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2016-05-21 00:12:27 Post No. 54659484
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2016-05-21 00:12:27
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VR Thread!
I got to demo the HTC Vive this morning at a Microcenter in my town. Let me tell you /g/, it was fucking awesome.
Before today, the only VR tech that I had gotten to try was my Google Cardboard that I got for free. The Cardboard was fun for like a few days then I sort of forgot about it. It felt sort of gimmicky so I was kind of skeptical about VR being the next big thing. I have completely changed my mind though. Demoing the Vive was so mindblowing.
I got to do a few different demos. The first was a sort of landing room or something where you pick what games you want to play and stuff. You can play around with the motion controllers in here and create balloons and bop them around. Pretty neat.
Then I got to try out TiltBrush. I could literally play around in that shit for hours. Being able to draw in a 3D space and move around and look at it from different angles is crazy.
After that, I was transported to a sunken pirate ship thing where fish were swimming around, and a giant whale swims in front of you. I swear to you, it seems like you're fucking THERE. Everything looks so 3D and has depth. Fish would swim right in front of you and you can look around them. You seriously can't understand just how immersive it is unless you try it. I think that's the biggest thing with people thinking VR is gimmicky, like I did. With the Vive, it's totally immersive. All you see is the world you're in. The scale of everything is just mindblowing.
I think the controllers and motion tracking with the sensors is absolutely necessary for VR. With other headsets like the Oculus or Gear, you're pretty much just strapping a fancy screen on your head. Head tracking is cool, but it loses its fun quickly. Being able to use your hands, being able to bend down and look at shit or hold it close to your face to examine it, that's what did it for me. I felt like I was in the virtual world. (Continued)
