08-17-2014, 04:27 PM
as you may or may not be aware there have been a few advances the fields of vr tech that finally make true home units possable still expensive but you dont need to be a billionaire to get this stuff. mind you they havent combined these advances yet and the resulting unit would still be fairly expensive for a home unit but doable for the middle class. the advances i refer to are listed below with the end price of a functional full emersion vr unit. so if you want to skip over the list feel free and then give me your thoughts on vr consoles
first and probubly the most well known the oculus rift
https://www.oculusvr.com/pre-order/ a great 3d headset with head tracking abilitys.
for arms and hands you would need the control vr(actual product name) http://controlvr.com/ a current highly advanced motion tracking controller with hand and finger tracking. while being much cheaper then other equally advanced options used in cg animation.
but if you want full body movment then you would need the http://www.priovr.com/ a full body motion capure system.
the next advance is in the area of force feedback so BEHOLD THE NOVINT XIO http://home.novint.com/index.php/products/novintxio although not available yet if funded it could revolutionize gaming being able to feel the weight of and feel of things in the game world is a huge advance.
but your going to wanna beable to run and jump in the game world to right so thats where the omni vr multidirectional treadmill comes in. http://www.virtuix.com/ its smaller and less expensive then previos vr treadmills by several thousand dollers and actually will fit in a relitivally small space like a bed room.
ok if you sat through that good job go have a cookie now i will break down the price of a bare bones vr system
oculus rift head set currently 350
vrcontrol currently 600
omni vr treadmill 429
it would cost 1379 not including the hard ware to run the games so plus the gaming hardware lets estimate it to about 1500-1600. still pretty expensive for a home unit but as an arcade peice or something in a hotal or something i can see it working and makeing a ton of money. at least untill prices go down enough to make a home version. but 1600 is still pretty good considering previos vr units of equal quality made a few years ago would cost millions and take up a whole very large room.
so what do you think think vr consoles are the next big thing in gaming
first and probubly the most well known the oculus rift
https://www.oculusvr.com/pre-order/ a great 3d headset with head tracking abilitys.
for arms and hands you would need the control vr(actual product name) http://controlvr.com/ a current highly advanced motion tracking controller with hand and finger tracking. while being much cheaper then other equally advanced options used in cg animation.
but if you want full body movment then you would need the http://www.priovr.com/ a full body motion capure system.
the next advance is in the area of force feedback so BEHOLD THE NOVINT XIO http://home.novint.com/index.php/products/novintxio although not available yet if funded it could revolutionize gaming being able to feel the weight of and feel of things in the game world is a huge advance.
but your going to wanna beable to run and jump in the game world to right so thats where the omni vr multidirectional treadmill comes in. http://www.virtuix.com/ its smaller and less expensive then previos vr treadmills by several thousand dollers and actually will fit in a relitivally small space like a bed room.
ok if you sat through that good job go have a cookie now i will break down the price of a bare bones vr system
oculus rift head set currently 350
vrcontrol currently 600
omni vr treadmill 429
it would cost 1379 not including the hard ware to run the games so plus the gaming hardware lets estimate it to about 1500-1600. still pretty expensive for a home unit but as an arcade peice or something in a hotal or something i can see it working and makeing a ton of money. at least untill prices go down enough to make a home version. but 1600 is still pretty good considering previos vr units of equal quality made a few years ago would cost millions and take up a whole very large room.
so what do you think think vr consoles are the next big thing in gaming