Bah beaten to first!

*Waves to everyone*

Bah beaten to first!

*Waves to everyone*

Bah beaten to first!

*Waves to everyone*

What are the chances of us getting this added to captains quarters?

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Welcome to the forums sir

Love for VR awesomeness!! Make it so CCP, people will be screaming "tAke my mOnieS" for this

"Shut up and take my money" is not enough to say how good this looks.....

Please, release it as a stand-alone game, with match-up servers for multiplay and let us fly fighters as a pilot in navy fleets of the empire or pirate factions (facing each other) on undercover missions or something.

Add some "achievements" steam-style and you are golden!

Was reading your EVE-VR project and looks to be fun. I am wondering if the system might be able to come up with a joystick for control instead of the controller device is has now? Perhaps two, one for movement and firing and the other for speed? Something like the old fighting jet games in arcades.

One thing though, I hope the gameplay will be significantly deeper and more complex than just chasing a red dot and shooting with 1 of two lasers.

There is no link to this comments thread in the blog. Intentional?!

taking bets on how many years this will be delayed and will still be broken when it gets released ?

One might think with announcements like this you didnt burn something every other expansion.
its such a shame really, this would have been cool if done right. But we all know you wont.

Sorry but I'm not really interested in this VR stuff. Seems like wasted resources to me.

First!

We also released two new videos on CCP's Youtube channel.

Official EVE-VR trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1KtdwzXRxA
And a stereo video feed from the Oculus Rift: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdU-f456N-E

There is no link to this comments thread in the blog. Intentional?

When I played this at Fanfest it was awesome. Tying the missile lock to the head tracking was the best thing you all could have done to make a true VR experience. Let's see this thing plugged into Eve somehow! ONE UNIVERSE ONE WAR!

CCP and Eve Online are going to have to compete with Star Citizen soon too...

edit: I wanted to say more things.

During Fanfest 2013, a group of our developers who had assembled with a mutual interest in Oculus Rift's technology demonstrated a project that they had been working on in their spare time: EVE-VR.

What started out as a massive hit internally within CCP soon became the star of the show at our 10th Anniversary Fanfest in April.

CCP Karuck is here with a dev blog today, to explain a little more about EVE-VR, where it originated and where it might go in future.

Read all about it in his new dev blog, here.

Another factor which we found could often induce simulator sickness is acceleration. If the eyes are experiencing a change in velocity, but the body is not, it sends mixed signals to the brain which induces sickness.

Have you CCP guys considered using one or two MYO's for VR controls? I bet they would make the controls feel the most natural, albeit expensive.

For those who don't know what the MYO is--it's an armband which reads your fore-arm muscle movements, amongst other sensors. https://www.thalmic.com/myo/

I always thought it was already hard to use an hotas or a 3d joystick without seeing your hands as when you wear the oculus. Isn't it even harder to use your arms or body to manouver something in a VR environement? Or am I wrong on all the line?

Well, consider if you "see" your hands in the virtual world as well, tracking to your own movements. I've also been toying around with having a RL joystick in your hands AND modeled in the VR world moving the same way.. that can create a very powerful connection for your mind.

Something like this would make the disconnect of 'Why aren't my arms moving' a lot smoother. Or even freakier. I'm not sure which would work, if you don't have everything set up /exactly/ as it is in the vr environment. (which, I guess, means you adjust the vr environment to match)

Bah beaten to first!

*Waves to everyone*

Oh there are plenty of freaky things to try out :) Even with EVE-VR if you sat in the chair in the same pose as the pilot and looked at your (virtual) hand and waited, the brain started believing it was your limb. Then when you moved your fingers you were actually a bit surprised the hand didn't move :)
Also people doing some VR research with "phantom limbs" based on the old "Rubber hand illusion", google it if you're interested.

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You'll be happy to know that no resources were wasted, we all did this mostly in our spare time as well as the 20% time we can use for other projects. This is 2 months worth of sacrificed nights and weekends :)

Until it goes live like DUST and consumes resources that would be better spent elsewhere. If you think I'm going to eventually sit in my chair with something strapped to my face to play Eve then I can only lol.

