Very good Article on VR and OculusVR

[SR-F_Winger]

This goes to anyone interested but mainly to the DEVs!

 

IMHO: To ignore the FACT that VR is about to blow EVERYONE out of his shoes would be negligent by any gamedeveloper! Stying up to speed is crucial!

 

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/oculus-rift-4/#slide-id-914221

Edited May 21, 2014 by VSG1_Winger

[JG27_Chivas]

That is a very good article, especially for those that haven't followed the development.

[LLv34_Flanker]

S!

 

 Interesting read. Thanks for sharing!

[SYN_Mike77]

I found this bit interesting:

 

Oculus is also working on a second, outward-­facing camera that will be part of the headset itself. The Valve proto­type used such a camera to read fiducial markers on the walls for tracking, but Oculus seems to intend it for very different applications. For one, Carmack says, it can function as a pass-through camera, allowing Rift-wearing users to see what’s happening in the real world—a kind of external heads-up display that would allow you to grab a soda, for instance.

 

Or your throttle quadrant!

 

and this:

 

Similarly, some of the most popular games being shared among developers and early adopters are simulators, in which players drive or parachute or roller-coaster through an otherwise static world but don’t move themselves.

 

Sounds to me like a flying sim would be perfect.

Edited May 21, 2014 by SYN_Mike77

[Oesau]

I found this bit interesting:

 

Oculus is also working on a second, outward-­facing camera that will be part of the headset itself. The Valve proto­type used such a camera to read fiducial markers on the walls for tracking, but Oculus seems to intend it for very different applications. For one, Carmack says, it can function as a pass-through camera, allowing Rift-wearing users to see what’s happening in the real world—a kind of external heads-up display that would allow you to grab a soda, for instance.

 

Or your throttle quadrant!

 

and this:

 

Similarly, some of the most popular games being shared among developers and early adopters are simulators, in which players drive or parachute or roller-coaster through an otherwise static world but don’t move themselves.

 

Sounds to me like a flying sim would be perfect.

 

Yes it's interesting and something that I was hoping would come along as there needs to be some way to interact with real world objects (until at least we get to a point that we have pressure devices on gloves or very precise tracking to enable switch interaction)

[SR-F_Winger]

And yet another time i have to express how important native VR support from the beginning is for every sim-developmentteam:)

So please devs. Do not make a mistake and loose touch on implementation of OR support.