Not sure where to put this but I was wondering if you guys at CCP were looking into the Oculus Rift, a new and innovative way to game that allows the user to delve into the gaming experience in a much better way then your normal monitor/television.

Not sure where to put this but I was wondering if you guys at CCP were looking into the Oculus Rift, a new and innovative way to game that allows the user to delve into the gaming experience in a much better way then

Not sure where to put this but I was wondering if you guys at CCP were looking into the Oculus Rift, a new and innovative way to game that allows the user to delve into the gaming experience in a much better way then your normal monitor/television.


"Here's the skinny on the Oculus Rift: it's a headset that covers your eyes with a 720p screen. There are two lenses in front of your eyes, and the screen shows a left and right stereo image that the lenses pipe through to your eyeballs, creating an immersive 3D virtual reality experience. Also inside the headset are high resolution sensors that track the motion of your head and shift your in-world view to match. It takes just two milliseconds for the sensors to tell the displays to update as your head moves, which means that the effect is convincingly real: as you physically move your head in any axis, the gameworld follows just as if you were there in real life."
http://www.dvice.com/2013-1-11/heads-oculus-rift-immersive-vr-headset-ces



The Website
http://www.oculusvr.com/

So.. basically, it's one of those VR headsets that they were dinking around with in the 90's with a newer monitor? I dont get why you're using the word "new" here. This is a technology that we had in the stores when the latest major game console played Super Mario Brothers and the original Legend of Zelda. This is pretty much the definition of retro.

Nice gadget but I need way more resolution than that for EVE. Get back to me when they do one in 2560x1920.

So how do you see the keyboard to make commands or type in local?????

A good idea but not practical for a game like EVE.

I think it's more suited to console/PC controller games.

Using hot keys from a KB is gonna be tough.

>Oculus Rift
>Not innovative
>Had VR helmets years ago

Do you people even know what the Oculus' contributions to the field are? Innovation isn't just about inventing whole new gadgets you know.

It's useless for a game like EVE though.

you think it's useless because you lack the imagination

what you gonna use it for 3d while you watch youtube as your mack runs cycles afk? spreadsheets in 3d?
gonna make the red crosses and white squares be all 3d and shiznit? not effin likely, take this 90s technologies and keep it away with my space-zork i call EVE, nerd

No, it's pretty frickin' useless in it's current form because of the difference in the center and peripheral resolution. Unless you want to have to turn your head every time you look from one EVE window to another.

My imagination is fine BTW. I don't see myself just playing EVE with this, I see myself discarding my monitors and interacting with my PC solely through this, but with a much later, more advanced version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsQT3mbvVWY

I think UI should remain locked to the screen, and the tracking should only apply to the view of space, like when you right-click-and-drag in space.

it's a developer kit, not a retail product. all it needs is something like a retina display

I would've had the first developer kit release, but I didn't know about it during the kickstarter, or in time to order it for the first run of developer kits.

wanna hear something crazy? i don't think the reticle in FPS should be locked to the center of view. they should be independent and the visor should be used in tandem with a handheld sensor such as the Playstation move. it's a step toward running around with a weapon in your hands that aims independently of center view

You can still get one for April (expected).

That is pretty crazy, considering that the people who've used it have said that aiming by looking at things, which uses standard reflexes, is better than any existing input method.

it might be the best method currently, but it's not natural. don't worry, I know