Oculus Rift devs hoping for "Matrix-level" virtual reality

Try Alone in the Rift. that fuckin bloody little girl!!! this is gonna revolutionize horror games. But my fav is Half life 2 in the Rift. No wonder John Carmack took the cto job at oculus. The father of fps finally working on TRUE first person tech.

People becoming addicted to this virtual reality, would they need to take a blue pill as part of their treatment?

You know, new technologies and new consoles are or fine and good, but IMHO the thing really holding back games today is level design. I mean, most games (that acutally have levels) either (a) have you navigating a linear path to your goal or (b) dump you in a flat landscape and have you jogging to whatever vague goals are set up for you.

Games like Deus Ex:HR and The Witcher have really tried to combine the best aspects from these two styles, but I feel that there is SO much more do be done in how adventure games are laid out.

Nintendo Get on it! Remember the Virtual Boy?

Sony and Microsoft should release their own for more competition and it would keep us on our toes more and it should have been out long ago but now I see why its been a while. Its actually time we got into this since both consoles are competitive enough for some top notch games that are coming

@Justin Strunk Yep, I just got mine Monday. The more I use it, the more I love it.

So while using the Oculus Rift, if i take the blue pill will I ever come back? We're gonna need an insurance policy.

!? That's some serious overstating. The only way you'll get Matrix level VR is to scoop out the brain and put the whole thing into a computer. Even if you just talk about the visual experience, getting computer graphics to be indistinguishable from reality is a LONG way away.

matrix lvl...mah drills

Maybe by the time Oculus Rift 4 launches the Matrix level experience can be reached? In the year 2044 maybe? Kinda reminds me of the promise of the Ultra Nintendo 64 with the promise of CGI supercomputer Ultra poject reality graphics running at the Jurassic park movie level graphics. Running at over 100Megahertz.

The N64 didn't quite live up to that hype. The Oculus Rift won't either, at least not this version of it. Matrix level virtual Reality games are a long ways off and won't cost well over $700.00 for the Oculus system alone if tech can get to that level.

@Dominic Arai Nothing is confirmed on this front.

I can't wait for the consumer kit to come out (they are aiming for minimum 1080 res and want it even higher for the consumer launch).

Star Citizen

Eve: Valkyrie

Everquest Next (in the behind closed doors video they showed an oculus rift being used for development of the game).

It's going to be amazing playing these games with one.

Ugh, he has some interesting things to say but then he drops the steaming load of Matrix BS again. I don't even know where to start on what is wrong with that.

Dude needs to watch another film.

I wanna know kung fu....

so instead of the virtual boys red scheme its going to be green?

AND....these pretzels are making me THIRSTY

MY NAME IS TROLL....HEAR ME ROAAAARRRRRR

hey man you started it. i really was just trying to state my opinion about what vr would be. you turned around and were being a smart ass.

@Star Wars Battlefront has always been better than Cod and BF combined.

I'm confused by your name. Are facebook groups posting here now?

car racing games will be so sick with this

Wasn't there an article about this last week? OR must have quite the advertising budget for something that has no production schedule.

yea yea yea bla bla bla When the hell can i buy one FFS!!!!!!!!!!

Pretty bold claim. I'm more excited about what VR will accomplish in the short term.

Although it would be cool to be able to download knowledge directly to your brain.

Cool, I always wanted to fight against hundred of Smiths.

Ok I'm all for the Rift but let's not jump the shark with the whole Matrix level VR bullshit. Did this guy even see The Matrix to know what he's saying? The Rift is visually immersive and that is great, but Matrix level VR would be actually feeling things physically in a dream like state. It's gonna be a very long time, if ever, before we see something of that nature.

Well....that's not going to happen for an extremely long time so.....yeah.

You want Matrix level VR, take scopolamine

I just had a crazy idea, Oculus Rift + Arma III.

The ultimate "Matrix" experience, it's like real war, boring most of the time with not to often action.

On a serious note, Should I get an Oculus Rift or a PS Vita?
I was gonna hold off on the Rift until I got better hardware, but apparently it uses a lower resolution so I should get more fps than my 1080p res correct?