Oculus Rift

[Beck]

This is pretty awesome!

[FrieChamp]

One step closer!

[PogoP]

Woah, incredible! I love how they were all reaching out to try and touch the chair!

[Beck]

Haha yeah "NOOO, DON'T SIT DOWN!" *kid rips the cables out of everything trying to sit down*

Edited April 5, 2013 by Beck

[Jord]

Take my money! Can't wait to just sit in my house, eating through a straw, never leaving because the world just isn't good enough any more.

[FrieChamp]

Put that on the box: "Oculus Rift - because the world just isn't good enough any more"

[FMPONE]

This is pretty awesome!

wow. this thing is going to be so popular

[Izuno]

That is pretty damn cool. Lots of possibilities come to mind but especially the potential for new interest in adventure / exploration games.

[selmitto]

Dear Esther + Oculus Rift.

[LiVinGHeLL]

I feel like I'll need a padded room.

[arhurt]

I hope they can overcome the low resolution issue.

I read on the Valve wiki that you need the most framerates (60+) for the best experience, since lower framerates would severely increase input lag and induce motion sickness.

The resolution problem also adds all kinds of development issues. I can`t even begin to imagine all the work that would be required to redo the Ballistic interfaces so that it would be readeable under the Oculus.

I think that when the guy looks down to rocket-jump on this video you can see that the in-game effect was not as pronounced because of the quick untracked movement. They must have some sort of smoothing algorithimworking on that

Edited April 5, 2013 by arhurt

[LiVinGHeLL]

The dev kit is 720p (1280x800) but the commercial headset will be 1080p and should solve the resolution issues. Head tracking will solve a lot of the motion sickness issues (leaning forward and back currently do nothing). I have only played with my dev kit for a little bit, but the effect is really hard to explain to someone who hasn't strapped the thing on their head. The biggest issue to me is the motion sickness, it apparently takes quite a bit of time to get used to it. Your brain is extremely confused about the input its receiving.

[Kedhrin]

we just got one here in the office, but theres a lot of face grease on the nose part from everyone wearing it... makes me not want to put it on lawl

[PogoP]

we just got one here in the office, but theres a lot of face grease on the nose part from everyone wearing it... makes me not want to put it on lawl

Dem nerds man, need some grease removal tissues.

[FMPONE]