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Gogela
Freeport Exploration Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
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Posted - 2013.10.14 18:55:00 -
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Somebody posted this... thought I'd share. Neat Oculus Rift idea (except you would need 2 gopros for stereoscopic imagery and a pretty serious video transceiver to even start on it).
Oculus Rift just gets more awesome the more I learn about it. Valkyrie is going to be awesome.
Don't drink and fly expensive spaceships. Also: don't drink, fly expensive spaceships, and just start shooting random people at Jita 4-4. That's all I know about EvE. |
Skeln Thargensen
Alpha Sperglords
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Posted - 2013.10.14 21:22:00 -
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Yeah I can see the side applications being pretty amazing.
I just wish there were safe drugs available to stop me boaking. freelance space bum |
Nyreanya
Serenity Labs
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Posted - 2013.10.15 01:04:00 -
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Great. Now I can look at my own ass, and how dumb I look with a big goofy headset. Fantastic. [/sarcasm] |
Pius Rova
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.10.15 01:09:00 -
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Nyreanya wrote:Great. Now I can look at my own ass, and how dumb I look with a big goofy headset. Fantastic. You may also get dizzy and nauseous doing it, as an extra bonus.
The more I look into this Oculus Rift the more I'm left wondering, whats so different about this compared to the other attempts to break virtual reality into the general market that companies have attempted since the 1990s?
I remember in 1998 at the local State Fair they had these virtual reality setups where you stood inside this ring with a headset on that looked very similar to the Oculus Rift and you basically looked around you like with the OR and moved around in place and that's how you played a primitive first person shooter against others in similar setups. You can see the same setup being used in one scene by the evil corporate hacker guy in the movies Hackers.
$50 says it goes the way of the Virtual Boy within a year. |
Felicity Love
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.10.15 01:34:00 -
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... can't seem to shake the feeling that there's plenty of STUFF to fix and improve right here in EVE... FIRST.
Proud Beta Tester for "Bumping Uglies for Dummies" |
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CCP Greyscale
C C P C C P Alliance
1989
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Posted - 2013.10.15 03:08:00 -
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Pius Rova wrote:Nyreanya wrote:Great. Now I can look at my own ass, and how dumb I look with a big goofy headset. Fantastic. You may also get dizzy and nauseous doing it, as an extra bonus. The more I look into this Oculus Rift the more I'm left wondering, whats so different about this compared to the other attempts to break virtual reality into the general market that companies have attempted since the 1990s? I remember in 1998 at the local State Fair they had these virtual reality setups where you stood inside this ring with a headset on that looked very similar to the Oculus Rift and you basically looked around you like with the OR and moved around in place and that's how you played a primitive first person shooter against others in similar setups. $50 says it goes the way of the Virtual Boy within a year.
It's plausibly affordable and it's really good |
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Frying Doom
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Posted - 2013.10.15 03:19:00 -
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Felicity Love wrote:... can't seem to shake the feeling that there's plenty of STUFF to fix and improve right here in EVE... FIRST. Given that EvE has in my opinion declined in its expansions for the last few years makes me wonder do they need yet another side project. Crucible and Retribution were ok but they were not Apocrypha or Dominion, hell they were not even at Trinity level.
Since they started WoD and Dust 514 most of the expansions have seemed more like patches, added on to this the whole side path they took with the greed is good thing.
Can you imagine what EvE would be like now if they had not devoted so many resources to the Nex store, WoD and Dust 514.
Incarna would have been done, Sov would be fixed, POSs would be modular.
We would be flying in atmospheres or stabbing people in space bars.
The sky would have been the limit.
But here we are stuck in the past while they whittle away even more resources on something other than EvE its self.
CCP managed to make a Goose that laid golden eggs with EvE, shame they decided to just make scrambled eggs from it. Any spelling and grammatical errors are because frankly, I don't care!! |
Rich Uncle PennyBags
EVE Online Monopoly
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Posted - 2013.10.15 03:20:00 -
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You can get stereoscopic webcams, so no need for gopros. That would knock the price down significantly.
The real challenge is keeping the orientation and position. Certain drones like the ARdrone can follow colour tags on hats, so in theory, it's possible.
To be honest, I would love to just fly around with one on. Formentioned ARdrone can transmit a video feed to a PC already, plug in a rift and you have a first person flying experience.
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Felicity Love
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
894
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Posted - 2013.10.15 03:59:00 -
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Frying Doom wrote:
Since they started WoD and Dust 514 most of the expansions have seemed more like patches, added on to this the whole side path they took with the greed is good thing.
Can you imagine what EvE would be like now if they had not devoted so many resources to the Nex store, WoD and Dust 514.
It's classic "bread and circuses". Throw a new distraction at "the mob" and hope like hell they don't notice/care/give a rats ass about anything else while they are amused.
Just ducky.
Proud Beta Tester for "Bumping Uglies for Dummies" |
Gogela
Freeport Exploration Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
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Posted - 2013.10.15 04:15:00 -
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Pius Rova wrote:Nyreanya wrote:Great. Now I can look at my own ass, and how dumb I look with a big goofy headset. Fantastic. You may also get dizzy and nauseous doing it, as an extra bonus. The more I look into this Oculus Rift the more I'm left wondering, whats so different about this compared to the other attempts to break virtual reality into the general market that companies have attempted since the 1990s? I remember in 1998 at the local State Fair they had these virtual reality setups where you stood inside this ring with a headset on that looked very similar to the Oculus Rift and you basically looked around you like with the OR and moved around in place and that's how you played a primitive first person shooter against others in similar setups. $50 says it goes the way of the Virtual Boy within a year. There was a time when I was a satellite imagery interpreter in the military. The nausea is actually something pretty common with looking at stereoscopic video. ...but in the military if it turns out you have colorblindness or persistent nausea you loose your job and get sent to bulk fuel. I remember needing to calibrate stereoscopic equipment for my eyes specifically. There will probably a software way to do this with Oculus Rift. It's rare for somebody to not be able to overcome it. If you can go to a 3D movie and be OK it means your brain can adjust for stereoscopic input. In the olden days they would interlace frames back and forth on your CRT and the glasses would alternate on and off to make the 3D image. I've seen people throw up from that. Sometimes I would turn down the refresh rate just to make new people sick... teach them a lesson about calibrating their profiles. This Rift stuff looks like it's way out in front of what I had... plus it's two independent screens. That's pretty rad.
tl;dr; you'll get over it. Just calibrate your smack carefully and your brain will adjust. Unless it doesn't. Then you're SOL.
I can't wait to get my hands on one, personally. It's a hell of a bargain. The last setup was like 150 grand or something not counting software licencing.
Edit:... and black and white at that.
Don't drink and fly expensive spaceships. Also: don't drink, fly expensive spaceships, and just start shooting random people at Jita 4-4. That's all I know about EvE. |
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