Virtual Reality Gaming

[Ivyk]

When do you guys think this will become reality?

Where you would just put on a helmet or something, lay down in your bed and play video games all day long.

All with your mind.

[wng_kingsley7]

is this supposed to be a trick question? Probably next year or the one after

[Ivyk]

is this supposed to be a trick question? Probably next year or the one after

 

I'm seriously asking the question if that is what you mean.

You think it'll be that soon?

[qwertywarrior]

I'm seriously asking the question if that is what you mean.

You think it'll be that soon?

check out the steam dev days video

palmer lucky and other engineers talking about this

 

 

anyways

ur talking about is next year

the consumer version of the oculus rift is a magnitude better the the devkit available now and even that is amazing

i really hope the implement a Vesa standard variable framerate with DP 1.3 for much smoother gameplay

[Stonep11]

I'm seriously asking the question if that is what you mean.

You think it'll be that soon?

The Occulus Rift developer kits have been out for a while.  It exists, but they want the kits to be cheaper and they have some pretty high hardware requirements.

[Ivyk]

The Occulus Rift developer kits have been out for a while.  It exists, but they want the kits to be cheaper and they have some pretty high hardware requirements.

I don't mean a display in front of your eye's.

I mean that you are actually in the game itself and can control it with your mind.

[qwertywarrior]

I don't mean a display in front of your eye's.

I mean that you are actually in the game itself and can control it with your mind.

oh that

well we are kinda there a bit 

 

maybe in 10 years or more

we only scratched the surface

[Stonep11]

I don't mean a display in front of your eye's.

I mean that you are actually in the game itself and can control it with your mind.

OK so you are talking SAO type stuff.  I would say 10-20 years, hard to tell with stuff like this, it isn't just a sequential improvement breakthroughs need to happen along with those type of improvements.  It will take time and money, but I bet it will be there while we are alive.

[Ivyk]

OK so you are talking SAO type stuff.  I would say 10-20 years, hard to tell with stuff like this, it isn't just a sequential improvement breakthroughs need to happen along with those type of improvements.  It will take time and money, but I bet it will be there while we are alive.

Loved that anime, really want to try it out for myself (Just hope when you die in-game you don't die IRL).

[acidydragon]

I personally am not a fan of the idea of controlling it with your mind.

I'd rather do something like an Omni, an Occulus Rift, and some sort of controller (Like for a shooter, a gun controller)

[acidydragon]

There's quite a few movies out there about Virtual Reality gaming, and of course they over do the side effects, and what people would do with it,

but I really don't think completely becoming someone else (in mind), would be a good thing for most people.

They would get carried away with it.

[Ivyk]

There's quite a few movies out there about Virtual Reality gaming, and of course they over do the side effects, and what people would do with it,

but I really don't think completely becoming someone else (in mind), would be a good thing for most people.

They would get carried away with it.

You mean that they would choose they virtual world over the real world because they thin it's better?

[acidydragon]

You mean that they would choose they virtual world over the real world because they thin it's better?

If you hated your day to day life, wouldn't you choose the VR world were you're who you want to be instead?

[Stonep11]

Loved that anime, really want to try it out for myself (Just hope when you die in-game you don't die IRL).

Yeah, there would have to be some protection from that, because I could see someone trying to kill others over the connection like in SAO.