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>>285632376
>>285632416
That looks like a pain in the ass to set up.
>>285632618
2 things on the walls
you fat shit, get off your lazy ass.
>>285632618
No more a pain then setting up a surround sound system.
>>285632618
America, ladies and gentlemen. I bet you don't have a fire alarm in your house either because setting one up would be a pain in the ass.
Because everyone totally has a big empty holodeck room in their house.
>>285632601
>>285632376
>The future of video games are small rooms
Seriously though, can you picture how cool this tech could be?
>Vidya game
>Has a safe zone, inn or "base" of some kind
>Molds itself to the size you have to play with
>Between missions/levels or whatever you return to this "room" to do shit
Also you could fill it full of waifus.
>>285633146
The min size for this tech is "the size of two yoga mats", as told by Valve. The max if 15ftx15ft. Seriously I've got enough room in my bedroom, let alone my living room. Sucks for people living in cupboards though.
>>285633162
>source 2 render of the portal gun components in VR
it's like they're trying to give me a boner...
>>285633162
>>285633631
>>285633567
There an entire Portal themed demo Valve were showing. You were fixing Atlas, not using portals or anything. Really hope they release the demo, even without VR it would just be fun to see a brief little snip of Portal humor.
>>285633631
>>285633750
>inb4 devs suddenly become anti-VR because they don't want to try harder
>>285634217
>thinking game developers are lazy
>>285633024
Our fire alarms are built-in, since we're not poor.
>>285633750
>>285634585
>we're not poor
>complaining about a lack of space
Pick one.
>>285633520
Honestly I don't know how this room VR will work besides how you mentioned. I think it would be really cool to have some base defense game where you need to do something like that , but the tech is really limited.
Virtuix omni is better in a sense of functionality but not feel. I wonder how VR will evolve from here.
>>285635406
With walking space you could have a virtual room, one you could walk around in, rather than being limited to movement with the controllers. What else is there to understand?
>>285634596
All Greek to me
>>285632376
>cords hanging all over the place as you walk blindly around the room
yeah, nah that won't go badly at all
How is this going to work?
Like, how are you going to walk further then the area of the box ingame?
>>285636525
The only game it works with is 3d maze.
>>285636082
Minecraft like builder (Though not shitty looking pixels) where you can 'paint' objects in your room. For an example, you could make a desk or bed into a registered space in the VR, allowing youralien waifuto walk around, sit on your computer chair, lay on the bed. Could paint the walls to look like the side of a spaceship, or an underwater room. The sense of scale you have in VR is amazing, large objects look really damn large.
Myst like puzzle game, room based. You're walking around a VR room solving puzzles and shit.
Educational things. Put this shit on a child and teleport that fuck directly onto a pirate ship where he can learn about pirates. Or whatever.
>>285636525
No you can't break reality anon. When you first use the system you set up where you can walk, where objects and walls are, then while playing if you come close to something a virtual wall/box etc shows up informing you that you're about to hit something. If you want to walk further than the space in the room, you need to do so with the controllers.
>>285636748
Its a good joke, but those kind of games would be amazing. Picture Legend of Grimrock in VR with this tech.
>>285632376
Please tell me they're going to talk about the Source 2 engine itself later.
I'd fucking love to see the slides showing what they've done to make modding easier than ever.
>>285636525
>every room in the game is small
>reach a door
>"please step back 6 feet"
>game pauses while you get into the correct position for the next room
the future of gaming
>>285632618
>amerilards
>>285633631
Good thing Nvidia has MFAA
4xMSAA for the cost of 2x
Shame so many games don't support MSAA though, lazy fucking devs
>>285637009
I think that's going to come with the Vulcan demo
God dammit, they are at gdc all week giving out demos and we still cant fucking get a video of source 2 running
>>285636525
Why not use that omni walking pad thing?
>walking pad
>those gloves that track hand movements
>This thing that displays the game in a room
>>285637009
That is tomorrow, anon.
