Idea Inspirations from trying the Oculus Rift
I got to try the Oculus Rift for the first time this week at a local IGDA meeting in Minneapolis. I wrote about my first experience and first impressions on my blog, but the experience was also very ...
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"zachstronaut" wrote:
Think of playing a 3d sidescrolling platformer, but instead of playing it on your TV, it is like you've moved inside of the screen and you now occupy the same space as the characters you control. You could watch a 3 inch tall Mario walking, running, and jumping his way through a model-sized game level laid out in front of you.
I'd so pay for that! And perhaps others could spectate with their own Rift and headtracking, and you can all talk to each other (if you weren't all in the same physical room to begin with). :)
"zachstronaut" wrote:
Let me walk you through another imaginary experience with an Oculus Rift. One that wouldn't necessarily have to wait for some future super high resolution iteration. Ok, grab a real SNES gamepad, and now put on your Oculus Rift. You've just entered a 3d simulation of your living room. And there's your TV in front of you, a virtual 2d display embedded in the 3d simulated environment. Pop your Zelda: A Link to the Past cartridge into your Super Nintendo. You are playing Zelda and controlling Link with the gamepad, but you are watching it on a virtual TV instead of a real TV. You enter the Lost Woods. The graphics on the screen are those familiar tiled-based green trees with that pixel fog you loved so much as a kid. But something is happening now that has never happened before. The drywall disappears and trees move in. Grass grows over the couch you were sitting on and also the floor beneath your feet. A fog fills the room. You are sitting in a 3d Lost Woods now that surrounds you. Your TV set sits on top of a hollow log, and you are still playing Zelda: A Link to the Past for SNES.
Beautifully-written paragraph, and *really* makes me want this to happen!