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Oculus Rift Will Change Your Gaming World

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Re: Oculus Rift Will Change Your Gaming World

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Post by Osmium »

james33 wrote: post #9

I think a more compelling idea for having a camera on the outside is to allow for hand tracking within the game. Imaging if Leap-like functionality were added to the Rift. Flying through space in your star ship, you could reach out and actually interact with the controls in your cockpit. I think that could be a lot more compelling than what we are seeing with games on Kinect today.

Lack of tactile feedback will always be an obstacle to that. Still, I share your optimism. Sounds like a great idea in principle, and we're closer to it than ever now.

Re: Oculus Rift Will Change Your Gaming World

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Post by jiggy2011 »

Apart from gaming, there's other interesting things this could do especially with a higher resolution display and fast connectivity.

For example , virtual tourism. Take a safari by streaming a 4K video via a mounted camera on a pivot on top of a truck.

Of course latency induced motion sickness could be a serious issue there but you may be able to get around this by streaming feeds from multiple cameras.

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Post by mtgx »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #7

There is a really sort of chilling feeling when you get really good head tracking and high DPI visual input, it fools your brain enough to move your sense of place. The absolute creepiest thing I've experienced with this was put the goggles on and have the screens showing the view of a pair of cameras mounted on a telepresence robot in the same room. Then slowly pull the telepresence robot back so that I could see my…

Out of body experience? I imagine the future will be more like Avatar or Surrogates [1].

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl_h9RaL0es

Re: Oculus Rift Will Change Your Gaming World

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Post by mtgx »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #12

Apart from gaming, there's other interesting things this could do especially with a higher resolution display and fast connectivity. For example , virtual tourism. Take a safari by streaming a 4K video via a mounted camera on a pivot on top of a truck. Of course latency induced motion sickness could be a serious issue there but you may be able to get around this by streaming feeds from multiple cameras.

Oculus Rift might also be the first thing to truly disrupt the cinema industry, if it works that well for movies, too (although you obviously lose the ability to move in a movie, but maybe that can change in the future). I guess the cinemas could buy them en-masse before everyone has them at home though, and before they got to experience it for themselves, just like with current 3D glasses, but I think the difference will be minimal from what you can experience at home, and what you can experience in the cinema with such goggles.

There's also potential for stress, depression therapy, etc.

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Post by tarice »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #7

There is a really sort of chilling feeling when you get really good head tracking and high DPI visual input, it fools your brain enough to move your sense of place. The absolute creepiest thing I've experienced with this was put the goggles on and have the screens showing the view of a pair of cameras mounted on a telepresence robot in the same room. Then slowly pull the telepresence robot back so that I could see my…

I believe you're looking for the omnidirectional treadmill[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnidirectional_treadmill

Re: Oculus Rift Will Change Your Gaming World

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Post by sebbi »

w1ntermute wrote: post #10
NegativeK wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm very much hoping that people take the Oculus Rift, add webcam sensors, and have decent augmented reality.

And of course the first thing that will happen is a redefinition of cybersex as we know it.

http://www.sinfulrobot.com/ ... rule #34

Re: Oculus Rift Will Change Your Gaming World

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Post by GuiA »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #7

There is a really sort of chilling feeling when you get really good head tracking and high DPI visual input, it fools your brain enough to move your sense of place. The absolute creepiest thing I've experienced with this was put the goggles on and have the screens showing the view of a pair of cameras mounted on a telepresence robot in the same room. Then slowly pull the telepresence robot back so that I could see my…

> Something that will really be awesome will be these goggles and a Leap Motion controller, so that you gesture around your world.

I preordered an Oculus rift devkit, and the first thing I'll be doing (after spending hours ooh-ing and ah-ing in whatever 3D demo comes with it, hopefully) will be to hook it up with a kinect.

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