>>285637032
>Step back 6 feet
>Trip over cat
>VR waifu looks down at you
>Are you okay Niisan?
>Found six weeks later with a cracked open skull
>People who find you put on the headset
>Waifu is still fucking your corpse
Get ready for the future anon.
>>285637461
>Literally source 1 quality
>>285637267
Oh boy i already forgot about the meaningless MFAA tech made by nvidia..i sure bet it's just as great as TXAA is..oh wait
>Multiplayer
>Everyone dons their headsets
>Their avatars show up in my room
>Let the circlejerking begin
where's/when's the 3?
>>285637461
Eh, Source 2's graphics don't look quite different, compared to Portal 2's graphics.
I can see that the lighting is much better, though.
>inb4 the inverted control autists complain that the character doesn't look down when they tilt their head up
>>285637578
I'm not sure this is running on source 2, but either way if you expected a massive visual upgrade for source 2, you're missing the point. Its going to be a lot of backend stuff and a crazy good physics system.
>>285637841
It's made with portal 2 assets.
>>285637578
>>285637841
Source 2 was never meant to have amazing graphics. It's all about user generated content, mod tools and being free. Devs don't even need to pay valve, they are simply forced to publish their game through Steam
>>285638064
Its a trade off, really. You get a lot of your income sent to Valve, but you also make a lot more because of how many people use steam. Also of note, you can still sell elsewhere, you just ALSO need to sell it on steam.
>>285637841
Gaben said that Source 2's main focus is not on graphics, but on user-generated content and "creating value for the community", whatever that means.
wow can't wait to pick up a steambox, once it actually exists, and a copy of half life 3, if it ever exists, and play it on one of these VR helmets that might never actually be on a shelf in a store ever.
valve has to be the company with the most fanboys that get excited over literally nothing.
>>285637703
>You can now be the little girl
>>285632376
>>285636082
A lot of great detail is often faked by the use of normal map. Sometimes you can have a very simple mesh that is wrapped in a detailed normal to give it the look of being complicated. This is saying that normal maps that have large details wont look good, but normal maps with finer detail (tile edges, grain-like texture) will look fine.
No idea about the surface shape thing though. Can anybody clarify?
So this is all we know about Source 2.
>New, more detailed Physics.
>glNext
>Supports VR
>>285638303
Clearly someone needs to get to work on better voice modding.
>>285632376
>You have to place shit around the room like old Philips motion tracking stuff
incoming lawsuit
>>285638331
>Spaming /g/ bullshit,
>Not powering your router off during game
>Bait
>>285638454
You're forgetting something.
>a much better Hammer like holy fucking shit finally
>>285634931
he never said anything about lack of space you shit skin poor fag.
>>285638224
No matter where you sell a game you need to pay a percentage to the seller. Be it on retail or a digital store. Every engine also requires that you pay another percentage to the engine maker (or a flat number). Source 2 completely removes the later which is awesome. Being stuck to steam isn't too bad seeing that Steam is practically the face of PC gaming by now.
>>285633750
Fuck this.
I hate AA and prefer games without it. Looking through virtual reality with jagged edges on things would be fucking BOSS.
>>285638454
>Free
>Anything made on it you intend on selling must be uploaded to the steam store
>Can also sell elsewhere freely
>Valve stuff is going to be ported over to it
We won't know more till tomorrow.
>>285638670
Last time I used hammer was back in goldsource. Map making was so fucking fun.
>>285637956
Wait, how is less pixels a positive?
>>285638742
>I hate AA
>>285638742
wat
>>285633162
Is there a higher res pick of this?
>>285638841
It means the computer needs to render fewer pixels, reducing the load on the GPU.
It does not mean that the user will see a lower resolution image
>>285638862
Banter
>>285638841
Because the human eye cant see over 4 million pixels, just like it can't see over 24 fps.
