My friend and I want to start building a rig for his girlfriend. We want to start with this thing: http://www.asrock.com/microsite/m8/ (if we can find it, it’s rare and expensive as fuck) Should be interesting.
YEAH you put the tablet into this
Oculus Rift is boring to me, I dunno.
Couldn’t get into it. I was like “meh”…
I will say I love the medical benefits it does have (such as helping those with extreme vertigo, color blind and ways to correct colors, seizures patients, etc), but for games… man… fuck that. There literally isn’t a game I can think of that will actually enhance the experience of the game. It just seems like a hassle and any game that is designed 90% around Oculus Rift will just be boring.
…actually no, I take that back. Porn will be great on this thing.
just finished playing Dying Light in the rift. crazy, got past the first boss. completely changes the nature of the game; instead of worrying about the penalty of the mission I felt like it was me that wanted to completely the mission and get myself out of there.
there’s only a few proper games sort of compatible with the rift, the only people excited about it are those who can think of all the journeys and experiences that could be experienced from a real first person perspective
is that pyramid head?
So all this time… that giant ass helmet he was wearing was VR equipment. So from his perspective, he wasn’t chopping some dudes; he was slaying some level 1 boars for his MMO.
who knows, could be the creative designers personal idea of what “the player” could become
notice how the helmet and its shadow covers the naval chakra point. the naval chakra point depicts our emotions, sensations and shadow self
I feel like if the game fails to be immersive and NEEDS Oct Rift, chances are the game sucks regardless.
And what do you know, Dying Light is beyond boring. The illusion of being a part of something shouldn’t be brought into such a gimmick. If that’s the case it fails to be a story… but in this case a game.
I dunno, Oct Rift isn’t getting me. Seems like a very boring concept. I honestly don’t understand the appeal after messing with various games from several gaming events.
which games did you try?
A lot of tech demos… that I had no idea they were in early access on steam.
The only title I can recall was Elite Dangerous, but I thought that was a fun game without Oct Rift. Taking it off didn’t change my experiences, and honestly it shouldn’t for anyone else. If a game fails to be immerse without the device, then it fails doing what it was trying to do. Simply designing the game around such a device hoping it helps with the “experiences” is kind of lame and will only fail in the long run. Oct Rift is cool and all, but it has some very obvious flaws that are going to effect the industry for the next couple of years.
This brings up the point that what’s his name said during my studies a long time ago (I dunno, it was a teacher) who created a dramatic scene for a character’s death in a fictional story. To help create the connection with the audience and the characters in story, everyone in the class tried to make it dramatic by simply looking for the saddest song on YouTube and putting in place where the character died. Anyone who did this failed since that wasn’t the purpose of the scene, but the students felt they NEEDED to add the song to create the immersion.
Speaking of music, Gothic 3 one of the worst games I’ve ever played with possibly one of the best tracks I’ve heard in any game. I know I mentioned this in the past, but the Gothic series is currently on sale 75% off.
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A lot of tech demos… that I had no idea they were in early access on steam.
The only title I can recall was Elite Dangerous, but I thought that was a fun game without Oct Rift. Taking it off didn’t change my experiences, and honestly it shouldn’t for anyone else. If a game fails to be immerse without the device, then it fails doing what it was trying to do. Simply designing the game around such a device hoping it helps with the “experiences” is kind of lame and will only fail in the long run. Oct Rift is cool and all, but it has some very obvious flaws that are going to effect the industry for the next couple of years.
This brings up the point that what’s his name said during my studies a long time ago (I dunno, it was a teacher) who created a dramatic scene for a character’s death in a fictional story. To help create the connection with the audience and the characters in story, everyone in the class tried to make it dramatic by simply looking for the saddest song on YouTube and putting in place where the character died. Anyone who did this failed since that wasn’t the purpose of the scene, but the students felt they NEEDED to add the song to create the immersion.
Speaking of music, Gothic 3 one of the worst games I’ve ever played with possibly one of the best tracks I’ve heard in any game. I know I mentioned this in the past, but the Gothic series is currently on sale 75% off.
[/quote]you’ve repeated something interesting “if you need VR to make it more immersive then it fails at doing what it was trying to do” it sounds like a mantra
doctors use VR due to the attention to detail both spatial and temporal that becomes fragmented, fake and cumbersome on a monitor. same goes for pilots, scientists, architects, designers, racers.
there are many details and practices that are sacrificed on monitors. you have to realise though that its not necessarily better than what you get from monitors its mainly something that will advance the detailed connection between mind body and information.
its quite funny because there is so much detail that fits on a two dimension screen that a fuck ton of people don’t have the eye to spot, so we have these hundreds of games that try to appeal to the linear frame of mind in order to fund the work they do. and even with this knowledge I see the difference between what you get with VR in comparison to monitor games.
there are many games that could suck you in on a 2D monitor but its a completely different experience, its almost like comparing theatre and cinema.
I’m going to have to pass on VR until I get over my weird hate for having anything resting on the bridge of my nose. Thank fucking Christ I don’t need glasses.
HAHAHAHA
3.5GB of the 4GB in the 970 is fast GDDR5 RAM, then the remaining RAM is much slower than the rest. That RAM also doesn’t even get accessed until the card starts using over 3.5GB, but when it does, it starts causing issues like stuttering.
Obviously the card itself is still a beast, especially when it comes to price:performance, but this isn’t the first time NVidia has been shady. The 660 had a gimped memory configuration too, and the GPU that shipped with the PS3 was supposed to be a lot more powerful than it was.
Nvidia said they are working on drivers to optimize it but I don’t know how much good it can do. Luckily the effect is this will not be felt until I start gaming on 4k.
Personally Nvidia’s biggest mistake was when they sold the GTX 480 as a Graphic Card instead of the PCI-E George Foreman Grill it actually was.
man, i want to post this video but i feel for valaris. i mean they’ll improve it and its so cheap. but what the hell, heres the video
Not gonna lie I think i pissed myself a little watching that vid.
Don’t worry Ki, I had seen it already and laughed my ass off 
I would like to play Bayoneytta in VR. Look at some ass angles in 1080p VR. Might make some fart-stained panties mod for her, if they ever release it.
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man, i want to post this video but i feel for valaris. i mean they’ll improve it and its so cheap. but what the hell, heres the video
[/quote]Watched the video twice, laughed my ass off both times.
I’d say post it in other threads but it won’t be as understood/appreciated as much. I want to watch the original video with subs to what they’re actually talking about.
so I managed to play Ys from my steam library on the tablet tonight.
I installed steam on my HP Stream 7 tablet.
I used playtime virtual gamepad emulator to use a touchscreen virtual gamepad. only problem was that I cant play any game fullscreen using the gamepad emulator. The gamepad emu doesn’t allow fullscreen yet. but I played it in windowed mode. game ran fine but I have to uninstall steam from the C: path to reinstall it on E: path(sd card).