So... That's one vote for 'don't spend time on this'

And how many for 'Shut up and take my money'?

To bad CCP cant make it so that you can take over one of your drones in a mission and use it to kill rats.
That be bad ass...

First!

We also released two new videos on CCP's Youtube channel.

Official EVE-VR trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1KtdwzXRxA
And a stereo video feed from the Oculus Rift: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdU-f456N-E

I'll be at E3 on Wednesday and would love to experience this in person. I'm not part of the press, but a graduate in game development currently interning at a local software company. I would greatly appreciate it if I could see this. I tried the Oculus rift at GDC and loved it, seeing this combined with my favorite game of all time would be like a dream come true.

If CCP would have me over, please send me an eve mail so we can arrange things.
I'd rather not post my personal information on the forums.

Are we going to need to buy the whole VR cabinet or is it going to be a "Steel Battalion" like controller? If you never seen a REAL "Steel Battalion" controller, look it up, it is awesome.

I am hoping for the VR Cabinet, perhaps even see CCP go into the console market for VR systems. I would be willing to pay a couple thousand but only if there were going to be more then one game for this. BUT if it is a stand-alone controller, I would still be willing to pay a couple hundred (not counting Shipping). I guess how much I will pay, in the end, is how good the system is.

I still really want to see this come and too flourish.

I imagine this look awesome, but somone can explain how this looks for person who can use only one eye...

As i know VR devices sent in same time pictures to left and right eyes rest do our brain to feel - see 3d model, to enjoy full 3d animations in most cases only people with two healthy eyes can see this, how about people who got only one eye...

In my case i use only rigt eye, left eye is totaly destroyed -95% visibility, somone can explain or got expirence with this case ?

Sorry for poor English and bad grammar.

I imagine this look awesome, but somone can explain how this looks for person who can use only one eye...

You'll be happy to know that no resources were wasted, we all did this mostly in our spare time as well as the 20% time we can use for other projects. This is 2 months worth of sacrificed nights and weekends :)

Of course :) We had to scope things down to be very simple since this was built for a 3-minute demo at Fanfest. During those 3 minutes people needed to be able to get into the game and enjoy it. Not much time to get oriented and learn deeper mechanics.

We had loads of ideas we had to drop.. other weapon system, missile jammers/counter-measures, more complex space scene, jumping a Titan in mid-fight and blowing up the losing faction's carrier etc. Then we'd probably go into customization, fittings etc.

I imagine this look awesome, but somone can explain how this looks for person who can use only one eye...

As i know VR devices sent in same time pictures to left and right eyes rest do our brain to feel - see 3d model, to enjoy full 3d animations in most cases only people with two healthy eyes can see this, how about people who got only one eye...

In my case i use only rigt eye, left eye is totaly destroyed -95% visibility, somone can explain or got expirence with this case ?

Sorry for poor English and bad grammar.

This looks so amazing. I missed fanfest, and E3, but I happen to have a rift. Would it be possible to get a build of the game? Would be willing to sign NDAs.

Hello Oxylan
I think that only the older 3d animations with layered red and blueish images required you to use both eyes to see them with those red and blue colored goggles. I'm not sure about this, but i think neither the newer 3d nor the Rift animations require you to use both eyes to see them. In any case, if I found myself in your position, what I would do would be to consult the ophthalmologist about the possibility of getting an eye transplant (surgical procedure where they implant a donor's cornea in your damaged eye), or one of those new bionic eye implants (electronic component implanted in your eye that will feed image to your brain via the optic nerve). I think the best ones available right now already provide the implanted person with a blurry monochromatic vision.

btw have you heard that saying: "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" :D hahaha

unfortunalty not

Would be willing to pay for it ^^

Yes and no.

You'll get the head tracking, but not the Full 3D. (I'd think at least. I /think/ what each eye can see is isolated.)

Yup you can use it and the eyes are indeed totally isolated. A lot of the immersion comes from the head tracking and getting situational awareness. In real life your stereoscopic vision only extends to 8-13 meters, rest is your brain interpolating from visual cues like parallax movement.