Do you guys kinda feel alone?

"wavefunction84" wrote:
I've never met anyone in my life with an X-chromosome who plays games that aren't on a smartphone or in an internet browser

So you've never met a human who plays real games? Both males and females have at least one X chromosome. Males are XY and females are XX :lol:

What about the haters who have only unjustified negativity to spew forth upon us? Which group do they fall into?

I imagine them to be like the Realist resistance from eXistenZ. Their negativity toward VR gamers was on the basis that they were basically abandoning reality, which frankly has a kernel of truth. I also expect to see resistance emerge from religious communities. I have mentioned before that the Oculus has certain similarities to the scriptural warning of the Mark of the Beast, which is open to a lot of interpretation. I'm not religious per se, but I am intrigued by theological interpretations.

Do I feel alone about the rift? Yes, but for the while that's how I like it. Growing up people always had cool stuff that I couldn't. I'm gonna be selfish and not tell my friends and family about it until I've had my fun with it first. Also, I want to make their demo a surprise, and not hype it up for months. It also feels good to be part of this exclusive club of pre-commercial rifters, the way hipsters take pride in liking bands before their commercial success. But we know this period will end soon enough. I have faith that Oculus will be a market explosion, and we should feel connected to that, knowing that we supported the product in its infancy, when it needed us most.

It's just like describing the Internet to people before it was ubiquitous. You engage people only as much as your speech is entertaining -- they don't really see how it applies to themselves or understand it enough to imagine it, never mind imagine it everywhere. In a word: *Whooosh*

I let a few people try out my rift, and without having to do anything, they brought more people to try it, and then they done the same :lol: people love it once they try it, and become ambassadors for Oculus (in a manner)..

I was optimistic when I first tried the Rift back in June -- but 5 minutes of walking around Tuscany sold me enough to go off and buy the dev kit 10 minutes later. Now that mine is here, I'm feeling like my own Lawnmower Man reality is just about to start.

Speaking of which, I recently watched the movie and thought it actually contained some interesting questions -- what can you do with high quality VR? Lawnmower Man, despite some of the ridiculousness of its end game of Lapidus ascending into a complete electronic reality, did postulate that you could make someone much smarter through VR. Given what we have seen thus far from the effect of the immersion of the Rift (nausea for moving games, intense fear for the thriller demos, etc.), could we combine audio with immersive video to guide people through their own subconscious? Could the infinite realities possible inside the Rift facilitate neurological phenomena like lucid dreaming? Hypnosis? Inception?

facilitate neurological phenomena like lucid dreaming?

There's a whole other thread about that.

I do, but posts like this and the replies here give me a good feeling.
Give it another 1 or 2 years max .. I'm sure we wont feel alone then.

It depends, i myself have borrowed the oculus from a friend because i am thrilled to use it and code stuff for it. My brother played a view hours half-life 2 although he got sick (vr-sick) and he loved it too :)

"Lindblum" wrote:

What about the haters who have only unjustified negativity to spew forth upon us? Which group do they fall into?

I imagine them to be like the Realist resistance from eXistenZ. Their negativity toward VR gamers was on the basis that they were basically abandoning reality, which frankly has a kernel of truth. I also expect to see resistance emerge from religious communities. I have mentioned before that the Oculus has certain similarities to the scriptural warning of the Mark of the Beast, which is open to a lot of interpretation. I'm not religious per se, but I am intrigued by theological interpretations.

I can understand where you're going with that, but personally I would say that things like the "google wallet" and Google Glass are more like the mark of the beast. If you remember, the beast's mark was to be in the (right?) hand, OR on the forehead of the person. I think of it as a type of implanted ID chip.

This chip, being required to make any and all transactions (buying and selling). My interpretation of that being the worth of a person is based on money, not character or some type of attribute like that. We are only a few years away, I think, before chips become something realistic for implantation in Humans, but that's very besides the point.

Essentially, I would kindly disagree with that interpretation, even though I would not be surprised if a religion or two comes out in opposition to such devices. (We already have enough problems staying faithful as is)

"Lindblum" wrote:

Do I feel alone about the rift?

I have a dev kit on order, and it's so sad that we can't pay like $500 for expedited shipping! I feel sad and alone in that none of my family really understands it. I tried to talk to them about it, but they just nod their heads... It makes me sad. We shall see what the future holds! hopefully I will have a nice enough computer to get things done. :)

On the flip side, you won't be alone when the consumer release approaches and the hype machine becomes ridiculous and everyone will seek you out because they remember you as that guy who kept talking about VR a long time ago.

Then you will be hailed as a "VR expert" and everyone will seek you out to troubleshoot all their VR related issues. Everyone asking the same questions over and over etc...

And they'll purposefully ignore reading documentation because they know that you're around and it's a lot easier for them to call you up or message you on Facebook with a VR question instead of googling for the answer first.

:) ... ;) ... :( ... :|

:geek: <--- VR expert