Valve confirms hardware development - Gaming Headset

slipsius

Check it.... http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/09/09/valve-reveals-gaming-headset-big-picture-test-date

I don't care if it is valve. Goggles take away from the social aspect of gaming. If you are at home playing, you dont want to wear goggles. You want a big screen. If you are out in public, you dont want googles. you want small sunglasses.

There have been things like this in the past. *Shrug*

Kwramm

It's most likely a prototype given its up to 5 years away. If it's for augmented reality, it would be quite annoying to run around looking like a borg. I'm curious what games they imagine to go with this though, but I'm not exited for neither google's glasses nor any "3d helmet" type of stuff - better give me a holodeck instead

Andreas

slipsius wrote: »

Check it.... http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/09/09/valve-reveals-gaming-headset-big-picture-test-date

I don't care if it is valve. Goggles take away from the social aspect of gaming.

Would consider most of Valves offerings to be solo experiences myself... never really sat down and played HL2 with others, or even games like DOTA... always over the net.

CordellC

Kind of surprised they're still doing this after endorsing the Oculus Rift.

GarageBay9

slipsius wrote: »

Check it.... http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/09/09/valve-reveals-gaming-headset-big-picture-test-date

I don't care if it is valve. Goggles take away from the social aspect of gaming. If you are at home playing, you dont want to wear goggles. You want a big screen. If you are out in public, you dont want googles. you want small sunglasses.

There have been things like this in the past. *Shrug*

If I really want immersion, I want everybody else to go away for an hour or two while I become the space marine or the cyborg ninja or the WWII pilot.

You may want a big screen in the middle of the living room... I want my field of view totally filled with sights and sounds of the cockpit as I do 300 mph, guns hot, 50 ft over Burma alongside the Flying Tigers.

bounchfx

hmm, I'm most interested right now in what valve would be doing for their 'steambox' idea.

but then again, I'm interested in anything valve is doing with the crazy density of smartness going on over there.

bounchfx

speaking of which!
http://kotaku.com/5941793/valve-is-bringing-steam-to-your-tv-today-watch-out-consoles

R3D

As long as its cheaper than a monitor of the same resolution, i would be interested.

ErichWK

YES! This is ALL I WANT. There are so many platformers I wanna play and have played..but I hate playing them on a chair in front of my monitor. For PC I love my total War and I love my FPS'..but for retro stuff or whatever I feel like I need to be on the couch with buddies.

Now..if they can make it so I can use a PS3 controller (without work arounds) I'd be so stoked.

reverendK

bounchfx wrote: »

speaking of which!
http://kotaku.com/5941793/valve-is-bringing-steam-to-your-tv-today-watch-out-consoles

That's friggin awesome. Why did the article just suggest people hook up extra computers to their TV or cart their primary back and forth to the living room? for pete's sake: PROBLEM SOLVED

AlexLeighton

While it has been done in the past, I don't know of any that have been done well. I can't see any reason, for me at least, why I wouldn't want total immersion in my games.

I do worry about the long term effects on our eyes of having a screen so close.

Denny

With the optics in VR headsets your eyes adjust into a relaxed focus state, in theory it should be better for your eyes than staring at a screen. Example answer from the FAQ for the Oculus Rift:

Will the Rift cause eye strain after extended use?

The Rift is causes very little eye strain, particularly compared to other standard displays or headmounts.

Normally, when you take a break from using a monitor or TV, the idea is to give your eyes a chance to focus and converge on a distance plane. This is a natural position of rest for your eyes.

With the Rift, your eyes are actually focused and converged in the distance at all times. It's a pretty neat optical feature, for sure.

Kwramm

While they're probably right, what other answer would one expect on the page where they ask you for your money? </critical thinking hat off>

Denny

Perhaps.

It has been discussed on the MTBS3D forums though, long before the Oculus even had its name, for other head-mounted displays. I don't think we should worry too much about it.

Justin Meisse

Oculus = Latin for eye
Rift = To burst open

ouch!

Denny

You're onto something Justin. :poly111:

reverendK

yup. the times they are a' changin.
http://blog.ted.com/2011/01/11/we-are-all-cyborgs-now-amber-case-on-ted-com/

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/deus-ex-human-revolution <--from 3:30