Audio is verrry underappreciated anywhere in gaming. This is going to be a huge deal when it hits headsets as lifelike audio would multiply immersion tenfold.This is the future of VR audio:
These aren't really headphones, and will be eventually built into headsets themselves. Abrash talked about them in his keynote presentation. They can provide imperceptibly accurate binaural audio.
But it's about choice. You can also choose to be immersed in a TV for 10 hours straight or not really take it that seriously.
This is absolutely nothing like being in VR. VR is not having a big screen on your face. VR is like this:
Right away, when you put on a VR headset, you immediately get hit by something you've never seen on any other screen before: Scale. VR allows you to discern scale. Objects have a real world scale, which your own body corresponds to. You can, in VR, visually guage how big something is, with accuracy. You could, for example, put vive sensors on a real world object like a baseball bat, and be able to visually tell how big the bat is in VR just by looking at the sensor location. Things that are supposed to be big look big in VR, unlike anything your TV can convey.
Scale extends not just in being able to determine how big an object is, but also in stereoscopic depth. It's not just 3D, the 3D component has a scale as well. You can guage how far something is away. VR can make you honestly feel like you're thousands of feet in the air, to a degree of realism that subconscious parts of your brain are fooled. VR can give you literal vertigo. Things like 3D movies or 3DS or things like, they never had frame of references for their depth. How big of a gap the depth was supposed to represent changed from scene to scene. In VR, depth has scale, relative to your own physical being.
It's absolutely nothing like being in front of a big tv screen.
This is absolutely nothing like being in VR. VR is not having a big screen on your face. VR is like this:
Right away, when you put on a VR headset, you immediately get hit by something you've never seen on any other screen before: Scale. VR allows you to discern scale. Objects have a real world scale, which your own body corresponds to. You can, in VR, visually guage how big something is, with accuracy. You could, for example, put vive sensors on a real world object like a baseball bat, and be able to visually tell how big the bat is in VR just by looking at the sensor location. Things that are supposed to be big look big in VR, unlike anything your TV can convey.
Scale extends not just in being able to determine how big an object is, but also in stereoscopic depth. It's not just 3D, the 3D component has a scale as well. You can guage how far something is away. VR can make you honestly feel like you're thousands of feet in the air, to a degree of realism that subconscious parts of your brain are fooled. VR can give you literal vertigo. Things like 3D movies or 3DS or things like, they never had frame of references for their depth. How big of a gap the depth was supposed to represent changed from scene to scene. In VR, depth has scale, relative to your own physical being.
It's absolutely nothing like being in front of a big tv screen.
PSVR lets your mic pick up outside sound by the way, so you don't need to take them off. Front facing camera AR will be superseded by mixed reality reconstruction. Basically, the VR headset will use the same cameras to capture the real world and reconstruct it in your headset as an overlay. This would let you be in any VR experience and still see reality bleed in, as much or as little of it as you want. This will be useful for when you want to see just a drink in VR or have your chair line up with your virtual room, or if you want to see others.
I'm with you and agree. My point was really that VR won't replace TVs because of social scenarios and people liking to multitask while watching something. If people keep investing in TVs, they're less likely to have more cash for more VR. Gaming companies will likely cater to TV first for a long time.This is absolutely nothing like being in VR. VR is not having a big screen on your face. VR is like this:
Right away, when you put on a VR headset, you immediately get hit by something you've never seen on any other screen before: Scale. VR allows you to discern scale. Objects have a real world scale, which your own body corresponds to. You can, in VR, visually guage how big something is, with accuracy. You could, for example, put vive sensors on a real world object like a baseball bat, and be able to visually tell how big the bat is in VR just by looking at the sensor location. Things that are supposed to be big look big in VR, unlike anything your TV can convey.
Scale extends not just in being able to determine how big an object is, but also in stereoscopic depth. It's not just 3D, the 3D component has a scale as well. You can guage how far something is away. VR can make you honestly feel like you're thousands of feet in the air, to a degree of realism that subconscious parts of your brain are fooled. VR can give you literal vertigo. Things like 3D movies or 3DS or things like, they never had frame of references for their depth. How big of a gap the depth was supposed to represent changed from scene to scene. In VR, depth has scale, relative to your own physical being.