Nah, for reals though, It's because the little mesh is supposed to be in the areas where your eyes normally don't see, as they don't really see in big squares. By doing this, you can decrease the pixel count thus increasing performance.
>>285633520
That idea is too smart for any dev to think of
>>285638862
>chet
literally
who?
>>285638862
You should read Cispapershotguns impressions of it. The writer sounded like he was about to cry. Though honestly it does sound pretty amazing. I think it had a lot to do with the demos they were showing. They were unlike Rifts "Walk around a castle" or other boring demos.
>>285638870
Not as far as I know.
>>285639241
He works at Valve
>>285639236
How does that make any sense what so ever? I literally just came up with it and I'm not a unique snowflake. Plus this kind of thing has already been done somewhat with that shitty eyetoy on playstation.
>>285639595
And he just rekt clif blenzikki
>Amnesia or Fatal Frame style game
>Ghosts and shit are literally in your room moving towards you
I can't wait to panic like a little bitch.
>>285639909
>Game is actually you at a computer playing a horror game
>Don't turn around
>Room based games
I'm ready.
>>285638841
Less taxing on hardware
>>285638862
what a guy
>>285640126
>We can play that shitty The Cube gameshow in our own rooms in VR
Or not because it's awful and modern ITV a shit.
WARNING: INCOMING GAME
>>285640252
>mfw with the power of VR I can live in the Starbug
>>285640497
>Crystal Maze
>That logo
>Modern
>>285641059
No, I'm talking about The Cube, a different gameshow (kind of like a shitty crystal maze with one bloke in a clear plastic box doing boring challenges).
>>285640252
>>285640943
Reminder Red Dwarf predicted this with better than life.
>>285638862
REKT AND SHREKT! OH-HO HO HO HO!
CLIFF BLZZINSKI BTFO AND THOROUGHLY POOPER PEEVED!
>Set up room just right
>put on headset
>the room is my own hub with tons of cool shit
>my real couch is reskinned into a fancy ass couch
>get comfy in my virtual pad.
>other people can come over using their VR
>never leave house again
>Half-Life's writer and designer's favourite game is Thief
>he is also a fan of Demons Souls and Dark Souls
So can someone come up with the 5 main talking points of Steam's new VR opposed to others?
>>285641484
As if you were planning to anyway
>>285641960
SteamVR is a platform, a set of libraries and tools for VR developers. It's Valve's competition to the Oculus SDK.
HTC Vive is a hardware solution built on SteamVR, with similar specs to the Oculus Rift.
Similar to how any manufacturer can build a Steam Machine, any manufacturer can build a SteamVR headset.
>>285641517
Valve's writing team is actually based as fuck. Those TF2 comics had seriously 10/10 comedy writing. They're all a but wasted being in a Valkve that doesn't make games.
>>285641484
>Put on goggles
>It's just a render of your room
>Except with a bunch of arcade machines around it
>>285641960
>Stencil Mesh
>Geometric Specular Antialiasing
>Anisotropic Lighting & Mapping
>Optimized Warp
>Stereo Rendering
Do I keep on or do you need a break?
>>285641484
>Invite friends over with their own VR
>Watch a film together in VR in a bit ass IMAX size screen
>mfw I'm furiously masturbating, but they are none the wiser.
>tfw society will collapse in 100 years due to vr
>>285642225
I will bet that Sony's VR will not work with SteamVR libraries even if you are playing a Valve game in your PS4.
>Waggle technology
I can't wait until we go back to not giving a shit about this a month after it's released
>>285642253
>>285641517
wtf do they even do on a day to day basis since valve dont even need writers anymore.
L4D2 dialogue/banter was pretty funny to some extent.
>>285642857
>Implying VR won't save society
>>285641336
>implying my mind wont bury me in sand and have ants eat jam off my face
*slams fist on desk*
WHERE IS THE VIDEO
*heavy breathing*
>>285644013
Video of what, a slideshow?
>>285644134
the demo
>>285644375
Sorry Anon you are not that cool for Valve.
