Statistics: Posted by Satis — Sun Sep 11, 2016 9:08 am
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Maybe it's time to refurbish your orgy room Satis.
Statistics: Posted by Rinox — Sat Sep 10, 2016 6:31 am
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It's like $700, which isn't obscene, really. Thing is, can you imagine making room for this? I don't have the space.
Statistics: Posted by Satis — Mon Sep 05, 2016 7:56 am
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Yeah, they really need to work on a solution for that then. Maybe a true FPS game with fighting and so on may be a bit complicated to happen any time soon, but even a relatively basic threadmill could work for the so-called "walking simulator" types of games.
Fingers crossed!
Statistics: Posted by Rinox — Sun Sep 04, 2016 4:16 am
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There was some stuff out there on fooling the inner ear via eletrical stimulation or something. Now if they could fake out your eyes and your balance, that would be awesome. Other alternatives are omni-directional treadmills and stuff.
Anyway, I'm hopeful it'll sort itself out. We'll see over the next few years.
Statistics: Posted by Satis — Sat Sep 03, 2016 8:27 pm
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Given the development cycle of AAA games (like, 3 years?), I guess it makes sense the offer hasn't caught up yet with the new technology. In that sense it's different than, say, Bluray: the industry/movies already existed, they were just being printed on a new medium. But VR really needs games to be MADE for it to take full advantage of it.
I'm thinking FPS games would make the best VR games for total immersion, but I can also see it with more strategic games. You know, like the Minority Report gestural inferface.
Statistics: Posted by Rinox — Sat Sep 03, 2016 10:32 am
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Anyway, it was cool. I didn't get a chance to play all the different room scale games, but I played the majority. It was pretty cool. Some are just "games" that take you to 3d explorable images of places in the real world, like castles in Germany or a mountainside in Greenland or a lava tube in iceland, for instance. That's interesting because you can basically explore these places, but probably predictably this gets pretty old pretty quick.
Most of the games I have are free, so their quality and depth aren't all that. There's one called Surge () that's just a music video, but it's really cool. I enjoyed it. There's The Night Cafe () that lets your move around a scene inspired by van Gogh. Also pretty cool, but of limited entertainment value. Trials on Tatooine let you pretend to be a jedi (). It's fun, sorta, but it's so short it was immensely unsatisfying.
Of the bunch, Zombie Training Simulator () was probably the best game. It was a free add-in with the headset. I wouldn't pay money for it. But it was fun.
A played a few other games, but nothing really stood out. The games I did not play yet that are room scale are The Gallery - Episode 1: CAll of the Starseed (fucking stupid name ) and MIND Path to Thalamus (). These may be amazing, I just don't know yet.
All in all, the only game that I consider to be a real, triple A type VR game is Elite: Dangerous. Everything else is somewhere between bad to interesting, but nothing is a real, immersive, must-play game. I think that's the biggest issue with it is that people haven't yet figured out how to make games for VR. I'm hopeful that interest in VR stays strong while people figure that out. I did some googling looking for the best VR games to play and I'm not the only person to feel this way. But that's what being an early adopter is all about, right?
Statistics: Posted by Satis — Sat Sep 03, 2016 8:27 am
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Let me know how it goes this weekend. Very curious.
Statistics: Posted by Rinox — Fri Aug 26, 2016 11:30 am
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With the Vive, there are a lot of games that want you to be able to move around, so if you want to do that, you need the space. It requires a minimum of 1.5m x 2m if you want to do that move around play stuff. This may seem like it's asking a lot, but I tried playing in a much smaller area (maybe 1m x 1m) and the immersion is oh so much more. I plan on setting it up in my living room where I should be able to get a good 2m x 3m this weekend. We'll see if I get around to it, because setting everything up is a huge pita. If you don't have the space, you can still do a standing-room only version, which is what I use at my desk. It works, but limits you on the games you can play.
Here's a link to the case I have. There's also a version with a side window, but it's $20 more and I prefer not having a side window anyway.
Statistics: Posted by Satis — Thu Aug 25, 2016 1:29 pm
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What you are describing (the 160 GB SSD) is exactly the reason why I'll be holding off on VR goggles for at least a year longer though.
I'll have a look around here in Malta, because I really like the case. And the price isn't too bad either.
Statistics: Posted by Rinox — Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:58 am
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