VR has its place and that place is in 80s movies

I think oculous have a better - as in "more successful" - scenario in mind (seated experience, mostly looking forward and occasionally turning to the sides).

The use of the whole room is all nice and brings you one step closer to true VR etc, but let's be honest, not so many people have that space free at home. This has the cascade effect of less developers risking/investing into it, and overall less content for it.

Personally, I see oculous as the major player in shaping VR to a step a critical mass of people is willing to take. Maybe once the first wave is accepted, there can be space for pushing things further.

The technology is simply still not there.

Any HMD is uncomfortable and rapidly gets too fucking hot to enjoy anything, and the 90Hz or even 120Hz display doesnt make up for it, the whole thing just goes against any sense of immersion.
Sure you'll impress your mum with the rollercoaster demo, your grandma might even throw up, and VR tech certainly is "fun to play with" for a certain amount of time, but there is still a ton of work to do (go Carmack!) and as always, the technology is still behind.
And imho, most people don't even know about VR and gamers don't give a shit about it.

So yeah, until we have lightweight headsets with 4K screens at 120Hz or better, not to mention interesting/useful content, VR will remain an unmarketable 35 year-old joke.

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edit: confirmed by Occulus co-founder in this interview

Someone needs to do porn for that thing.

http://matadorcontent.com/item/sex-now-hbo/

This exposes what is wrong with a lot of PC gaming in general. All the latest games are and have always been made in advance of the tech level of your average PC because they want to show off the graphics. If developers reigned in their desires and thought of performance excluding the bullshit "you're eye can't see more than 60 fps anyway" and high hz monitors were the norm then software would be more playable as a result. Instead we're stuck with mongs benchmarking the latest tech demo with 40xBSAA at 8K resolutions hitting 15fps with amazing 'IQ'.

Oculus still haven't solved the input problem. HTC have an interesting model if you have the space. I think a nunchuck and powerglove could work :)

Isn't it that nowadays games are more like movies?
Dumb as many crosseyed turds in the casuals throat as possible and call it a day?
30 FPS, blur, done.

Yeah but I think that has always been the case. None of the most inventive games I've played in the last few years have had AAA graphics and the same goes for movies that rely on plot, characters and setting over holy fuck look at that slow mo explosion.

Nigga please what the hell are you talking about getting too hot? You don't put a mobile phone into the proper HMDs. They're two separate categories.

You can already get some sense of presence even with a DK2 let alone CV1. Presence means that your brain is fooled on the hardware level into thinking what you see is 'real'. Standing on a skyscraper and being unable to jump because you're afraid - that is presence, and is already achievable.

Immersion and presence are two separate things. Immersion is already greatly enhanced from anything you can get with monitors simply because you have nothing else in your view except the game world.

After reading that interview it sounds like Occulus' graphics may always look dated if they need to be outputting at least 90fps?
A new graphics card will come out but everyone will be wanting to get the next engine out there with improved graphics instead of making crysis 2 run at 90fps.

At some point I hope graphics quality will plateau and the focus will move to performance. Not to mention they might eventually get SLI/XF optimized for VR where another gpu is 50%+ performance gain.

With dx12 and nvidia predicting huge increases in performance coming up we may see that in the next few years.

Yeah also gfx quality itself does not matter for presence as much as fluidity. You need the basic parameters to fool your body's hardware - sub 20 ms, motion2photon, ~100 fps, ~100 fov, enough ppi and fill to get rid of screen door, tracking, etc.

I went to a space center today and visited the planetarium which is a huge domed screen that showed a video demonstrating the process our universe has taken in the last 13.8 billion years and it was fantastic. It created an amazing experience and definitely tricked my mind into thinking I was experiencing this as some kind of reality. I think VR is going to be amazing.

Where?

The national space centre.

http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-ceo/2...hn-carmack