What do you think of this - Flight Sim potential?

[MACADEMIC]

Hi all,

Imagine this in combination with 6DOF - best if built in.

What do you think?

MAC

P.S.: Here's a link to an article: http://m.ign.com/articles/1191759

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Aa7AZzqKM

[Strike]

Hmm, first thing that actually came to mind was weight. Something like that has to weigh a little, perhaps hence the neckrest in the vid. That would make it useless for track IR if your neck grew tired quickly. And I can't see it being used in public, and is only useful when you're alone. Watching movies with friends like that is just weird :P

[recoilfx]

Come on now. We sim fans have plethora amount of sim hardware and some even build sim pits. Do we care if we look nerdier than we already are? :-)

[von Pilsner]

Looks difficult to see the keyboard with that thing on... Hope you have every button you need mapped to your HOTAS... :D

Another thread on this: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=25763

[_79_dev]

~S~

That technology is on the Market for ages guys...

http://www.vuzix.com/consumer/products_wrap_1200vr.html

And it is not so expensive as Sony...

[Buchon]

This is not immersive has you guys think.

This gadget is designed has a tv screen replacement or portable theater, the effect of wearing this is like watch a screen from 2 meters at least.

Due to that his use has VR helmet has some issues, you´ll get some sensation of tunnel vision due the artificial distance to the screen, also the resolution still to low to use in this.

A correct VR gadget design need a curved screen in from of the eyes like a visor of a helmet, fixing due this form the tunnel vision and also letting you in this matter move your eyes to watch icons or watch around.

[MACADEMIC]

A correct VR gadget design need a curved screen in from of the eyes like a visor of a helmet, fixing due this form the tunnel vision and also letting you in this matter move your eyes to watch icons or watch around.

Yes, that would be awesome. I've seen some videos of flexible OLEDs that could be suitable for this, however OLEDs are still very expensive. But it will come.

MAC

[louisv]

It would be interesting to test a TrackIR setup with this...

As you turn your head, the image follows, but you can still look directly in front of you unlike Trackir were you look slightly sideways (which is a problem for eyeglass wearers like me).

But that would increase the tunnel effect maybe...I think it will become really interesting as the angle of coverage increases...until it fills all angles in, say, 2016 ?

[Buchon]

Curved screen back in 2008 :

http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/35546-ces-2008-%E2%80%93-dell%E2%80%99s-curve-monitor-is-something-to-drool-over

This but smaller is a true VR helmet design :rolleyes:

Not that "3D" hype crap.

[Hunden]

Hi all,

Imagine this in combination with 6DOF - best if built in.

What do you think?

MAC

P.S.: Here's a link to an article: http://m.ign.com/articles/1191759

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Aa7AZzqKM

Don't do it, biggest waste of money at this point. I purchased a VR head set, can't remember exact cost but it was around $700.00 , it hasn't been out of the box since I opened it two or so years ago.

[banned]

The new Sony one looks promising though.

[JG27CaptStubing]

Sure the technology has been around for a while but most of it crap and most of it not up to todays graphic standards for rendering game images. Not to mention the low res and the lack of decent head tracking.

The simple answer would be to increase the res and the FOV and combine it with some sort of Tracking support that is fast and light weight.

[r0bc]

We complain about 3D glasses now, I can just imagine wearing that.

[MACADEMIC]

This thing is a step into the future. One day an HD full peripheral vision device should be possible.

2 things as food for thought:

1. Virtual Cocoon, a concept study. This thing has a curved screen providing full peripheral vision.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/04/article-1159206-03BDCD80000005DC-170_468x364.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/04/article-1159206-03BDD2C3000005DC-258_468x316.jpg

2. Flexible OLEDs. Imagine these covering the curved surface at very High Res.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8S8tbQMp2k

MAC

[Vengeanze]

I guess I kinda crossed line when I started with the TIR reflectors while pretending I'm a pilot so that Virtual Cocoon wouldn't affect peoples thoughts about me.

Good thing I'm married cause that thing would be worse than porn if your girlfriend found it.

[Buchon]

Lolz at the amount of FAIL in the Virtual Coocon design :o

However those OLEDs dont appears to be weighed, so I guess that just a glasses with a cuved OLED can do the work if it have a nice resolution.