Fool me, this is real good shit ! [the VR thread]

[snaff]

I was excited about the Oculus Rift, not just the technology itself, but the way the whole community and related developments were coming together. With open development libraries, cross-platform support, Steam not being limited to Windows it seemed like a really good footing for creativity that wouldn't be restricted by the likes of Sony and Microsoft. But now, even if Facebook don't deliberately lock things up somehow it could still be a big distorting influence - it's an ugly company.

Hopefully in a few years VR headsets will be fairly standardised like monitors and everybody will be making them, but this is now a really crappy start to its introduction.

[venusian]

Google have glasses; Facebook have a facemask. Is this some kind of metaphor?

Surely MS next? Or is this another wagon they're failing to jump on?

[ThetaReactor]

What, Microsoft's going to announce an expensive VR headset because it will pair so well with Kinect? That thing they already shoved down our throats and have utterly failed to make useful? Or with the touch interface they've embraced on desktops and mobiles? Because that might still work better than Kinect, space helmet or no.

No, Microsoft's best strategy is hanging back until the market is established and then buying or bullying their way in. It's what worked before. For a while. These days it's mostly inertia that's holding them up, I think.

Maybe Valve will pop something out before 2020.

[Damn, do I sound bitter.]

[Darkflame]

Meta is basically a headset+kinect system.

Light headset with LCD screens that you can set alpha for each pixel would be amazing.

It very much would be, its the dream of the AR community - full RGBA control.
Unfortunately, Alpha control is a very hard nut to crack - nothings come close,frankly.

At the moment its all light-additive solutions. Some however, have a LCD back that can alter the light coming in for the whole display. So its like one big alpha for the whole screen. Sort of.

Still, even with $400million investment I don't see Occulus solving this issue. Their whole hardware is built around solid video screens....not a trace of optical seethru tech. I dont think they will even attempt it.

Company's like Vuzixand Meta are more worth paying attention to for developments in that area.

[pogo]

What, Microsoft's going to announce an expensive VR headset because it will pair so well with Kinect? That thing they already shoved down our throats and have utterly failed to make useful? Or with the touch interface they've embraced on desktops and mobiles? Because that might still work better than Kinect, space helmet or no.

MS's answer is the motion-sickness inducing 'IllumiRoom'



which is utterly incompatible with a VR headset. Even without that Kinect is a wholly different approach, making the living room the environment, tracking your motion with cameras rather than motion sensors, etc. No way do you want to be using a VR headset in front of HD video cameras, in case anything captured gets stored or transmitted despite MS's assurances.

[Dio]

Actually Kinect and Oculus could be a good mix in some cases. If you've got something on your face, then the only viable interface beyond two hands on controller is voice control, or one you can access via a strong kinaesthenic sense - touching your head, or something similar. Kinect is in a strong position for both of those.

[Cloudane]

Like!

I was just about to post the irony of how many comments I've wanted to click "like" on in this past page or two

Surely MS next? Or is this another wagon they're failing to jump on?

MS will get there eventually - in about 5 years they'll finally notice something was happening that they want to compete with and get around to it, no one will buy it because they're all used to iMersion and Facemask by now, and then in an act of desperation they'll make a desktop version of Windows where you have to strap your 23" monitor to your face to use it.

[Baggypants]

And I did not chip in ten grand to seed a first investment round to build value for a Facebook acquisition.

Hahaha, suck it. you're all Kickstarters bitches. M.Zuckerberg.

[Bod]

I've always actively avoided FB from the beginning. Never been on it & never will.
I jumped ship from WhatsApp & over to Telegram as soon as that was bought by FB.

So I'm a tad peeved to find that the money I've just spent upgrading my PC (to beef it up so that it can handle the Dev 2 Occy development kit that's pre-ordered) could've been saved, as I woudln't have ordered the Dev 2 kit if I'd known FB were waiting in the wings to pounce.

Fuckers.

[Dvorak]

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

And fuck.


And what ThetaReactor wrote.

I'm crushed. Really. This was one of those childhood dreams. Funded by the people, loved by geeks everywhere, and then they got John Motherfucking Carmack on board.

And then Fuckface McZuckerFuck had to go and stick his filthy cock in the pie. The one he's already teabagged half the population of earth with.

Fuck this shit.

Having pre-ordered Facebook Rift Dev Kit 2 a few days ago, I had considered to sell or just give away my Dev Kit 1.
But I think, I'll just keep it as something to remind me of what could've been.

Damn, that's just shit.

[Firefox]

I felt a great disturbance in the Web, as if millions of gamers suddenly cried out "Noooooo!!!!" and then suddenly ragequit.

I fear something terrible has happened.

[Dvorak]

I felt a great disturbance in the Web, as if millions of gamers suddenly cried out "Noooooo!!!!" and then suddenly ragequit.

I fear something terrible has happened.

That.

[Dvorak]

http://oculusrift.com/viewtopic.php?p=5941

The goal is to start a Kickstarter project on June 1st that will end
on July 1st, shipping afterwards as soon as possible. I won't make a
penny of profit off this project, the goal is to pay for the costs of
parts, manufacturing, shipping, and credit card/Kickstarter fees with
about $10 left over for a celebratory pizza and beer.

[Ratsoap]

My interest has suddenly evaporated.

Also, a minor point, but you teabag people with your balls, not your cock.

[gravy]

Must be a relief for OR shifting their customer base from man children with entitlement issues to normal people