>>285644375
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v58xIK9fp28
>>285644375
>>285644134
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKK74Wh-J10
Fucking save!
>>285644739
No portal demo to see
>>285642397
>implying it doesn't track you and your dick
>>285644864
O.O
HYPE
Y
P
E
>more VR gimmicky shit
>not an actual game
am I the only one who still cares about games?
>>285644864
Thank you. I hope we see the full demo on yt or somewhere.
>Using aperture science to introduce your VR tech
That's actually a good location.
>>285643345
God knows. I like to think they've ben working on loads of stuff that'll see the light not day soon, but I doubt it.
I wonder what a Valve RPG would be like.
>>285645348
Using F-STOP to finally make a Portal game with a portal gun. Sound weird but at the same time so good.
>>285644864
That looks slick as fuck actually
VR will never be what people want it to be until they make a way to simulate touch and resistance
>>285645902
You are asking for a Holodeck no VR.
>>285644864
impressive
>>285644739
If I wanted to hear a pair of faggots talking about nonsense I'd visit ur dads
>>285646103
Sorry Gaben they ask me to show them :'(
>>285646179
That way you have the complete picture don't be a fag now.
>>285644864
>Don't get to play till November
>>285632376
Yesss i totally wanted two fucking cameras conected to the internet scaning my full living room.
Fuck this, this will be kinect all over again.
This shit will work the day that they achive matrix like shit.
VR moving your actual body sucks.
The tracking device is set to Gaben
>>285646087
I want to be able to plug my brain into a computer and get data to transfer back and forth.
>learn anything
>completely lifelike experiences
>slow down or speed up perception of time (10 minutes in the machine feels like days)
>>285646514
>Yesss i totally wanted two fucking cameras conected to the internet scaning my full living room.
>>285638862
What is Cliffy Bazinga doing at a conference for game developers?
>>285632376
>room scale tracking
i got the feeling it's gonna be shit.
>>285646514
It's not cameras dude
>Lighthouse dots the environment with IR dots. And the headset and controllers do inside-out tracking against these. And it works wonders.
>>285644864
Shiiiiiiiiet
>VR
>in 10 years time I'll have to hear everyone bitch and moan how VR ruined this gen
>they'll promise the new BEST THING EVER will fix gaming
There better be VR equivalent of Wii Sports and not just indie crap/ports.
I can't wait to play Depression Quest with this puppy!
>>285646585
Whoa!
>>285646514
you can just unplug it you godamn tinfoil, how do you expect the future to happen without technology.
valve said awhile back that they wanted to input heartbeat and sweat sensors to change the experience on the fly, i can only imagine how fun L4D3 will be with this tech.
>>285646514
This is why you should use free open source software.
>>285642253
>Those TF2 comics had seriously 10/10 comedy writing
>actually thinking that
they were full on memelords
>>285644864
ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN!!!
>>285634393
>inb4 publishers suddenly become anti-VR because they don't want to try harder
Can't wait for the not realistic games
>>285644864
>Valve uses a Portal demo
>Not a Half Life demo
>mfw this means they went out of their way to create a VR Portal themed tech demo, they have nothing Half Life related to use
No Half Life 3 any time soon.
>>285647787
>everything is a meme
Fuck off. In fact, no, don't. Bring me some proof of all the memes in that comic. I'm waiting.
>>285644864
>>285632376
The Age of the Waifu truly sets sail.
>Set up the cameras in your living room or kitchen
>Soon as you get home put on the glasses
>Your waifu materializes at the couch or at your table and says welcome home
>Talk to your waifu as you go about your day
Goodbye growing population
>>285648472
OR
Half Life 3 isn't designed for VR.
>>285648472
>mfw the VR Portal tech demo is really a stage on the BOREALIS
>mfw you are playing as Gordon Freeman
>>285634931
>So caught up in shit posting he posts about his own living conditions.
