Valve + HTC partnership

Megamaniaco

Not much info at the moment, BUT:
http://www.htcvr.com/
http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/1/8127445/htc-vive-valve-vr-headset

Count me fucking in.

Absalon

WeIII, I wonder if this headset might have a kiIIIer game or similar for release.

Megamaniaco

I do wonder if that game has a 3 somewhere in its title.

TOGSolid

Megamaniaco wrote: »

I do wonder if that game has a 3 somewhere in its title.

Left 4 D3ad and Portal 3, confirmed for 2016!

Dehumanized

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LD50

VR portal 3 would make me vomit, I think.

OldSlacker

Nah, Portal 2 was fine even on the first Oculus DK.
And Half Life 2 on it was the only game that make nauseous.

Phyphor

Dehumanized wrote: »

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Sceptre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leg2gS6ShZw

Initial impressions are pretty positive

darren66

What is taking so long for these things to hit consumer market? It seems like everyone who makes these headsets, their business strategy is to find more venture capital thru more investors instead of releasing a product.

Dehumanized

darren66 wrote: »

What is taking so long for these things to hit consumer market? It seems like everyone who makes these headsets, their business strategy is to find more venture capital thru more investors instead of releasing a product.

These things take a lot of R&D to get right. They're not cheap to produce. The HTC/Valve one requires you mount two very large sensors at a 90 degree angle on the walls of your room. All of these things (well, except the Gear VR thing that Samsung is doing) require cables hooked up to your PC to work, and none of the hardware companies working on them want to ship before they've made the face computer part wireless.

Foomy

All of the companies making a VR headset also realize you only get one chance at it. If you release a product too soon and it isn't good, then the chances that you convince someone to try it again later diminish severely.

darren66

Foomy wrote: »

All of the companies making a VR headset also realize you only get one chance at it. If you release a product too soon and it isn't good, then the chances that you convince someone to try it again later diminish severely.

That's their spin - I don't believe it.

Can anyone provide original and technical reasons for the delays? I don't want to hear what they are saying, regurgitated.

Cabezone

If you don't believe they are not happy with the product as they could make it right now.....why don't you dig up the real reasons and get back to us.

electricitylikesme

Getting motion sickness right is tricky. Getting PCs to render to these things smoothly is tricky (i.e. windows drivers are rough when it's your whole field of vision - getting setup with my DK2 for Elite:Dangerous was tricky).

I'd be willing to bet that software is a big sticking point - drivers. The experience they'd be targeting is "I want to play this - *click* - and then you put on the headset, and without flicker or non-3D rendering the game loads up on the headset".

We're not there yet.