Here's another cretin:
http://www.gamespot.com/forums/pc-mac-linux-society-1000004/oculus-rift-is-599-32892061/?page=1
SaintSatan like most VR haters, seems to be either a bit stupid or an idiot troll.
I couldn't help but add a reply!
"This is an interesting thread and as someone who owns a DK2 I thought I'd register specifically to log my thoughts.
Firstly, for those who have yet to try VR I'll try and explain why it's different from 3D TV/ Imax 3D. When you watch a 3D film things look like they're on a series of "planes". You watch the film and if something pops out of the screen you think "that's neat" but it doesn't affect you physically. When you are in a good VR experience, the difference is that your brain is physiologically fooled into thinking it is in that location. This happens at a subconscious level and cannot be understood without experiencing it yourself. The best way I can describe it is that feeling you get when you wake up from a dream and you don't know whether you're still dreaming or not.
It's this that makes the technology different from some of the other things discussed in the thread.
Secondly, with the right game, with a good enough set up, you don't just play it for an hour and get bored/ fatigued. I've personally played 100's of hours of Elite Dangerous in VR (some sessions of 8+ hrs) and I cannot play it any other way. Yes the resolution is not perfect but you actually feel (and I mean FEEL) like you are piloting your own craft in space. The feeling of scale is indescribable. To understand how it is different from traditional 3D if you see an object in your cockpit you know exactly the distance it is from you. Your brain knows exactly how far you need to reach to touch that object (to the mm). So if you have your HOTAS setup in the same place in the real world you just reach out and it's there. I've spent minutes stationary staring in awe at a star system in the blackness of space. It's not like looking at a 4K/ IMAX screen. You are there. For the person that worried about being cut off from the world, you are right that is a concern. On some of my longer sessions I've been completely "Lost In Space" (sorry for that one..!) and when I've come out it's the real world that feels like VR. That's a concern but it's also one of the wonders of this generation of VR.
I also completed Alien Isolation in VR and had to go downstairs and hug my wife afterwards as the experience was so visceral!
Now VR for gaming will not replace your monitor for everything (not until you can look at a VR "monitor" with the same resolution as the real world one) as some games just can't work very well in that medium. Fast paced FPS' for example. I have had some fun in TF2 VR but it does hit you physically (like spending the day riding roller coasters).
Outside of gaming, VR will offer experiences you won't be able to get anywhere else. I've spent quite a few hours touring the world in VR via Google Streetview. And the way the world is going I can see this being the only way to safely experience some of the major world sites in the future. This you will be doing socially with other VR travellers.
One industry tends to drive the uptake of technology. It was fundamental to supporting the uptake of VCRs, it counts for a massive percentage of the internet. Pornography. The
industry is investing massively in VR. Again, you will not understand how big an impact this will have unless you've experienced good VR. Recently, I visited Tussaud's waxworks in London, they have many wax figures of famous people that you can actually interact with. One of these figure was of the Actor Helen Mirren. The wax figure was so lifelike that no one in my family could go up close to it, never mind touch it. It was so real we felt like we were invading a real persons space. In VR with a lifelike model you actual feel the same. You feel like you are in the same space as that person. Couple this with
and you have a real moral dilemma on your hands. I would not want my kids to experience that. But as a grown adult...
So in summary, for all the discussion on price, etc, I think this generations VR is the real thing. I can only encourage the people that aren't convinced to try and get a demo (make sure it's a properly set up one though as a bad set up can kill VR for someone for a long time). I'm not saying it's for everyone and I'm not saying it's fully mature yet. I am saying it's bloody brilliant.
I'd also like to encourage those of you out there that seem intent on attacking VR to step back a bit. It may not be right for you at the moment but anyone that's interested in technology should not want to see it killed off before it's had a chance.
I honestly believe that if the negative people don't kill it at birth we could all end up with our own holodecks within 10 years. Who doesn't want that?!"
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