Valve's Aperture VR demo - full playthrough

Tony Spaniels · Jul 21, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u28oYid7pOU

Wow! Im very excited about the Vive now. There are spoilers in the demo but it is a demo after all,there'll be plenty more where that came from (that's my justification for watching anyway

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Demo itself starts at 2 mins in...

As I dont want to give away any spoilers, I'll keep my ED related comment hidden ...

How cool would it be if once we get to walk around our ships we could fix modules similar to how the robot in the video is fixed..I know its seriously unlikely, but a Cmdr can dream, even on a Tuesday morning..

OVMorat · Jul 22, 2015

Release date of Christmas this year - looks like they'll be first to market too!
I think FD need to look at this, they might have backed the wrong horse with Oculus (not that they could have known at the time).

adoredtv · Jul 22, 2015

Damn that looks good. The potential is literally out of this world. Wonder what they'll do about the wires though.

[VR] Mad Mike · Jul 22, 2015

OVMorat said:
Release date of Christmas this year - looks like they'll be first to market too!
I think FD need to look at this, they might have backed the wrong horse with Oculus (not that they could have known at the time).

No horse backed. FD have said they will support other hmds too.

Tony Spaniels · Jul 23, 2015

adoredtv said:
Damn that looks good. The potential is literally out of this world. Wonder what they'll do about the wires though.

The controllers will be wireless in the CV, same as Oculus touch (and I would say any HMD device would if its to succeed).

http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/16/htc-vive-wireless-controllers/

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Mad Mike said:
No horse backed. FD have said they will support other hmds too.

Apparently there's 11 more HMD's in the pipeline, so plenty more horses to come. It'll be like the grand national this time next year. I share your concern about people ending up sitting on the fence due to so much choice Mad Mike, especially seeing as Oculus intend to release updates of their rift every year or two at most. Im guessing they are seeing the cost of these devices to be pushed down to mobile phone prices, making this viable?

Ancipital · Jul 23, 2015

Tony Spaniels said:
Apparently there's 11 more HMD's in the pipeline, so plenty more horses to come. It'll be like the grand national this time next year. I share your concern about people ending up sitting on the fence due to so much choice Mad Mike, especially seeing as Oculus intend to release updates of their rift every year or two at most. Im guessing they are seeing the cost of these devices to be pushed down to mobile phone prices, making this viable?

I don't know who you've been buying your HMDs from, but they are already considerably cheaper than buying a decent mobile phone outright.

Tony Spaniels · Jul 23, 2015

Ancipital said:
I don't know who you've been buying your HMDs from, but they are already considerably cheaper than buying a decent mobile phone outright.

Hah , fair enough. I dont buy mobile phones. Are they more expensive than an Oculus??

edit: a quick search of the price for a Galaxy s6...I see what you mean! £300+ for a phone?! wow..

[VR] Mad Mike · Jul 23, 2015

Tony Spaniels said:
Hah , fair enough. I dont buy mobile phones. Are they more expensive than an Oculus??

edit: a quick search of the price for a Galaxy s6...I see what you mean! £300+ for a phone?! wow..

But to be fair, if you do even a tiny bit of homework you can find a phone 90% as good as an iphone 6 for around the £100 mark. I have had my lumia 620 since launch, which is over 2.5 years now and it still has pretty much all the functionality of the highest end phone, and is getting the windows 10 update soon as well.

even at launch it was only £120 and that was sim umlocked, now I suspect the modern equivalent would be around £80.

utter utter insantiy spending £500+ on an item which gets chucked around and is a work horse. but to each their own.

adoredtv · Jul 23, 2015

Well most people are buying phones as status symbols, VR doesn't have that luxury driving sales. Let's not forget it's an additional cost on what is already high-end priced hardware too. Hardware prices need to come down for this to be viable long term or else you'll perpetually be in the same position you're in now.