Heads up RE Oculus Rift

[Big_Japan]

Originally Posted by Filthy_Pagan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Force feedback could be done with a system of pistons, pulleys, or lockable joints all over the suit that would prevent you from moving a certain way (like if you cross sabers with someone and cannot move your saber further on it's arc)

this doesn't sound theoretically impossible but so expensive and clumsy and laughable as to remove any real ability to market it. If it did exist it'd be something you'd have to pay money to play in some kind of a gaming establishment.

It would be cool if arcades returned as places to use specialized and expensive VR hardware, but I doubt that the market is there to justify the specialized R&D required to make this particular contraption and the software to go with it if it couldn't be put in every household. I am hoping that the new gaming peripherals like treadmills and reactive rooms and such will trigger the return of meatspace gaming spots though.

The dream is something more like a faux sword that can be suspended in midair and have forces applied to it using some kind of an electrical or magnetic field in a charged enclosure. Whether this is even theoretically possible with current tech I don't know enough about physics to say. Calling Tesla & Lune.

I just want a game where I get to be a samurai by physically moving my body. I'll call it VR and suck your dick and pay you a year's salary when you make it happen, even if it's primitive as shit and requires me to put on an Iron Man suit. This has been my dream since the beginning of videogames, and playing that stupid camera-controlled fighting game at the Gameworks in Vegas that played canned punching / kicking animations when it saw you punching and kicking. It's really fucking sad that Bushido Blade is still the absolute pinnacle of this genre.