Oculus Rift

[Quick_Nick]

This isn't even a joke image. Just lovely coincidental timing.

 

[Loru]

Farmiville OculusRift Edition :facepalm: . That's exactly what I need.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Farmiville OculusRift Edition :facepalm: . That's exactly what I need.

 

[Hlynkacg]

Maybe that's why I don't see anything revolutionary in it. :shrug:

Well from a technical stand point the revolutionary thing is being able to maintain image orientation and processing in "real-time".

The inability to kill the lag between your movement and your avatar's movement/viewpoint (and the associated disorientation/nausea) is what killed most of the early VR units. Trust me, this a problem I've worked on in my meat-space studies and it is way more complicated than you'd initially think. :beathead:

If Carmack has come up with a clever work-around to avoid the "brute force" computing methods the rest of have been forced to use, more power to him. It would also be entirely in character considering that his clever work-arounds to avoid the "brute force" methods of 3D Rendering are what make modern 3D graphics engines possible.

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To me, as a Warthunder and general flight-sim geek these videos here illustrates the real selling point...

 

[orb]

Well from a technical stand point the revolutionary thing is being able to maintain image orientation and processing in "real-time".

The inability to kill the lag between your movement and your avatar's movement/viewpoint (and the associated disorientation/nausea) is what killed most of the early VR units.

That's no revolution, it's just progress. :shrug:

 

[Hlynkacg]

I don't think you get just how "insurmountable" a problem that was supposed to be. Sure, a F-14 Tomcat may be nothing more than an evolved [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_Camel"]Sopwith Camel[/ame], but calling it "just progress" is sort of selling the thing short.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Popular on Reddit:
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[Aion]

I wonder if advertisers would like to know what you're looking at, and for how long.
Oh well, surely Facebook won't be selling that kind of information. :hmm:

 

[Spacethingy]

Is this an attempt to keep up with the Joneses/Google, i.e. buying up interesting tech startups?

 

[Melvin]

[/COLOR]To me, as a Warthunder and general flight-sim geek these videos here illustrates the real selling point...

Warthunder and flight sim in the same sentence? I guess if hiding in ack is your thing...



:rofl:



Much like OculusRift and Facebook. Thank goodness for TrackIR. :facepalm:

 

[Hlynkacg]

Warthunder and flight sim in the same sentence? I guess if hiding in ack is your thing...



:rofl:



Much like OculusRift and Facebook. Thank goodness for TrackIR. :facepalm:

Clearly you don't spend any time in low tier FRB.

Where else is one supposed to get his "virtual Biggles" off these days?

 

[Melvin]

Where else is one supposed to get his "virtual Biggles" off these days?

http://www.hitechcreations.com/


Best flight model in the genre. A new graphical update is on the way as well. Come on over and give it a shot.

 

[mojoey]

Regardless of what you think, War Thunder (and to a lesser extent WOWP) is the Poor Man's IL2. Easy to get into, and era in which the game takes place is rather popular.

 

[RGClark]

And if Facebook was offering you $2 billion you would say what exactly?

Bob Clark

 

[blixel]

And if Facebook was offering you $2 billion you would say what exactly?

I'm sure I'd have to place a scumbag hat on myself in that case.

 

[Pablo49]

Somehow I've never seen this thread before. No one has dropped steam dev day talks in here yet, so I will. Loads of talk about VR. This one in particular is pretty neat

As for the facebook thing, only time will tell. I think it won't be as bad as some fear. I mean, I'd rather facebook not be a part of gear I want to purchase, but so it goes. I don't think Oculus is going to be quite as popular as facebook hopes. VR is going to be a hard sell to the masses. I am mostly curious if Valve will keep their involvement with Oculus or find someone else to support.

Also, Sony announced project Morpheus recently which looks pretty awesome, which is for Ps4.

 

[MattBaker]

And if Facebook was offering you $2 billion you would say what exactly?

"Sorry, we had people put a lot of money, like really a lot, into our idea who wouldn't benefit in any way from your money but helped starting up this company.
Additionally I have serious doubts our aims and your aims are overlapping in any kind of way, you are actually just trying to be a competitor for Google or Sony, aren't you?
Also I'd prefer it if my Oculus Rift wouldn't be part of your worldwide data collection program, which frankly makes even intelligence agencies blush, at least the bad ones without unlimited power.
Ah, don't forget how your social network is already on its inevitable decline, will eventually be gone just like any other and when this happens you'll just get rid of Oculus to never be seen again since for you it's just another source of money.
Also, why would I or my colleagues want $1.6 billion in Facebook stock, you know how hard it is to make money out of that? Really, just $400 million in cash? You're one mad hatter, aren't you?
Now get the of my lawn!"

Something in that vicinity. Yeah, I'd prefer a billion in Enron stock in 1999 over $1.6 billion in Facebook stock today...

 

[Melvin]

Here's a good 2v1 fight using TrackIR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62rGxgCAVvU



Or you could play this "epic" game... :rofl:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLeP8_mcuBA

 

[Hielor]

Here's a good 2v1 fight using TrackIR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62rGxgCAVvU

What does that have to do with the Oculus Rift?

 

[Melvin]

Rift is an overblown piece of glamour hardware as long as TIR is still in the picture and updating at a rapid pace.

Unless you are looking forward to virtual farmville that is.