>>285648749
so this is the end of all things?
nice
>>285648949
>They showed a section from Half Life 3 and nobody even knows
>>285644864
why did that say spoiler alert?
>>285632376
Make the camera look like that Gladous from portal and they win the casual market.
My apartment is 23sqm, available area for VR shenanigans would be like 3sqm so it's safe to say I won't buy this. Omni-treadmill when
>>285649393
Because no all the attendees as seen the Tech Demo yet. That was just a quick view of the Tech Demo a very short view if you listen to the IGN video they tell you everything that is on the Tech Demo.
>>285649393
Because its a demo being shown on the show floor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKK74Wh-J10
>>285649963
woops, my bad.
>>285650072
Now we need the GLaDOS part :^)
>>285650072
UNFORGIVABLE ANON.
YOU'RE A HORRIBLE HUMAN BEING, FUCK YOURSELF WITH A CACTUS.
>>285650251
Man, wonder what they'll show at the Vulkan talk.
>>285632376
Is it safe to assume they haven't announced pricing?is it safe to assume that I can never ever afford this?
>>285632753
>>285633024
>>285637195
You guys don't get it do you? It's the fact that hardly anybody has a perfectly designed room like that to allow that kind of shit there. Fucking nigga in the picture look like he set his tv up in front of a fucking door.
That and not tripping over the fucking cord.
>no having your own VR room with every Valve toy ever made
Watch out Seth Green I’m beating your record.
>>285637956
isn't there some overlap in pixels/duplicates as further optimization?
>>285638841
the blackspots aren't viewable to vr/don't waste time rendering pixels people literally can't see
>>285642857
Society is already collapsing due to homosexuals, promiscuity women and liberals. At least let me be with my waifu in VR for a few decades before we all go to hell together.
>>285639909
>I can't wait to panic like a little bitch.
>jump scare
>fall over/jump away
>pull cord and pc off table
>broken $4k pc
>>285651024
>>promiscuity women
... and retards
>>285648949
Gman's super powers seem to be overcompensation for babby hands.
>>285651024
Here we go
>>285651640
>>285652026
>Random post
>Two fags fag about about it
>Now suddenly it's a problem
>>285637956
>everyone that bought an oculus
>>285652192
>everyone that bought an oculus
>>285652438
>@GDC
>We have nothing to show
Please tell me that was a real tweet.
>>285652192
This episode was so stupid and obvious. The first conversation with the therapist made it obvious that he was in a dream.
>>285638742
>I hate AA
Said nobody ever
>>285652438
Based Gaben laying the future down for the Waifu Age. Fuck you Carmack, you sellout.
>tfw pc probably not powerful enough to use it
They require a minimum 3m by 4m room to work in. Easily done if you live in a house but in a condo or apartment that's not so common.
So now not only is the cost of VR the headset and gaming PC but also the morgtage for a new home.
>>285653021
uncanny valley
>>285653129
I pay $550/mo for my apartment and it has a living room that's 20 ft x 20 ft. More than enough room.
But then again, I do live and work in the middle of fuck nowhere...
>>285653110
Don't worry Valve also launches games via console you just need to wait for Morpheus or Xbox VR.
>>285653021
>>285653415
Where exactly? A deal is a deal, especially for a neet fag such as myself.
>>285653635
West Michigan. Water is cheap too, only $10/mo flat rate.
That's all you're getting out of me though.
>>285653767
Is that for a one or two bedroom? If thats two thats pretty darn good
>>285653767
Fuccckkkkkkkkkkkk. I was expecting and would be happy with somewhere in the Midwest. Had to say Michigan.
Is it nice, at least?
>>285650647
This is bringing back bad memories of my OpenGL programming course.
>>285653415
>>285653635
I have a 2 bedroom apartment that I live in by myself. Massive living room, office... $470 a month. I live inKentuckythough, it'd be hard to find a place that cheap anywhere else.
>>285653129
Wasn't that MAX? Where's your source for that claim?
>>285654020
How are wages there?
