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

[Jamesac]

Those stupid polygon things will never catch on. Sure, they're attractive to those who dream big, but there's far too few to render a realistic scene and the lines kind of wobble and don't add up. Plus the pixels are giant and chunky on them, and have you seen what passes for a human face? Too much wishful thinking, not enough accepting of the tech's limitations, you ask me.

[gilesgoat]

Can anyone explain me why black holes supposedly emit radiation inversely proportional to there masses cause those virtual particles ? I heard about but I never understood it. Maybe some expert can tell me ..

[gravy]

Virtual particle pairs create and destroy throughout space, some do so on the edge of an event horizon and one falls in and the other doesn't.

Except it''s just a theory, no one's detected Hawking radiation.

[gilesgoat]

Virtual particle pairs create and destroy throughout space, some do so on the edge of an event horizon and one falls in and the other doesn't.

Except it''s just a theory, no one's detected Hawking radiation.

I see you understand it but you haven't tried it

[gilesgoat]

@Pogo : also, not sure how far/what part of UK are you .. but "maybe you should try" to make into one of those Blackpool / Manchester Replay thing at the LS stand so you can try VR first hand and see how it goes ?

[pogo]

@Pogo : also, not sure how far/what part of UK are you .. but "maybe you should try" to make into one of those Blackpool / Manchester Replay thing at the LS stand so you can try VR first hand and see how it goes ?

Not close to either. It would be cheaper to buy a DK2 myself, once travel costs, accommodation costs, event entry costs are accounted for. And that’s not including time lost attending. I don’t have any compelling need to buy one so I’ll wait until they appear in shops and I can try them there (probably in Newcastle), hopefully some time this year.

[Darkflame]

If they are sensible they will (much like Nintendo did with the Wii) have demos set up before launch so people can experience the things.
Assuming they go for a big launch at all, depending on production scaling it might be easier for them just to slowly increase sales and let people "market it to eachother".

[venusian]

I can try them

Don't do that. Your opinions won't carry the same weight if burdened by facts and first-hand experience.

[Whiteball]

Nate Mitchell, Oculus' vice president for product, muses that the future of Oculus VR's virtual reality headset, the Oculus Rift, may lie in films, rather than games, as a consumer content delivery device.

"We've said from the beginning we're big gamers, and we started Oculus to deliver consumer VR and revolutionize games," Mitchell said during a presentation during CES 2015, LA Times reports. "But it may well end up being that VR is more about film than games."

They'd better not lose focus on games and go all 'multimedia' on us.

[Darth Bungle]

[gumboot]

If that's what it takes to force them to hold the fucking camera still, then I'm all for it.

[pogo]

I can’t see the film aspect. I can enjoy films on a HD TV, on a 1080p PC display, on a phone or tablet, with headphones or speakers. I don’t see me strapping an expensive headset to my head for 2+ hours for them. In theory it makes for a better 3D experience but 3D films have hardly taken off, especially at home.

Corporate though. Training such as pilot, astronaut. Estate agent and travel agent virtual tours. Military planning and operations. Videoconferencing. Warehousing and medicine (though that's maybe more for augmented reality). The good thing about those is they’re software, and as long as people are working on software and solving problems such as presence, nausea avoidance, control systems it should also help games. There could even be overlaps with e.g. games being used as training software and vice versa.

[gumboot]

Speaking of not-entirely-games, is anybody hooking up 360º cameras and transmitting real-time video skyboxes to VR headsets yet?

It might be a somewhat on-rails experience with nothing to poke at, but a live all-round view from ISS (safe, smooth motion) or a quadcopter (not so smooth) or a rally car (*HUURRGH*!) seem like interesting test cases just for swivelling your head around.

Bonus points if you get to drive any of the above.

[Dvorak]

Speaking of not-entirely-games, is anybody hooking up 360º cameras and transmitting real-time video skyboxes to VR headsets yet?

Which could easily be the Next Big Thing, if you ask me.

[gravy]

Yeah live sports will be a killer app.