Oculus Rift - Ask GameSpot

@SebTheGreatS No, it's not the point at all. VR opens a ton of new doors to games mechanics and experiences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYvwMd4JCIM - Tower defense and RTS type games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5QqxqH_gY0 - more third-person

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ7KFJLVJyQ#t=21 - dungeon crawlers, MOBAs, RTS etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3EvrYXJ67o - Resogun? Imagine being in the cylindrical layout, and the ships all having massive scale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AASlSDJq8E - this video demonstrates a ton of crazy ways a simple arcade cabinet can be used in VR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcFQ5sQIwRs#t=1013 - Lucky's Tale. Like Super Mario 64. Imagine you are the Lakitu camera

Look here. Even if you can't actually get VR implementation into the game, you can run the games in virtual environments! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6QB87mFbng and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ccpGmUAP8#t=406

@SebTheGreatS Pretty sure any game would look good in VR, much more immersive.

@SebTheGreatS

Not really. 3rd person games actually work pretty well in VR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K03okCfcXUQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoRshAQBDYU

"One of the things that really amazed me while working on vorpX was (and is) how well third-person games work on a Rift-like headset, since that is totally counterintuitive at first thought. Due to the way the ingame camera rotates around a fixed target point in third-person this shouldn't work at all, or at least feel very strange. But somehow it does work, and pretty well as far as I’m concerned."

http://www.vorpx.com/third-person-games-in-vr/

@SebTheGreatS He didn't think that one through lol

@garrybubba

Great game, and that would be a lot of fun in the Rift.

@Loyal_Royal Because he didn't review The Last of Us. :D

@TigusVidiks enter the MYO armband.

@vivalatourIt's like describing food to someone - in the end you just have to try it. It's a completely different experience.

Nothing else currently can make your stomach actually drop when going over a precipice or make your legs go wobbly (for real) when teetering on a super high ledge.

Or the very real feeling of scale and size when walking down a street and looking up at the massive buildings. Space games are just unreal - dog-fighting in War Thunder is just utterly mad!

It's just one of those things, it gets compared to something else or just older technology when the facts are.... there is nothing else quite like it.

Unfortunately it's an abstract proposition until you've given it a go! I recommend at some point (if you can) that you do.

@quiksilvers123 I meant you can already play Skyrim with the rift... Yea, console support hasn't been mentioned anywhere.

@The_J3ster @jdolleyart @cerealzateu No

@666NightsInHell Even some of the harshest skeptics changed their minds once they tried it, it's surging in popularity because it actually delivers compelling experiences, and you can pick one up for the cost of a month or two of a new smartphone, so I don't know where you get the idea that it's "expensive." It costs the same as upper-tier gaming GPUs, of which, more than a dozen million people buy quite frequently.

@666NightsInHell You're a little late with that comment as there's already a ton of games that work with just the dev kit - check here to see a growing list: http://www.riftenabled.com/

Also EVERY major developer has signed up offering support. I've got the dev kit and can say already that it is a freaking awesome experience playing using the rift!

@666NightsInHell you sir, are an illiterate fool.

@JetSetWally

Yeah, but the amount of energy being put out by the sun is many many times greater than a small LCD screen. Your eyes won't burn looking at the Rift any more than they would staring at a normal monitor or TV. Less, in fact, since the screen is so much smaller and the amount of lumens is lower.

The main strain that happens from using a monitor or tv is simply due to staring at the same focal depth for long periods of time. This won't be a problem with the Rift, so it will probably be better for your eyes than using a standard 2D display.

@HonorOfGod $ony

@shermenz1

If VR is as important to you as it is to me I honestly think you are better off getting a gaming PC.

The consoles will probably have VR support down the line, but there are several reasons that it will be an inferior implementation.

First of all, games in VR need to be running at 60fps in stereo 3D with a wide field of view, while most console games are going to be running at 20 to 30fps with a small field of view and no stereo 3D. This means that you won't be getting those same next gen visuals in VR on consoles. Only the PC will be able to handle something like, say, the Infiltrator demo running at 60fps in stereo 3D with a very wide FOV.

Also, the mod and indie scenes on PC are going to be exciting places for VR. So many cool things are going to come out of that.

Then you have the adult content, if you are into that sort of thing, that will only be available on the PC and not on consoles.

Another thing to consider is that graphical anomalies like screen tearing, jaggies and pop-in are much more noticeable and immersion-breaking in VR than they are on a 2D screen. The PC gives you much more power to limit or eliminate these visual bugaboos.

@Bopinstein Yes. In fact, some people with visual impairments, especially related to depth perception, sometimes see better in the Rift than in real life, so to speak. There are also applications being made to help correct/treat diplopia and other such similar ailments.

@Bopinstein It's already capable of changing the spacing between both sides of the display (for people with their eyes far apart), I think in the future retail versions it'll be fairly simply to offset your left eye display a little to the right or left if you need it.