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Well this is encouraging.

Zoomie
Expert Trustee
http://www.destructoid.com/dead-and-buried-was-easily-the-best-shooter-at-pax-east-this-year-357602....

Dead and Buried was easily the best shooter at PAX East this year

Also proves Oculus Touch is as good as Vive's controllers
Raw Data wasn't the only shooter I played in virtual reality at PAX East, nor was it the best. That title belongs to the Oculus Rift exclusive Dead and Buried, a first-person cowboy shootout simulator.

The Oculus area at the expo was divided into four separate rooms, one for each player taking part in the demo. Two teams of two players each battled to be the first to get 15 kills by blasting away at each other with the yet-to-be-released Oculus Touch controllers, all while physically dodging bullets and hiding behind objects in the environment via the Rift's head-tracking ability.

Let me just say that that the Touch controllers may very well be the most comfortable and advanced controllers I've ever used. One goes in each hand, with the part you're holding feeling a little smaller than a Wii Nunchuck. Each controller features a trigger, a stick, and two buttons just to the side of the sticks. A loop reaches over your fingers that is used for gesture recognition. In the game, there are physical representations of your hands that map up quite nicely to real-life movements, though the gesture controls weren't as seamless as I'd have wanted. Gently laying a finger on any button made my in-game fingers move to mirror it; a cool feature that helped with immersion but didn't do much else.

Having just played the HTC Vive for the first time earlier in the day, I can say I much preferred the Touch controllers versus the bulkier Vive controllers. More importantly, the gunplay in Dead and Buried was all around better than Raw Data, though that could be partially due to the guns having laser sights attached to them. Knowing the enemies dodging and peaking around corners were actually people on the other side doing it rather than AI was just more satisfying and exhilarating. I'm nowhere near athletic and found myself easily getting kills and dodging bullets without much trouble.

You're not just holding six-shooters, either. Depending on where you spawn after each death, there could be various weapons in front of you to grab such as a shotgun or a stick of dynamite. You have to look down and physically reach for them and grab them using the Touch controllers. It feels very natural. The only thing I didn't love was using the sticks of dynamite made me afraid I'd throw the actual controller, even with a wrist strap. That said, I ended our match by getting a kill with a perfectly tossed stick of dynamite, and I felt like a badass.

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Release Touch already!  🙂
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C Clarke
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cybereality
Grand Champion
Yeah, some of us at the office were playing a 2 versus 2 game of this on Friday, simply amazing. It was really a full work-out, especially when trying to duck under the bar, or hide behind chairs, or whatnot, only to pop out and try to headshot someone real quick. One of the better uses of Touch I've seen.
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Luciferous
Consultant
There goes my old knees.

kojack
MVP
MVP
I was in a little pain after playing a session of The Lab's archery (my left arm was hurting). I don't know how I'll survive more active VR like this. 🙂
(Back to trucking across europe for me I guess)

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i think we'll end up looking like our real-life counterparts... a VR trucker will develop a stomach.. a VR jedi will develop a swift right arm... not sure what VR porn will develop, maybe the same as the jedi 

bigmike20vt
Visionary
hi
how does it work in terms of turning your back?  does the game support one of the cameras behind you or is it designed for an 180 degree experience with nothing going on behind you?

thanks
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LZoltowski
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Zoomie
Expert Trustee
bigmike20vt, I think this particular game is designed so that your enemies will always be in front of you.  You can probably turn around and look at the scenery behind your character, but there isn't any reason to shoot in that direction. 
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C Clarke