Wait, so it is taller than wide for each eye? Especially considering the overlap between eyes? This sounds like a bad idea. Shouldn't it still be something like 1200x1080 per eye with some of that taken up by overlap?
There is no overlap. It's an 1920x1080 screen, because that's the ratio in which screens are produced. The picture is stretched through lenses to fill the FoV.rofltehcat said:
Other than the engineering problem of reinventing scren shapes, it would still be a terrible idea.rofltehcat said:
I remember in ArmA 2 some of the people I played with used a similar setup, which had some funny results when we were in an overwatch position being all serious etc and you'd look to your left to see the guy next to you looking up at the sky because the player is having a drink, immersion breaking to say the least.fix-the-spade said:
I think the problem here is the choice of game: HL2 is no stranger to "motion sickness" issues to begin with, so it's no surprise to me hearing that having the game strapped to your eyeballs amplified the problem. Personally, HL2 gave me nausea and intense headaches[footnote]Most discussions I've found on this subject chalk it up to the FOV settings, but I don't think awkward FOV's alone are to blame.[/footnote] after only an hour or two of play (and sometimes as little as twenty minutes). Dishonored was also guilty of this, and even Bioshock Infinite to some extent. Which is a shame, as they're all very good games.Shamus Young said:
Speak for yourself. I haven't played in anything lower than 2560x1600 for years. And given that I'm still running a three generation old GTX470 (OK, I have two of them, but most games don't need both and some actually run worse with SLI), it can hardly be claimed that that's only possible for hardcore gamers who spend thousands on their PCs. I really don't understand why people insist on sticking with such a low resolution just because consoles can't do any better.Shamus Young said:
The trouble is that console controllers are terrible for many types of game. FPS, RTS, and any kind of big strategy game to start with. They're great for things like driving and platforming where you want easy control of movement in any direction with few buttons needed, but as soon as you want accurate point selection or any kind of interface they have exactly the same problems that the Rift does.VondeVon said:
Personally I'm looking forward to the Project Morpheus seeing as I have a PS4 instead of a PC, and I think that that with the PS Move could be amazing. Even then, Morpheus/Rift with something like No Man's Sky, or Project Cars (if steering wheel is released for the PS4) would be awesome as wellVondeVon said:I'm very surprised to hear about the issue with controllers. I'd think a console control would be ideal. Left stick for movement, head for looking around (and in the case of third person, selecting which attacker to hit) and buttons. You could even break the controller in two (like connected nunchucks) so kinect and the like could also/still track hand motion for infrequent gestures like magic or Skyrim's archery.
Thanks for posting this. I *had* been strongly considering buying the latest dev kit just for the experiencing but was frustrated by all the 'very low latency' comments - how low is low? Worth getting? Not worth getting? Now I know.
Very true about the FPS, although I figured aiming would be taken care of by looking. RTS does sound difficult. I was mostly thinking in terms of sandbox and similar games - ones where you really want to look at the world around you from the ground up. Skyrim or Sleeping Dogs etc.Kahani said:
Sure, a controller + head would work pretty well for basic movement and the like in that sort of game, but you still have issues when it comes to anything more than that. Skyrim, for example, is well known for having an absolutely terrible interface, largely because they tried to make it work for consoles and ended up with something that didn't work well with either a controller or a mouse. Motion controls would hopefully give you a much better method of looking around than an analogue stick, but it's unlikely to help at all with using an interface.VondeVon said:
