true virtual reality sooner then you think

[trans the psycopath]

as you may or may not be aware there have been a few advances the fields of vr tech that finally make true home units possable still expensive but you dont need to be a billionaire to get this stuff. mind you they havent combined these advances yet and the resulting unit would still be fairly expensive for a home unit but doable for the middle class. the advances i refer to are listed below with the end price of a functional full emersion vr unit. so if you want to skip over the list feel free and then give me your thoughts on vr consoles

first and probubly the most well known the oculus rift
https://www.oculusvr.com/pre-order/ a great 3d headset with head tracking abilitys.

for arms and hands you would need the control vr(actual product name) http://controlvr.com/ a current highly advanced motion tracking controller with hand and finger tracking. while being much cheaper then other equally advanced options used in cg animation.

but if you want full body movment then you would need the http://www.priovr.com/ a full body motion capure system.


the next advance is in the area of force feedback so BEHOLD THE NOVINT XIO http://home.novint.com/index.php/products/novintxio although not available yet if funded it could revolutionize gaming being able to feel the weight of and feel of things in the game world is a huge advance.

but your going to wanna beable to run and jump in the game world to right so thats where the omni vr multidirectional treadmill comes in. http://www.virtuix.com/ its smaller and less expensive then previos vr treadmills by several thousand dollers and actually will fit in a relitivally small space like a bed room.

ok if you sat through that good job go have a cookie now i will break down the price of a bare bones vr system

oculus rift head set currently 350

vrcontrol currently 600

omni vr treadmill 429

it would cost 1379 not including the hard ware to run the games so plus the gaming hardware lets estimate it to about 1500-1600. still pretty expensive for a home unit but as an arcade peice or something in a hotal or something i can see it working and makeing a ton of money. at least untill prices go down enough to make a home version. but 1600 is still pretty good considering previos vr units of equal quality made a few years ago would cost millions and take up a whole very large room.

so what do you think think vr consoles are the next big thing in gaming

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cool, someone could make a game like sao.

[trans the psycopath]

cool, someone could make a game like sao.

whats sao

personally i thought making escape games for it would be interesting

[Ribby]

So it's like Wii 2.0. I don't think it will take off because it's expensive and no one cares about virtual technology. I need to see some uses other than just gaming. I guess it could be a surgery operation simulation, but I fear that it has potential criminal elements as well.

Despite the fact it's all new and stuff, we have reassess ourselves and determine all the potential side effects that come around. Glasses are already an effect. I remember when I was playing Final Fantasy 8, there was a seizure warning. That plus karoshi, is no joke. Call me grandpa, but these are the paralegals of it all.

[Gwen]

Oh my god, please stop posting, it is nothing even close to a Wii 2.0, it is completely different, the rest of your post is just one big what the fuck. Criminal elements? Seizure warnings are in almost every video game, what's different with this? Karoshi, had to look this up(death due to stress) again, what the fuck makes this different from any other gaming means?

The above all paraphrased: "Ugh"

[Kriven]

but I fear that it has potential criminal elements as well.

Everything has potential criminal elements or uses. I can use a pencil to stab out your eyeballs, or a shirt to strangle you, or a hose to steal gas, or a close hanger to pick locks... but we don't outlaw things because they have potential criminal uses. That's the surest way to stifle any kind of liberty or advancement in our species.

Seriously consider reevaluating your outlook on everything.

[Ribby]

I usually don't post in things that I am not interested in, but I am kind of surprised that there was a lack of skepticism in how things buzzing up. I'm not saying that there's always hidden danger around the corner, but surely there are risks to take note (wii remotes that fly out of the hand). Maybe there's just more optimistic people right in the board. Anyways, yes, I will take the advice to chillax, lol.

[Shade]

I usually don't post in things that I am not interested in, but I am kind of surprised that there was a lack of skepticism in how things buzzing up. I'm not saying that there's always hidden danger around the corner, but surely there are risks to take note (wii remotes that fly out of the hand). Maybe there's just more optimistic people right in the board. Anyways, yes, I will take the advice to chillax, lol.

Your posts confuse me, I'm honestly not sure what you're trying to say at all.

[Kriven]

What I read:

"Well, I guess not everybody views the potential problems in things. I still think there's danger in virtual reality, just as there is in motion controls. Regardless, I guess I'll try not to view everything as having evil intent. lol."