VR will only ever be an optional gimmick, just like the MOVE or 3D gaming.


People will try it out, say "hey this is neat", and after an hour once they realize it's nauseating and causes headaches, the goggles will come off.

Because that would be a bad decision and CCP has never made one of those.

VR will do absolutely amazing things in medical applications, education, engineering, and quite a few other fields but in terms of gaming it will always be a niche product.

The average consumer of today is looking for quick and easy along with being able to maintain their ADD tendencies which VR completely contradicts.

I have used a few different Cardboards with different phones, the Gear VR, and an OR dev kit 2.

As humans we have been trained to be ADD at this point. Most people can not manage to accomplish anything unless they are talking, texting, checking facebook, and whatever else they are doing. People are not going to shell out a ton of money for an experience that is contrary to their nature.

That is exactly why OR did not even attempt to get their price point any lower. From inception VR is being setup as a high margin low volume industry and is going to remain that way. Your friends who you mention will obviously be part of that niche and there is a small possibility that I will be to but that does not mean that millions of people are going to rush out to buy it.

Also augmented reality is likely going to put a quick block on VR stuff at the consumer level thanks to the fact that instead of contradicting the nature that people have developed it supports it.

Naive to think pouring money into something can make it "as perfect as possible". lol

I see you've never heard of the F-35.

It's impossible for all the major engines. It's not impossible, and actually totally doable if the engines architecture were different.

Think about it: voxels already can give you an unimaginable level of detail without faking anything (because, as you know, much of the shiny, wonderful, super realistic graphic is actually "faked" in traditional polygon-based engines thanks to normal maps, POM, depth etc) in real time. This technique paired with procedural generation can possibly (and probably will) give us great near photorealistic VR experiences without the computational costs of a traditional polygon based engine-

Need to be said, anyway, the whole thing is still experimental, there are a few guys on the internet that claims they already managed to reduce the memory needed for a single voxel to render to "less than 1 bit", which is great news if it is actually true.

The first real game that will use one of these kind of mixed voxels + massive procedural generation will be No Man's Sky. But voxels can be much more high-res than that ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXm5JWys55o

The potential of someone developing nausea from using a VR system is going to be dependent on what they are doing within the virtual reality world. A person will react much differently walking around in and exploring a virtual forest compared to running around on a battlefield getting shot at.

Also, you don't look at demo events to determine potential health issues associated with the product being demonstrated. A person is supposed to sit down and participate in a specific virtual reality experience for an extended period of time (I would separate it into 2,4,6,and 8 hour time frames). Then you are supposed to study the effects on the individual participating in the virtual reality world as well as the effects on that individual when they immediately transition from the virtual reality world to the real world. You then rinse and repeat using various features and experiences a person would encounter participating in a virtual reality world. The various features and experiences one will encounter will increase over time as the results from the analysis are studied and used to refine virtual reality.

I wouldn't expect any FPS virtual reality game anytime soon that would actually meet consumer expectations.

You know Dust 514 is compatible with VR right?

There is a youtube video, and also a thread on it, made several weeks ago showing someone using a VR headset to play Dust 514.

Oh, I must have misunderstood the whole thing then.

Anyway, there's also the problem that VR takes up really a lot more resources to achieve the same graphics level. Which wouldn't be a problem at all in voxel-based engines with nowadays mid-range computers (even ps4/xboxone)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rek6ygqwy-k

^ closeups of the huge detail voxels can reach, the guy claims he's doing so on a XMG P722 notebook assembled in 2012.

But it does mean that it is possible.