Xbox and Oculus Partner to Change the Face of Virtual Reality
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Xbox and Oculus Partner to Change the Face of Virtual Reality
When you by a Rift headset you will get and XBOX controller.
http://news.xbox.com/2015/06/xbox-xbox-and-oculus-partner-to-change-the-face-of-virtual-reality
[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTDnVQgICl4[/ame]
If you would like more Virtual Reality News/Games/Products Thread, then here you are - http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2310661#post2310661
When you by a Rift headset you will get and XBOX controller.
http://news.xbox.com/2015/06/xbox-xbox-and-oculus-partner-to-change-the-face-of-virtual-reality
[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTDnVQgICl4[/ame]
If you would like more Virtual Reality News/Games/Products Thread, then here you are - http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2310661#post2310661
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The hand trackers are what i really want, hopefully they reveal more details about when those are going to ship soon.
i agree though that a game controller is not a good solution, mainly due to accuracy. those thumbsticks are absolute abortions for fine movement and since you can't see the face buttons while wearing the headset, confidently hitting that Y button when it counts is not easy at all.
reduces the number of buttons and button combinations you can pull off quite severely.
+1
Also, I hope someone again picks up the idea of Nintendo's power glove and brings it to the 21st century.
Not a fan of the offset joysticks of the Xbox, never have been. Will wait till I can use my Dualshock
Autocon: you can use any controller you want really, its just a matter of the engine itself supporting it. so if the dualshock works with the game natively then it shouldnt be a problem.
We built a prototype for this using Kinect when I was working at Microsoft - it can work reasonably well if you're smart about it.
Either way, this is a weird move given Oculus have their own controller in the works and the 360 pad isn't that great.
Here's the real thing from yesterdays presser
As has been mentioned, the rift cares just about as much about the controller as your current monitor does
but the problem remains that you cannot see your physical environment when wearing the headset? time to completely clear out the mancave?
also i doubt walking around in your living room will become the standard method for traversing in video games. but at least obesity would be taken care of this way.
i see now. hadn't looked at their controller previously at all. together with hand motion readout this should be pretty confusing to walk with when your avatar's upper body motion can be performed naturally, the lower body still steers like a tank. stretch your arm out to aim at something, then press the tumbstick forward to walk?
http://www.e3expo.com/takeover
Err, what? I'm replying to your own post about moving through an environment through hand and arm gestures. Nobody said anything about walking around a room, where the heck did you get that from?
Anyway, the solution is glaringly obvious: don't make games that require a player to walk.
Either way I'm really excited for VR, things will be changing in alot of ways very soon!
This means that you need an Xbox One, and a Windows PC to be able to play games with Oculus Rift?
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That they will be playable only in your pretended Gouraud shaded living room?
I fail to see the sense to have a virtual reality headset simulating a living room while being in a living room, unless you live in a favela.
What's the real resolution of the game played, 1/4 of the maximum Oculus Rift output? Ping time?
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Didn't really watch the video, but maybe the idea is that you could forgo the use of a monitor altogether, even in games that don't actually support the oculus, by basically creating a giant VR monitor.
Or more realistically, just use a practical 17-inch or so monitor in reality, and use some six-foot VR monitor for playing games that doesn't actually occupy real space in your room or cost you several thousand dollars.
This is a friend of mine. He's an environment artist at Oculus. Worked on Halo 4 and stuff.
hahahaha so awesome.
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Just started working here. The VR world is pretty crazy.
This all tracks with magnetics instead of cameras like Oculus and Vive.
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Doesn't have to be hand waving, there are other avenues open.
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Accurate estimations of the center of mass open up the ability to move naturally while standing in place.
Actually it doesn't have to be all that accurate to work well enough for games
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Personally I would have rather seen Microsoft bundle a Kinect 2 for windows with the Rift instead of console controller.