• Virtual Desktop 1.0
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[QUOTE=TheHydra;49993226]i just realized having a desktop that goes all the way around you gives a whole new level of practicality to office chairs[/QUOTE] Wouldn't you just get tangled up in wires?
Hey I didn't know xul was out thanks video
man now I wanna VR headset
this is how humanity gets fat
Oh my god I want that virtual movie theatre so god damn badly. One of my childhood dreams was to have my own theatre in my house and a virtual one would be close enough.
seeing all this cool vr shit that's gonna come out really soon and is gonna change the whole game industry feels too good to be true
[QUOTE=Rocko's;49993574]Oh my god I want that virtual movie theatre so god damn badly. One of my childhood dreams was to have my own theatre in my house and a virtual one would be close enough.[/QUOTE] I had the Oculus DK1, and even with it's shitty screen, the cinema experience was incredible.
but is there 360 porn
[QUOTE=MaverickIB;49993682]but is there 360 porn[/QUOTE] you haven't been looking in the correct places if you're really asking that here [editline]-[/editline] wonder what the pricetag on this will be?
What if the HTC Vive could scan your environment and made something that fit your house. Like you use your house to play a game. Like maybe hide from an intruder or something. It would have to be wireless though, which won't happen for a good 5-10 years.
Man I never really considered getting a vr headset at this time because I want to wait a little for the market to get saturated but damn this makes me want to go out and get one. And as someone said, if they can make the environments interact-able then I would love to be able to come home and just relax in a environment that I can create for myself. I personally would love to go to an MYST style/themed setting
I'd like to see something similar made for AR using the Vives front camera.
[QUOTE=loopoo;49992928]I'd end up lying down on the couch and having an awesome ceiling-theatre experience.[/QUOTE] Oh my god the potential for watching movies in bed is incredible
Heavy Rain. God damn I love technology.
That part with the immersive environments and the computer monitor with rick and morty legitimately fucked me up like i can't even comprehend that
[QUOTE=zeromancer;49992337]Get involved with touch typing mate.[/QUOTE] Who's talking about typing? When you are required to suddenly press some random key on the keyboard when your hands aren't even touching it, good luck with that.
[QUOTE=__stdcall;50002588]Who's talking about typing? When you are required to suddenly press some random key on the keyboard when your hands aren't even touching it, good luck with that.[/QUOTE] F and J keys are different from every other key for a reason If I was asked to press the X key, I put my whole left hand in the home row to map the keyboard out, and press the right key alternatively Vive has the camera lens that can show you your surroundings, this is VD 1.0, can be added to help the user in pressing the correct key if it's an urgent worry lift up the headset, it's something you shouldn't do in a VR entertainment package
well that settles it I'm buying a VR Set
This is nearly exactly what I wanted when I heard about VR. The only thing this program is doing wrong is that it requires physical displays; you cannot have 30 "screens" in the void. If they fix this, then this is going to take over the world.
Just to put a bit of a damper on potential expectations regarding this (from the [url=https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1500270]VR thread[/url]): [QUOTE=Clavus;49991630]UI and text heavy games are the weak point of VR desktop software though. It's hard to read small text unless you move your face closer. It'll take a few generations of resolution increases before they show the same amount of pixels per degree as your monitor does. [editline]23rd March 2016[/editline] Rock Paper Shotgun just happened to put up [url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/03/23/steam-desktop-theater-guide/]an article[/url] on their experience with Steam Desktop Theater.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=quelqu_un;49992478]After reading comments on reddit and youtube I got a feeling that quite a lot of people have very high expectations of this and believe that such apps will be able to replace a real monitor. The resolution is really not that great on current gen VR headsets and the text in virtual desktops will be pretty much unreadable. It's going to be a disappointment bomb dropped on people once the headsets are shipped.[/QUOTE]
Imagine the "productivity" boost from this.
I don't see the appeal of this at all why would I want to wear a bulky piece of hardware on my face, with the shit resolution and associated eye strain for 4 hours while I do taxes or programming or any other mundane task that works just fine on my normal monitor? just so that I can get a gimmicky space or beach background? the movie and 360 video stuff is cool but still pretty useless until we start seeing headsets with significantly better resolution and latency
[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;50002747]I can imagine virtual multi monitor support is something that would come along shortly. It makes no sense to not have it.[/QUOTE] where is the 'Another display not detected' option in w10?
Wow , why i can't get this :cry:
[QUOTE=krail9;50002862]I don't see the appeal of this at all why would I want to wear a bulky piece of hardware on my face, with the shit resolution and [B]associated eye strain for 4 hours[/B] while I do taxes or programming or any other mundane task that works just fine on my normal monitor? just so that I can get a gimmicky space or beach background? the movie and 360 video stuff is cool but still pretty useless until we start seeing headsets with significantly better resolution and latency[/QUOTE] Fun fact: a properly configured HMD gives less to no eye strain compared to a monitor. While your eyes have to focus on a nearby object when looking at a monitor, the lenses in a VR HMD makes it so your eyes can relax because the focal point is many meters away up till infinity.
[QUOTE=krail9;50002862]I don't see the appeal of this at all why would I want to wear a bulky piece of hardware on my face, with the shit resolution and associated eye strain for 4 hours while I do taxes or programming or any other mundane task that works just fine on my normal monitor? just so that I can get a gimmicky space or beach background? the movie and 360 video stuff is cool but still pretty useless until we start seeing headsets with significantly better resolution and latency[/QUOTE] I'm just glad there's a competent way to switch games and check life updates without having to take it off. But as someone with DK1 and Gear a lot of people are going to be let down by these still early versions of VR, text is going to be a problem for this generation. Not sure what latency issues you mean though.
[QUOTE=krail9;50002862]the movie and 360 video stuff is cool but still pretty useless until we start seeing headsets with significantly better resolution and latency[/QUOTE] Resolution is certainly an issue, but latency on HMDs is significantly faster (lower MS) than on standard monitors, Valve and Oculus have gone to great lengths to optimize 'motion-to-photon' latency.
Imagine running something like solidworks in this. You could build an entire product as though it was in your hands. This would be as revolutionary for engineering as moving from paper to autocad.
[QUOTE=glitchvid;50003096]Resolution is certainly an issue, but latency on HMDs is significantly faster (lower MS) than on standard monitors, Valve and Oculus have gone to great lengths to optimize 'motion-to-photon' latency.[/QUOTE] is it not still enough to be noticeable though? I'd imagine the latency has to be incredibly low, like 5-10ms, for it to actually be unnoticeable. I can't actually find info on what the latest units can do in that regard
[QUOTE=krail9;50002862]I don't see the appeal of this at all why would I want to wear a bulky piece of hardware on my face, with the shit resolution and associated eye strain for 4 hours while I do taxes or programming or any other mundane task that works just fine on my normal monitor? just so that I can get a gimmicky space or beach background? the movie and 360 video stuff is cool but still pretty useless until we start seeing headsets with significantly better resolution and latency[/QUOTE] Eye strain? Latency? Want me to tell you why you don't know what you're talking about and are just spouting misinformation for the sake of being a contrarian? [editline]25th March 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=krail9;50003459]is it not still enough to be noticeable though? I'd imagine the latency has to be incredibly low, like 5-10ms, for it to actually be unnoticeable. I can't actually find info on what the latest units can do in that regard[/QUOTE] It's not noticeable even on a DK2 while shaking your head around violently and actively trying to notice it
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