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| Mеа:
My friend has a PSVR and he got me to play a couple games with it, a Batman sim, a truck railshooter with clowns, and one of the Resident Evils. I was mightily impressed by the immersion I felt in the Batman game, it seemed much like a tech demo of VR over an actual game, but I dropped my controller the first time trying to set down one of the objects you can pick up and nearly did so again the second time. The illusion of Batman's hands being my hands was almost complete, it was pretty shocking. That left a good first impression. The railshooter was fine, but the Resident Evil did start giving me some motion sickness. My friend mentioned that he had some motion sickness too and he got over it eventually so maybe it's something you can get used to. Watching someone else play onscreen was very nauseating though. Even if the ultimate application of VR/AR doesn't end up being for video games, I very much think that it has good potential of not being just a gimmick. When done right, the immersion is unreal. Something as simple as having HUDs and displays floating around the edges of your vision would be mighty helpful in certain games. I know in Splatoon for the Wii U I never looked down on my minimap because there was too much of a break in focus to swerve my gaze down like that, having the minimap floating around to the side would be nice. |
| Hieda no Mukyu:
Thanks a lot, Ionasal! I wonder how a staircase or ladder illusion would work in such a rig. --- Quote from: Mеа on March 25, 2018, 09:59:11 AM ---Even if the ultimate application of VR/AR doesn't end up being for video games, I very much think that it has good potential of not being just a gimmick. When done right, the immersion is unreal. --- End quote --- My thoughts exactly, but I only have second-hand knowledge so far. And since I am no friend of motion sickness, I might still want to wait for some years before actually trying... |
| Mr. Sacchi:
--- Quote from: Ghaleon on March 25, 2018, 03:29:32 AM ---I thought the whole motion sickness thing was caused by latency or something. Something which in theory should be reduced as the technology improves. --- End quote --- If I recall correctly, VR Rigs have to render two 1080p 60fps screens to make sure players don't feel motion sickness, which as you might guess, can be quite technically intensive. Basically any fps drop will cause motion sickness. --- Quote from: Mеа on March 25, 2018, 09:59:11 AM ---Something as simple as having HUDs and displays floating around the edges of your vision would be mighty helpful in certain games. I know in Splatoon for the Wii U I never looked down on my minimap because there was too much of a break in focus to swerve my gaze down like that, having the minimap floating around to the side would be nice. --- End quote --- The problem with that approach is that if you intend to keep to something simple like that, it's actually better to stick to AR instead of VR, which is significantly cheaper to make, less technically intensive and has basically zero risk of causing motion sickness no matter what. And that kind of brings me to the point of VR. Unfortunately the technology for all-out VR is straight up just not there yet, which is why I think that right now it will be a niche gimmick until we actually get the level of tech necessary for this kind of thing to hit mainstream. It's because of this that I wish that companies were focusing on Augmented Reality instead, but I also have to wonder how that kind of thing would actually work when applied to most games, so I can sort of see why they aren't doing it. |
| Aya Reiko:
Kinect: The Next Generation I'm in the same mindset as the OP, but with the added caveat of VR sets are way, way, WAA~AAY too expensive for something that would likely be collecting dust within an month. |
| commandercool:
They do kind of give me Kinect chills, yeah. I was SHOCKED to hear how much these things cost. To be fair, the physical hardware felt pretty robust and sturdy, but for the experience they feel like they're 3-4 times too expensive... |
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