The VR thread

[kedawa]

Take out a payday loan and get one from Rent-A-Center.

[Frogacuda]

That makes sense. I'd like to see a headset that fills my entire field of view. The edges can just be an oled strip for all the detail I see in my peripheral vision.

That's actually a thing.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/...usea-problems/

[MechDeus]

Take out a payday loan and get one from Rent-A-Center.

No need, I have plenty of gold teeth to sell.

[Tain]

Oculus announced a bunch of games they're publishing in a 2017 overview, including new announcements:

Artika.1
Brass Tactics
The Mage's Tale
Killing Floor Incursion
Robo Recall
Blade & Soul: Table Arena
From Other Suns
Rockband VR
Dragon Front
Sing Space
Augmented Empire
Term1nal



Blade & Soul: Table Arena


Brass Tactics


From Other Suns


https://www.oculus.com/blog/first-lo...culus-in-2017/

Mage's Tale (inXile)


Augmented Empire (GearVR boo)

[Frogacuda]

I'm worried about the lack of Wilson's Heart and Lone Echo on that list.

[Frogacuda]

I'm worried about the lack of Wilson's Heart and Lone Echo on that list.

Nevermind, these are confirmed to still be on track for 2017. In fact, Oculus is claiming to have at least one major first-party release every month this year. Pretty ambitious.

Of the stuff they've shown, Lone Echo, Arktika.1, Wilson's Heart, and Mage's Tale are all looking like Day One purchases for me. And Robo Recall, of course, but that's free so it doesn't really count.

The Tested guys showed a lot of Mage's Tale footage on their recent VR show:

[Tain]

Was thinking about AirTone last night and craving a music game, so I tried out Soundboxing. The concept is basically the same as Audioshield, but the note charts are manually made instead of procedural and are pretty immediately 100x more fun as a result. Music all comes from YouTube, so it plays videos on the horizon and you can search for whatever music you want to play and make note charts in-game. It also has better feedback on hitting the notes with enough force to get max points out of them, and the notes are interconnected with lines to more clearly show when to cross your hands.

Should work fine on forward-facing Oculus Touch setups.



Definitely suggested if you at all enjoyed Audioshield.

[Frogacuda]

Woah, Oculus just surprise released Robot Recall today. Free release. $200 Price Drop on Rift and Touch too.

[Tain]

Super excited to try that tonight, and the Rift price drop is a big deal.

Sadly the LG headset prototype isn't very exciting. Higher resolution LG OLED displays, but everything else looks very similar to the Vive.

[James]

Just played the first couple levels and Robot Recall is really fun. They've done some nice work making more than a simple shooting gallery even in the little I've played, and it's honestly funny in places.