Posted: 4/29/2016 5:29:49 PM EDT
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I've dived into VR as best my budget allows, and have what I believe to be the top-of-the-line hardware at the moment. Night before last, Minecraft was released for GearVR, and I've played for about three hours now.
HOLY CRAP. Playing this game standing up is the most immersive gaming experience I've ever had. It's amazing. You use the controller to swap between items, open menus, etc - but looking around and aiming are all done by turning your head. Hear the sizzling sound of a creeper to your left? Look left. BOOM. Climbing to the top of a small hill feels like you've climbed Mt. Everest. Exploring a cave is some scary shit - it's dark. 
My setup: Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge - $749 Samsung GearVR - $99 Steelseries Stratus XL bluetooth controller - $59 Audio-Technica ATH-M70x headphones - $119 VR is going to change the world. Consider that ten years ago there was no such thing as an iPhone, and today literally billions of people have a smartphone. Yeah, it's expensive right now and the applications are few, but the same could be said for the original iPhone. I predict that in ten years, more people will have HMD - head-mounted displays - than have desktop computers. I'm buying stock in Samsung. |
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Buy VR, play game with the graphics of Legos... 
JK that sounds cool.  Nothing currently released has the graphics processing ability to render stereoscopic scenes in HD with fancy graphics. Minecraft is pretty much the perfect game for the platform in its current state. Not to worry - near-photoreal first-person shooters will be out soon enough. |
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Nothing currently released has the graphics processing ability to render stereoscopic scenes in HD with fancy graphics. Minecraft is pretty much the perfect game for the platform in its current state. Not to worry - near-photoreal first-person shooters will be out soon enough. Quoted:
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Buy VR, play game with the graphics of Legos...
JK that sounds cool. Nothing currently released has the graphics processing ability to render stereoscopic scenes in HD with fancy graphics. Minecraft is pretty much the perfect game for the platform in its current state. Not to worry - near-photoreal first-person shooters will be out soon enough. When that happens, I'm in. Until then, fuck no. Waaaay too much coin. |
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So... I could literally walk around Ron Jeremy from all angles.... If that's your thing. Porn will be a huge market, and it's growing very quickly. I've been keeping up with what's out there mostly to just keep tabs on the industry, but it's obvious at this point that it's taking off. FWIW, VR porn feels too real. I downloaded some and my wife and I both watched it for a few minutes... but to be blunt, it seems a whole lot more like cheating to me than "watching porn". |
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There's also some company in Asia that's made a latex bodysuit, complete with robotic fleshlight or dildo and VR headset. They're connected over the internet, designed for "telesex". I don't really want this thread to be about porn, though... Well, porn is an obvious market for the tech, so it always comes up. Wait a second. I grew up in the dial-up days, when it took five minutes to download a JPG of a naked woman. As a result, maybe my fetish is pixellation and compression artifacts, and the reason I like Minecraft is because it subconsciously reminds me of porn when I was 14... 
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If they make it so you can use the Gear VR as a computer monitor that would be awesome. I don't have any interest in the mobile version of Minecraft. There are apps for that, but the Rift is the version that's actually decent for it. The next generation will be much better. BTW - the "mobile version" will be the only version of Minecraft eventually. The Windows 10 Beta uses the same codebase. It's much closer to the Java version than it was when I first looked at it a couple of years ago. |
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Quoted: There are apps for that, but the Rift is the version that's actually decent for it. The next generation will be much better. BTW - the "mobile version" will be the only version of Minecraft eventually. The Windows 10 Beta uses the same codebase. It's much closer to the Java version than it was when I first looked at it a couple of years ago. Quoted: Quoted: If they make it so you can use the Gear VR as a computer monitor that would be awesome. I don't have any interest in the mobile version of Minecraft. There are apps for that, but the Rift is the version that's actually decent for it. The next generation will be much better. BTW - the "mobile version" will be the only version of Minecraft eventually. The Windows 10 Beta uses the same codebase. It's much closer to the Java version than it was when I first looked at it a couple of years ago. Yep, and that will be the death of it, which is a shame. Unless they can make it so it's as easy to mod as the Java versions, but knowing Microsoft that won't happen. Microsoft is almost as good at killing IP's as Activision. |
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Yep, and that will be the death of it, which is a shame. Unless they can make it so it's as easy to mod as the Java versions, but knowing Microsoft that won't happen. Microsoft is almost as good at killing IP's as Activision. Quoted:
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If they make it so you can use the Gear VR as a computer monitor that would be awesome. I don't have any interest in the mobile version of Minecraft. There are apps for that, but the Rift is the version that's actually decent for it. The next generation will be much better. BTW - the "mobile version" will be the only version of Minecraft eventually. The Windows 10 Beta uses the same codebase. It's much closer to the Java version than it was when I first looked at it a couple of years ago. Yep, and that will be the death of it, which is a shame. Unless they can make it so it's as easy to mod as the Java versions, but knowing Microsoft that won't happen. Microsoft is almost as good at killing IP's as Activision. They've gotten quite a bit better about things like that in recent years. I have hope :) If they do kill it, no worries. It's not that complicated of a game at its root, and there will be another take its place. |
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You realise that a good gaming PC is a little more powerful than your phone? Quoted:
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Nothing currently released has the graphics processing ability to render stereoscopic scenes in HD with fancy graphics. You realise that a good gaming PC is a little more powerful than your phone? ... not sure what that has to do with anything, but no shit. The Oculus Rift - which isn't "released" yet, since they're not shipping to new users - tethers to a PC and will be much more capable. That said, it also won't be portable like the GearVR is. There is a place for both. |
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I just bought the game but don't have a controller yet. Trying to find one for about $20. You have a thousand dollars in hardware to play the game, but don't want to spend more than $20 for the only part you're actively holding? 
The Steelseries is worth it. |
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There are people using it for World of Tanks now... It's a hackish setup that I'm not interested in, but it's not far off. Quoted:
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Let me know when they get this working for Battlefield. 
I'm sure i'll be too old to care by then. There are people using it for World of Tanks now... It's a hackish setup that I'm not interested in, but it's not far off. It's still way early for me to be at all interested, somehow strapping a phone to my forehead just doesn't appeal to me.
I'm betting that they will try to do something along these lines to the next gen consoles and I'm sure the price will rise accordingly. |