
Correct good sir! It's basically a horizontal smartphone screen that shows a slightly different image on the left and right sides. The images are from perspectives that are around 60mm apart, which corresponds with the average distance between people's pupils. That's how stereoscopic 3D stuff works. They fit the extra wide image onto the screen by distorting it fish eye style, then a pair of lenses in each eyepiece of the headset reverses the warped effect, so you end up with a non-distorted extra wide picture.
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I played virtual boy on shrooms once.. This should be pretty sweet though.
Haha woah, you lucky goose. How was it?! I know people usually say they're pretty lame but I would think they would have to be at least a little bit awesome.
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lovesexdubstep said: damn i'm intrigued. the device itself isn't doing the processing/graphics though is it? it can't be for <300$. so do you connect it to a PC and it basically serves as your monitor?
https://www.oculusvr.com/order/
It's $300. Vorpx is $44.
You plug an HDMI or DVI cord into it and it basically acts as a second monitor as far as your computer is concerned.
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OnePerEyeM8
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CHECK THIS OUT. The announcement and trailer just happened a day or two ago and there isn't a whole lot of information. If this ends up on PC with Rift support it'll be totally nuts. Seems like it would be pretty ridiculous if the developers spent as much time as they must have on this and didn't plan for Rift support. Seamless ground to space transitions (the cut at 1:07 is a little fishy) are a big deal.
Procedural = basically means the terrain/game world is generated completely on the fly. Like Minecraft worlds and Terraria. And the weapons in Borderlands, I think.
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That thing KILLS my head.
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