It's absolutely nothing like being in front of a big tv screen.
Physical social scenarios is totally a valid point, although will be lessened with widespread adoption and you'll also see people that want to mix physical people and people at distances into one TV viewing session which can only be done through VR/AR.
That's pretty neat. When are we getting these babies in our hmd's you estimate?This is the future of VR audio:
These aren't really headphones, and will be eventually built into headsets themselves. Abrash talked about them in his keynote presentation. They can provide imperceptibly accurate binaural audio.
Better yet, finish world 5. It just keeps ramping up nicely in difficulty and introducing new mechanics and themes for the levels. It goes from good to great to amazing from world 1 thru 3 thru 5.
You can already do that with the PSVR and sliding forward the Visor. Allowing your phone to be represented in the headset or a small screen in the corner would not be a big deal imo
What's great about Astro Bot (so far) isn't the jumping but looking left right up and down to find the hidden Bot that's nearby, sqealing 'help me!'. The use of the gamepad as a companion for the character is perfect.
Oculus are aiming for 2022, though it's probably their riskiest prediction for 2022. It fully solves our sense of sound though, so we can say that 1/5 of our senses are perfected by that point. Well, it requires audio propagation algorithms to be utilized of course, but those are coming along very nicely:
Correct, they are gearing up for a breakthrough headset in 2022. Rumors suggest we'll see a Rift S in the meantime alongside Valve's leaked headset.
Doing Tetris Effect a huge disservice by not playing with headphones
This is absolutely nothing like being in VR. VR is not having a big screen on your face. VR is like this:
Right away, when you put on a VR headset, you immediately get hit by something you've never seen on any other screen before: Scale. VR allows you to discern scale. Objects have a real world scale, which your own body corresponds to. You can, in VR, visually guage how big something is, with accuracy. You could, for example, put vive sensors on a real world object like a baseball bat, and be able to visually tell how big the bat is in VR just by looking at the sensor location. Things that are supposed to be big look big in VR, unlike anything your TV can convey.
Scale extends not just in being able to determine how big an object is, but also in stereoscopic depth. It's not just 3D, the 3D component has a scale as well. You can guage how far something is away. VR can make you honestly feel like you're thousands of feet in the air, to a degree of realism that subconscious parts of your brain are fooled. VR can give you literal vertigo. Things like 3D movies or 3DS or things like, they never had frame of references for their depth. How big of a gap the depth was supposed to represent changed from scene to scene. In VR, depth has scale, relative to your own physical being.
It's absolutely nothing like being in front of a big tv screen.
The relative part needs to be emphasized as well. VR can sell you on being 'tiny' or 'huge' just as being 'human-sized' in a way nothing on TV even remotely approaches.
Not any more common than AAAs are in the first place (which is already a fairly tiny minority of the total releases). The money behind it guarantees to always go for lowest-common denominators, not anything exclusionary on the cutting edge.
Eh, I'd argue you can - online is kind of the great equalizer that eliminates most of the perceived advantages of fine-grain local input anyway. Although like we don't throw mouse and controllers into same matches, you wouldn't do it there either for competitive purposes. But it could be done in other settings.
Yes but it's what you are kinda asking for. Anyway the choice would be yours. The amount of immersion is not arbitrary, you decide how cut off or restricted you will be and therefore how immersed you want to get in that moment.
Holy shit this is huge! Didnt know this existed and I've had it since launch. I've been telling my wife to call me on my phone if she needs me from the other room.
I turned down brightness all the way too. It's bright enough at lowest setting and I get zero eye strain...
Ditch The Inpatient, it's supposed to be pretty bad.Finally jumping into the PSVR scene.
Are these solid prices for these?
The only ones I am iffy on are Batman VR and Battlezone. Has Driveclub VR ever been on sale?
I have Paranormal Activity and Astro Bot on the way. Thinking about picking up Gungrave VR too.
