Oculus Rift

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Originally Posted by icarusfall

Church Street Station!

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BEST PLACE holy shit.

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Originally Posted by James

I've said this before with no answer, but let's try it again-

The Rift is an HDMI input. That's it. Nothing proprietary about it. Why wouldn't a game maker put in a basic compatibility mode if they wanted to? It's not like the console needs anything special or proprietary to hook up to it, after all.

James

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It's not just an HDMI input, it's also a head tracking unit.

My pedantry senses are tingling!

James

You must twitch like Michael J Fox all day long!

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Originally Posted by FirstBlood

Don't UI elements get kind of fucked up by this thing? I imagine there's a lot of subtle tweaking that needs to be done to get games working at an acceptable level with it.

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Yeah, any heavy UI doesn't work at all, they have to be completely rethought for this. Skyrim is said to be completely unmanageable the way it is stock. There's a game where you fall through levels (like sky diving) and getting text to show up legible was a real challenge. It would completely ruin the immersion and make people's eyes hurt.

I don't think many people will be able to handle a face paced fps with this. It's a whole new world of game design challenges.

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Originally Posted by Rumpy

face paced fps

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I like this.

The best UIs for the rift i've used so far are very minimal ones that float in front of you. Currently, 99% of the stuff available is homebrew, so it will be interesting to see what real designers come up with.

For motion sickness, general movement seems fine to me, even the roller coasters or games with huge drops are of little issue, What really seems to induce it is taking control away from the rift for looking around. Having high sensitivity on the right stick or having a static viewpoint despite moving your head around seem like the worst culprits. Funnily enough, i only really felt sick in a museum simulation.

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Originally Posted by MechDeus

I like this.

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It's next gen.

It should be the slogan of the Rift: Face-Paced Games

Fucking with people's vision would be half the fun of developing for this.
Certain objects could be visible to just one eye, or look different to each eye.
Perspective could be completely messed up, making foreground objects look impossibly large, or occluded in a way that confuses the eye.
The image displayed to each eye could even be completely different, like a map screen that only shows up on one side.
You could have dynamic FOV, or reverse the direction of the head tracking.
The possibilities are endless.