>>285653451
vr on console will be shit though
>>285653129
>They require a minimum 3m by 4m room to work in
Fuck, I have a large enough room but it's still filled with furniture and tables, I don't actually have that much completely open space.
>>285654178
http://www.genxisocialbuzz.com/index.php/hands-on-review-mwc-2015-htc-vive/
ctrl-f 3m. It says 'adequate' so definitely not max.
>>285653918
1 bed 1 bath. Kitchen is tiny but it has the essentials. Living room is large enough for my 60'' TV, 2 couches and card playing tableif I had friends to play with.
>>285653954
Don't remind me. Told you it was fuck nowhere. The weather here sucks major ass. Literally ice rain today. It is getting warmer though.
Don't move here unless you LOVE winter more than your dog or wife/waifu.
>>285653451
Console VR isn't happening until next gen.
Maybe.
>>285654231
Not terrible. I work at a hospital pushing papers and bring in 40k a year. Considering all my bills only add up to just under $700 a month though that's quite a lot.
>>285654020
>$470 a month
>Kentucky
Well, I guess. The cheapest apartment I could find in Milwaukee was $750/mo for a tiny studio in shit condition. Ended up just buying a condo because it was way cheaper.
>>285654383
>morpheus q2 2016
>>285654383
Morpheus set to realease in Spring next year.don't know about Microsoft's or Samsung.
VR will never EVER be a decent platform for gaming
>>285654550
I wish I was you.
>>285654847
That all depends on the games so let just wait a see what kind of games are coming to VR first.
>>285632376
who the fuck is the target market?
i can only see shit like this being bought by normies but they dont even use steam
>>285654847
wii u VR motion controller changed the face of nintendo.
can you even back up your wafer thin claims
>>285654847
I bet it will be.
I remember playing Battlefield 2 and as a rocket flew right over my head I ducked my own head in real life as a reaction. I want to experience that in VR.
>>285654665
>>285654694
I stand by what I said.
>>285655231
You said maybe. We confirmed your doubt.
>>285651640
promiscuious women is saving this otherwise ravaged society
let girls be a cock carousel. Why spend months wining, and dining when you can fuck a broad in a night.
![672506virtualboy[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/nZhjJi5.jpg "672506virtualboy[1].jpg")
Why are things going to be any different than with virtual boy which was at least cheap and easy to setup/use?
>>285654383
Sony will launch first party developed VR titles, all small tier games with replayability.
I guarantee major devs/publishers won't get behind VR alot mainly because the extra work and optimization isn't going to be worth the investment for what little bit of sales boost it will be.
They can barely get games to run smoothly at launch on high end PCs, with VR ontop of that it will be impossible without alot more crunchtime work on polishing the game. Which won't happen.
So Valve will make some Valve VR stuff, probably alot of indie games here too. Sony does Morpheus tech demos they call games, and Oculus gets some indie scraps and kickstarter games.
>>285655554
Because we have actual technology now and this isn't a piece of shit like that.
>>285655554
Being years ahead of your time doesn't equal sucess. Now those fucking games that's another story.
if anyone actually thinks sony's VR is a good idea, they're idiots.
It'll be expensive and the entire PS4 userbase will get mad as fuck that literally 1 percent of their games library will work with this new expensive toy.
What Sony should've done is just announced a 3rd pillar "PSV" console, double the power of PS4, more expensive and premium marketting around VR. People would still buy it despite it's higher price, because VR done well will just sell itself.
That, and people spend more money on ipads each year than something as groundbreaking as VR.
Simply making a hackney add on to their allready dated spec console is doing it well fucking wrong. VR needs hardware that's not even a year away yet to be "reasonable".
Tethering VR to a shitheap console that can barely push 1080p 60fps (the absolute dogshit minimum for VR) is a bad move and will just turn the mainstream away from VR by pissing in the pool.
Sony should just fucking stay out of it.
>>285656127
They'll drop it soon enough, don't nworry.
