SteamVR and HTC Vive | Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine VR Out Now

I will pay literally any price any time for the Vive when it launches (with Portal 3).

If it is £500 or less at launch I can see myself jumping on this. Presumably games that support rift will also support SteamVR and hopefully older games will get headset support like what has happened with the rift. I want VR Metro and Mirrors Edge.

Karl wrote:I will pay literally any price any time for the Vive when it launches (with Portal 3).

I'll pay £500, maybe £600, for a GPU boost and a headset for this when it launches with Half-Life 3, as well as Portal 3.

NickSCFC

VR Mirrors Edge just wouldn't work, jumping around and rolling about in-game while you're sat in your chair will make you seriously nauseous. I couldn't think of a single game less suited to VR!

NickSCFC wrote:VR Mirrors Edge just wouldn't work, jumping around and rolling about in-game while you're sat in your chair will make you seriously nauseous. I couldn't think of a single game less suited to VR!

Don't you like rollercoasters? Standing on those heights and making skin of the teeth jumps in VR would be amazing.

Rog wrote:
NickSCFC wrote:VR Mirrors Edge just wouldn't work, jumping around and rolling about in-game while you're sat in your chair will make you seriously nauseous. I couldn't think of a single game less suited to VR!

Don't you like rollercoasters? Standing on those heights and making skin of the teeth jumps in VR would be amazing.

This is why the Orange Cube with Portal 3 and Half-Life 3 would be a great way to launch the HL3 Vive.

NickSCFC wrote:VR Mirrors Edge just wouldn't work, jumping around and rolling about in-game while you're sat in your chair will make you seriously nauseous. I couldn't think of a single game less suited to VR!

There's an unofficial OR mod for it, which apparently works well enough for a hacky solution. I imagine the rolls and stuff are really jarring though like you say.

Fast paced on-foot stuff works far better than you might imagine though, as long as it's done well. There's an incredible Quake 2 OR mod that feels like second nature in no time, and I've never felt nauseous playing it.

NickSCFC

Rog wrote:
NickSCFC wrote:VR Mirrors Edge just wouldn't work, jumping around and rolling about in-game while you're sat in your chair will make you seriously nauseous. I couldn't think of a single game less suited to VR!

Don't you like rollercoasters? Standing on those heights and making skin of the teeth jumps in VR would be amazing.

I love rollercoasters, but I didn't enjoy being on one in Rift DK2 as I couldn't feel the g-force match what my eyes were seeing, the slow paced demos were fine though.

The only way games like Half-Life and COD will work in VR is if you have an 8way threadmill and jump tracking. Jumping around in VR while being sat in a chair just feels nauseating, regardless of response times.

VR games need to build from the ground up for VR, you can't just map your head to the right stick and expect it to work.

Karl wrote:I will pay literally any price any time for the Vive when it launches (with Portal 3).

You do realise this is the internet and they can read that :dread:

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This will now cost whatever you have in the bank after they hack in and take a gander.
Thanks a bunch

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If he's lucky it's money, if not...

NickSCFC wrote:
Rog wrote:
NickSCFC wrote:VR Mirrors Edge just wouldn't work, jumping around and rolling about in-game while you're sat in your chair will make you seriously nauseous. I couldn't think of a single game less suited to VR!

Don't you like rollercoasters? Standing on those heights and making skin of the teeth jumps in VR would be amazing.

I love rollercoasters, but I didn't enjoy being on one in Rift DK2 as I couldn't feel the g-force match what my eyes were seeing, the slow paced demos were fine though.

The only way games like Half-Life and COD will work in VR is if you have an 8way threadmill and jump tracking. Jumping around in VR while being sat in a chair just feels nauseating, regardless of response times.

VR games need to build from the ground up for VR, you can't just map your head to the right stick and expect it to work.

I think you're getting a little carried away here. While games that stick to the bespoke controllers will feel better than those without there is still a lot to gain from just headset support.

NickSCFC wrote:The only way games like Half-Life and COD will work in VR is if you have an 8way threadmill and jump tracking. Jumping around in VR while being sat in a chair just feels nauseating, regardless of response times.

VR games need to build from the ground up for VR, you can't just map your head to the right stick and expect it to work.

Again, that's not my experience at all. HL2 actually works pretty well on the Rift already with Valve's own support, and Quake II is sublime. That's not to say that you can simply replace the right stick and go, which neither of those do incidentally, but with a bit more work it soon feels natural.

Obviously games like that are never going to be as immersive as those in which you're sitting in something. Elite Dangerous works to the point where it feels strange when my in game hands stay on the controls when my real ones don't! That doesn't mean it doesn't add anything to other situations though, as it definitely does.

NickSCFC

I've only sampled two demos, rollercoaster and tuscanny, but the latter felt so much more right, I think when I get VR it'll be mainly for slow-paced exploration games.

NickSCFC wrote: slow-paced exploration games.

The Stanley Parable 2

Pacman wrote:
NickSCFC wrote: slow-paced exploration games.

The Stanley Parable 2

My dream game is The Stanley Parable mixed with Portal. Near the end of the first game, when you dodge death, felt like you were doing something you weren't meant to and I've love if they played with that concept a lot more.

Portal 2 on the Ryft works great without any fancy treadmills or jump tracking. I didn't get any motion sickness at all.

Imagine how exhausting it would be to actually "act out" an FPS, by the way. I don't think it would ever work.

Karl wrote:Portal 2 on the Ryft works great without any fancy treadmills or jump tracking. I didn't get any motion sickness at all.

Imagine how exhausting it would be to actually "act out" an FPS, by the way. I don't think it would ever work.

This! Im fat and lazy i dont want to actually have to run and jump in real life to play a game i thought motion controls proved that to people!

I'll just leave this here while I go get myself the piggybank my vive fund will use.

NickSCFC

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