We haven't had VR stuff for some time have we ? I know Sony will show more soon for the upcoming launch... But I don't see a ton of excitement for Oculus / Vive. Have I missed something ?
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Overwatch is like Cultural Appropriation: The Game, I've never seen a worse offender in my entire life.
http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=215657143&postcount=221
There are games being released and the engine creators (Unreal/Unity) are pushing their tech forward to try and support it, but the harsh realities of VR are finally settling in.
Insomniac put on a programmer event awhile back called Core Dump that I went to and one of the panels was on VR. Some dudes from Insomniac and some guys from Ready at Dawn (and I think a guy from some other company) shared tech tips and it kinda boiled down to "take everything really cool we've learned to do with graphics in the last 10 years and turn it off".
One of the things I remember is that for one of the two more popular PC headsets you have to get your game to run at 75 FPS, and while they tell you have 10ms to render a frame due to overhead you actually only have 9ms and those 9ms are split unevenly between the two eyes so in practice you have to render one eye in about 4.5ms and the other in about 5.5ms. Apparently Insomniac's VR game mostly takes place in a cave because it limits the amount of lighting and geometry going on making it easier to achieve those targets.
I tried PSVR at Best Buy, it was okay but I did get a little nauseous from the soccer game. I also think convincing people to drop the price of a new console on the headset and box is gonna be tough.